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. #Childhoodcancer Hater. #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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What I've learned at my advanced age is that I rarely have the full story about anything.
November 26, 2025 at 9:31 PM
What I've learned at my advanced age is that I rarely have the full story about anything.
Absolutely agree with this!
Poverty isn’t neglect.
Most kids in foster care aren’t there because of abuse, they’re there because their parents couldn’t afford food, housing, or childcare.
The solution isn’t foster care. It’s ending poverty.
#adopteesky
Most kids in foster care aren’t there because of abuse, they’re there because their parents couldn’t afford food, housing, or childcare.
The solution isn’t foster care. It’s ending poverty.
#adopteesky
November 26, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Absolutely agree with this!
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Lack of resources is the primary reason families struggle to stay together. Building healthy communities is what is truly pro-family. Affordable childcare, housing, food, transportation, education, and healthcare helps everyone. #affordability #resources #adopteerights #familypreservation
OMG #adopteesky. Read this! 🥚
"But a small, growing network of centers like Maddie’s Place is proving a simple point: when mothers and babies stay together, outcomes improve, foster placements fall and long-term costs decline."
"But a small, growing network of centers like Maddie’s Place is proving a simple point: when mothers and babies stay together, outcomes improve, foster placements fall and long-term costs decline."
She was pregnant and addicted to fentanyl. Getting to keep her baby saved them both
November 26, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Lack of resources is the primary reason families struggle to stay together. Building healthy communities is what is truly pro-family. Affordable childcare, housing, food, transportation, education, and healthcare helps everyone. #affordability #resources #adopteerights #familypreservation
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November 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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as with every tale the colonizer tells about the people they have vanquished, every adopter’s story is a variant on “it had to be this way; it was for the best.”
November 25, 2025 at 2:05 PM
as with every tale the colonizer tells about the people they have vanquished, every adopter’s story is a variant on “it had to be this way; it was for the best.”
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adoption cannot be understood without its underpinnings in colonization and conquest. it is strategic forgetting. an adopted child’s history begins at the point of acquisition; everything prior is set aside, obscured in myth.
November 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
adoption cannot be understood without its underpinnings in colonization and conquest. it is strategic forgetting. an adopted child’s history begins at the point of acquisition; everything prior is set aside, obscured in myth.
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"Have you searched for your birth family?"
Simple question, not a simple answer.
Understand that the industry that sold us has deliberately made it very difficult, if not impossible, for us to find our families. We cannot just decide to find them. 🥚 #adoption
Simple question, not a simple answer.
Understand that the industry that sold us has deliberately made it very difficult, if not impossible, for us to find our families. We cannot just decide to find them. 🥚 #adoption
November 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
"Have you searched for your birth family?"
Simple question, not a simple answer.
Understand that the industry that sold us has deliberately made it very difficult, if not impossible, for us to find our families. We cannot just decide to find them. 🥚 #adoption
Simple question, not a simple answer.
Understand that the industry that sold us has deliberately made it very difficult, if not impossible, for us to find our families. We cannot just decide to find them. 🥚 #adoption
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no one is willing to be genuinely radical about #adoption—to go to the root of it. we criticize calling adoption “trafficking” so we can evade the truth that adoption is chattelization. we marketize parenthood. we re-engineer children’s very identities for the sake of fulfilling our own dreams.
almost no one looks squarely at #adoption as a central issue of children’s rights. Even people who see themselves as espousing the most radical left liberationist stance toward the rights of children to affirm their voices & identities typically ignore how adoption denies this right to children.
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 PM
no one is willing to be genuinely radical about #adoption—to go to the root of it. we criticize calling adoption “trafficking” so we can evade the truth that adoption is chattelization. we marketize parenthood. we re-engineer children’s very identities for the sake of fulfilling our own dreams.
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there is no more blatant a stamp of ownership over a person’s identity than the “amended” birth certificate that erases a child’s genealogical history and substitutes a fictitious one for the benefit of the child’s adopters. this document is a property deed to the child’s identity.
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
there is no more blatant a stamp of ownership over a person’s identity than the “amended” birth certificate that erases a child’s genealogical history and substitutes a fictitious one for the benefit of the child’s adopters. this document is a property deed to the child’s identity.
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almost no one looks squarely at #adoption as a central issue of children’s rights. Even people who see themselves as espousing the most radical left liberationist stance toward the rights of children to affirm their voices & identities typically ignore how adoption denies this right to children.
November 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
almost no one looks squarely at #adoption as a central issue of children’s rights. Even people who see themselves as espousing the most radical left liberationist stance toward the rights of children to affirm their voices & identities typically ignore how adoption denies this right to children.
Saw another post cheering about how children found their forever homes during this ridiculousness that is #adoption awareness month.
What is this gastly garbage?!
It sounds like a great pairing to Gotcha Day.
Gross.
🥚
What is this gastly garbage?!
It sounds like a great pairing to Gotcha Day.
Gross.
🥚
November 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Saw another post cheering about how children found their forever homes during this ridiculousness that is #adoption awareness month.
What is this gastly garbage?!
It sounds like a great pairing to Gotcha Day.
Gross.
🥚
What is this gastly garbage?!
It sounds like a great pairing to Gotcha Day.
Gross.
🥚
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Week 2 is up on Substack.
This one is about what the podcast has taught me, about the system, about grief, and about telling the truth even when people don’t want to hear it.
Read it here: adopteescrossinglines.substack.com
#adopteesky
This one is about what the podcast has taught me, about the system, about grief, and about telling the truth even when people don’t want to hear it.
Read it here: adopteescrossinglines.substack.com
#adopteesky
November 24, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Week 2 is up on Substack.
This one is about what the podcast has taught me, about the system, about grief, and about telling the truth even when people don’t want to hear it.
Read it here: adopteescrossinglines.substack.com
#adopteesky
This one is about what the podcast has taught me, about the system, about grief, and about telling the truth even when people don’t want to hear it.
Read it here: adopteescrossinglines.substack.com
#adopteesky
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lrp/lrs:
#adoption loss and trauma are unlike anything experienced by people who are not adopted. it is one thing to find compassion by relating what an adoptee tells you to what you, a non-adoptee, have experienced; it is another thing to assimilate your trauma to that of an adoptee. please don’t.
#adoption loss and trauma are unlike anything experienced by people who are not adopted. it is one thing to find compassion by relating what an adoptee tells you to what you, a non-adoptee, have experienced; it is another thing to assimilate your trauma to that of an adoptee. please don’t.
November 23, 2025 at 8:34 PM
lrp/lrs:
#adoption loss and trauma are unlike anything experienced by people who are not adopted. it is one thing to find compassion by relating what an adoptee tells you to what you, a non-adoptee, have experienced; it is another thing to assimilate your trauma to that of an adoptee. please don’t.
#adoption loss and trauma are unlike anything experienced by people who are not adopted. it is one thing to find compassion by relating what an adoptee tells you to what you, a non-adoptee, have experienced; it is another thing to assimilate your trauma to that of an adoptee. please don’t.
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Nowhere in this is the recognition of the fact that children become adults, who have rights. One of those rights should be to annul an adoption that happened without their consent and another is the right to access their original birth certificates and their adoption files. 🥚
November 24, 2025 at 1:11 AM
Nowhere in this is the recognition of the fact that children become adults, who have rights. One of those rights should be to annul an adoption that happened without their consent and another is the right to access their original birth certificates and their adoption files. 🥚
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i’m in that melancholy mood again where i reflect on the fact that a system of secrecy and identity erasure designed for the efficient taking and selling of children and was pioneered and popularized by literal child thieves is now universally beloved and seems absolutely impossible to dismantle 🥚
November 24, 2025 at 1:51 PM
i’m in that melancholy mood again where i reflect on the fact that a system of secrecy and identity erasure designed for the efficient taking and selling of children and was pioneered and popularized by literal child thieves is now universally beloved and seems absolutely impossible to dismantle 🥚
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My mother was not a drug addict, a whore, or a criminal. She was not unhoused. ( the common justifications ) She was a victim of cultural and religious violence that convinced her she had no way to care for me. Too often, this is adoption. #adoption #coercion #religioustrauma #adopte #stigma
November 23, 2025 at 4:04 PM
My mother was not a drug addict, a whore, or a criminal. She was not unhoused. ( the common justifications ) She was a victim of cultural and religious violence that convinced her she had no way to care for me. Too often, this is adoption. #adoption #coercion #religioustrauma #adopte #stigma
If being an adoptive parent is the same as being a biological parent, why do so many adoptive parents go out of their way to tell others their parental status?
Quite obvious to me you spout "biology doesn't matter" while also internally recognizing it does. I also spot your white saviorism showing
Quite obvious to me you spout "biology doesn't matter" while also internally recognizing it does. I also spot your white saviorism showing
November 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
If being an adoptive parent is the same as being a biological parent, why do so many adoptive parents go out of their way to tell others their parental status?
Quite obvious to me you spout "biology doesn't matter" while also internally recognizing it does. I also spot your white saviorism showing
Quite obvious to me you spout "biology doesn't matter" while also internally recognizing it does. I also spot your white saviorism showing
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“would you prefer to have been aborted?”
Do you mean would i prefer a world in which women have control over their bodies? 🥚
Do you mean would i prefer a world in which women have control over their bodies? 🥚
So my adoptive mom threw the"well you know, your mom could've aborted you" at me today because she's tired of my "attitude". I told her "I am pro abortion to the point of being fine with having never existed." That pulled her up short. I don't play this game. With anyone. 🥚
November 22, 2025 at 12:42 PM
“would you prefer to have been aborted?”
Do you mean would i prefer a world in which women have control over their bodies? 🥚
Do you mean would i prefer a world in which women have control over their bodies? 🥚
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I break with many critics of #adoption because i advocate for more than the end of secrecy. We are told that adoption provides a child with stability, but we are never told why the change of legal kinship status must be irrevocable. I believe adult adoptees should be able to annul their adoptions.
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 AM
I break with many critics of #adoption because i advocate for more than the end of secrecy. We are told that adoption provides a child with stability, but we are never told why the change of legal kinship status must be irrevocable. I believe adult adoptees should be able to annul their adoptions.
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It started with IF A BUMBLEBEE LANDS ON YOUR TOE, a book that helps readers see how mindfulness and nature connections can help with anxiety. 🐝 🧚♂️ 🦊
BUTTERFLY SEA, its companion, depicts the story of two nature explorers, each with their own unique agenda, and the wonder of discovery. 🦋 🌊 🌼 #Libsky
BUTTERFLY SEA, its companion, depicts the story of two nature explorers, each with their own unique agenda, and the wonder of discovery. 🦋 🌊 🌼 #Libsky
Two great books that go great together.
Both are beautiful, poetic, and instructive. Both explore big feelings about little creatures.
Author @booksbycindy.bsky.social sees them as companion books and I totally agree.
Both are beautiful, poetic, and instructive. Both explore big feelings about little creatures.
Author @booksbycindy.bsky.social sees them as companion books and I totally agree.
November 21, 2025 at 3:47 PM
It started with IF A BUMBLEBEE LANDS ON YOUR TOE, a book that helps readers see how mindfulness and nature connections can help with anxiety. 🐝 🧚♂️ 🦊
BUTTERFLY SEA, its companion, depicts the story of two nature explorers, each with their own unique agenda, and the wonder of discovery. 🦋 🌊 🌼 #Libsky
BUTTERFLY SEA, its companion, depicts the story of two nature explorers, each with their own unique agenda, and the wonder of discovery. 🦋 🌊 🌼 #Libsky
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Prison guards rushing to take jobs with ICE. Almost like all of this is connected. I wonder which people have been making this case for a few decades.
November 21, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Prison guards rushing to take jobs with ICE. Almost like all of this is connected. I wonder which people have been making this case for a few decades.
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I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
November 20, 2025 at 7:36 PM
I want people to displace the imaginary depictions of *revolutions* that they have come to create in their heads with the actual small revolutionary acts that happen daily. We might get closer to revolution that way.
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The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
November 20, 2025 at 4:15 PM
The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.
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#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
#NationalAdoptionAwarenessMonth
November reminds us of two important groups that sometimes merged into one.
www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/us-...
#NationalAdoptionAwarenessMonth
November reminds us of two important groups that sometimes merged into one.
www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/us-...
The U.S. history of Native American Boarding Schools — The Indigenous Foundation
(TW: abuse, sexual abuse, mental health, suicide) Native American Boarding Schools (also known as Indian Boarding Schools) were established by the U.S. government in the late 19th century as an...
www.theindigenousfoundation.org
November 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth
#NationalAdoptionAwarenessMonth
November reminds us of two important groups that sometimes merged into one.
www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/us-...
#NationalAdoptionAwarenessMonth
November reminds us of two important groups that sometimes merged into one.
www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/us-...
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I was today years old when I learned that adoptive mothers are really out here breastfeeding their adoptees.
That makes me itch.
That makes me itch.
Here's a "how-to" primer by a pro-adoption group
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American Adoptions - Breastfeeding an Adopted Child
More and more adoptive mothers are interested in the possibility of adoptive breastfeeding, and with some preparation and dedication, it can be a rewarding experience for new moms and their babies.
www.americanadoptions.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I was today years old when I learned that adoptive mothers are really out here breastfeeding their adoptees.
That makes me itch.
That makes me itch.