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🥚Human development is impacted by separation from our mothers & numerous caregivers in our early years. For adoptees, these are standard events in our lives. Adoptees, how do your early life experiences show up in relationships? #NationalADOPTEEAwarenessMonth #AdopteeVoices

A movie you've seen more than seven times with a gif...

Don’t forget to set your clocks 1 hour back tonight before bed for #DeLaSavings ⏰

🥚BIPOC Adoptee Books!!

🥚 Adoptee Advocates of Michigan November Speaker Series

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My son's newest Substack and music video! #CancelSpotify

Sara Easterly cuts through feel-good adoption narratives to expose how Utah’s system sidelines birth parents and leaves adoptees carrying lifelong “what-ifs.” Her op-ed is a clear call for reform and for centering the voices of those left out of the conversation.🥚

Being in community is so important to mental well-being. Understanding you are not the only 1 who has experienced certain things, & having others put words to things you're feeling or have felt, gives you validation & helps you feel less alone. Find your people! Engage!! Ask me how! 🥚 #Adoptee #MSW

Tonight's virtual screening of I Am A Man: Black Masculinity in America has been POSTPONED. The new date is Thursday, September 18, 2025, at 7 pm! Stay tuned for more detailed information about the Byron Hurt Film Series! @akilaworksongs.bsky.social

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

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🥚 German doc film (in English) on #adoption fraud “In the last 60 years, over a million ‘orphans’ have been adopted by Western families. Many of them are now discovering that their past is a lie. International adoptions are at the center of an unprecedented scandal” www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUUa...

🥚For those of you in the adoptee community, and for all with a spirit of kindness & generosity, please consider giving no matter the amount! Keith has an undeniable enduring faith & spirit of positivity!! 💜❤️‍🔥🙌🏼

My mom's purple rose bush showing out for her birthday month. 💜💜💜

🥚 Yes, I used to be Cristina. 😔

Today is my mom's 94th birthday! She has been gone 2 years (as of July). These pics are from a video of her dancing on a beach during her last trip to Panamá, July 2022, weeks before her 91st birthday. She is missed, but she lived a long, full life! Happy birthday in Heaven, mama! 💜🎉💐

This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.

#adoption is a system of contradictions. the obligation to be grateful is an example. on the one hand, adoptees are seen as the children of their adopters, just like children raised in the families into which they were born. on the other hand, our having been adopted obliges us to gratitude. +

On #ASCENDING (a live stream on @marclamonthill's channels), I have a segment called "Bookmark." I spotlight works I've read or am reading, including the autobiography of #JazzLegend #RandyWeston (RIP). He called me once to say THANK YOU for my help re: an event (in 2011) honoring him. Still WOW.

Add your name to the petition demanding Congress pass legislation requiring all immigration agents to clearly display their agency and name or badge number—just like other local law enforcement are required to do. sign.moveon.org/petitions/un...

Last night, I attended a Panamanian Attire Contest. There is a Panamania Folkloric Group of Hampton Roads (VA) founded by Audomelia "Aura" Robinson (last photo), a Panamanian woman who married & moved to the U.S. in 1970s. They put on a weekend of events annually in Newport News, VA. 🇵🇦💃🏾🎉

My son's Substack & newest album! It's been a privilege to watch him explore & grow in his passions!

My son's Substack & newest album! It's been a privilege to watch him explore & grow in his passions!

🥚 I'm still vibrating from this conference! Such a great experience. I also met my very 1st fellow Panamanian adoptee!!! 🇵🇦💛🙌🏼 My heart is full.

“Malcolm-Jamal Warner Was America’s Brother”—blog/opinion piece by Kevin Powell, via @Newsweek: www.newsweek.com/malcolm-jama...

My puggle had a dental recently. Now he has no teefs to hold his tongue in when he sleeps. It's too cute! 😍 #DogsofBluesky

Malcolm Jamal Warner dead. What??? 😥🕊

Two sleeps to Portland!! 👏🏼 I'm so excited!!‼️

I'm humbled to be part of this impressive panel! Hope you can make it!!

On Feb. 15, José Manuel Ramos Bastidas called his wife from inside a Texas immigration detention facility. He asked her to record a message, “just in case something happens to me.” Thread 👇

As an adoptee, immigrant, Black in the US, and federal employee, I'm feeling so burned out and discouraged. I'm so looking forward to next week's BIPOC Adoptee Conference in Portland! It's just nice to have something to look forward to. Who else will be there? 🥚 #TransnationalAdoptees #BIPOCAdoptees

🥚 Seventh anniversary of the Adoptees Connect - Northern Virginia get-together Monday evening. I'm glad the local groups I'm part of will continue meeting. #AdopteesConnectNOVA

It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Won't. Stop. With. Immigrants. It. Will. Move. On. To. The. Next. Group. He. Hates.

35 adoptees have already been deported. www.hrw.org/news/2025/02...

"She had a birth certificate and always thought she was a U.S. citizen. But... she learned she was missing the naturalization certificate needed to prove her status. ... Anyone adopted internationally by U.S. citizens could face similar issues if their paperwork is incomplete."

Not a great, but rare, photo of the 3 beasts all together! 12yo puggle, Chronic; 11yo APBT, Maxwell; & 17yo Snowshoe, Cronos! 🐶🐶🐱

Watch ASCENDING Saturday/tomorrow on @marclamonthill.bsky.social Official (YouTube) with host @aprilrsilver.bsky.social of @akilaworksongs.bsky.social as she welcomes a live community discussion on the legacy of SANDRA BLAND.

Tonight at 7pm ET. Get registered and well see you there! 🥚 #transnationaladoptees #adopteecommunity #adopteevoices

30ish seconds of a hummingbird at my hanging flowerpot. Just in case you needed it today.

The Transnational Adoptee Group Discussion happens the 2nd Tues of every month from 7-9pm ET. Get registered via ANC's Calendar page. See you this Tuesday, 7/8! 🥚 #TransnationalAdoptee #AdopteeVoicesMatter

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

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🥚 @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social & @louisebrowne.bsky.social will be hosting an Adoption: The Making of Me live podcast weekend event in DC in September. Hope you can make it! www.eventbrite.com/e/live-podca...