Adoption isn't an alternative to being pregnant. If you don't want to be pregnant, continuing a pregnancy so you can give you kid away to strangers means staying pregnant. You don't owe some childless couple your literal labour or a human being. 🥚

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Wait, THIS is young Anton Chekhov? This? Good lord. Let that gun go off, daddy

Unroll 🧵 and please sit with this: “Adoption is not social welfare. It is what happens because we *reject* social welfare—because we do *not* help those who need it most. Adoption is a *business*: the business of making affluent people into the parents of less fortunate people’s children.”

The Gresham family will return from Texas with U.S. Rep. Maxine Dexter early on Saturday.

Olympians are masking up with N95s because they know a covid infection can derail their chances of competing. They know it could derail their careers. They know it could disable them. They’re practicing self care and community care. Give them a gold medal in public health!

how do you write this story without noting there was a campaign literally called SUBSTACKERS AGAINST NAZIS in…2023

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Note that this is local police not ICE or CPD attacking these young people. Local police are working overtime to distance themselves from ICE/CPD. Don't buy the hype.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

The program ends with referencing it as the CHILD TRAFFICKING movement. We should all dig deeper because it didn't end when the trains stopped running. - Georgia Tan & Bessie Bernard, black-market baby rings. Let's keep researching our history, she says!! 1/2 🥚 www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQYU...

Deadline for submitting a case to the Korean Truth and Reconcilliation Commission is 20 Feb. See details here (alt txt). There are also online info meetings today and tomorrow (bit late I know). Remember, you can also submit as a relative to a KAD. #adoption #SouthKorea #TRC 🥚

anyway, is it ok if i postulate that if #adoption is big enough to make it into a Super Bowl ad then maybe it isn’t merely some niche obsession for a tiny minority of weirdos?

I do not think the most significant cultural shifts will come from a World War, Class War, Race War, or whatever other battle people weirdly fantasize about. I think it’ll be an integration of the idea that children are people and not the property of their parents.

the National Council for #Adoption will be running a Super Bowl ad. That’s about $16 million for a 60-second spot. does anyone even fucking care how far that money could go to allowing vulnerable people to keep rather than lose their own children?

SPOILER ALERT #Bridgerton So you're telling me that in the new season a spoilt white man, whose only talent is being very rich, seduces a poor Korean maid, persuades his mom to hire her to keep her close, and we're ok with that?

Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

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This is really what I want people to appreciate. I get that it feels good to be like "well that person's a pedophile too!" But in many cases they weren't. They were just people who didn't think it was a big deal. That's terrible in its own particular way.

One of the plaintiffs in this case is a client---and an intercountry adoptee 🥚 whose only lifeline to remain and work in the US is the Haiti TPS program. Her courage to become a named plaintiff is 🔥 www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Whole lot of you following Neil Gaiman, and I assume it's because you forgot you did so and he stopped posting when it was revealed he is a rapist. Since he's trying to make a return, do yourself a favour and check if you're following @neilhimself.neilgaiman.com and if so unfollow and block.

I don’t think I can say this forcefully enough: hundreds of thousands of Haitians will lose status tomorrow with racist ending of their TPS & are spending today refreshing their feeds for a court order that could literally save thier lives. This is nothing short of psychosocial torture.

I do not debate sexual assault allegations with strangers on the internet; I block. Take your devil’s advocate bullshit back to hell where it belongs. As for me and my house, we shall believe survivors.

It's ALWAYS the case that some groups of people were organizing against the thing you are saying no one organized against in real time.

So I listened to this episode again, and as much as it touches on the problems of international adoption (thank you Grace Netwon), it really only scratches the surface (as they also note at the end). So much has happened since 2020. #adoption 🥚

www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/g... #adoption 🥚

Good news for Korean #adoptees who's TRC cases are still unresolved as well as the opportunity to submit new cases. 🥚 www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/s...

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Cops called in to testify end up missing hearings at double the rate of defendants. Yet in many places, defendants alone face the harsh consequences of jail for missing a court date:

PLEASE Find your compassion and at least repost!!!

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There’s always someone out there saying, “why don’t you ever talk about the beauty of adoption!” usually in response to critiques by adoptees. As if those stories aren’t the foundation of how adoption is talked about. But the problem is that adoption is an industry, an oppressive one at that.

I think people who were adopted should be able to un-adopt themselves as adults. The reason why this idea sounds outlandish is that the cultural narrative of adoption is written by and for adopters, and they do not want their status as parents to be threatened with annulment.

Georgia Fort's is chilling, and it's being overshadowed by the equally chilling arrest of Don Lemon. A GoFundMe is being set up for Fort. In the meantime, you can support her work directly – without paying massive fundraising platform fees – through her website: www.georgiafort.com/support

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

Variously viewing adoptees as ingrates, blessings, damaged goods, bad seeds, charity cases, divine gifts, and outsiders are all tropes in dehumanizing narratives that enable the denial of our basic civil rights (birth certificates) and the fact of our permanent involuntary separation from family.

anyone who doubts this has never looked at the comments on any article at all that explores #adoption from anything except adoptive parents’ point of view. adoptees willing to go on the record about their critiques of the system are absolutely savaged.

Not to be all, “everything is about adoption” but for me as an adoptee who was not only lied to about the circumstances of my relinquishment but also the inception. and purposes of adoption in general - don’t trust middle men or third party information. Give me primary documents and well-cited info

Oh wow - this is immediate pre-order for me. 🥚 uipress.uiowa.edu/books/what-t...

🥚Prison Born calls attention to the colonial and gendered assumptions that continue to underpin the legal system—assumptions that so frequently lead to the violation of the rights and denial of personhood for children and their mothers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV1S...

GoFundMe for Alex Pretti's family: $1,739,317. GoFundMe for Renee Good's family: $1,499,557. GoFundMe for Keith Porters's family: $302,423. GoFundMe for Silverio Villegas's family: $57,642. Even in death, some lives are less valued.

in talking about Tom Homan i think we should be careful using the phrase “the original child-separation policy” in the context of a country that has adopted too many child-separation policies to count throughout its history.

Libraries need to be more vocal about the digital pricing problem. I only buy for Sora (the school version of Libby) when specifically requested by a patron. I talk a lot about why I don't buy on the regular and patrons are always shocked at the price difference. I have to pay $75 not $1.99!

This is why I finally jumped off instagram. It’s too visual and 9 out of 10 text heavy slide posts don’t have alt and I can’t read that shit with the tiny font and poor contrast. I DO NOT HAVE THE TIME. Not for your bad design or your casual exclusion.

Folks, the cops were the ones arresting the clergy, not ICE. They are not on our side. I'm going to hold your hand while I say this: they're all the baddies.

Reminding you yet again that turning away from others harms your own humanity.

🥚Under J. J. Kelso, Superintendent of Neglected and Dependent Children in Ontario, children were taken from incarcerated mothers and utilized to meet the demand for domestic and farm labor.