I'll get word out about what to do to support this critical legislation, but if you want to get started today, here's how to contact your US Senators and your US Representative 🥚 adopteerightslaw.com/action/citiz...

The US Senate has introduced the bipartisan Protect Adoptees and American Families Act, formerly known as the Adoptee Citizenship Act. Let's get this enacted so that thousands of intercountry adoptees finally secure US citizenship. 🥚 adopteesunited.org/congress-int...

You can spend today seeking a way to support and uplift the many marginalized groups that Kirk demonized and harmed.

In the summer of 1841, an enslaved man from Arkansas named Nelson Hackett undertook one of the longest overland escapes in American history — some 1,000 miles from Fayetteville to Chatham, a town in present-day Ontario. Canada returned him to bondage, sparking outcry news.uark.edu/articles/799...

Stories of Black and Indigenous Newporters could connect families to their missing history www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/15/m...

Free Walking Tours to Illuminate African-American History at Raleigh's Mt. Hope Cemetery hoodline.com/2025/09/free...

On this day in 1664, the Maryland legislature passed the first colonial law intended to prevent interracial marriage. It would take over 300 years for such “anti-miscegenation” laws to be banned across the U.S.

"Unpersecuted, unjailed, unharassed writers are trouble for the ignorant bully, the sly racist, and the predators feeding off the world’s resources." inthesetimes.com/article/toni...

The thing everyone can do right now is to find your lane if you don't already have one and work that lane diligently and with commitment.

María was told her babies had died, but that was a lie. After 45 years, her Chilean twins have been reunited with their mother. Her story is one of many from Chile’s dark history of mass adoption abuse, involving stolen babies, falsified records, and silenced mothers. 🥚

THE LIGHTHOUSE KEEPER from #TapiocaStories is a “surreal neon dream, this picture book is an ode to the sea, to connection, and to weathering the storm” www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/the-...

Seems to me the more books we can devise that confront racism, the better. But how do you confront a hate crime in a picture book? Today's title does precisely that. #kidlit 📚👍 afuse8production.slj.com/2025/09/16/t...

On June 24, I began my Election Night speech by quoting Mandela: “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” That's the spirit of this campaign, and our city. This is "Until It’s Done,” a new series about New Yorkers who refused to accept that a worthy goal was impossible.

The profession of social work is in a sad and complicit state, but these articles are reminders that there are always individuals who are willing to take a stand even in the midst of institutional repression. All of these articles are open access and available now at our website: www.apswjournal.com

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder... Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed. Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.

What's being "protected" is not "free speech" but rather the RIGHT for white men to be white supremacists in public without any criticism or any consequences. I hope that's clear.

Over the past few months @wired.com, @teenvogue.com, @prismreports.org, @truthout.org, @inquest.bsky.social, @hammerandhope.bsky.social, @theguardian.com, @rollingstone.com and so many other outlets have kept me more than informed.

The @newrepublic.com actually does very useful and helpful REPORTING. How about @propublica.org? Excellent. The @51st.news is doing excellent actual reporting. So is @thetriibe.com in Chicago. There are so many other places to get actual useful news.

White House Officials Vow Vast Crackdown on Liberal Groups www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09... Open authoritarianism. Happening right in front of us.

Your periodic reminder that many international adoptees are at high risknof deportation because adoption paperwork and citizenship paperwork were not the same process. They were adopted by U.S. families but never nationalized as citizens. apnews.com/article/trum...

Adoption prizes adoptive parents right to pretend they birthed you above all else. Even your life. That’s why records are sealed. To protect the fantasy. 🥚

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

The free speech activist who built a list of professors he worked to get fired for their speech must be celebrated for his support of free speech, and anyone who quotes his speech accurately in context will be fired and/or face state punishment by the champions of free speech, do I have that right?

You probably failed at "building bridges" if millions of people think that your life's work was destructive and terrible and if your supporters have to threaten people to keep them quiet about said legacy.

🥚Phoenix adoptee, 53, w rare health issues has launched a public appeal. Reminder: the privacies of adoption intended to protect everyone’s feelings don’t apply to adoptees. We’re forced to turn our DNA over to for-profit labs and call reporters to find out who we are. iol.co.za/thepost/comm...

You do not in fact have to praise the guy who said homeless people should be murdered with lethal injections and then apologized four days later to save his job. Let's get a grip here.

The average income of someone in jail pretrial is <$20,000, making it almost impossible to afford cash bail. Pretrial detention doesn’t just throw someone’s life into chaos — it makes it more likely that they will plead guilty just to get out of jail. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/inco...

Reading the Black Jacobins Join us for a hybrid political education collaboration between Haymarket Books and @abolitionschool.bsky.social. Meeting in person in Philadelphia and streaming on Youtube. Wednesdays from Sept. 17th - Dec. 10th at 6 PM ET. RSVP: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

Over $2B in global health funding is at risk of expiring Sept 30—never reaching the communities that need it most. Help prevent a $2 Billion Loss in Global Health Funding! Tell your Members of Congress: Don’t let lifesaving funds go to waste: https://bit.ly/4lMgQPE

the Clintons were (and presumably still are) very proud of their role in making this bill into law, which was understood even at the time as aimed at streamlining the permanent severance of children from their whole families. Both major parties are pro-adoption through and through. 🥚

My adoption poem Pruning the Family Tree is now published on Tangled Locks Journal. Yay! I usually don't write adoption poetry, but have a few. This might trigger some people. I dunno. I hope not. tangledlocksjournal.com/2025/08/30/p...

Do they want the names, and places and dates of birth of my parents, or my "parents" ? (Do I lie *this way* or *the other way*?) 🥚

Just learned my story “Infant Of” - about talking with my #adoptive mother about wanting to search for my #birthmother was shortlisted for The Letter Review Prize for NonFiction. It is an excerpt from my forthcoming #memoir - Thank you Letter Review. letterreview.com/the-letter-r... 🥚

Announcing my second novel, THE MINIMALIST. This was an incredibly difficult and personal novel for me to write - one that spoke to my relationship to Jewishness, queerness, and Asian adoptee identity, my experiences with mental illness, and the agony and ecstasy of classical music. 🥚 (1/2)

...I say give me pestilence and famine sooner than that." — Henry L. Benning

"Suppose they elevated Fred Douglas, your escaped slave, to the Presidency? And there are hundreds of thousands at the North who would do this for the purpose of humiliating and insulting the South. What would be your position in such an event?...

Henry Benning said “give me pestilence and famine” sooner than electing a Black person. Despite being committed to racial inequality, the Trump Administration recently has renamed a military base in Georgia in his honor.

A person does not need to be a racist to participate in or perpetuate racist systems. It's important to listen and learn with open hearts and minds, especially when the person naming the harm is someone you claim to love as one of your own. #adopteevoices 🥚 www.channelnewsasia.com/watch/whats-...

“.. Kennedy was acting bizarre, saying he can tell as he walks past children if they are dealing with “mitochondrial challenges” .. Can he mysteriously divine illnesses just by looking? “Our health secretary is a certified quack.” @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...

Loss is the root of lifelong trauma for many adoptees. 🥚 *from LinkedIn*

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

Over 4,000 children are confined for things that aren't even crimes for adults – like truancy, running away, violating curfew, or being otherwise “ungovernable.” Kids need care, not cages. www.prisonpolicy.org/reports/yout...

Congratulations to author @katemessner.com, illustrator Christopher Silas Neal, and everyone at Chronicle Books on the release of OVER AND UNDER THE CORAL REEF, the eighth book in their award-winning nature picture book series. Happy book birthday and welcome to the world!

2. I created this list and it's been viral. Some actions that are not protesting or voting. There's something for everyone on the list. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Offering 3 resources for people seeking ideas for what they might do in this moment: 1. We made a short workbook to help people narrow down or discover their areas of interest and focus. It's been downloaded thousands of times. Hope it's useful to you: millionexperiments.com/zines/making...

As an example that you can just do shit, FTP launched in Jan 2023 with a small volunteer steering group & no money as a 5 year project. And we are still small but we've done a lot together & people mistake us as some sort of well-funded outfit, lol. www.librariesforthepeople.org

🧵 CBS Sunday Morning has a story about actor Christian Bale's project to keep foster siblings together by building a community in Palmdale, Calif. OK, but what about their parents? Why are these kids in foster care? CBS mis-labeled them "orphaned" (in caption) + www.cbsnews.com/video/christ... 1/4

"For me" is the selfishness of adopters. They don't think about the child's trauma or history, or even options to keep the child with its biofam. 🥚

This is very random but adoptees are forever infantilized and it’s a huge reason why everybody thinks they know better than, for, and about us than we do ourselves. Infuriating is an understatement. 🥚