My New Adventure, My New Blog, And Some Snarky Adoption Remarks
Most of you 73adoptee readers know of my passion for fantasy and science fiction, and I mentioned in my previous post that I’d taken a sabbatical and decided to focus on writing full-time. Now I have a...
View ArticleThe Killjoy Responds To Complaints About Why I’m Not Happy For Illinois Adoptees
I’m sure you’ve heard that Illinois adoptees are throwing off their shackles as fast as Sara Feigenholtz can round up cameras to film their joyful receipt of their birth certificates. Everybody knows...
View ArticleI Am Adopted. I Am Shame.
I hate holidays. I get this innate, overwhelming knowledge that somewhere nearby, in this very city, my birth relatives are gathering for tradition and celebration. Except me, of course, since I’m not...
View ArticleI’m Not Going To Day For Adoptee Rights Chicago 2012 – But I’m Still An Angry...
I’m not going to Day For Adoptee Rights in Chicago this year. That may strike some as strange. I’ve been a voice for Illinois adoptees for years now, so people are expecting me to be there. I’ve gotten...
View ArticleHow Conditional Birth Certificate Access Rewards “Good Adoptees” And Punishes...
In her classic book Lost And Found: The Adoption Experience, renowned adoption expert and adoptee BJ Lifton describes how adoptees are classified, by the adoption industry and by society, as Good...
View ArticleSecondary Rejection In Reunion: An Adoptee Perspective
Claudia D’Arcy has written an excellent post on her Musings Of The Lame blog: Secondary Adoptee Rejection In Reunion: Hearing The Rejected Adoptee’s Pain. Claudia is a first mother, adoption rights...
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