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The Anti-Antiadoption Discourse in “Response” to a New Expose 29 Apr 2013 | 07:30 pm
A researcher, or perhaps a journalist, Kathryn Boyce has recently written an expose, The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption (published 23 April 2013), on how evangelic...
YOUR PARTICIPATION IS VALUABLE TO MY STUDY! 23 Apr 2013 | 04:59 pm
This is quoted from a “comment” from a grad student in clinical psychology. What do you think of those who want to “study” us? Your participation is valuable to my desire to bang my head against a wal...
Common cause. 10 Apr 2013 | 08:21 pm
Some 30 years ago when I was a jerky Jersey Boy listening to new-wave and post-punk music in an effort to be “alternative” and “rebellious” (within the safe limits of suburbia of course) the English b...
“Racism’s labyrinth”. 8 Apr 2013 | 03:19 pm
I came across this essay by Prof. Asma Barlas [ link ], entitled Racism’s Labyrinth. It’s a quick read, but quite interesting on a number of levels. An excerpt: Whether white people want to claim thei...
Brokers of truth: searching on behalf of other adoptees. 1 Apr 2013 | 11:50 am
“Through me you pass into the city of woe.” —Dante As adoptees who live on the razor’s edge between places, we are often asked to broker for or engage on behalf of those who are looking for roots as w...
The Adoption Mafia. 1 Apr 2013 | 10:22 am
Elsewhere on the site we have explored the “cost” of adoptee activism [ link ], and we have heard some stories of closed-down blogs and the like. Certain adoptee sites have erased past posts, or willi...
The mediation of adopted children. 1 Apr 2013 | 09:42 am
In the post discussing the devolution of adoption [ link ], at the heart of what was either seen as horrifying or else a cause for viral reposting was the mediation of an adopted child for public cons...
The orphanage as site of euthanasia. 31 Mar 2013 | 07:55 am
I’d like to pick up on the discussion in the item “Adoption as House Arrest” [ link ] where we were discussing whether formerly children might have been “better off” in an orphanage. My adoptive fathe...
How does adoption affects [sic] the soul? 30 Mar 2013 | 11:46 am
Found in the search phrases for the site. Interpret at will.
Adoption as “house arrest”. 10 Mar 2013 | 09:09 pm
There are three randomly connected ideas/facts that have come together for me in a rather disturbing way. First is a footnote from the conference paper I’m working on: As is often the single most comm...
