Seen on facebook marketplace in the Bay Area this morning. Cats are smart (click on photo for full text).

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Yes, this does kinda explain my life.

Intersex kids: non-binary sexedness in an infant is meant to be wiped away, surgically altered.

Adoptees: the non-biological relatedness of the child to the a-parent is wiped away, diminished.

These are highly architected performances of what is alleged to be simply, inevitably biological.

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Stunning insight from the Intersex Society of North America about adoptees and intersex kids: "...the central mistake made in adoption over the last many years is the same mistake made in cases of intersex: an assumption that children would be better off if they didn’t know the truth." 🥚

ack, so do i. the loveliest place.

Why not play Tidjane? Could have provided heft against Bam.

Heartbreaking, I'm sorry. My birth mom felt the same way at my 18th. She had substance abuse issues that were amplified by her sorrow about losing me. She, also, sent me lots of items as I grew up. Never got them. Not sure if that was the agency's fault, or if my adoptive parents trashed'em.

If JDVance could pull a Costanza and realize that every instinct he has is wrong, watch out world.

Getting to that terrible point where I'm too busy at my job to do my job.

I'm glad that will be the theme!

Will your podcast also take up ethical family formation? Please post a link!

Tomorrow I have to do a presentation to the largest and most established LGBT+ organisation in Denmark on ethical family creation followed by an interview for a podcast. Sunday is the annual general assembly in our #adoption association followed by a board meeting. Monday I will be about survival.

I wish someone would ask Trump if he thinks the US would be better if the Confederates won the Civil War. #HaapySurrenderDay

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC.

"All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources."

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One of those days where it feels like you've gotten 128 emails, responded to 2/3rds, and yet they keep coming back, asking you to loop in others, reproducing, developing knottier questions, and then there are the new emails, fresh questions, sticky with unrealized complexity and annoyingness. help.

Can I request a divine teleport to a taqueria? Is this kinda like a free, extra fast lyft service?

My understanding, too, is that, historically, some surprisingly large # of kids at orphanages weren't orphans by this definition. The kid totally cut severed from any possible bio fam relationship is mostly just a useful fantasy.

Adopteehood is living in limbo. My identity comes from my adoptive family. This body comes from my bio family. And, I happen to live in a place that privileges the biological. It's a place that ever more fiercely wants to locate identity in the biological (gender to sex, citizenship to blood/soil).

Masquerades of erasure are tiring and self-annihilating. Keep the bc in your desk, Dad. I'll try to do without it.

Adopteehood is living in limbo. My identity comes from my adoptive family. This body comes from my bio family. And, I happen to live in a place that privileges the biological. It's a place that ever more fiercely wants to locate identity in the biological (gender to sex, citizenship to blood/soil).

I know I can get a new bc. It will look legal. I have enough money to get one. But, frankly, I don't want it. Even if, right now, I'm having trouble getting a real ID. (This will likely work cuz of my positionality: I'm not likely to get scooped up by ICE on the street.)

And, frankly, I get that. The fiction has to be maintained. Adoption happens under conditions of coercion. It's a tool for reallocating kids to "good families," where good is read in terms of class and race. And, yes, my birth parents wanted me back. That thin, crooked paper kept them away.

Frankly, having it sit among my Dad's important papers made it into a different kind of document entirely. It wasn't about me. Certainly not me as me. It was a claim of ownership. Proof of ownership. It was about a warrant of erasure, a ruse to sustain a fiction

He himself described it as merely a copy of my bc. Not the real thing. I didn't know what the real thing looked like, but this looked and felt like a copy. Super light paper. Crooked print. This is what is supposed to validate me as me, this deception openly treated as not mine?

I want to tell about the relationship I have with my bc. First, I don't have one right now. It was a document that lived in my a-dad's desk. Never with me. When I needed it to guarantee who I am, I'd ask him to get it for me, and he wanted it back.

Nevermind, of course, all of the consequences of that erasure, in an ideological environment that privileges biological relatedness. Higher rates of suicidality, mental health concerns, lower educational achievement... And, what's worse, the adopters are always the saints.

Our bcs are weird: they aren't the original bc. They are generated at the moment of adoption. The folks listed aren't our birth parents. Many of us ourselves feel like they are fakes, primarily generated to erase identity.

Adoption, Belonging, and the Question of Citizenship Adoptees are proof of the cruelty and carelessness at the heart of Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship.

Lots of chatter lately about citizenship, adopteehood, and birth certificates. Long story short: lots of international adoptees are at risk of deportation. Depending on the particular regime to be imposed on what counts as a citizenship-guaranteeing doc, many of the rest of us might be too.