🥚The removal of thousands of children from Ireland for adoption in the United States between the 1940s and 1970s was ‘revealed’ to Irish society by the news media in 1996. The ‘Banished Babies scandal’ has never been formally investigated by the Irish state. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

🥚Single, separated, widowed, or divorced mothers were often targeted by discriminatory vagrancy laws and imprisoned. So where did children for adoption come from?👇

🥚An introduction to the Adoptee Birthright Archive, with an attached curated selection of over 70 short and feature documentaries which offer a brief history of the impact of sealed records... Click here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wTaV...

The adoptee does not “exit” the system at placement. They carry its consequences across decades and generations. Adoption must be understood as a lifelong transformation of identity, legal status, and family. intercountryadopteevoices.com/2026/04/30/w...

In 1953, my teenage mother spent weeks in what was known as the “dungeon” at the Andrew Mercer Reformatory as punishment for escaping. A decade for Tona Mills is deeply distressing; it’s hard to grasp that those in authority allowed her and others to be subjected to such inhumane and cruel TORTURE.

🥚On the 4th of March, the Flemish Parliament reached a political consensus during a plenary session discussing a proposed resolution to phase out transnational adoption. facing-the-past.org/the-bumpy-ro...

Marie-Josée Houle, Office of the Federal Housing Advocate describes the current housing crisis as catastrophic. Shelters are neither safe nor adequate. The current system is often punitive, susceptible to coercive care, and can leave people vulnerable to predators. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVFR...

🥚Presentation by Lynelle Long of ICAV intercountryadopteevoices.com/2026/04/23/a...

🥚Half hour listen. by M Ceniza I don't think is on adoptees of bluesky but the X account is @mcenizas_ www.thenation.com/article/soci...

CCLA and a broad coalition of groups call on all members of Parliament to scrap Bill C-22’s unprecedented and unjustified expansion of surveillance. ccla.org/privacy/coal...

The Government of Canada has been notified of the upcoming session on missing indigenous children and unmarked graves in Canada (Montreal, May 25-29 2026) permanentpeoplestribunal.org/the-governme...

🥚Adoptees of Bluesky Is anyone going to this upcoming conference? www.adoptionandculture.org/conferenceht...

Exciting news!! The CHIRP team (headed by Fiona Kouyoumdjian @macdeptmed.bsky.social & @marthapaynter.bsky.social & many more including me) has its first publication out. By linking Stats Can data, we FINALLY have a credible estimate of how many Canadian children have a parent in prison. Gift link:

More on this extraordinary story here: www.policevswhistleblower.ca

Why are police allowed to investigate themselves? An extraordinary story!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcNl...

🥚We have serious issues in Canada regarding both knowledge of, and access to, records concerning babies born to criminalized and incarcerated women and girls in every type of carceral institution.

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Eugenic ideology shaped laws, abusive institutions, and forced sterilization. Today, federal and provincial disclosure laws still hide the experiences of women and girls in Canada labeled “incorrigible,” blocking access to records. The U. S. #Incorrigibles Ry Marcattilio-McCracken 👇

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🥚Who has read Torn Apart by Dorothy Roberts? This article touches on the history of Charles Loring Brace and the orphan trains—does the book go in depth over the decades of the evolving child welfare system? www.motherjones.com/criminal-jus...

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🥚"Since the 2000s, quantitative research has consistently found that Sweden's over 60,000 foreign-born adoptees are severely affected in terms of mental ill-health and social problems and not least suicide attempts and suicides." www.kau.se/en/intercult...

🥚Good discussion about being a working-class writer in Canada & the ruling class. It made me think of adoptees—whose stories get told, and which don’t. Especially prison adoptees. How many of these have you read? www.cbc.ca/arts/commoti...

🥚"... Justice Minister Jung Sung-ho said the country’s past adoptions amounted to “forced child trafficking” and that the government will largely refrain from appealing rulings in cases brought by victims seeking compensation for government wrongdoing"

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🥚She searches for herself in the "Today's Child" column on children for adoption: "I realized that some of the language sounded familiar because it was used during the 18th and 19th centuries in both slave auction ads and fugitive slave ads to describe Black people who were enslaved in Canada."

🥚Possibly disappeared Mercer babies—records unobtainable. Hidden behind the YCJA and CYFSA, likely thousands of adoptees and their descendants remain unaware of a carceral birth history. We've had 3 wins and now one loss👇

🥚Actually, adoption systems worldwide—domestic and international—must be investigated, including children of young mothers who were criminalized and incarcerated, whose records are restricted by youth disclosure laws, concealing the truth of their adoption. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koxd...

Cody of Houle Fine Art’s grandmother, Cecile, survived residential schools but faced further injustice—jailed at Mercer while her children were taken in the Sixties Scoop. She died soon after release; her children never knew. instagram.com/p/DFQqTzuS9qe/ facebook.com/profile.php?...

Is the federal government still spying on Indigenous groups? The answer was no—yet not long ago, it tracked First Nations advocate Cindy Blackstock. Definitely needs an investigation. www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

"...young people – especially working-class, racialized, and those labelled ‘sexually precocious’ – experienced unprecedented intervention from police in the name of protection, prevention, and discipline." Read more here: ccie.educ.ubc.ca/watch-morali... www.youtube.com/watch?v=IScs...

The government says proposed changes to Ontario’s Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FIPPA) will modernize the law, protect privacy, and enhance security. The facts tell a different story. Read the full statement: www.ipc.on.ca/en/media-cen...

🥚Fascinating… 1970 vital statistics for marriages of girls aged 16 and under in Ontario (Table 18, p. 83). This is only a snippet, but the total number of such marriages was 1,913. In 1950, marriages for girls aged 16 and under numbered 1,014, with one bridegroom aged 50–54.

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DIRECTOR’S STATEMENT: LOST AND FOUND began with a question that haunts me: When does a human life become a commodity? 🥚 www.cinelinkindustrydays.com/2025-docu-ro...

My three Starter Packs are: #1: go.bsky.app/GMfGrzr #2: go.bsky.app/AqMGpsd #3: go.bsky.app/9e349ii Putting them all together so you can just pin and quote this post for later! #Genealogy

I (L. Mayhew) was interviewed, along with two other descendants of criminalized & incarcerated women & girls connected to the Andrew Mercer Reformatory, for the study “Keeping Mum” on its historical & contemporary legacy & gaps in the current literature. 🥚 Read: queensu.scholaris.ca/items/82ec50...

🥚A ward of the state becomes a prisoner of the state—and her baby is stolen for adoption. creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

🥚The Age of Inquiry: A global mapping of institutional abuse inquiries The Age of Inquiry project is mapping inquiries into historical child abuse that have proliferated since the 1990s. www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/research/age...

🥚Prisoner of the State: Unlawfully Arrested, Illegally Detained, a Punishment to Last a Lifetime by Lily Arthur (2025). In Canada, adoptees born to mothers detained in institutions remain hidden behind disclosure laws that obscure the truth of their carceral births. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFLW...

In a new statement, Commissioner Patricia Kosseim warns that proposed changes to Ontario's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act would seriously weaken privacy protections, transparency, reduce independent oversight and put Ontarians’ personal information at greater risk.

Has this been posted on Adoptees of Bluesky 🥚 yet? www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlXY...

Statement from Commissioner Patricia Kosseim on proposed changes to Ontario's Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act www.newswire.ca/news-release...

The Ford government is seeking major changes to Freedom of Information laws to remove public access requests to the premier and cabinet ministers' records amid Premier Ford's court battle loss over the release of his phone records. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHMr...

Federal Aboriginal Affairs department spying on advocate for First Nations children www.aptnnews.ca/national-new...

@20:59 "began to retaliate….I would find by 2011 that they had deployed at least close to 400 bureaucrats to follow my social media to try and find some kind of frivolous or vexatious motivation for filling this case so they could get it discredited and thrown out." www.youtube.com/watch?v=na7P...

Today the Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee supported Tona’s Law (Bill S-205) — an important step toward eliminating solitary confinement in federal prisons. #TonasLaw #BillS205 #EndSolitary #HumanRights #PrisonReform #SenCA #CdnPoli

International tribunal to hear case of missing Indigenous children in Canada - David Suzuki Foundation davidsuzuki.org/story/intern... 🥚

🥚There has been no federal apology or inquiry to date regarding the 60s Scoop in Canada. Read more at the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation here nctr.ca/uncategorize... @moonlyfe.bsky.social