#Adoptees

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

Whew. Boy. So, when I was in Ore. I started reporting a story on transracial adoption, specifically looking at w parents/b kids. You wouldn't believe some of the things that

Marie Gardom

scribbleyoga

Adoptees: what’s an experience you’ve had that none of your non adoptee community have had? I’ll start - I’m Chinese Indian but my adopted name was Marie Wotherspoon - to

Bunny Sparber קיניגל שׁפּארבּער

maxsparber

God, the labeling of certain DNA strands shared by Jewish people as "Ashkenazi" has fucked a lot of people up You can have Ashkenazi DNA and not be an Ashkenazi

Thrice Marked

Thricemarked

Dear white adoptive parents of #black #adopteesFinding a black hairdresser to braid or otherwise care for your child's #Natural #hair is not a "treat", nor should it be rare, nor

Meili ☭🐥🔪

meilixzn

Until white supremacy is dismantled pretty much every transracial adoption results in a non white child having to be raised by racist white people (whether they acknowledge it or not).

Ouaquaga on Chenango

JnxOuaquaga

I see this going around now and again. This is one of those double whammy jokes for adoptees.Ah, yes, my "kidnappers" want me to pretend everything is alright in public.

Liz Kleinrock

teachntransform

Being an adoptee on Mother’s Day is strange. Growing up, it was a typical celebration with brunch and flowers, but as I’ve gotten older, it’s become more complicated. (1/7) Mother’s

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

Master Shake 🇺🇲🇭🇳

cowgirl_bebop

This whole situation is still deeply unsettling to me. While I see their willingness to learn and steps to do so, they adopted a black child seemingly after doing next

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

Nicole Chung 정수정

nicolesjchung

In this week's column, an adoptive parent writes in regarding her adult daughter, who she feels betrayed her by establishing a relationship with her birth mom. She asks: "How do

Naomi Schaefer Riley

NaomiSRiley

On Monday, I wrote a piece for @Newsweek criticizing @Bethany Christian Services for the adoption agency’s new “anti-racism” agenda. (1/21)https://www.newsweek.com/wokeness-has-come-adoption-its-children-who-will-suffer-opinion-158761

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

Cassandra

cassielafasto

Bc of all the hubbub about ACB, “Adoption" is being thrown around a lot, in various contexts. I understand most people who express desire to adopt mean well, but I

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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