YES!

🥚If you've EVER attended the ANC Transnational Adoptee Group, please look for a SurveyMonkey in your inbox (or spam) re Oct's mtg. Would you prefer an open meeting, a panel, or closed as usual? We'd love to have your response! Even if you haven't attended in a while, please complete the survey.

I love that! You just never know who your words/sharing will reach & impact! 💜

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Thanks for the repost, @anniegirl.bsky.social

🥚Did you know ANC has a monthly Transnational Adoptee group? It will be 1️⃣yr w/5️⃣0️⃣+ attendees in May!
Represented so far: Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, India, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Panama, Peru, Romania, Russia, & Thailand!!

Born Abroad and Fearful of ICE, Adoptees Try to Prove They Belong

“As many as 200,000 adoptees are vulnerable to deportation because they lack U.S. citizenship or important proof of it… Many international adoptees first learn they are not citizens when they apply for a drivers license, join the military or, these days, when federal agents stop them on the street.”

If you're an adoptee who hasn't found your people, DM me. I'll do my best to get you connected! 🥚
#ThisIsWho #BlackAndAdopted #TransnationalAdoptee #AdopteeVoices

Transnational Adoptee Support Group | Adoption Network The Transnational Adoptee Support Group Meetings offer a safe space for transnational adoptees to explore the challenges and lifelong experiences shaped by adoption across borders.

Reminder: the ANC Transnational Adoptee Group meets tonight at 8pm ET.
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Call her Representative in California:

Young Kim
714-984-2440

Flood her office with messages of injustice for our Iranian sister in adoption! Tell Representative Kim to do what she was elected to do and protect her citizens!

Have you listened yet? Check out my conversation with the hosts of the Family Twist podcast!
open.spotify.com/episode/2CeQ...

From International Adoption to Reclaiming Citizenship

🥚Family Twist podcast released my conversation with them today! I haven't listened to it yet. Lol! If you do, let me know what you think! 💛

#BlackandAdopted #TransnationalAdoptee #AdopteeVoices #AdopteeStories

open.spotify.com/show/1wRGZlm...

I'm so proud to have been part of this dynamic panel & conversation! If you missed it the recording will be available Friday. All past @adoptionmosaic.bsky.social WTE recordings can be found here programs.adoptionmosaic.com/wte-recordin... 🥚
#BlackandAdopted
#AdopteeVoices
#TransnationalAdoptee

Currently listening to a panel of Black adoptees who were adopted into Black households and my soul is being fed 🥹

Thank you, @ustabecristina.bsky.social, for letting us know this was taking place today 💙🥚

Thank you for showing up! ❤️🖤❤️

Yay!! Thank YOU for being there!

Family separation didn’t start with foster care, and it didn’t end there.

This is Family Policing 101.

#adopteesky

Call to action from Adoptee Rights Campaign! One of my dear friends and Iranian adoptee sisters is in removal proceedings by DHS to be deported. Please reach out to your congressional/senate representatives, and any other sources, who may be helpful in stopping this madness! 🥚 #adopteesky

Saturday, 2/14 @adoptionmosaic.bsky.social 🥚

Correction: Saturday 2/14!!

Thanks for the repost, @brentasnavely.bsky.social !

TONIGHT!! Be sure to register as Zoom links have been refreshed. 🥚
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Also....
Did you see the February @adoptionmosaic.bsky.social newsletter? I appreciate Astrid's willingness to listen to my thoughts on this and pivot in response.
I wish all adoptee conversations, all conversations, were this real & productive! 🥚

Thanks!!

Thanks for the repost!! 💛

This Saturday's Adoption Mosaic We the Expert Panel. 🥚 events.adoptionmosaic.com/wte-perceive...

🥚How I faced the remnants of internalized racism as a Black/Panamanian (Afro-Latina) adoptee in a Black family/community.

This year, an adoption propaganda commercial will air during the Super Bowl, promoted by the National Council for Adoption and produced by the Opt Institute. It frames adoption as a reasonable choice for young women while erasing the lifelong trauma adoption can cause for adoptees and mothers, and ignoring the permanent loss of rights that comes with family separation. Millions were likely spent to air this message, funds that could have supported mothers in financial crisis, helped keep families together, or provided real services. Instead, it reinforces a system that severs children from their legal identity, medical history, and family, while leaving mothers without support or rights. This is especially troubling given ongoing reports of powerful leaders with documented ties to child trafficking. The legalized practice of adoption has repeatedly enabled the trafficking of children, both domestically and internationally. At a time when many countries are stepping away from international adoption because of abuse and corruption, the United States is doubling down. Separating infants from their mothers, whether abroad or at home, is not noble. It leaves children vulnerable, denies them basic rights, and causes lifelong harm. This reflects a system that has repeatedly failed children while continuing to present itself as moral, benevolent, and beyond scrutiny. Driven by money and power, it continues to fail the most vulnerable. It should not be aired, but it likely will be.

What does it mean when adoption is advertised on one of the largest cultural stages in America? Presenting family separation during a national event as positive, entertainment-adjacent messaging raises serious concerns about the industry being centered while the those impacted are ignored. 🥚

🥚 Today at 8pm ET, the Adoption Network Cleveland Transnational Adoptee Group will explore our 1st special topic: Overcoming Imposter Syndrome in Cultural Spaces. If you were adopted from one country to another, I hope you'll join us!!
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