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How much more can adoption devolve?
I keep thinking about this Adoption Horrow Show [ link ] and how it sets back humanity on all levels a couple of thousand years. And I keep re-reading what I initially wrote when I saw this: Adoptees...
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Common cause.
Some 30 years ago when I was a jerky Jersey Boy listening to new-wave and post-punk music in an effort to be “alternative” and “rebellious” (within the safe limits of suburbia of course) the English...
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The Anti-Antiadoption Discourse in “Response” to a New Expose
A researcher, or perhaps a journalist, Kathryn Boyce has recently written an expose, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (published 23 April 2013), on how...
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Yellow fever: The exotic adoptee.
I found this sitting in the “pending” pile; Girl4708 has given me permission to update and post. She originally wrote: As I approved another comment today on a blog post I wrote about Woody Allen, I...
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The Indigenous and the Adopted: a Link?
From here, we have just a brief excerpt from an article about suicide (and other health risks) amongst indigenous people around the world: Some of the reports alarming statistics include, “In the...
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Uncomfortable in my own skin.
I was always struck by the lyrics (and title) of the Talking Head’s song Seen and Not Seen [link]: He would see faces in movies, on T.V., in magazines, and in books / He thought that some of these...
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The empty circle: honoring and validating our complex identities
****This is my first post with TRE and I would like to share my gratitude to Daniel and the other contributors for this space. And for you, readers. I have this memory from 3rd grade. On the surface,...
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Facilitating the Facilitation of (Progressive) Adoption
In our postmodern Occidental milieu, the articulation of new “meta” levels (of market) becomes necessary. Thus, it seems inevitable that extended organizational networks[1] to facilitate the...
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Trauma and Reflection
Prior to 2013, I was considered, by some, to be an adoption activist as I wrote and presented about historic trauma, and the role of legislation in determining legitimacy as a family, a person, a...
View ArticleThe complexity of adoptive parents
Adoption is complex. All of it. And sometimes we, as adoptees, don't fully understand how complex it is until we lose our adoptive parents. Because many times, our adoptive parents, good or bad, are...
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