Our season 9 finale is out. We had a great conversation with Angela Tucker. I will miss this beautiful book. It is so important. #adoptees www.adoptionthemakingofme.com

Adoptees taking over the Central Coast of CA for an incredible weekend of connection. Sarah and I are still pinching ourselves. Was it real? It was so good! @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social www.adoptionthemakingofme.com

Our panel included @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social (co- host), @thesusanito.bsky.social @gretchensisson.bsky.social @monicahallauthor.bsky.social, Kristal Parke, Greg Gentry and Chris Williams. Adoptees sharing, educating and connecting in California! www.adoptionthemakingofme.com

What a weekend! We (ATMOM )-hosted a live podcast event featuring an incredible panel, Liz DeBetta performing Un-M-Othered, guest:Chris Williams, Jeff Forney with the Innocent People Project and Damon Davis as our emcee & moderator. The entire weekend was adoptees connecting in community. Amazing!❤️

This was an amazing time. I’m still blown away by it all.

You can still grab a ticket to our Live Podcast Event on the Central Coast of California, happening on March 8th in Atascadero. This is going to be an amazing day of community, learning, laughter, and connection. — www.eventbrite.com/e/live-podca...

Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

The news is out! I’ll be directing my first short this year. I’m beyond excited! www.overproductiveco.com/home/about-u...

If you get a chance please read @louisebrowne.bsky.social A really lovely essay. Thank You.

the question is never “why do adoptees deserve their own birth records;” it is always “why does anyone else deserve to take them away.” 🥚

I haven’t been keeping up on this platform much and I want to. It seems the safe new place to be. Still figuring out the ins and outs. Sharing my recent Substack here today. open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...

I keep thinking about these important and powerful words by Audre Lorde. I first encountered them while reading our current book (S9) for our podcast, Adoption: The Making of Me. The book is: You Should Be Grateful, by Angela Tucker. These words keep coming to me.

Some hearts remain closed Compassion waits quietly Bitter words fall past ~My morning haiku ~Art: Alexander Milov at Burning Man

Saying yes to a challenge and getting out a new essay. A bit insecure about this one. Hence, the challenge. open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...

Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home

L.A.'s residential writer emeritus, Chris Erskine, pens his thoughts on the #LosAngeles fires and their aftermath. There's sadness, there's concern, and there's hope. chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s... #AltaDena #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #writing

This beautiful post by Chris Erskine. He was one of my favorite LA Times columnists for years. I remember when he suffered the loss of his son and we all followed along with him. He let us into his deepest emotions then and now. He’s so poignant. chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s...

Shout out to a few people included in the video clip of The Making of Me Podcast— @louisebrowne.bsky.social @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social and @steveinskeep.bsky.social 🥚 Thanks to Paul Kimball and the California Alliance for Adoptee Rights for making this video. 🎬

100% yes!

Hi! My first share here. I am already finding friends from the other sites. We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!

This story has such a lovely reunion- it also is heartbreaking. So many layers as we know. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...

64 now! Let’s keep growing it! Please subscribe! Tell me if you want to be added! 🥚

This whole thread. I would suggest that in addition to the forms of family violence described here, we add the entire #adoption industry, which took its modern form less than a century ago, in no small measure owing to the tireless efforts of a literal child thief and trafficker named Georgia Tann.

Just for fun. My helpers at work. They sure snore loudly!

Hi! My first share here. I am already finding friends from the other sites. We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!