I arrived in the US at 5 mo old, with a piece of fabric as my only possession. Decades later, I carried that flag with me at the Nathan's Famous Hotdog Eating Contest on the 4th of July. Through heartache and hotdogs, I'm finally living my American Dream 🇰🇷🌭🇺🇸 www.eatbemary.com/journal/nath...

Human babies should not be separated from their mothers at birth. Do first mothers even know this is happening to them when their baby is immediately taken? 🥚 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

🥚 Framed as happy, this story has details that speak to the inherent cruelty of plenary adoption. No one told her she was adopted until age 7. When her adoptive parents died their bio kids rejected her. Her bio dad has to adopt her to get his name on her birth certificate apple.news/A3a0qYtJHSf-...

Adoptees have been telling you. Forced confinement is not a "forever home." Telling the truth does not make one mentally ill. It exposes systemic sickness that needs to be treated. 🥚

My brother is living proof that I come from somewhere, and we are not alone in this world. #adoption 🥚 www.channelnewsasia.com/cna-insider/...

if you don’t like the idea that #adoptees are treated as other people’s property—despite there being a $34 billion market in children—then maybe we can agree that adoptees’ legal identities are other people’s property. “I want a child to call my own.” OK, here’s a piece of paper that proves it

🚨URGENT THING: If you live in VA, please send an email TODAY to senators who voted yes today. We hopefully just need one more push to get this done. It will be heard again tomorrow Template and contacts below HB 301 will give VA-born adopted people the right to access their original birth certs.

Looking forward to watching movies and wearing my favorite shoes in peace 🇰🇷

“입양이라는 인신매매, 수령국 자료 확인하면 입체적 조사될 것” "Human trafficking through adoption will be investigated in detail if data from the recipient country is verified." n.news.naver.com/mnews/articl...

The National Council for Adoption has millions of dollars, reflecting the lopsided “demand side” of the industry: affluent hopeful adopters. Birthmothers, by contrast, repeatedly tell us that if they had even a little more financial stability, they could have chosen to keep their children. +

Whether from war, trafficking, immigration policy, or plenary adoption, involuntary family separation is a wound that lasts a lifetime. Sending courage to parents searching and hope to children missing them. May you find strength to keep moving toward reunion and safety. youtu.be/bqFGN0FE3lA?...

To Adoptive Parents and Policymakers: International adoption cannot be separated from our immigration policy. 🥚

California SB381 just passed the Senate (CA-born adult adoptee access to their original birth certificates) On to the House next LFG!!!

🚨🚨VA RESIDENTS: Want to do some advocacy from home this weekend? HB301 will give VA-born adopted people the right to access their original birth certificates and will be heard by the full VA House **before Fri 1/30**. More details and email templates below

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

These are the horrors I want adoptive parents to sit with when they allow themselves to believe that the reason why contact stops from the mothers who lost their children is because the adoptee they're raising "wasn't wanted"

another piece about the adoption industry’s model state of Utah just came out. If you think using coercion and deception to speedily strip a person of their child forever raises ethical problems, maybe take a look at Utah. 🥚

another heartwrenching part of the story of the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo is the resistance they encountered from adopters over returning the children to their original families. And the Abuelas tended only to press these claims against adopters who had reason to believe the children had been stolen.

For anyone who wants to submit testimony or otherwise support: HB301 is the bill that (if passed) will give VA-born adopted people the right to access their original birth certificate. It's assigned to the Health Committee, it may be heard as soon as next week! More info in the thread below

CA people could really do #adoptees a solid by calling their reps *immediately* to voice support for SB-381, a clean bill giving CA adoptees access to their original birth certificates.

I learned that there were about 1,500-2,000 Iranians adopted from Iran between 1963-1979, scattered from Germany to the US. Coming from a small group doesn't provide as many resources as those from larger adoption groups. And the Islamic Republic most likely didn't keep records. Sigh. 🥚 #FreeIran

Sharing for adoptees and families in the US who are feeling anxious about records or citizenship. If you or someone you care about has questions, this guide may help. While primarily for Korean adoptees, Appendices D and E are useful for all internationally adopted Americans. auskrg.com/resources

Many people choose comfort over truth. I lost my first family, and later, parts of my adoptive one as I questioned where my life started. Even on good days, grief remains. But adoptees + allies now sit with me ❤️‍🩹. Children should never lose family in the name of profit. apnews.com/article/kore...

A key part of today’s executive order: Faith-based foster-care agencies will now qualify for federal support. The White House is directing agencies to override state barriers that restrict religious organizations and expand partnerships with churches and faith-based providers.

National Adoption Awareness Month, which is about promoting #adoption, begins today. none of the promotional material contains an answer to the following naïve question: why does “give this child a loving and safe home” require “erase and rewrite this child’s entire identity”?

It's Adoptee Remembrance Day today. I think about all the adoptees whose lives have ended too early. May they rest in peace🥚

🥚 Extraordinary apology from South Korean President to 200,000 Koreans sent abroad as adoptees, many of whom “discovered their records were falsified to portray them as abandoned orphans, while others were carelessly removed, or even stolen, from their birth families” 1/3 apnews.com/article/sout...

A person does not need to be a racist to participate in or perpetuate racist systems. It's important to listen and learn with open hearts and minds, especially when the person naming the harm is someone you claim to love as one of your own. #adopteevoices 🥚 www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/whats-...

After filming this documentary, I became 1 of 56 resolved cases in Korea's TRC #adoption investigation, confirming human rights violations. 311 remain unresolved. Thanks @channelnewsasia.bsky.social#adoptionfor telling our stories 🥚.

I grew up believing I was an orphan. The truth told a different story 💔. See my story in One Orphan Every Hour this Sat, Aug 30 at 9pm SGT @channelnewsasia.bsky.social  🥚. #Korea #AdopteeVoices #adoptionjourney #adoptionstory #adoption

It's totally a coincidence. Can't possibly be related, right? 🧮

#Korean #Adoption 🥚. Giving new meaning to pork barrel politics 🐷 www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

I had no idea how much anger I could feel until I found my little brother. Now, I understand what was stolen from us. Society shames adoptees for feeling angry. If you aren't angry about systemic child abuse, corruption, and violations of human rights, maybe it's time to ask why. #adoption 🥚

My pre-adoptive identity IS my identity. To conceal it is to violate the right to know who I am. People who dismiss our demands for the truth with “love is stronger than DNA” are engaged in deliberate and desperate obfuscation. And concealing the truth is the opposite of love. 🥚

Meet the requirements. 기준을 지켜라. Protect the records. 기록을 지켜라. Respect our identities. 우리의 정체성을 존중하라. Amplify #adopteevoices and share 🥚 www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

Instead of assuming I'm "ungrateful" for my adoptive family, you can start assuming that I would walk through hell itself to find my biological family. Loving someone even in their absence takes courage. I will not be broken ✊️❤️🥚 #adoption www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/a...

🥚These trends are the result of national bans enacted around the world after exposés in international media revealed systemic deception, corruption, coercion, fraud, and baby-stealing by adoption agencies. And those exposés were the result of relentless, ongoing #adoptee rights activism. BRAVO🧵

Sending out the 🥚 signal. It's like a 🦇 signal, but cooler 🫶. The records of an estimated 200,000 Korean #adoptees are moving to a government leased facility. These documents are often the only remaining to our families. It could be going better 🫤. v.daum.net/v/2025072318...

"As a Chinese transnational adoptee, there is no single correct way to be, or feel. Our experiences are complex, fluid, and often shaped by the openness — or rigidity — of our adoptive families." This project shares the stories of young people whose lives were shaped by China's overpopulation laws.

#Adoptees went to the National Assembly 🇰🇷. Not to make a scene. To BE seen. To ask—quietly but clearly—not to lose what little we have left. #adoption records hold our names, our families, our identities 🥚 m.pressian.com/m/pages/arti...

13 years. One incredible life chapter 🌭✨. Korea’s Truth & Reconciliation Commission recently confirmed my adoption was a violation of human rights. So I’m stepping away from competitive eating to focus on advocacy and healing. Thanks for being part of my story—from the first bite and beyond 💫

Wishing everyone a safe and happy #4thofjuly. Congratulations to Joey Chestnut, Miki Sudo, and all of my Nathan's Famous friends on an incredible competition 🌭🌭🌭. Cheering for you today and always ❤️! #hotdogeatingcontest

Ever wondered what 10 minutes of glory tastes like? Welcome to my life 🌭. Join me and Denverse Magazine on the Locals Aloud #podcast as I talk about why the #4thofJuly is my favorite full-contact sport 🇺🇸. Give it a listen 🎧 open.spotify.com/episode/2lMb...

So much respect for this incredible athlete and friend. Can't wait for his return to the table 🌭

STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish commission recommended Monday that international adoptions be stopped after an investigation found a series of abuses and fraud dating back decades. apnews.com/article/swed...

Hey, @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social! Would hate to start a beef with an adoptee advocate, but feel like I know you well enough to test the strength of our friendship. Who has the better Coney Island 🌭? Lafayette or American?

A 72-year-old mother has filed a lawsuit against South Korea’s government and its largest adoption agency, alleging systematic failures in her forced separation from her toddler son who was sent to Norway without her consent. apnews.com/article/sout...

We cannot forget the innocent lives lost through senseless violence. May truth and justice be their legacy 🪷.

"If you say you care or love someone, then fight for them — loudly, consistently, and without asking them to do all the work." I don't need a fan club. I need a fighter 🥊. I am exhausted.