KayelaWrites
@kwrights.bsky.social
I write #kidlit stories about finding hope and strength during times of darkness. Nonfiction Enthusiast. Story Collector. Library Lover. Adult ELL teacher. Gardening is my therapy #Adoptee for family preservation
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KayelaWrites
@kwrights.bsky.social
· Jan 23
So let's fight against family separation in any form.
It's all devastating and causes life-long trauma.
Get angry about all of it!
#adoption
#familypolicing
#immigrants
It's all devastating and causes life-long trauma.
Get angry about all of it!
#adoption
#familypolicing
#immigrants
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I'm looking forward to this book about the trees of the world! Coming in March by @mcusolito.bsky.social and Marya Wright.
February 10, 2026 at 4:07 PM
I'm looking forward to this book about the trees of the world! Coming in March by @mcusolito.bsky.social and Marya Wright.
I own them all.
You should read them.
You should read them.
Dr. Paul Farmer didn’t just practice medicine, he documented injustice, amplified the voices of the poor, and taught generations through his writing.
Here are some of his most powerful works: https://www.pih.org/article/top-10-books-written-by-dr.-paul-farmer
Here are some of his most powerful works: https://www.pih.org/article/top-10-books-written-by-dr.-paul-farmer
February 10, 2026 at 9:18 PM
I own them all.
You should read them.
You should read them.
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Medical concern is often treated as risk.
For disabled families, that can mean surveillance instead of care.
This post breaks that down.
#adopteesky
For disabled families, that can mean surveillance instead of care.
This post breaks that down.
#adopteesky
February 10, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Medical concern is often treated as risk.
For disabled families, that can mean surveillance instead of care.
This post breaks that down.
#adopteesky
For disabled families, that can mean surveillance instead of care.
This post breaks that down.
#adopteesky
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We found over 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.
In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests — sometimes triggered by the women’s prescribed medications.
In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests — sometimes triggered by the women’s prescribed medications.
Tens of Thousands of Mothers Were Flagged to Police Over Flawed Drug Tests at Childbirth
The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.
www.themarshallproject.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
We found over 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.
In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests — sometimes triggered by the women’s prescribed medications.
In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests — sometimes triggered by the women’s prescribed medications.
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Were you investigated for a positive drug test while giving birth? Help our team continue their reporting on referrals to law enforcement for alleged drug use during pregnancy by sharing your story:
Investigated for a Positive Drug Test While Giving Birth? Tell Us What Happened Next.
Help our team continue their reporting on referrals to law enforcement for alleged drug use during pregnancy by sharing your story.
www.themarshallproject.org
February 10, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Were you investigated for a positive drug test while giving birth? Help our team continue their reporting on referrals to law enforcement for alleged drug use during pregnancy by sharing your story:
For those who support reproductive justice and family policing abolition.
"But this new investigation shows a much broader swath of patients being surveilled by hospitals, child welfare authorities, and law enforcement than previously known..."
Posting to 🥚 for my fellow interested adoptees.
"But this new investigation shows a much broader swath of patients being surveilled by hospitals, child welfare authorities, and law enforcement than previously known..."
Posting to 🥚 for my fellow interested adoptees.
Tens of thousands of new mothers have been flagged to police over unreliable drug tests.
In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests—sometimes triggered by women’s prescribed medications. [@themarshallproject.org]
In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests—sometimes triggered by women’s prescribed medications. [@themarshallproject.org]
Tens of thousands of new mothers have been flagged to police over unreliable drug tests
The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy—and that’s a significant undercount.
www.motherjones.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:19 PM
For those who support reproductive justice and family policing abolition.
"But this new investigation shows a much broader swath of patients being surveilled by hospitals, child welfare authorities, and law enforcement than previously known..."
Posting to 🥚 for my fellow interested adoptees.
"But this new investigation shows a much broader swath of patients being surveilled by hospitals, child welfare authorities, and law enforcement than previously known..."
Posting to 🥚 for my fellow interested adoptees.
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My Iranian adoptee friend who is in the removal process by DHS is the anonymous adoptee in this story. Her fears have come true. 🥚💔
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember
Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.
www.bbc.com
February 10, 2026 at 5:43 AM
My Iranian adoptee friend who is in the removal process by DHS is the anonymous adoptee in this story. Her fears have come true. 🥚💔
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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As a Korean adoptee I never really quite know what to do for #seollal. It feels a little like cosplaying my lost culture, whilst also trying to reclaim it. A Korean acquaintance of mine just posted that she will be doing a kimchi workshop for seollal, using her mother's recipe. > #adoption 🥚
February 10, 2026 at 9:35 AM
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I love that @haymarketbooks.org has published a children's picture book advocating for prison abolition. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2588-p...
Prisons Must Fall
www.haymarketbooks.org
February 9, 2026 at 2:52 AM
I love that @haymarketbooks.org has published a children's picture book advocating for prison abolition. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2588-p...
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"But ever since this patio was built last spring, it has allowed me to catch my breath from the mayhem of prison. My general sadness lifted every time I visited the patio. There, I could read and write without distraction, and I could reimagine my life without prison."
We Built a Patio at My Prison. It Has Changed My Life
Incarcerated women built a patio, and we use it for Bible study, leisurely picnics, to engage in mindfulness or yoga, and to play cards or crochet.
prisonjournalismproject.org
February 9, 2026 at 8:17 PM
"But ever since this patio was built last spring, it has allowed me to catch my breath from the mayhem of prison. My general sadness lifted every time I visited the patio. There, I could read and write without distraction, and I could reimagine my life without prison."
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Family separation is not a failure of individual parents.
It’s a historical tool.
This essay breaks down how the family policing system operates through surveillance, and why understanding it is part of Black history.
Read it here ⬇️
buff.ly/XDG8ucd
#adopteesky
It’s a historical tool.
This essay breaks down how the family policing system operates through surveillance, and why understanding it is part of Black history.
Read it here ⬇️
buff.ly/XDG8ucd
#adopteesky
The Family Policing System Is Part of Black History
The family policing system hides behind “child welfare.” Learn how CPS surveillance, neglect labels, and bias drive family separation, especially for Black families.
open.substack.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:00 PM
Family separation is not a failure of individual parents.
It’s a historical tool.
This essay breaks down how the family policing system operates through surveillance, and why understanding it is part of Black history.
Read it here ⬇️
buff.ly/XDG8ucd
#adopteesky
It’s a historical tool.
This essay breaks down how the family policing system operates through surveillance, and why understanding it is part of Black history.
Read it here ⬇️
buff.ly/XDG8ucd
#adopteesky
Exactly this. Prey on the vulnerable to appease the wants of the wealthy.
It's immoral how we accept #adoption as a "social good" by turning a blind eye to the grotesque injustices it inflicts on families and communities. It's a form of family separation we embrace and endorse without critique. 🥚
It's immoral how we accept #adoption as a "social good" by turning a blind eye to the grotesque injustices it inflicts on families and communities. It's a form of family separation we embrace and endorse without critique. 🥚
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.
February 9, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Exactly this. Prey on the vulnerable to appease the wants of the wealthy.
It's immoral how we accept #adoption as a "social good" by turning a blind eye to the grotesque injustices it inflicts on families and communities. It's a form of family separation we embrace and endorse without critique. 🥚
It's immoral how we accept #adoption as a "social good" by turning a blind eye to the grotesque injustices it inflicts on families and communities. It's a form of family separation we embrace and endorse without critique. 🥚
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The National Council for Adoption has millions of dollars, reflecting the lopsided “demand side” of the industry: affluent hopeful adopters.
Birthmothers, by contrast, repeatedly tell us that if they had even a little more financial stability, they could have chosen to keep their children. +
Birthmothers, by contrast, repeatedly tell us that if they had even a little more financial stability, they could have chosen to keep their children. +
February 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The National Council for Adoption has millions of dollars, reflecting the lopsided “demand side” of the industry: affluent hopeful adopters.
Birthmothers, by contrast, repeatedly tell us that if they had even a little more financial stability, they could have chosen to keep their children. +
Birthmothers, by contrast, repeatedly tell us that if they had even a little more financial stability, they could have chosen to keep their children. +
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The Turnaway Study found that NINETY-ONE PERCENT of respondents who had SOUGHT abortions but were denied them nevertheless chose to keep their children.
Lots of people want to adopt babies, but essentially *no one* wants to surrender one. +
Lots of people want to adopt babies, but essentially *no one* wants to surrender one. +
February 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The Turnaway Study found that NINETY-ONE PERCENT of respondents who had SOUGHT abortions but were denied them nevertheless chose to keep their children.
Lots of people want to adopt babies, but essentially *no one* wants to surrender one. +
Lots of people want to adopt babies, but essentially *no one* wants to surrender one. +
Calling something a choice when there are no viable alternatives is not a choice.
One of the first things both my first parents separately said to me when we met was
"I had no choice."
Manipulating someone by telling them relinquishment is service to others or love is immoral.
#adoption 🥚
One of the first things both my first parents separately said to me when we met was
"I had no choice."
Manipulating someone by telling them relinquishment is service to others or love is immoral.
#adoption 🥚
The second fact is that almost no one would choose to relinquish their own child if they did not feel cornered into it, overwhelmingly because of poverty and lack of social support. +
February 9, 2026 at 2:31 PM
Calling something a choice when there are no viable alternatives is not a choice.
One of the first things both my first parents separately said to me when we met was
"I had no choice."
Manipulating someone by telling them relinquishment is service to others or love is immoral.
#adoption 🥚
One of the first things both my first parents separately said to me when we met was
"I had no choice."
Manipulating someone by telling them relinquishment is service to others or love is immoral.
#adoption 🥚
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Their ad depicts relinquishment as the quietly dignified and heroic choice, above the noise of the abortion wars. It tries to sell the idea that relinquishment is an alternative to abortion.
But this is a lie. +
But this is a lie. +
February 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
Their ad depicts relinquishment as the quietly dignified and heroic choice, above the noise of the abortion wars. It tries to sell the idea that relinquishment is an alternative to abortion.
But this is a lie. +
But this is a lie. +
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This is why the NCFA can afford a multimillion dollar ad buy during the biggest television spectacle of the year—something that no adoptee or birthparent advocacy organization could *dream*of doing. +
February 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
This is why the NCFA can afford a multimillion dollar ad buy during the biggest television spectacle of the year—something that no adoptee or birthparent advocacy organization could *dream*of doing. +
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As a lobbying group, it represents adoption agencies and their clients: hopeful adopters, who as a class (professional, affluent, mostly white) bring a degree of wealth and social influence utterly dwarfing that of the economically desperate and marginalized people adoption preys upon. +
February 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
As a lobbying group, it represents adoption agencies and their clients: hopeful adopters, who as a class (professional, affluent, mostly white) bring a degree of wealth and social influence utterly dwarfing that of the economically desperate and marginalized people adoption preys upon. +
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The National Council for Adoption describes itself as a “leading authority about adoption,” but that’s only because its mission is to *promote* adoption. It’s best understood as the adoption industry’s main lobbying group. Its president recently resigned to take a job in Trump’s DHS. +
February 7, 2026 at 8:11 PM
The National Council for Adoption describes itself as a “leading authority about adoption,” but that’s only because its mission is to *promote* adoption. It’s best understood as the adoption industry’s main lobbying group. Its president recently resigned to take a job in Trump’s DHS. +
Did you see that ad? Well now read this.
a thread of (some of) my thoughts about the Super Bowl ad the National Council for #Adoption is touting. +
February 9, 2026 at 2:25 PM
Did you see that ad? Well now read this.
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Family separation doesn’t start with removal.
It starts with surveillance.
This post explains how families are watched long before a case is opened.
#adopteesky
It starts with surveillance.
This post explains how families are watched long before a case is opened.
#adopteesky
February 8, 2026 at 3:20 PM
Family separation doesn’t start with removal.
It starts with surveillance.
This post explains how families are watched long before a case is opened.
#adopteesky
It starts with surveillance.
This post explains how families are watched long before a case is opened.
#adopteesky
A must read.
Family separation is not a failure of individual parents.
It’s a historical tool.
This essay breaks down how the family policing system operates through surveillance, and why understanding it is part of Black history.
Read it here ⬇️
buff.ly/XDG8ucd
#adopteesky
It’s a historical tool.
This essay breaks down how the family policing system operates through surveillance, and why understanding it is part of Black history.
Read it here ⬇️
buff.ly/XDG8ucd
#adopteesky
The Family Policing System Is Part of Black History
The family policing system hides behind “child welfare.” Learn how CPS surveillance, neglect labels, and bias drive family separation, especially for Black families.
open.substack.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:24 PM
A must read.
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Here is a site that lists a lot of info about these boxes and can explain the problems with them: stopshbbnow.org
Stop Baby Boxes Now!
Adoptee-centered non-partisan activism to de-propagandize and deconstruct the Safe Haven Baby Box myth and movement
stopshbbnow.org
February 5, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Here is a site that lists a lot of info about these boxes and can explain the problems with them: stopshbbnow.org
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These safe haven baby boxes are unnecessary and unneeded. There are already existing safe haven baby laws where a child can be surrendered to a hospital, fire depr, or police dept. These boxes are a way to speed up adoption processes and could lead to increased trafficing of children.
February 5, 2026 at 7:23 PM
These safe haven baby boxes are unnecessary and unneeded. There are already existing safe haven baby laws where a child can be surrendered to a hospital, fire depr, or police dept. These boxes are a way to speed up adoption processes and could lead to increased trafficing of children.