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Naming adoption as violence, and as a tactic of colonialism, begins to express how adoption is built and reproduced by racial capitalism. 🧵1/8
#NAAM2022 #NAAM #AdoptionAwarenessMonth #AdoptionIsTraumaAND #AdopteeTwitter #FFY
#NAAM2022 #NAAM #AdoptionAwarenessMonth #AdoptionIsTraumaAND #AdopteeTwitter #FFY
The idea of Racial Capitalism suggests that all capitalism is racial because racism and capitalism mutually depend upon one another. 2/8
Racial capitalism reproduces and exploits racial difference to extract profit. 3/8
Adoption and foster care emerge from the intentional control and destruction of Indigenous kinship through the forced removal of children from Indigenous communities, and their forced assimilation into European cultures.
🧵#NAAM2022 #AdoptionIsTraumaAND #AdopteeTwitter #FFY 1/6
🧵#NAAM2022 #AdoptionIsTraumaAND #AdopteeTwitter #FFY 1/6
This violence is carried out under the logic of “kill the Indian; save the man,” and the extraction of resources from the land in service of the prosperity of the invading settlers. 2/6
At the scale of the individual adopting family, Indigenous children were often used as free labor in addition to nuclear-family wish fulfillment. 3/6
Most of my followers here work on #climate. Also my life’s work. Or are part of the #LGBTQ STEM community. Where I also reside.
More recently, I tweet about adoption.
To mark the end of National Adoption Awareness Month #NAAM, I made a thread for all of you.
#adopteevoices
More recently, I tweet about adoption.
To mark the end of National Adoption Awareness Month #NAAM, I made a thread for all of you.
#adopteevoices
I want my climate activist friends and my LGBTQ brothers and sisters to know that it’s not okay to say you’ll “just adopt” if you want kids. Adoption is a corrupt industry that preys on poor women denied reproductive justice and denies basic civil rights to adoptees.
Among these are our right to our birth certificates. If you assume sealed records are not a thing anymore, you’re wrong. Good thread about the systemic harms of the adoption industry and the enduring falsifications/secrecies that are its hallmark features:
🧵 November is National #Adoption Awareness Month. Adoption should be safe (mentally, emotionally, physically for adopted people & birth parents), legal (with protections for everyone involved), & rare (if we are supporting pregnant people and families as we should). #NAAM
Domestic adoption is largely rooted in the resourcelessness and powerless of first/birth families. This will be a 🧵 with direct quotes from the women I interviewed for my current book project; I’ll add to it throughout November. All of these participants relinquished since 2000.
My work is about considering what adoption within a reproductive justice framework would mean. Importantly, all my participants terminated their parental rights at their child’s birth, and these adoptions were not due to state intervention in their parenting rights.
A 🧵 for my non-adopted friends: If a person talks about adoption in a negative way, please don’t dismiss it with a tale of your mailman’s sister’s neighbor’s daughter who had a “good experience”.
She is me.
And while I had a “good experience”, I am not ok for it. 1/
She is me.
And while I had a “good experience”, I am not ok for it. 1/
How many people do you know that will openly talk about their trauma with you? Adoptees are particularly good at keeping on a happy face because we’ve been asked to play pretend our entire lives. What you see on the surface in no way means there is not a war raging inside us. 2/
PUTIN ANAVYOPINDUA VIONGOZI WA AFRIKA KUJIIMARISHA
#UZI:
💨Rais Alpha Conde (Guinea) alipinduliwa kwa msaada wa USA & Ufaransa, lkn kwa ASSIMI GOÏTA (Mali) alisaidiwa na Urusi.Pia mauaji ya IDRIS DÉBY (Chad) yalifanywa na URUSI
👩💻𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐲𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐣𝐮𝐚👇
#UZI:
💨Rais Alpha Conde (Guinea) alipinduliwa kwa msaada wa USA & Ufaransa, lkn kwa ASSIMI GOÏTA (Mali) alisaidiwa na Urusi.Pia mauaji ya IDRIS DÉBY (Chad) yalifanywa na URUSI
👩💻𝐌𝐚𝐦𝐛𝐨 𝐌𝐚𝐳𝐢𝐭𝐨 𝐓𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐲𝐨𝐲𝐚𝐣𝐮𝐚👇
Mnamo Aprili 20, 2021 majira ya jioni zilianza sherehe huko La Brasserie Kiss, umbali wa 100M kutoka ktkt ya mji wa Bangui (Afrika ya Kati). Kila aliyepita huo mtaa aliona magari kadhaa yamepaki mbele ya nyumba moja ya Ghorofa 3, jumba ambalo ni kivutio kikubwa sana ktk jiji hilo
Jengo hili lipo nje kidogo ya mtaa maarufu wa DU COLONEL CONUS na ikifika usiku hupendeza sana kutokana na mng'ao wa taa ulioizunguka. Kulingana na saa kule ilikuwa mida ya saa 2 usiku hivi na kwa wenyeji wa mji huo, ni muda ambao amri ya kutotembea usiku huanza kutumika.
Being an adoptee means I learned some things early on:
-you can really only trust yourself
-blood does matter to family members
-being a secret is normal
-being lied to is normal
-people will weaponize your adoptee status on a dime
-you will never know where you belong
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#NAAM
-you can really only trust yourself
-blood does matter to family members
-being a secret is normal
-being lied to is normal
-people will weaponize your adoptee status on a dime
-you will never know where you belong
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#NAAM
-your parents are not your parents
-your ancestors cannot claim you
-your adoption will always be the reason 4 everything
-you owe people for existing
-you can’t feel your feelings when you need to
-you’ll never have an easy answer to who/where your family is
#BeingAdoptedMeans
-your ancestors cannot claim you
-your adoption will always be the reason 4 everything
-you owe people for existing
-you can’t feel your feelings when you need to
-you’ll never have an easy answer to who/where your family is
#BeingAdoptedMeans
-people will always pity/be afraid of you
-you’llalways struggle with your confidence
-you’ll always live in fear of being disowned/unclaimed
-you’ll have a complicated relationship with your kids
-you’ll be treated like an infant by almost all adults forever
You?
#adoptee
-you’llalways struggle with your confidence
-you’ll always live in fear of being disowned/unclaimed
-you’ll have a complicated relationship with your kids
-you’ll be treated like an infant by almost all adults forever
You?
#adoptee
