David 🇧🇴

i teach band, #adoptee from Bolivia 🇧🇴 he/him 🏳️‍🌈 #BLACKLIVESMATTER

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

@sssssammmmmmm no 💕

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

hey drum corps friends- hoping y’all can help w/ this connection. A very nice Cavalier member on my flight home requested a pic and I didn’t realize it was just a flight connection for him until I got off the plane. Could any current members message me so I can extend an apology?

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

@andyyolkcum6 it was just me being bad at twitter lol, DMs open now

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

Congrats on yalls season and winning drums btw!!

[The Colts @dcicolts]

Doot 🎺

[The Colts @dcicolts]

Presenting our 2023 production... ❤️🔺

Read more --> https://t.co/GAFi2RNmY2

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

@CBNS77 (2/2) Blindside-esque facade. the fact that ppl are so up in arms about this being controversial just shows how deep the industry propaganda goes to portray it as “heartwarming” and it absolutely makes me sick.

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

@CBNS77 thank you for articulating this. separating brown/black babies from their homelands via the adoption industry is just yet another form of colonialism being perpetuated.
erasure of culture, no genetic mirroring, brought into hostile/racist environments, all for some feel-good-

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

being on the instructional side of the activity now, much of the teaching strategies I witnessed as a member are things I file under “things *NOT* to do/say” in my own teaching.

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

being in both marching arts & adoptee twitter, i often struggle to find some kind of crossover discourse w/ both groups. only thing I can think of is a tech I had who used to use “you’re adopted” to members as an insult for errors 😶

[wish i knew @rebbeebe]

@CNN I love to hear adopted people, especially transracial adopted people, speaking their truth.

Reminder for those of us not adopted or growing up black in white homes: To be good allies our first job is to listen and believe. Then we can understand.

Thank you @Kaepernick7 !!

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

many white adopters will go so far to use their adopted child as a shield against accusations of racism.

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

Good for Colin. Adopting/purchasing a child of color does not make yt ppl immune to being racist.
The comments on this post truly show just how little most ppl know about transracial adoption / want to listen to #adopteevoices but we’ll continue to speak out against the industry

[CNN @CNN]

Former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick accused his White adoptive parents of perpetuating racism in their household in an interview with CBS’ Adriana Diaz https://t.co/mSQXwGDwS9

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

i mean yeah

[drum corps without context @drumcowoco]

The Colts are Nerd. Drum Corps Alignment Chart Day 11

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

top moment from this weekend’s audition camp:
auditionee sees vis staff drinking coffee, tries to guess what kind we’re drinking. looks @ mine, “hot coffee.” I ask “what’s in it”
“hmm…don’t take this the wrong way but u look like u put oat milk in ur coffee”

they were correct

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

love da @dcicolts babey 🔺

[The Colts @dcicolts]

Our brass is getting all settled in here at Monmouth College! Starting off the night with some visual!

#Colts23 🔺

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

@nocontextdcorps hey

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

finally got around to listening to the @adopteecrossing podcast and WOW. feels really good & validating to hear all these shared experiences re: adoption trauma and how society views adoption in general. thanks so much y’all for making these, can’t wait to keep listening 🖤

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

@BanosAbraham @nocontextdcorps i hope he’s doing ok

[David 🇧🇴 @d__haven]

what do these words mean