🥚 found out yesterday that adopted dad died on March 10. No notification. And not named in obituary. Like I’m also a ghost.

If you’re an intercountry adopted person who has *never* received a Certificate of Naturalization or a Certificate of Citizenship, @adopteerights.bsky.social is hosting a free webinar on March 5 @ 7pm EST to help you apply for the first time.

We are literally out here birthing, raising, and handing over the power we’ve hoarded to the bears. 💯 support this survive-and-thrive strategy.

🥚Boosting for… -adoptees who were trafficked into the US -domestically trafficked and kept people who want to donate time or funds to help the most vulnerable folks in the adoptee community right now

The “chop” is racist

No one, absolutely no one, has the “right” to “build a family” with other people’s children. 🥚

Why the fuck, indeed.

People are horrified at the idea of permanently taking kittens or puppies away from their mother immediately after being born but then do it to human babies every fucking day. 🥚 #adoption

🥚 fellow adoptees - been working with my therapist on the difference between intuition and instinct. I’ve lived a lot of my life by the latter, and I find it hard (although I’m hopeful) to lean into intuition. Is this (anecdotally) common for adoptees? Or, just me?

Always great when someone who aspires to be an adopter shit talks and then blocks adoptees. 🥚

Ditto! I’ll share my experience with you. But if you need someone to help you manage your emotional response, get a therapist.

I just can’t. This is not feminism. Adoption is not safety. Adoption is not the alternative to abortion. Babies are not blank slates. 🥚 www.reddit.com/r/TwoXPreppe...

I took this course a few weeks ago, and it was wonderful! I have a better understanding of the role of neurotransmitters and why my time in the garden is key for my mental health. AND I have new artistic skills to enjoy after gardening and foraging to extend the benefits of those activities. ❤️

Potato soup for dinner & freezer ✅ Short rib ragu for freezer ✅ Dahlias ordered for spring ✅ Snapdragons & foxgloves started ✅ And four loaves of bread baked by the love of my life. It is a good Saturday in our little home ❤️

Polynomial kaleidoscope.✨ #MathArt #Mathematics Made with #python #matplotlib #numpy #sympy

I believe that human beings deserve to be treated with dignity. Telling legally binding and indelible lies about a person’s origin and place in the web of humanity is an affront to human dignity. #adoption is an assault on human dignity.

My Love makes the very best sourdough. ❤️

I don’t want to hear a single peep from kept people about the shameless and heinous adoptress influencer and her complicit husband. Not. One. Fucking. Word. 🥚

I cannot stress enough how much adoption trauma + white evangelical theology absolutely destroyed my sense of worth and worthiness. Decades of therapy to deprogram from both propaganda sources and I still have days where I feel haunted by one or both.

Filing under “no shit, you greedy-lying-classist-billionaire-CEO-Sherlock”.

I had a walk today and thought about the relationship between civility, discomfort, and abuse. Some of you know that “civility” is one of my hard “ugh” triggers. This thread will explain why.

When we see narratives that blame the most vulnerable people for problems caused by the most powerful, I think it’s important to remember that this viral spread of misinfo is a more pervasive version of what the powerful have always done to defend themselves, with tech they steered in this direction

It’s me! Although my messaging was more like “heredity is for people who belong”. The Sesame Street clips about “one of these things is not like the other” were weirdly upsetting for me as a kid — I didn’t understand why until I was looking backwards with middle-aged, fog-free lenses. 🥚

Pregnancy care centers exist to funnel unborn children into the adoption pipeline. “Pre-abortion counseling” means “pressure to relinquish.” “Early screening and support” means “pressure to relinquish.” ALWAYS. 🥚

Excellent read. Infuriating. But excellent. Crony capitalism will be the death of everything we love. Get money out of politics, FFS.

"As adoptees, aka victims & commodities, seeking the truth of what has happened to us must be the first step. Identifying the problem is necessary in deprogramming ourselves from the industry’s propaganda...It’s time we all see the industry which has built a multibillion-dollar trafficking scheme."

Domestic. Infant. Supply. #fuckadoption 🥚

Who wants to bet that “20 days free-scooping” does NOT mean you don’t have to scoop for 20 days? Dollars to donuts, this (in every way) shit box comes with a ***subscription service***. I’ve always wanted a pay-to-play option for…my cat box?

thanks to the amazing @violetbfox.bsky.social there is now a Wikipedia page on #adoptee rights! Those in the intersection of “adopted” and “Wikipedian” please take note! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoptee...

Adoption turns human beings into thought experiments. 🥚

my first post of 2025: liberals are as deeply invested as conservatives in #adoption because it lets them justify their acquisitiveness through the paradigmatic liberal values of noblesse oblige (saviorism) and colorblindness. happy new year!

✨...and two! #MathArt #Mathematics Made with #python #matplotlib #numpy #sympy

I think I’m done with this new piece except for a frame. Tentative title is “California Rain.”

#adopteesky — I’m looking for recommendations of books, podcasts, and folks to follow who are donor conceived. I know our paths overlap in many places, but I’d like to expand my understanding so that I can be a better friend to others who are displaced from their history.

On the topic of white America’s obsession with “authentic” cuisine - “It's important it's 'authentic' so they can feel like they're conquering it.”

white people will literally buy a pregnant teen’s child before going to therapy 🥚

Dear non adopted folks. If you have woken up to the fact that adoption is awful, it is not, I repeat NOT, your job to convince adoptees, who are still in the adoption fog, that they should step out of it. You probably mean well, but stay in your lane. 🥚

The whole thread.

The problem with Idealists, Humanists and Adoption. 🥚 Adopters come in all shapes and sizes. From religious conservatives to idealist, humanist liberals. The problem with the latter is that they adopt believing they are the good adopters. >

Heads up, fellow adoptees - Apparently Hal is tired cool with blocking adoptees who challenge is oh so humanist views. 🥚

Can we get “don’t attribute PR goals to me” on a t shirt?

What I absolutely love about this is that I will never, not ever, not even a little, **understand** the equation in its written form. But @sconradi.bsky.social opened the door for me to **experience** this equation anyway. What a gift! ❤️

Paper orphans. The practice of falsifying a child's paperwork in order to make it adoptable. We are not orphans. They made us orphans. Adoption was something that was done to us. We deserve reparations. 🥚

Another day, another #AdoorableThursday. Everyone loves a medieval door, so here's the door of Urnes Stave Church, built mainly in the 12th and 13th centuries.

When elitist pundits claim "No one saw it coming", all that shows is who they consider to be no one. Never let them tell you who you are or what you're worth. From HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT (2020):

Queen of Hearts,1909 by Margaret Macdonald, one of the defining artists of the Glasgow School

my experience reflecting on #adoption and on the experiences of other adoptees was the true starting point to the conclusion i have now reached, which is that “the fault, dear brutus, lies not in our stars, but in our middle-class white people”

Um will you just look at this incredible time capsule of a house for sale in Hastings, East Sussex. Main section dating from 1580 and with original built-in bed nooks and old bath. For sale for £800K which is cheaper than your average (much less charming) house here in Sydney these days. Who’s in?