open.substack.com/pub/joanne/p... #adoptee

A newly introduced Iowa bill requires post-adoption interviews with the adoptive parents and the adopted person, including a "face-to-face interview with the adopted person conducted outside the presence of the parent named in the final adoption decree." 🥚 www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...

NEW: An Atlanta-area crisis pregnancy center has raked in more than $1 million from an unusual source: the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The CPC is opening a maternity home, worrying advocates that residents may be coerced into relinquishing children for adoption. @autonomynews.co

Being an adoptee is spending your life being told you don’t have the right to be upset about anything. You’re lucky to be here and should just be grateful. You don’t matter you’re just a ‘gift’ to someone else or you were saved so just be grateful and be quiet. #adopteevoices

Childhood emotional neglect can fracture identity and shape adult relationships. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Sex and relationships are often where adoptees’ deepest questions get lived out. #adoptee open.substack.com/pub/joanne/p...

So a lot of these people were really radicalized during BLM. I think they are trying to create a do-over. This is very much a first person player game for them. Yes there’s some electoral interference shaping up & creating slave labor but more than a little bit of a BLM redo.

will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other

www.koreaherald.com/article/1064... #adoption 🥚

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

#adoption is wealth transfer from the have-nots to the haves.

Radical rehumanization for adoptees is an individual and collective process in which we reclaim our full personhood by centering #adoptee voices, asserting our rights to identity, exposing & rejecting the racialized… open.substack.com/pub/joanne/p...

Here it is. The Republicans and Trump are demanding that we either put more women in jail for abortion or let them bleed out in hospital parking lots OR they’ll starve this country and bring the working class to its knees.

#Adoptees are diagnosed at higher rates with ADHD due to interaction of genes with environmental stressors such as systemic inequities and trauma related to adoption. A little sciencey but I was geeking out on the research. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

November is National Adoptee Awareness Month. CS Wright reminds us that adoptee and immigrant rights are intertwined, and that reclaiming identity and belonging calls for activism, healing, and solidarity together. 🥚

“Dozens of adoptees have been deported to their countries of birth in recent years, according to the Adoptee Rights Law Center. A man born in South Korea and adopted as a child by an American family—only to be deported to his country of birth because of a criminal record—took his own life in 2017.”

The head of the nation's largest pro-adoption industry group, Ryan Hanlon, launches lies and misinformation to disparage mostly the people who are the most harmed by adoption: #Adoptees. The voices of adoptees are making a difference. Discount this garbage. Speak up. ifstudies.org/blog/beyond-...

When an adoptive family has unresolved intergenerational trauma, the adopted child can be drawn into those dynamics, and out of loyalty to the adoptive family system, can take on the suffering or burdens of family members.

I wrote this blog a few years ago, and yes it still irks me. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... #adoptee

“Sometimes I worry about adoptees who share their story publicly before they’ve processed its impact. I can hear and feel them trying to keep the trauma at bay, and I worry—for the storyteller and the listener.” #adoptee

This is so insane

#Shrinking is doing a very poor job with #adoption. It’s truly cringeworthy.

NEWS The NYT has obtained an email that Pete Hegseth’s mom sent to her son in 2018. In the email, Penelope Hegseth refers to her son as “an abuser of women.” In an interview with the New York Times, Penelope Hegseth says she regrets sending the email to her son. Full Story: bit.ly/3ZbUs9h

Trump’s promise of a simpler life and regressive gender norms is unattainable. What happens if his followers ever figure that out? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...

I am beginning to see this at the community college level – – students are accusing me of being political for covering the impact of poverty on families in my child psych class www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...

not a landslide

We need to stay focused this is going to be a long four years.

the state & failure of women’s healthcare always reminds me that diagnoses of ‘hysteria’ didn’t cease to exist — esp. for women of other marginalised identities — it just goes by different names, different appearances. but the trivialisation & dismissal of women’s pain still very much exists

Noooooo

Vaccines do not cause autism.

😬 "While waiting for his plate of meat loaf, gravy, and an iceberg wedge at an empty restaurant in Concord, New Hampshire, on the first day of June, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was gently explaining to me that nobody knows whether HIV is the sole cause of AIDS."

And what a nasty irony for #adopted and donor-conceived people who are already barred from access to the truth about their biological parentage, and therefore family health history.

Sex therapist, feminist writer and #adoptee