#Adoptee

Saturday O’Brien🪐

saturdayobrien

THREAD 1/21I am a 57 year old, tall, thin, cishet, white, #adopted man. For years I have been horrified and appalled at the violence and oppression women suffer and the

Lydia X. Z. Brown

autistichoya

I'm autistic and a Chinese transracial, transnational adoptee. This fucking disgusts me. It also lays bare what many of us already know - the adoption industry is fueled by global

Christina

DiaryAdoptee

Being an adoptee is living in a world of people who breathe the same air as us—but don't understand what we have gone thru or why we feel the way

No White Saviors

nowhitesaviors

There is an orphanage in Jinja, UG. Run by ultra-conservative white Evangelicals. The white woman who opened the home adopted 2 Ugandan girls. She later married an Indian man who

Eunanduffy@longwar

eunanduffy

Happy Birthday fellow adoptee.Your sad & harrowing experience is unfortunately a similar legacy of many 1000s who have suffered complex trauma of family/ RC & Prot Church/ State pressure/coercion.My experience

Ouaquaga on Chenango

JnxOuaquaga

Adoption sets the adoptee up to always feel disposable.Not only does society see us as perpetually unwanted children who should be damn grateful anyone ever fed or clothed us, we

Dan Kurtz

MyKBO

Today is May 11th in Korea, it is also National Adoption Day.Last year, Lee Dae-ho and Lotte teamed up to help raise funds for orphans in Korea. Lee met an

Mia Mingus

miamingus

Wish we embraced falling in friendship love and the magic of friendship love in general. It really is such a magnificent, kindred soul-shifting experience that can manifest in so many

Joseph M. Pierce

PepePierce

I have not commented specifically on this. I wasn't sure exactly how I felt, but then, I realized that #JessicaKrug wrote to her unknown ancestors in the acknowledgments to her

Ferera Swan

FereraSwan

ASSUMPTION:All adoptees who advocate for family preservation must have had negative experiences. If not, then why can’t they just focus on being grateful for their adoptive families?Don’t they want to

Dani Cole

danithecole

Thread: This breaks my heart and infuriates me. I'm (as some of you might already know) an adoptee in a transracial family. Adopted children are not disposable, nor are they

Kim Penn

kim_penn

I've got some Big Thoughts rattling around in my brain today, and under the theory of better out than in, I'm going to try to throw them out here. This

Angela Barra

AngelaMBarra

I would never have 'chosen' to be adopted. I'm always going to be adopted though. I can't change my status (because I won't pursue discharge) but I can use my

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kimyoonmiauthor

I feel like no one bothers to read LM Montgomery's other works, like the ones where she spends an entire story roasting an HAP, and then showing the result of

Rebekah PASS THE ADOPTEE CITIZENSHIP ACT Henson

bekhenson

I was adopted by people who thought this way. I live 4 states and a 6-hour drive away now. #AdopteeRealTalk #AdopteeVoices https://twitter.com/eleighdo/status/1316790604689416193 I've also encountered and addressed this same belief

dumb of ass... 🔭

starlightyoongi

it's really telling that many "hopeful" adoptive parents give up so quickly upon hearing all this stuff, but ppl think it's scaring them away. nah, they just proved that they