#Adoptee

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 undoc
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Adopters listen. I am a transracial adoptee and that has its own issues but every time you infer that somehow something went wrong in my adoption to damage me you
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If you've been following my tweets over the past few weeks, you've probably seen me talking about the Adoptee Citizenship Act. It's easy to assume that because someone was adopted
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A HAP/PAP asked reddit what they should know. Here's my very incomplete list based on comments I've seen/heard. No particular order. #adoption#adopteevoices#nationaladoptionawarenessmonth#nationaladopteeawarenessmonth You don't
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I covered the overshares that exist as professional adopters, the proud parents, the gloom and dooms, the "but" adopters, the book writers, the bloggers, the YouTubers, the article writers and
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Okay. So, I am exploring the oversharing that occurs within the adoption community, and am picking up where I left off. Original thread here:https://twitter.com/WordyRamblings/status/1288454679811231745?s=19 Where I left off last time
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A thread touching on just one...just one aspect of the current abhorrent situation Irish Adoptee's find ourselves in.@JoeBiden is connected to Mayo & Louth.@BarackObama is connected to Offaly.JFK had connections
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Here is the deal: so many people I know HAVE been called in, kindly, firmly, with hurts and harms shared in a modulated way and with a clear route back
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Yes, if you express a bad or dangerous or ignorant or hurtful opinion about adoption, it's likely that #adoptee twitter will see it. It's also likely that we will share
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THREAD 1/21I am a 57 year old, tall, thin, cishet, white, #adopted man. For years I have been horrified and appalled at the violence and oppression women suffer and the
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This year's #NationalAdoptionAwarenessMonth feels like it began on May 27, when entertainment news outlets broke the story of a famous YouTube family offloading their adopted son into a different home
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Alright. So. Today I am going to begin my deep dive into #adoption, APs/Carers, and the multitude of ways #adoptee and #FosterYouth stories are not properly protected by the adults
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Me thinking that a certain hashtag trending means we can finally have a conversation about adoption and poc only to learn that it's a bunch of racist trolls once again
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Naturalization interview this morning and client, an intercountry adoptee, has been approved and recommended for citizenship. It’s a good day. The phrase “approved and recommended for citizenship” is so dissonant
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Short thread: I’ve noticed the libertarian right’s habit of “adopting” a particular fringe gay person, black person or minority group individual. David Bull & Inaya Folarin Iman being championed by
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Alright then. Yesterday I placed a poll for order of interest on 3 topics I have rolling around in my brain space. As per large majority, today's thread is about
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