thedocumentedadoptee

Adoption Reform Advocate • Refusing explanation for access to my OBC • Entitling adoptees to own their FULL identity • Pandemic Reunion 2020. 🎉👨‍👩‍👧

[thedocumentedadoptee @OBCadoptee]

Follow me on my workout journey! 👀🏋️‍♀️ #adoptee #adopteevoices #workout #Adoption #adoptionjourney #ProLife #prochoice

[Slarty Bartfast @Poppy_yyyyyyyy]

And now adding Paris Hilton to the list of celebrities that have used surrogacy to procure a child. Is this just going to be normalised? I will never stop finding the practice and the people who use it as abhorrent, no matter how much it is normalised.

[thedocumentedadoptee @OBCadoptee]

@nathaliejacoby1 Adoption 🤗

[thedocumentedadoptee @OBCadoptee]

ADOPTEES: have y’all seen this garbage @HuffPost is putting out??
WTAF is the purpose of this message?? Where are adoptees on this? CRITICAL ADOPTEES 🔍#TikTok https://t.co/tEW4QCUYhE

[Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sándwich 🥪🥪 @b_lts_]

Books to read instead of the The Primal Wound 🧵

1. Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States (Solinger)

Great analysis of the idea of "choice" & consumerism, and of popular myths that have defined public policy

[Adoptee Rights Law @adopteelaw]

OMG. How many stories like this are we going to see until people actually accept:

“When there is a crisis, be it a war, an invasion or a natural disaster, that is not a time to initiate intercountry adoptions or even domestic adoptions." https://t.co/IoopQpFidG

[thedocumentedadoptee @OBCadoptee]

@joemoe79 @nypost Have you ever heard of private infant adoption 😅 literally their business model

[Angela Tucker @theadoptedlife]

The title of my first book is...drumroll, please....."YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL" Stories of Race, Identity and Transracial Adoption will be published in April 2023 (@BeaconPressBks)! #writersofinstagram #Nonfiction #adoption #transracialadoption #adopteevoices #adopteetwitter

[thedocumentedadoptee @OBCadoptee]

are you or some one you know being predatory? Do you put your contact info on top of pregnancy tests at drug stores? Text or call now for help 🙏

[Amanda Woolston MSS, LCSW, CT @AmandaTDA]

Respectfully, #prochoice folks who once told adoptee activists that being critical of #adoption was offensive to LGBTQIA+ or infertile folks… but now no longer strawman us so as to use our intellectual labor & pain to save #RoeVWade

Pls consider apologizing first. Thank you.

[thedocumentedadoptee @OBCadoptee]

Kickin it off in Alabama 😤 don’t forget to follow @adopteelaw and visit https://t.co/CHmyF1sYOp to find your own designated workout!

[Haley Radke @haleyradke]

After watching so many adopted people reclaiming their racial identities and reconnecting with their culture(s)-of-origin, it seems especially violent to see someone examine a profile photo, declare the adopted person “wh!te” and leave them no room for racial reclamation.

[🩵⭐️⭐️🩵 @bikrisscross]

Today, I got pictures of my first mother and maternal grandmother. Both of them have passed before I could ever find them. My heart is heavy right now. Seeing myself in them… Another reminder of all I have lost with my adoption… #adopteevoices

[jedifreac @jedifreac]

Why is plenary adoption the solution? Why must one family be legally killed off for a child to gain a new one? Is it really to the child's benefit to pretend their past never existed? #adopteerights /14

[Bonnie Norman @bonnienorman]

1/ Genetic mirroring works both ways. Children need to see themselves reflected in those around them to achieve validation of self, something most people take for granted, but eludes adoptees.

[Adoptee Rights Law @adopteelaw]

Increasingly this is what we are dealing with. Not copies of paper files but digital files or data locked away and made unavailable. This is already true with birth records--"birth certificate" has far different context today than it did 20 years ago.

[Barbara Attwood @BarbaraAttwoo15]

I was adopted by a loving family, and I am grateful, especially when I hear the neglect and abuse some adoptees have had to endure. But being loved doesn’t take away the trauma of separation, alienation and being lied to. #adopteevoices #adopteetwitter #IAN1

[Daily Bastardette 🏴🇷🇺 @DBastardette]

By all means, create more anonymous births, sealed birth records, and abrogation of adoptee civil rights by adoption.