“Adopting and the severing of those rights, giving another parent ownership over us — our society really likes that.” #AdopteeTwitter #AdopteeRights

🧐📚CBPATSISP Resources: SEWB = #Social and Emotional Wellbeing. What #wellbeing looks like to #Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people Read more in CBPATSISP Fact Sheet 2 at cbpatsisp.com.au/suicide-preven… 🖤💛❤️

Those pesky @ShawLiterary authors now requisitioning a fourth shelf of my bookcase. Irrepressible, they are! #agentlife

Things I never want to hear again part 2 "Your mother loved you so much that she gave you away.” #AdopteeTwitter #AdopteeVoices #AdopteeRage

We live in a world where chimp brothers obviously recognise and love each other and it goes viral, but where adopted people who choose to search for their biological family or attempt to reunite, get judged, harassed and demeaned about not being "grateful".

Saying “no” or even “yes” as an adoptee can be hard due to the fear of rejection if we commit to a response, position, or opinion. Do any other adoptees feel this way? #adopteevoices

They Knew, 1965 edition “The deciding factor of many a child’s adoption has been the inability of its mother to find a place to live. Adoption may not be in the best interests of either, and as yet little is known of the effects of adoption on children in their later years.”

#AdoptionIsTrauma

#OnlyInAdoption #Adoption #AdopteeTwitter

#ThingsINeverWantToHearAgain I grew up wishing I was adopted #Adopteetwitter

I have always been very triggered by the work of Adopt Change which aims to promote and increase adoption

Dear Deb, all families are fallible. Working to keep children with their families is the real work. Breaking families down to redistribute children is not. Please close Adopt Change. Today. #AdopteeTwitter #Adoption theguardian.com/film/2023/sep/….

Australian Writers take note

Congratulations to Alexis Wright, winner of the Creative Australia Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature! Says Wright: ‘I am deeply humbled by something like this, but I also want to say, I'm not finished yet. I've got a lot more writing to come.’ youtube.com/watch?v=UA4-fy…

Today, starts this year’s week celebrating #KinshipCareWeek! Join in the celebration #DoOneThing to raise awareness to spotlight kinship care. #KinshipCare

Kinship carers do a vital job. They must get better support. Our Kinship Consultant, Clare Seth writes in the Guardian on the need for a legal definition of kinship care and the provision of far-reaching help, not just financial. #kinshipcareweek ow.ly/YJ8o50PSlpV

Hey #adopteetwitter who has found that their mother did not name them? (As opposed to documents which say you were unnamed) #Adoptee #DisplacedChild

Please listen to #AdopteeVoices and realize that what you think you *know* about adoption is industry propaganda.

#BraidedEssay #AdopteePerspective #HumanRights Portside Review #ShortList #Adoption #AdopteeVoices portsidereview.com/2024-shortlist