General public reminder—which also got covered in @Adoptees4Just's #WorldAdopteeDay Twitter chat last night— #adoptee identities often intersect with at least one other marginalized identity like disability, race, LGBTQIA+, and undocumented communities.

Many of us also have trauma from our early life experiences before and even after #adoption that's been minimized or unacknowledged by the families that raised us & in public narratives about adoption, and lots of us struggle to find affordable, appropriate care for that trauma.

A marginalized group is defined as a community that experiences social, political, and economic exclusions due to unequal power relationships across those dimensions. Having a hate group formed against you is not a pre-qualifier for marginalization.

A single, individual adoptee may or may not experience all three kinds of exclusion in their own life. But as a whole, the adoptee community itself most certainly does. Talk to the @Adoptees4Just advocacy crew if you want to dive deeper into details of adoptee marginalization.

Just a few thoughts everyone should keep in mind when you see adopted people speaking out against things that harm us as individuals and as a community that you might feel challenged by or not fully understand. #NationalAdopteeAwarenessMonth #NationalAdoptionMonth