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Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social · Sep 3

“The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their history.”

"The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t with Her Mind" (2019) by Jackson Ford

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J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · Aug 9

She reminds me of young Carrie Fischer

J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · Aug 8

a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland saying " thank you "

ALT: a cartoon of alice from alice in wonderland saying " thank you "

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J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · Aug 7

To be fair, adoption as practiced is also deeply dehumanizing.

Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · Jul 30

The interchangeability of terms between adoption of people and that of animals is deeply dehumanizing

J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · Aug 7

I forget egg.

Extra egg for inconvenience

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J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · Aug 7

Here is my public list of films featuring adoption/foster/related concepts on Letterboxd 🖤 let me know if you notice I’ve missed anything or would like me to watch/review anything already on the list (120 titles total currently) boxd.it/wB7Eg

Adoptees Crossing Lines

Zaira & J Way

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J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · Aug 7

Here is my public list of films featuring adoption/foster/related concepts on Letterboxd 🖤 let me know if you notice I’ve missed anything or would like me to watch/review anything already on the list (120 titles total currently) boxd.it/wB7Eg

Adoptees Crossing Lines

Zaira & J Way

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Aengus Kane (he/him) @aenguskane.bsky.social · Aug 5

Blatant baby selling with "voluntary" relinquishments for those underage teen moms who give up their babies to big money university donors.🥚

Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · Jul 8

My face when I heard that Liberty University offered full ride scholarships to underage teen moms for *decades* contingent on them being shipped off to a maternity home and giving their newborns up to University-approved couples who happened to be big alumni donors:

a man wearing a watch is covering his mouth with his hand

Alt: Miss Jay clutching himself lest the evil of that story reach him.

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Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · Jul 8

My face when I heard that Liberty University offered full ride scholarships to underage teen moms for *decades* contingent on them being shipped off to a maternity home and giving their newborns up to University-approved couples who happened to be big alumni donors:

a man wearing a watch is covering his mouth with his hand

Alt: Miss Jay clutching himself lest the evil of that story reach him.

media.tenor.com

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J Way @itsjway.bsky.social · Aug 6

Absolutely floored by this reporting. BEGGING @aurabogado.bsky.social for an update on Doña Amalia’s stolen grandchildren—and the migrant kids still being torn from their families by #ICERaids.

What happened to the girl who exposed all the shady stuff with ORR’s contracted foster homes?

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Adoptee Advocates of Michigan @aaom-adoptees.bsky.social · Aug 4

If you need help obtaining birth information from the state of Michigan, we have you covered. Please join us for this free online workshop tomorrow night. #adopteerights #michiganadoptee 🥚 www.meetup.com/metro-detroi...

How To Apply For Your Michigan Birth Information, Adoptee Workshop, Tue, Aug 5, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

**HOW TO APPLY FOR YOUR MICHIGAN BIRTH INFORMATION** **ADOPTEE WORKSHOP** This online workshop is designed for Michigan Adult Adoptees who are struggling to navigate the p

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Adoptee Advocates of Michigan @aaom-adoptees.bsky.social · Aug 5

Troy was found dead inside a washing machine. His adoptive father, Jemaine Thomas, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison; his mother awaits sentencing. Troy was a curious, joyful boy who loved learning ...and he matters to us too. 🥚
#adopteejustice

'He mattered to me': Teacher speaks out after adoptive father sentenced in 7-year-old's murder

"I am the teacher who called CPS twice," said the boy's first-grade teacher, who once tried to raise the alarm about her student's safety before he was killed.

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Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · Jul 10

my legal and social identities were changed and my past was hidden.

nameless brokers steered me out of one family and community and into another.

money changed hands to bring it about.

i had no possibility of consenting to any of it.

but you call it “rescue” and none dare call it trafficking. 🥚

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Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · Jul 11

Understand that identity erasure is the bedrock of #adoption as we know it. It’s entirely independent of the distinction between “closed” and “open” adoptions. Virtually every adoption decree results in the adoptee receiving a *new birth certificate*, as if their very origins had been transformed.

Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · Jul 11

erasure of identity is no less real

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Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · Jul 11

"i'm sorry you had a bad #adoption experience"

i didn't, but i'm glad you're having a good ignorance experience

Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · Jul 11

#adoption is not an “experience” so much as it is a status. a second-class legal status.

to the extent that there is a common “adoption experience” i would call it a type of socially sanctioned gaslighting.

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KayelaWrites @kwrights.bsky.social · Jul 11

Doesn't matter who's good or bad within a racist, classist system intentionally designed to uphold a particular standard of parenting by punishing those deemed undeserving.

It's our duty to be absolute in our negativity when discussing systems whose sole purpose is to destroy families.

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elfteacher.bsky.social @elfteacher.bsky.social · Jul 11

definitely not always, and same true for step-parents, and same true for bio-parents (I know), but don't discount the good adoptive parents there are (I know some). we don't want to be as absolute in our negativity as the other side is - do we?

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김윤미 Kim Yoonmi (Surname First) @kimyoonmi.bsky.social · Jul 12

Adoptees 🥚 when they introduce themselves invariably have to talk about their adoption situation and make it a polarized "good" or "bad" situation. But I refuse to comfort Kept, especially APs. If you're going to challenge me, then I'm going to talk statistics and you know, reality.

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Bony Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · Jul 10

adopters don’t pay tens of thousands of dollars for the privilege of calling themselves custodians of other people’s children. they are paying for the privilege of erasing reality and inventing a substitute. 🥚

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · Jun 11

"While unmarried pregnant white women during this period [1950s] were often sent to maternity homes by their families out of shame, Indigenous communities did not brand 'illegitimate' children with the same stigma and often absorbed them into large kinship networks."
— Kristen Martin, pp. 207-08
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · Jun 8

🖕ICE🖕🏽

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KatOtis! @kat-otis.bsky.social · Jun 8

Goebbels Miller thinks Brown people are the reason his wife is banging muskRAT...

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🪶deedles 🫘 @dyerfineart.bsky.social · Jun 8

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com · Jun 8

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Adoptees Crossing Lines Podcast @adopteecrossing.bsky.social · Jun 2

New episode on Friday with @itsjway.bsky.social reflecting on the Black Mother's March.

#adopteesky

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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · May 22

"Our adoption records policy has more in common with the secret police state of the old German Democratic Republic and Argentina under the generals than the UK, Israel, France, or present day Germany. The US and China share sealed adoption records laws..." Ron Morgan
beyondchron.org/adoption-pol...

Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation and Ballot Measure 58, by E.Wayne Carp - Beyond Chron

“Adoption Politics” is a lucid and detailed account of the successful 1998 Oregon ballot initiative campaign and subsequent court battles that allowed adult adoptees access to their own original and u...

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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · May 22

Do #AdopteeRights advocates know if this is a "Trojan Horse" bill to open up law that currently provides all NY-born adoptees their original birth certificates? The National Council for Adoption does NOT care about adoptees' rights. So this is very hmmmm.
westchester.news12.com/wrongly-word...

Wrongly worded NYS law unintentionally excludes adopted adults from original vital records, advocates say

The president of the National Council for Adoption says the law was mistakenly worded as “adopted children” instead of “adoptees.”

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Adoptees Crossing Lines Podcast @adopteecrossing.bsky.social · May 19

Adoption is built on secrecy, deception, and cruel lies. This episode with @kadasaurus.bsky.social comes out on Friday!

#adopteesky

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