Chloe Morrison

adoptee learning what it means to have been adopted, one wave of grief at a time | find out more on my blog!

[How To Be Adopted @howtobeadopted]

"I was busy avoiding the wounds of #adoption, the underlying grief & trauma that had weighed me down for as long as I could remember but was never able to acknowledge, let alone articulate."

Please read & share this guest post from #adoptee @cpnmorrison
https://t.co/mEDr1X2IXP

[Chloe Morrison @cpnmorrison]

Yeeey, get ready!! So excited to be a guest on the wonderful—hard hitting, painful, beautiful, and at times 🙌🏻controversial🙌🏻—blog that inspired me to start my own!

[How To Be Adopted @howtobeadopted]

🚨Guest blog coming soon from the wonderful @cpnmorrison !!

#adopteevoices #AmplifyAdoptees #adoptees #adopteeblog

[Chloe Morrison @cpnmorrison]

@KateMelady @AnnaToccara Ugh Kate, that’s so tough — Tiny Me is so important to love, especially when we feel like nobody else loved them 🥺💛

[Chloe Morrison @cpnmorrison]

@AnnaToccara This helped me ‘out of the fog’ because I was living for me and nobody else for the first time! It initially made me so sad to imagine me as a tiny newborn being cut off from her mama forever. I cried for weeks over that.

[Chloe Morrison @cpnmorrison]

@AnnaToccara And then when I went against my counsellor’s advice and reached out to my bio aunty personally, it made me realise that I’m a human with needs and the agency to act as I want, even if that might upset someone else or go against the grain

[Chloe Morrison @cpnmorrison]

@scaredadoptee My therapist used to say that once you begin to heal the initial wound it becomes a scar, and even if you get hurt in the same place, the skin is much thicker and harder to cut. I think this happened once I became conscious to the grief and trauma, even though it does still hurt.

[Chloe Morrison @cpnmorrison]

For anyone who has never studied history, this is such a useful way to understand the discipline!🙌🏻

[Richard Keogh @Mr_RKeogh]

Going to be sharing this passage from @lottelydia with Year 8s as we keep exploring the EQ: what's the story of the womens suffrage campaign?

If you haven't yet seen the @histassoc resources on Women's Suffrage they are so so helpful and brilliant!
https://t.co/eLxVn2MPy8

[Chloe Morrison @cpnmorrison]

I’m still finding my feet with posting on social media, especially twitter as it feels most exposing, BUT I’d like to share my latest blog, reflecting on my experiences of postnatal anxiety/depression as an adoptee in the midst of a pandemic back in 2020. https://t.co/lSz5MfEias

[Chloe Morrison @cpnmorrison]

@DiaryAdoptee It’s so hard to know what ‘okay’ and ‘not okay’ is when it’s been normalised over a period of a lifetime, too. So relatable! I hope getting it now helps you in whatever way it can 💖

[Chloe Morrison @cpnmorrison]

@NaZCasey Thrived in a high-functioning, hyper-vigilance way until I burned out last year. Everything unravelled, probably accelerated by becoming a mother myself. I moved to the other side of the world and finally found space enough to find out who I am. Best decision ever!

[Harriett’s Bookshop @harriettsbooks]

Ever been to a Blk woman owned bookshop w/ a Blk woman playing vibraphone while you browse? We are open today from 12-6 pm,

[How To Be Adopted @howtobeadopted]

"...But the weights are tipped I’m sad to say and hopeful love and best intentions are often drowned."

Re-sharing my first ever guest blog & one of my faves from the awesome @SarahMeadows1

Dear, dearest adoption: https://t.co/PBVUAPVpRc

[National PhD Training Programme in AMR @MedResFdn_AMR]

A v. interesting final session devised by history #PhD @cpnmorrison @LSHTM_AMR on 'Encountering AMR in the worlds we live in' to create a space for us to reflect on the bigger #AMR picture. Kicking off with @jkseebrg 'The Biosocial Worlds: Building Bridges Across Disciplines'

[💥Dr💥 Julia Baird @bairdjulia]

Glorious people of the world, I present the cephalopod of the day: the blanket octopus. Wait until the half way mark.

[The Epidemy @EpidemyErc]

💯references in the history of epidemiology in💯days. #epidemyrefs #epitwitter

15/100 Lorraine Daston, The Sciences of the Archive, Osiris, 2012

An eye-opening analysis of the history of sciences which depend on libraries and archives and in which the "stability 1/3

[Chloe Morrison @cpnmorrison]

I love this talk for so many reasons, but one that’s resonating with me today is Brené’s take that

“Stories are just data with a soul”

helping me remember the value of my own research while I prepare to conduct oral history interviews 🗣✍🏻👂🏻

https://t.co/8OkrNhc6yy @TEDTalks

[Chloe Morrison @cpnmorrison]

“Ignorance of history serves many ends. Sometimes it papers over the crimes of the present by attributing too much power to the past. Perhaps more often, it covers up past crimes in order to legitimise the way society is arranged in the present.”

[Simukai Chigudu @SimuChigudu]

'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes... Decades of agony, years of self-interrogation, months of writing all poured into this family & personal history. Thank you to @gdnlongread for bringing my words to life. https://t.co/D6BLV0AJa8