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 The idea of Racial Capitalism suggests that all capitalism is racial because racism and capitalism mutually depend upon one another. 2/8

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 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

@UpFromTheCracks I think that a lot of adopted people are turning away from "adoptee" because of the ways that it reinforces power dynamics of givers and receivers (think, for instance, payor and payee) 🧵🪡 1/7 @UpFromTheCracks 🪡 Speaking for myself: I first started buying into the “person centered” language of “adopted person” to refer to myself for a while. 2/7