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Jun 13 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
🏳️‍🌈Happy Pride! Being gay + being adopted are two big parts of my identity. Years of secrecy obscured them both. Ergo I’m thrilled to be part of this ⁦@AdopteesUnited⁩ conversation by and about LGBTQIA+ adoptees. Join me! #adopteevoices
#twicequeer 🌈 adopteesunited.org/rainbow-adopte…
PS a third, very public part of my identity is as a biologist in service to the climate movement. Close observers have noticed I’m part of this film screening event on the same evening.

Yes I’m doing both. It all matters, and it’s all connected by the word DISPOSSESSION.
In sum, you’ll have to choose between the two events. I am in the film, am screening it early, and am able to do both events so no one needs to worry that I messed up my schedule. Which would not be out of character but in this case, I’m got executive functioning on my side. 😁
PPS if you want to think more about how climate and queerness are connected: here’s a fantastic short film essay by journalist (and my former student!) @meaghan_mcelroy

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Jun 14
Important AP investigative story on the int’l adoption system that separated Korean kids from their families “as part of a lucrative business under the military governments that ruled South Korea from the 1960s to the late 1980s.” #adopteetwitter seattletimes.com/nation-world/s…
“Adoptions were a way to remove the socially undesirable, including children from unwed mothers or poor families, and to reduce the number of mouths to feed.
About 200,000 Korean children were adopted by families in the West in the past six decades, including 7,924 in 1984.”
“Roots are often untraceable because most of the children were listed as abandoned, even when they had known relatives, WHICH MADE THEM EASILY ADOPTABLE.”

This is how orphans are manufactured.
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Feb 11
Heads up, CO friends: Coloradans for Energy Access is actually the gas industry + real estate dudes trying to stop the renewable energy transition or what they call—wait for it—“forced electrification.” CEA is a fossil fuel wolf in grassroots clothing. desmog.com/2022/02/10/gas…
“Xcel Energy, a Minnesota-based electric and gas utility, is among the ranks of Coloradans for Energy Access. The investor-owned utility has assets across eight Midwestern and Western states, with a particularly large presence in Colorado.”
CO does not have laws prohibiting gas hook ups in new buildings, which is what we are fighting for in NYS but the CO Public Utilities Commission is considering new rules “that would put the cost of a gas hook up onto the homeowner or business.”
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Feb 10
NEW RESEARCH: #Fracking in PA contaminates drinking water where pregnant women live and harms their infants.

So, here's a link to the goddamn abstract and bc I have a PhD and a full-text pre-proof, I'll do an whole thread but as a mom: THIS IS ENOUGH
sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
This a first-of-its-kind study that uses exact locations of mothers' residences, gas wells, and public drinking water sources and combines them with dates of infant births, measurements of water contaminants, and timing of drilling and fracking activities. It's big data.
Results showed that prenatal exposure to a fracking well drilled within 1 km (.62 miles) of water sources, together with drilling near a mother's home, raises risks for both preterm birth and low birthweight. Study methods adroitly controlled for confounding factors.
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Dec 19, 2021
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…
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.
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Dec 18, 2021
Adoption is trafficking. The willful naïveté of US adoptive parents to this fact is the fuel that keeps the machine going.

“Possibly thousands of Chilean adoptees taken from their parents without their consent during the country’s military dictatorship” nytimes.com/2021/12/17/wor…
“Gen. Augusto Pinochet, actively encouraged overseas adoptions to reduce poverty. The process was abetted by a vast network of officials— including judges, social workers, health professionals and adoption brokers—who forged documents and are widely assumed to have taken bribes.”
This happened in the 1970s and 80s, and these US adoptees are just learning the truth now. That they were in fact stolen from their mothers. And none of this would have ever even come to light without DNA testing technology.
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Dec 1, 2021
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
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:
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