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💯 *Most* of us, even many of us adopted from the foster care system, were coerced away from our biokin, one way or another. Adoption is a deeply exploitive industry.

The adoption industry needs a supply of product to satisfy the prospective adopters who are its *actual* beneficiaries, which is why every new revelation of domestic or intercountry child trafficking through coercion and fraud is merely more evidence of the industry’s imperatives at work.

another myth is that #adoption heroically rescues defenseless children from imminent peril (as manifested in the way we’re told that our alternative fate would have been to be thrown in a dumpster). in fact, the adoption industry is deeply *complicit* in separating children from their families.

There is no excuse for giving someone’s child to strangers instead of providing their family with the support & resources to care for that child.

one of the biggest myths about #adoption is that most or even many adopted people are orphans. Almost none of us is a true orphan. We were orphaned by a sociolegal system, not by death or fate.

🥚 A story as old as the adoption industry itself: Brazilian adoptee discovers she wasn’t abandoned in basket after all. She was stolen from her mother, assigned a new birthday, and spirited out of the country with forged documents. Adoption = corruption swedenherald.com/article/adop...

i’m just now learning about the jeep/rubber duckie connection! I guess that explains why I’ve seen more than one on the roads

Cyclists, your mission is clear: you must wrest the rubber duckies away from the Jeepers

I see that it is officially "Im panicking, the summer can't be nearly over, what do you mean the semester begins again, I haven't finished what I had planned, I need a time machine" time of the year

Cries in Boston 😭 Literally all I want to do is to safely ride my bike from Roxbury to Dorchester. Guess I should have moved to (checked notes) Cambridge, Somerville, London, Paris, or Beijing 😔 instead of thinking Mayor Wu would fulfill her campaign promises

In gestational surrogacy, the child is not biologically related to the surrogate. The surrogate is often referred to as a “gestational carrier”. The embryo is created via in vitro fertilization (IVF), using the eggs and sperm from of the intended parents or donors. >

Y’all are activating the “got nothing more to lose” elderly poor

When you’ve lost the Boston Herald

I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

They haven’t survived in Gaza🇵🇸 The bombing is still ongoing, they have no life left. They are hungry, sleeping on sand without a tent. Hammam's mother suffers from asthma, and his disabled brother is sick too. They are begging for your help. they urgently need a tent chuffed.org/project/1844...

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[rubber duckie looks around]

two recent roadside finds

this isn’t even the first rubber duckie I’ve found during a bike ride

a thing that can happen when you commute to work by bike is that you might see a rubber duckie on the shoulder of the road and you can go ahead and grab it