Feminist Bastards and adult adoptees writing adoption and reproductive autonomy
Regular readers here will recognize my own ongoing writings concerning the intersections of race, poverty, fertility and lack thereof, and adoption and international adoption, (from my own radical, or...
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Privacy and consent; early notes, appropriate uses and co-optations of the...
These posts are going to try to begin to address some of my underlying assumptions about how these concepts both do and do not inter-relate with the adoption field. They are backgrounder, or basic...
View ArticleAdoption as a modern Feminist institutional blindspot
Well here’s something you don’t see everyday. Bitch Magazine* saw fit to include a commentary criticizing the industry from a Feminist perspective, written by adoptive mother Dawn Friedman. See...
View ArticleBelated High Praise for the NaBloPoMo truly *DAILY* Bastardette!
This is one of those posts that’s been on the back burner brewing here for a bit. I’ve known Marley/Bastardette for a number of years now and I find I always come away from time spent with her having...
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New Jersey SCS1406 (A1406/S799) ACTION ALERT and update
On Monday the New Jersey Assembly’s Human Services Committee heard testimony on A1406 (The Assembly’s version of the New Jersey Senate’s S799.) The bill has become a mangled beyond repair attempt at...
View ArticleAdoption in relation to Abortion provision, notes on clinics that embrace...
The below is my comment on the New York Times article, Campaigning for Common Ground in Abortion Debate. Where to start? The fact that women’s autonomy and freedom must not be up for “debate” perhaps?...
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A few words about our much maligned Fathers
I should have some kind of witty or profound thing to say on the occasion of Father’s day, but I don’t. These are just a few disjointed thoughts jotted down. (Consider these almost vignettes or morsels...
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Florida, Queer Adoptions, and the reek of George A. Rekers & a cast of cronies
Blognote- I’m still working with the Mississippi data, so I don’t have that post ready to go this evening. Instead, I’ll go on and write about the big news out of Florida and then hopefully come back...
View ArticleCosta Rica to legalize in vitro fertilization, human rights, lack thereof,...
Until now, Costa Rica had been one of only 43 countries where in vitro fertilization was illegal. See Costa Rica Seeks In Vitro Compromise. As there is little regulation of this industry and standards...
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Adoption is absolutely a Feminist “issue”/an “issue” Feminists must face
In response to a post at Feministe, Adoption as a Feminist Issue, I threw in my .02 worth: (As there was a request to limit the number of links in replies, the version of the below on Feministe...
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