One thing that intersectionality means is reflection on how Amy Coney Barrett's musings on adoption as a solution to the problems caused by forcing women to give birth erases the experiences of adoptees and, most completely of all, birth mothers.
*conjugation error. I'm a trained scholar who proofreads his writing but lets solecisms in tweets go 🙃
Adoption -- as an *industry*, as an institutionalized practice -- commodifies children and dehumanizes mothers. The logic of commodity exchange requires objectifying the product. That is Barrett's logic.
To those of you who point out that Barrett is a right-wing Catholic with transracial international adopted children and is looking out first and foremost for fellow right-wing Christians's avid desires for other people's babies, I say: There it is.
*Christians'
I'm agitated these days 🙄
I'm agitated these days 🙄
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