#Adoptees

Lauren S. Hissrich

LHissrich

Ooh! I’d love to! Thanks for asking! When hiring writers for The Witcher, there were several factors I looked at to make sure we were getting the best possible team.

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cashewcruise

For my entire childhood my adoptive mom insisted my birth mom wanted nothing to do with me, she refused to hold me, couldnt wait to get me out.She told me

Martha Crawford

shrinkthinks

Some days it is just mandatory to face a slog through the pandemic blues. Our state is breaking records for cases, hospitalizations and intubations. Worse than when we went into

Kat, Evil Queen of the Bay

katttasaurus

Did my narcissistic adoptive mother write this tweet?Imagine thinking neglect at the hands of my adoptive parents is "nothing to complain about."Imagine thinking it's okay for me to be a

Khadijah *Receipt Custodian*

UpFromTheCracks

The murder of Ma’Khia Bryant hit me particularly hard because abolitionist spaces have generally not centered the family regulation system in their analysis. To the degree it’s mentioned, I see

Ferera Swan

FereraSwan

ASSUMPTION: I know adopted adults who claim to be just fine and don’t seem to suffer any trauma at all. Some are even thankful to have been removed from their

vicki fielder

stoweyvik

Adopters listen. I am a transracial adoptee and that has its own issues but every time you infer that somehow something went wrong in my adoption to damage me you

Simon McGarr

Tupp_Ed

For a flavour of the sort of things Government TDs have been saying about campaigners out of the glare of these public fora where they will be engaged with, here’s

Stephanie Tait

StephTaitWrites

Speaking as an adoptee, I have had such a hard time getting ppl to understand this. White evangelicalism doesn't actually see being pro-life and supporting policies that cause MORE unplanned

Libby Copeland, author of The Lost Family

libbycopeland

It's the last day of April! Which means it's the last day of my tweets about the last 20 years of home DNA testing. Because it has been exactly twenty

Callie Thompson

callie_mt

Happy Mother’s Day! Every year I’m struck by the complexities of the feelings that this day brings. I know the disappointment of months (years) of negative tests & the pain

Funmi Oyatogun

funmioyatogun

10 questions I would like to ask about race, ethnicity, identity and racial relations.As usual, please stay on the side of information and kindness when giving your responses. This is

Foxfeather Zenkova

foxfeather

For those of you who are new here, and for everyone who has been following along with the saga, let me present to you : The story of Napoleon, the

moses moon: $thotscholar 🍒🚲 🏳️‍🌈

thotscholar

African Americans who are descended from slaves aren't "settlers." end of discussion. we stole nothing. we weren't indentured servants. we ain't emigrate here. our ancestors were forcibly removed from their

Ashe Boycott Autism Speaks Grey MACDS

crippledscholar

Well I sincerely hope that Myka Stauffer's online career is overAs an adopted disabled person this just hits too close to home I am not qualified to talk about the

Simon McGarr

Tupp_Ed

Considering blowing this up and building an entire Barnum-style Museum of Legal Madness around it.You can only have your data if you prove what people in future hypothetical Commissions will