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There is a shortage in the “domestic supply of infants” in the US.
For decades, the adoption industry has filled this gap disproportionately with children from communities of color—first through international adoption and now foster care.
For decades, the adoption industry has filled this gap disproportionately with children from communities of color—first through international adoption and now foster care.
After Roe and the pill, the number of babies available for adoption in the US decreased dramatically. Adoption agencies solved this problem by going overseas.
But US demand started creating some unethical—and even illegal—adoption practices.
But US demand started creating some unethical—and even illegal—adoption practices.
After reports of bribery, abuse of adopted children, and even kidnapping countries like Guatemala and Ethiopia started closing their borders to US families.
This created another big decrease in the number of adoptable children in the US.
This created another big decrease in the number of adoptable children in the US.
My upcoming pedagogy workshop on using podcasts in the classroom is likely cancelled, so here's the gist of what I was going to say in an #AcademicTwitter thread: 
First, besides the now obvious reasons, why podcasts are great for teaching: As I learned when using @Serial in my composition classes, students will happily listen (and re-listen!) to them. My fave slide of my then-chair asking what this whole Serial business was all about:
There seemed to a connection between empathy and hearing these voices firsthand that also seemed to resonate with podcast listeners. Students also liked that they could set learning to their own pace, pausing as needed and that it honed listening/auditory learning skills.
Native representation in mainstream media is dismal. Native Americans make up less that 1/10 of 1% of all ppl depicted in movies, TV and music. We hold less than half of 1% of media jobs in the U.S.
When @crookedmedia brought me on to make #ThisLand, they took a risk. As a writer, I’d never made a podcast before, never even worked in radio. The story of #ThisLand wasn’t a proven genre—bc Native stories are almost never told.
But thats how you actually achieve diversity in media. By investing in the stories and the story tellers that aren’t established or proven. That aren’t on trend.
Audiences are ready for our stories, it’s the industry that needs to catch up.
Audiences are ready for our stories, it’s the industry that needs to catch up.
