I’m honored to be reading as part of this Words as Lifelines series Sunday night at 6pm ET, along with @alandettlaff.com & @gretchensisson.bsky.social, talking adoption, family policing, repro justice & more, to benefit families in Gaza. Donate & join us if you can: form.jotform.com/joonae/lifel...

Trying to get off Instagram because of censorship and Xios, but I have a really amazing community there. What do y’all like about this app vs Instagram?

It is such an honor to hold this space for my friend Tamara in Gaza and for my fellow Korean adoptees. Love and solidarity! oregonhumanities.org/rll/beyond-the-margins/a-debt-of-gratitude/

This is such an intensely beautiful poem. ❤️‍🩹

My first-ever published poem was also the most emotionally vulnerable writing I've ever put onto a page. Thank you Blue Earth Review for selecting "post- and pre-" as the 2024 Minnesota BIPOC Emerging Writer Award runner-up in poetry! #adopteevoices

One of the most important things to me now is boosting this fundraiser for my Habibi, Tamara Abu Dayer. Please donate what you can! gofund.me/19d38c48

Adopting someone else's baby, as something you actually want and actively seek out, is just really weird if you think about it. Like, those people who say shit like, "Since I was a child, I wanted to adopt." Weird. Ew. Omg, wtf?

That disconcerting way I want a garden and do nothing to make that happen 🌱🌱🌱

a pro-family-preservation politics that is not strongly pro-abortion makes no sense to me. And I reject a politics that calls itself “pro-family” but is not strongly pro-family-preservation. #🥚

I grew up in a family culture that didn't value education, escaped, moved across the country, and got college 3 degrees that changed my life. Being working class w/no support from my adopters, I did it w/loans and working a ton. I ended up w $168K of student loan debt though I borrowed around $80k.

For those who've been away from BlueSky for a few days and are trying to figure out what the hell happened, here's the recent event that sparked the ongoing protest, and you can read about everything that led up to it earlier on Aveta's thread.

agree the terminology needs work but the idea is to only post about the issue until the issue is sufficiently acknowledged and resolved. and imo that makes sense.

The idea that content moderation is the last refuge of fragile people rests on the confused idea that speech is “just words,” and it shifts the moral onus from the racists and bigots who target others for abuse and onto those targeted. This isn’t centrism, it’s reactionary.

SAG-AFTRA has voted to strike, joining picketing writers in what will amount to an effective shutdown of Hollywood

The word skeet. Do not like.

When you want to be the friend who shows up to everything, but you remember you hate leaving the house

I would like to encourage my adoptee friends and all other interested persons to like and add this custom feed. If you would like your skeets (not replies) to show up there, lmk. It will improve the feed! https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2sfy6irvmfmnwxe4ouhrrn7a/feed/aaadnim25wkmc

Severing a child from their parent through adoption, said Jean Paton, an adoptee, “is a social death.” Early in her career as a social worker she arranged two relinquishments, and they filled her with guilt. “We are playing funeral, and no one is dying.”

People are such weirdos because most kept people would never want to be adopted or lose their kids because, for themselves, they can imagine how painful it would be -- yet they fight tooth and nail with adopted people that we should be grateful.

My insurppressible inclination to hard agree with 100000% and YASSSSSS. 😬😆

I made enough bokkeumbap for leftovers. But I ate it all in one sitting. 😆 I'm so full I'm getting a headache. 🤣

This is so good! Thank you @fkajennifer.bsky.social for posting. I had missed this one!

Yessss! Matthew! 🙌

As an adopted person, should I be grateful that I dont know if today is my birthday? That I could have a mother, or an entire family, grieving for me today and I won't know? That my birth, in many ways, meant loss, loss, and more loss? 🎂🤷🏻‍♀️

Am I kinda allergic to just about everything I eat or am I old?

Moving between Instagram, Threads, and Bluesky has me feeling like I'm neglecting three different gardens.

Too true. Also, a breakfast sandwich is my favorite kind of cereal.

Librarians are modern day warriors. They shouldn't have to be. But hot damn, they are beautiful people fighting back in the coolest ways. 💪❤📚

Y'all. I'm so confused. I got on Threads yesterday, Bluesky today. What am I posting and reposting and liking on what? And who am I following and connecting with where? Who am I? What day is it? 🙃☠

First post is a thank you to the brilliant @corsent.bsky.social for inviting me to this party! 😆🥰