Cis. he/him. Librarian. Currently reading: A spreadsheet. Former philosophy prof. #Adoptee. bicyclist. #transrightsarehumanrights 🏳️⚧️
Oct 1 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
People who have never thought seriously about adoption as a legal structure will stubbornly conflate the concept of long-term custodial care for a child with the concept of plenary adoption, which entails legal severance, identity falsification, and historical erasure. +
And consequently adoptees and others who call for the abolition of adoption in the latter sense will be challenged to explain what to do with babies who languish in orphanages or are born to “cr@ck he@d mothers.” +
May 10, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
My teenager and I are going out to see a musical and they asked me if this was really the shirt I wanted to go with. I don’t understand the rules 😟
“Green shirt, please,” they said, so
Stop this. Just fcking stop it.
Do you congratulate new adoptive parents on the addition to their family? On the fulfillment of their demand to adopt?
*THAT* is the source of the idea of a "domestic supply of infants": demand to create families with other people's infants.
May 7, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Almost no one tweeting about the "supply of domestic infants" language in the leaked draft opinion is acknowledging that Alito didn't come up with it. It's from a CDC report.
Babies-as-commodities is part of the American lingua franca for talking about adoption.
Liberals who are aghast need to go find out what their leaders have said about adoption.
Dec 2, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
I want to welcome those of you who followed me after seeing my recent tweets about Amy Coney Barrett, forced birth, adoption, erasure, and misogyny. I want to thank everyone who listens to #AdopteeVoices and rejects the "disgruntled ingrate" framing used against us. (1/n)
Increasingly I have used Twitter to work through the implications of my two basic moral commitments as an adoptee in reunion: 1) Sealed birth records are a gross injustice and should be universally abolished; 2) Family preservation takes moral priority over family creation.
(2/n)
Dec 2, 2021 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
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 🙃
Dec 1, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
I don't know how to explain to anyone who has never considered what it is like to be an adoptee how fully horrifying it is to hear a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States musing about the desirability of conjoining forced birth with child trafficking.
yes I said it: in the context in which Amy Coney Barrett imagines it, adoption is unquestionably a child-trafficking industry.
Jun 25, 2019 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
If we’re going to get ontologically scrupulous in restricting the scope of the Person entity to “real human beings,” it is only fair to survey the range of metaphysical/epistemological options for implementation. These include but are not limited to the following:
