Saw a post in an adoptee group asking "how many times has anyone asked you how it feels to be adopted?" I knew the answer would be 0. But still amazing reading the replies confirming this reality. No one has ever asked me how it feels to be adopted, but they all sure assume to know how we feel! 🥚

2026 marks 5 years of the #blackmothersmarch to end family policing! Join us on Mother’s Day (may 10) in Washington, DC to fight for a future where black mamas & families can thrive. Learn more, RSVP, get organizing tools, & support the march: BlackMothersMarch.com

I understand this so well. I'm of one family and part of another, but not really connected to either in the way I crave to be. 🥚

Dammit I was supposed to fix everything today

The thought of ICE workers using those big checks to buy properties, and then retire as landlords so they can continue making money extracting from poor, displaced, and financially insecure communities. This hypothetical been pissing me off all day. I just know ICE agents would enjoy evicting ppl

Do you remember when serial adopter and white savior Mia Farrow shared a happy birthday post with “Mia farrow and her black children” in the search bar, and then she blamed it on someone else?

It is common? One estimate is that in Minnesota alone, over 17,000 people of the Korean #adoptee diaspora lack US citizenship because of their adopters’ negligence. americancommunitymedia.org/immigration/...

This is nice, but I also want an official apology and compensation, and I want the same for all the birth families. I also want restoration of my citizenship and the promise of #adoption being permanently shut down in Korea, as well action to support single mothers. 🥚

🥚A ward of the state becomes a prisoner of the state—and her baby is stolen for adoption. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

"The [Utah] state legislature passed a bill late last month with a veto-proof supermajority that will increase oversight and transparency of the [adoption] industry and introduce protections for birth parents. Gov. Spencer Cox is expected to sign the legislation into law this month." 🥚

Speaking of human trafficking. Motherfuckers. mynorthwest.com/national/vir...

Archivists around the world are invited to join ongoing advocacy efforts to preserve historical adoption records in Korea. Your expertise, integrity, and care help safeguard truth and inspire future generations. earsonncrc.org

roses are red candy’s an option i’ve love for my family but not for #adoption

New episode out today! In Losing Isaiah, a Black mother says, “Look at my face. I’m his mother.” She’s answered with: “An animal giving birth doesn’t make it a mother.” That’s not a debate. It’s dehumanization. Episode co-hosted with J (@itsjway.bsky.social).

Just found out a friend of mine, an Iranian adoptee, has been given notice by DHS to report to court to justify her stay in the states. She's lived here all her life, but her parents never finalized her citizenship, so she's targeted. I hate this country. Pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act! 🥚🤬🤬

Listen to intercountry #adoptees, who for years have been telling us about the abject powerlessness and dependence of being adopted, and who have been warning us about the capriciousness with which the state judges who counts as “belonging” to this country.

Adoption -- the promise of a *different* (not Better) life... Pass the Adoptee Citizenship Act! 🥚

The second fact is that almost no one would choose to relinquish their own child if they did not feel cornered into it, overwhelmingly because of poverty and lack of social support. +

I feel very blessed to have friends who see the media bullshit and adoptaganda for what it is

Losing Isaiah relies on a familiar image: the “unfit” Black mother. What gets erased is poverty, lack of support, and a system that separates families first. Most removals are for “neglect,” not abuse. New episode Friday. Episode co-hosted with J (@itsjway.bsky.social).

“would you rather have been aborted/left in a dumpster?” this is an astonishingly cruel thing to say to someone, and the intensity of it arises from the belief that to attack adoption is to conduct a different existential assault: on adoptive parents’ parenthood.

anyone who doubts this has never looked at the comments on any article at all that explores #adoption from anything except adoptive parents’ point of view. adoptees willing to go on the record about their critiques of the system are absolutely savaged.

every person who is adopted is a person who has undergone and experienced family separation. the fact that Western culture valorizes #adoption as a system for family creation cannot alter this fact, though it does create a taboo against acknowledging it and against hearing dissenting voices.

Kinship care is where a lot of people assume the story ends. It doesn’t. Let's see what actually happens when families step in — and what support looks like when it’s treated as an afterthought instead of a priority. #adopteesky

Tapping the fucking sign again 🥚

🥚 Exerpts of the message from Paul Kimball of the California Alliance for Adoptee Rights: www.change.org/p/provide-un... "Jan 27, 2026 SB 381 - Wahab passed the Senate this morning. 35-0. Myself and Lori Schultz were in the Capitol building and watched it happen! + 1/3

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the fact that Rosie O’Donnell taught her adopted kid to refer to his own mother as a “tummy lady” is a perfect illustration of the actual role of #adoption in Western societies, as opposed to the moralized image it projects. It is about socially engineering a perfect substitute for natal parenthood.

🎉 California's original birth certificate bill just passed the State Senate 35 to 0, with 5 senators not voting. (Some are those who had objections in committees earlier.) The Assembly may not vote on SB 381 until June but this is a good start! Thank you to CAAR for their all their hard work. 🥚

I love adoptee spaces, but I’m firm on the belief that adoptee-rights advocacy should be led by Black women. They’ve been doing this work long before it had language or platforms. Black families also remain disproportionately impacted by family separation and legal adoption.

If you ever wonder why adoptees struggle with their own narrative, even after they have stepped out of the "adoption fog", then it's because they have been spoon-fed and gaslit with this shit their entire lives. 🥚

I got my original birth certificate from Colorado in 2018 after years of being shut out by the agency that facilitated my adoption. I don’t think many non-adopted people will ever be able to fully understand how surreal it is to see information **about yourself** that was hidden by the govt.

adopters have all kinds of opinions on behalf of adoptees about what does and does not matter in #adoption

#Adoptees! The California state Senate just began livestreaming at 2:08 pm. The adoptee bill is third; it might be heard today if there is time! Observing a moment of silence for Alex Pretti. Just starting. . . www.senate.ca.gov/calendar

Rosie O Donnell is not a leftist icon, she’s a washed up capitalist scumbag whose only relevance comes from hating trump, having a gender-queer adopted child, and treating TikTok like therapy to air her families dirty laundry. I say this as a queer leftie, she is nothing but a NARCISSIST. okbye.

i’m a librarian and i really love archivists and their mission. we librarians serve the people of the present. archivists serve posterity.

🥚 Californians! Contact your state senator before Monday and urge them to vote YES on SB 381, "Vital records: adoptees’ birth certificates" when it is voted on next week, Jan. 26-29, 2026. This link lets you look up your state reps by entering your home address: findyourrep.legislature.ca.gov 1/5

Why are adoption and foster care movies always framed as feel good stories? This one shows the process. It shows the struggle. And it still ends with savior narratives intact. What did this movie want you to feel good about? #adopteesky

The adoption parallel to "copaganda" is "adoptaganda" -- it builds, shores up, and maintains the belief that some parents should not raise children because: 1) they are bad humans; and, 2) other would-be parents are more deserving. See, too Eugenics, Socioeconomic Class, and Scientific Racism.

Love the term “adoptaganda.” Hollywood doesn’t ask us to interrogate our feelings; it reframes injustice to uphold systems. it tells us how to feel. Olivia Benson becomes our lens of “law and order,” not our friends and neighbors harmed by these systems… shame for victims, praise for police

That couch scene wasn’t about care. It was about control, fear framed as concern, surveillance framed as help. This is how the family policing system shows up early. If you’ve lived this, you’re not imagining it. Hosted with (@itsjway.bsky.social)

I think it's totally fine and healthy to take puppies and kittens away from their mother immediately after birth and give them up away to a new family.

Since 2016, Arizona’s Department of Child Safety has paid out $30 million in settlements, most for wrongful child removals. These aren’t isolated incidents. They’re proof that the family policing system causes harm and then makes taxpayers pay for it. #adopteesky

Michigan invalidates advance directives and living wills when women are pregnant. Residents have filed a lawsuit challenging this pregnancy exclusion, arguing it violates the right to reproductive freedom in the state constitution.

The Pentagon announces they are replacing The New York Times’ press credentials with the MyPillow guy’s media outlet.

TIM POOL THE LITERAL RUSSIAN ASSET www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...

Trump rewarded Changpeng Zhao, a business partner who boosted his crypto venture, with a pardon for crimes that Zhao pleaded guilty to. Trading presidential favors for self-interest. You can’t get more classically corrupt than this.

Argentina got 40 billion of our tax money and now owns the cattle market. Murica

lots of people on the verge of a menty b without access to a therapist or other mental health tools like behavior coaching and are picking fights online because it's easier than mentally processing $20 billion to Argentina, endless tariffs, a recession, and the East Wing at the WH being destroyed