April Quinlan O’Fearraigh
@aprilshewill.bsky.social
Reading texts playing scrabble trekking outdoors marking something silly dancing guitar strumming ballad singing and still adopted.
she/her 🇨🇦🇮🇪🏳️🌈
she/her 🇨🇦🇮🇪🏳️🌈
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The machinery of transferring babies/children to strangers for #adoption is older than most realize. In Ontario, adoptions were originally processed under the Guardianship Act. By 1921, the Adoption Act was created, relieving the Children's Aid Society (CAS) of certain responsibilities.
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January 5, 2025 at 10:18 PM
The machinery of transferring babies/children to strangers for #adoption is older than most realize. In Ontario, adoptions were originally processed under the Guardianship Act. By 1921, the Adoption Act was created, relieving the Children's Aid Society (CAS) of certain responsibilities.
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We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Nonfiction! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...
December 18, 2024 at 3:00 PM
We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Nonfiction! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...
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the right to own oneself, to own one’s identity: no one honored that for me as an #adoptee, but I refuse to repeat their mistake.
trans rights = adoptee rights = human rights.
trans rights = adoptee rights = human rights.
“So yeah, I think the transgender students are really brave because they're taking a lot of flack for just wanting to be themselves and to have the right to have their own name. I think that's incredibly brave, and I think that they're absolutely right to want to do that. To want to own themselves.”
Nikki Giovanni staunchly supported trans folks, especially trans youth. Her encouragement is a balm.
“I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation.”
“I think the transgender kids are the bravest kids right now that we see; they're as brave as my generation was in breaking down segregation.”
December 11, 2024 at 12:40 AM
the right to own oneself, to own one’s identity: no one honored that for me as an #adoptee, but I refuse to repeat their mistake.
trans rights = adoptee rights = human rights.
trans rights = adoptee rights = human rights.
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If you're an adoptive parent contemplating writing a children's book about adoption, don't.
You tend to write about the day you adopted your child, but that's not a story about adoption. It's a story about you.
Let the adult adoptees write about adoption. It happened to us, not you.
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You tend to write about the day you adopted your child, but that's not a story about adoption. It's a story about you.
Let the adult adoptees write about adoption. It happened to us, not you.
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December 3, 2024 at 3:00 PM
If you're an adoptive parent contemplating writing a children's book about adoption, don't.
You tend to write about the day you adopted your child, but that's not a story about adoption. It's a story about you.
Let the adult adoptees write about adoption. It happened to us, not you.
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You tend to write about the day you adopted your child, but that's not a story about adoption. It's a story about you.
Let the adult adoptees write about adoption. It happened to us, not you.
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It’s finally available!! Watch and share, that we continue to raise awareness and collaborate together as a community to improve healthcare outcomes for those whose lives have been impacted by relinquishment, foster care, and adoption.
Search “Cam Lee Small TEDx talk” on google / YouTube📲
Search “Cam Lee Small TEDx talk” on google / YouTube📲
November 27, 2024 at 3:52 PM
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@llmunro.bsky.social gave me permission to recreate her outstanding Twitter thread of writings about the history of family separation + plenary adoption as it’s practiced in the US. It also includes additions from others on Adoptee Twitter.
Here we go!
@llmunro.bsky.social gave me permission to recreate her outstanding Twitter thread of writings about the history of family separation + plenary adoption as it’s practiced in the US. It also includes additions from others on Adoptee Twitter.
Here we go!
November 24, 2024 at 3:48 PM
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@llmunro.bsky.social gave me permission to recreate her outstanding Twitter thread of writings about the history of family separation + plenary adoption as it’s practiced in the US. It also includes additions from others on Adoptee Twitter.
Here we go!
@llmunro.bsky.social gave me permission to recreate her outstanding Twitter thread of writings about the history of family separation + plenary adoption as it’s practiced in the US. It also includes additions from others on Adoptee Twitter.
Here we go!
Spoke with 🥚 my aunt today about bringing my children and grandchild back to stay in my family’s home (in north western 🇮🇪). It will be their second visit. We live in 🇨🇦. 1/
November 24, 2024 at 8:04 PM
Spoke with 🥚 my aunt today about bringing my children and grandchild back to stay in my family’s home (in north western 🇮🇪). It will be their second visit. We live in 🇨🇦. 1/
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Ok I love this so much I’m going to start falling sleep to it. I can safely drift off knowing that the rest of you are out here keeping watch and cussing away in stochastic yet soothing metrical patterns.
The Bluesky Swear Word Visualizer is absolutely amazing (and is that Matt Berry's voice?)
swearsky.bagpuss.org
swearsky.bagpuss.org
SwearSky
Bluesky profanity, as it happens
swearsky.bagpuss.org
November 22, 2024 at 11:21 PM
Ok I love this so much I’m going to start falling sleep to it. I can safely drift off knowing that the rest of you are out here keeping watch and cussing away in stochastic yet soothing metrical patterns.
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A brilliant review. Truly eviscerating. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.
November 23, 2024 at 12:40 AM
A brilliant review. Truly eviscerating. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.
Thinking of introducing this image to my gr. 12 students. Which inquiry questions should I ask to encourage critical thinking?
A banana sold for $6.2 million with fees to a crypto entrepreneur at a Sotheby’s art auction on Wednesday. It became what is arguably the most expensive fruit in the world — though it will likely be tossed in a couple days. nyti.ms/3OhfnCC
November 22, 2024 at 5:21 AM
Thinking of introducing this image to my gr. 12 students. Which inquiry questions should I ask to encourage critical thinking?
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Shamelessly plugging my book about how controversial beliefs are turned into lived realities. One of the groups I studied long supported RFK Jr., sharing his takes on health. Check it out. It has everything: parasites, poop, rogue doctors, and one suspicious death.
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November 20, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Shamelessly plugging my book about how controversial beliefs are turned into lived realities. One of the groups I studied long supported RFK Jr., sharing his takes on health. Check it out. It has everything: parasites, poop, rogue doctors, and one suspicious death.
cup.columbia.edu/book/spaces-...
cup.columbia.edu/book/spaces-...
#adoption #adoptee #adoptees #adoptiveparents #familyplanning #parenting #reproductivehealth #humanrights #adopteerights #familyseparation
I scream into the void every time someone tells me that "adoption is just another way to build a family" instead of a deeply political choice that exacerbates social inequities.
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/th...
www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/th...
Adoption Is Not a Family Planning Tool
Framing adoption as a family planning tool decenters the needs of adoptees and the rights of birth parents.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 20, 2024 at 10:54 PM
To help you celebrate #LGBTQSTEM Day here is a poster of 12 of the 450 known species of animals known to regularly exhibit in same-sex encounters and pair bonds. These serve important roles in social cohesion and conflict avoidance.
Nature is queer AF, bitches.
Sincerely, resident gay biologist
Nature is queer AF, bitches.
Sincerely, resident gay biologist
November 19, 2024 at 5:31 AM