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Après son adoption au Sénat en avril dernier, c'est à l'@AssembleeNat que ma proposition de loi transpartisane sur la #parité dans la #FonctionPublique portée avec @verienparent et @AnnickBillon a enfin été #adoptée ! ✅
Après son adoption au Sénat en avril dernier, c'est à l'@AssembleeNat que ma proposition de loi transpartisane sur la #parité dans la #FonctionPublique portée avec @verienparent et @AnnickBillon a enfin été #adoptée ! ✅
Vice-présidente de la Délégation aux Droits des Femmes du Sénat, le combat pour l’#égalité et la #parité guident mon #engagement.
Notre constat de départ : 60 % de femmes dans la fonction publique et pourtant que 14 % occupent des postes de cadre dirigeant…
Notre constat de départ : 60 % de femmes dans la fonction publique et pourtant que 14 % occupent des postes de cadre dirigeant…
Pas loin de deux mois après nous, l’@AssembleeNat vient enfin d’adopter cette proposition de loi grâce au travail mené au sein de l’@AN_DroitsFemmes par notamment le rapporteur, @G_GouffierCha dont je salue le travail transpartisan pour plus de parité dans la fonction publique.
Many outside the #adoptee community seem shocked that Alito's draft opinion overturning Roe refers to the question of who will raise human beings as an issue of "supply and demand.'' Make no mistake -- this has been going on for nearly a century. #adopteevoices 🧵
As I learned in researching my book "American Baby," adoption has been a capitalistic transaction since the 1930s when state legislatures began passing secrecy laws to obscure the true nature of what was going on.
Millions of the #adoptees surrendered into the secret system that flourished in 48 states understand that the trajectory of their lives were determined by what was baldly referred to at the time as "supply and demand.''
45 years ago today I was handed to two strangers and my mother disappeared. I was 5 days old. #adopteevoices 1/
According to my (adoptive) mom’s account in my baby book, 2 of her friends had helped bring me home. According to my (biological) mother, she and her mother drove me to my new home, and personally handed me over. There was even a tour, or so I was told. 2/
And society at large wants me to be grateful for being given a life and opportunities I maybe wouldn’t have otherwise had, when all I can see is a terrified barely-17 year old being pushed by her mother to had over her 5 day old child to strangers. The first grandchild. 3/
Thread for the non-adopted:
Like every #adoptee I’m still thinking about this week’s NYT exposé and want to offer historical, intersectional context for widespread belief that adoption is benevolent.
Stolen at Birth, Chilean Adoptees Uncover their Past
nytimes.com/2021/12/17/wor…
Like every #adoptee I’m still thinking about this week’s NYT exposé and want to offer historical, intersectional context for widespread belief that adoption is benevolent.
Stolen at Birth, Chilean Adoptees Uncover their Past
nytimes.com/2021/12/17/wor…
First, the Chilean baby-trafficking operation, which apparently brought thousands of infants to the US for adoption by white couples in the 1970s-80s, is not exceptional. It’s an old script first drafted during the Greek civil war in 1946 when conflict, chaos, and oppression…
…created a political smokescreen that allowed adoption networks to airlift and adopt out 3,000+ Greek infants/kids to US couples. This became the blueprint for large-scale, trans-national adoption to the US during the Cold War.
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:
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/
COLONOSCOPY PSA for everyone age 40 and over*
*(with special message for #adoptees)
So I spent the last two weeks waiting for results from the pathology lab after my colonoscopy on 7/29 and I’m now here to tell you why you need to follow me into that procedure room, friends.
*(with special message for #adoptees)
So I spent the last two weeks waiting for results from the pathology lab after my colonoscopy on 7/29 and I’m now here to tell you why you need to follow me into that procedure room, friends.
I got the results yesterday. One of the two polyps found and removed from my body was almost certainly NOT going to turn into my assassin. But the other one was of the kind that can and do.
But it’s out now. And that means that mf-er is not going to be the cause of my death.
But it’s out now. And that means that mf-er is not going to be the cause of my death.
Here are the three great things about colon cancer. (All the other things about it are wretched and miserable.)
1) Unlike almost all other cancers, colon tumors go through predictable, progressive stages of growth and development before becoming deranged psychopaths.
1) Unlike almost all other cancers, colon tumors go through predictable, progressive stages of growth and development before becoming deranged psychopaths.
Friends, next Tues. I’ll be part of a public event @LoyolaChicago on endocrine disruption, infertility, sex and gender, inspired by @DrShannaSwan new book COUNTDOWN. We’re framing this issue in queer and trans positive ways. Join me? 🏳️🌈 @QueersInSTEM @500QueerSci @MarchForScience
March 23, 9:30 am CDT. Event is free and open to the public but you need to register: luc.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Warm invite also to the #adoptee community. This issue is about us, too. Declining fertility caused by exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals fuels more predatory adoption practices. You know I’ll be making that point. #adopteevoices
@GabrielleGlaser @llmunro
@GabrielleGlaser @llmunro
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 our opinions about it with you.
Some of us are loud, some of us are quiet, some of us come out swinging, some of us are willing to take some time to explain - IF we feel you are dealing with us in good faith.
See, most of us have a pretty keen nose for bullshit. It's a survival skill we've had to develop.
See, most of us have a pretty keen nose for bullshit. It's a survival skill we've had to develop.
We can tell when questions are coming from a genuine place, from a genuine lack of knowledge.
And, we can tell when questions and responses are coming from a privileged, entitled place, and are designed to somehow hurt or minimize or diminish our voices.
And, we can tell when questions and responses are coming from a privileged, entitled place, and are designed to somehow hurt or minimize or diminish our voices.
THREAD 1/21
I 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 hands of people of my demographic - men just like me.
I 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 hands of people of my demographic - men just like me.
A few years ago, I started to volunteer at my local women's shelter and to follow feminist pages on facebook where I learned a lot about myself and my role in the patriarchy and the oppression of my sisters.
From those facebook pages I found links to feminist Twitter where my education and enlightenment accelerated and grew dramatically.
The Myka Stauffer rehoming saga has been on my mind today. (For the uninitiated: standard.co.uk/insider/alist/…) An #adoptee rant thread:
When people react viscerally to rehoming pets, I remind them that this is something that also happens with children.
When people react viscerally to rehoming pets, I remind them that this is something that also happens with children.
The practice is largely unregulated (see here for examples in TX scholarship.law.tamu.edu/lawreview/vol5…). There are entire private Facebook groups dedicated to rehoming recently adopted children, and before Facebook, there were backpage ads in newsletters and magazines for adoptive parents.
It's not a new phenomenon. Since the 1970s, 1 in 9 adoptions have been disrupted - where proceedings end prior to finalization - or dissolved after finalization. (childwelfare.gov/pubPDFs/s_disr…
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
Thread: Building a strong DNA matched tree
#Adoptee #DNA #FamilySearch #FamilyTree
I wanted to expand on my paternal search methods as to help others in a similar situation. Evidence, both DNA and documentation, is central to supporting any conclusions.
#Adoptee #DNA #FamilySearch #FamilyTree
I wanted to expand on my paternal search methods as to help others in a similar situation. Evidence, both DNA and documentation, is central to supporting any conclusions.
As I said in my last thread, I found that my paternal matches fell into three family groups: Petronius, Tütscher & Tyneslawe. But that wasn't enough information to support my hypothesis. I could build a tree for each family but it had to be supportable by the facts.
I started by building a tree based on:
1.Birth and Death certificates
2.Marriage and divorce documents
3.Federal and/or state census
4.Other Government documents such as court rulings, land grants, etc.
1.Birth and Death certificates
2.Marriage and divorce documents
3.Federal and/or state census
4.Other Government documents such as court rulings, land grants, etc.
