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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 white supremacy in the guise of white saviorism, and it's grotesquely ableist and capitalist. https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedNews/status/1265821007157145600
And as @Cal__Montgomery mentioned, a fuckton of us in disabled community are minorly relieved *at least she didn't kill him.* The list of disabled people murdered by family members or caregivers that we read as the yearly vigils is so damn long now. The bar is so goddamn low.
A couple years ago, I wrote about the traumas of transracial and transnational adoption, in this piece for @Rewire_News, and it's still relevant today: https://rewire.news/article/2018/01/05/transracial-real-not-racist-white-people-claim/
I'm in @galdemzine today discussing transracial and transnational adoption, white supremacy, and ableism in Huxley's story: https://gal-dem.com/huxley-adoption-story-youtube-stauffers-is-part-of-a-larger-narrative-race-disability-and-abuse/
