Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC
@joannebagshaw.bsky.social
#Adoptee, AASECT certified sex therapist, retired psych professor at Montgomery College
Author of “The Feminist Handbook”
www.joannebagshaw.com
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Author of “The Feminist Handbook”
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#writingcommunity
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Here it is.
The Republicans and Trump are demanding that we either put more women in jail for abortion or let them bleed out in hospital parking lots OR they’ll starve this country and bring the working class to its knees.
The Republicans and Trump are demanding that we either put more women in jail for abortion or let them bleed out in hospital parking lots OR they’ll starve this country and bring the working class to its knees.
November 12, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Here it is.
The Republicans and Trump are demanding that we either put more women in jail for abortion or let them bleed out in hospital parking lots OR they’ll starve this country and bring the working class to its knees.
The Republicans and Trump are demanding that we either put more women in jail for abortion or let them bleed out in hospital parking lots OR they’ll starve this country and bring the working class to its knees.
#Adoptees are diagnosed at higher rates with ADHD due to interaction of genes with environmental stressors such as systemic inequities and trauma related to adoption.
A little sciencey but I was geeking out on the research.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
A little sciencey but I was geeking out on the research.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
Why Adoptees Have Higher Rates of ADHD
Adoptees’ higher ADHD rates reflect genetic, prenatal, and social factors, highlighting the need for trauma-informed, adoption-competent care and systemic equity.
www.psychologytoday.com
November 12, 2025 at 5:21 PM
#Adoptees are diagnosed at higher rates with ADHD due to interaction of genes with environmental stressors such as systemic inequities and trauma related to adoption.
A little sciencey but I was geeking out on the research.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
A little sciencey but I was geeking out on the research.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
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November is National Adoptee Awareness Month. CS Wright reminds us that adoptee and immigrant rights are intertwined, and that reclaiming identity and belonging calls for activism, healing, and solidarity together. 🥚
Reclaiming Our Place as Immigrants | Adoptees United Inc.
To come out of the fog, as adoptees, is to not only confront the personal myths of adoption but to name the political ones too.
adopteesunited.org
November 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
November is National Adoptee Awareness Month. CS Wright reminds us that adoptee and immigrant rights are intertwined, and that reclaiming identity and belonging calls for activism, healing, and solidarity together. 🥚
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“Dozens of adoptees have been deported to their countries of birth in recent years, according to the Adoptee Rights Law Center. A man born in South Korea and adopted as a child by an American family—only to be deported to his country of birth because of a criminal record—took his own life in 2017.”
The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember
Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.
www.bbc.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:48 PM
“Dozens of adoptees have been deported to their countries of birth in recent years, according to the Adoptee Rights Law Center. A man born in South Korea and adopted as a child by an American family—only to be deported to his country of birth because of a criminal record—took his own life in 2017.”
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The head of the nation's largest pro-adoption industry group, Ryan Hanlon, launches lies and misinformation to disparage mostly the people who are the most harmed by adoption: #Adoptees. The voices of adoptees are making a difference. Discount this garbage. Speak up.
ifstudies.org/blog/beyond-...
ifstudies.org/blog/beyond-...
Beyond Hashtags: What the Anti-Adoption Movement Gets Wrong
We need a healthier and truthful conversation about the benefits and challenges of adoption.
ifstudies.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
The head of the nation's largest pro-adoption industry group, Ryan Hanlon, launches lies and misinformation to disparage mostly the people who are the most harmed by adoption: #Adoptees. The voices of adoptees are making a difference. Discount this garbage. Speak up.
ifstudies.org/blog/beyond-...
ifstudies.org/blog/beyond-...
When an adoptive family has unresolved intergenerational trauma, the adopted child can be drawn into those dynamics, and out of loyalty to the adoptive family system, can take on the suffering or burdens of family members.
Divided Loyalty: Using Family Constellations to Understand Adoptee's Experience of Generational Trauma
What happens when an adoptee gets pulled into the intergenerational trauma of their adoptive family?
open.substack.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:18 AM
When an adoptive family has unresolved intergenerational trauma, the adopted child can be drawn into those dynamics, and out of loyalty to the adoptive family system, can take on the suffering or burdens of family members.
I wrote this blog a few years ago, and yes it still irks me.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
#adoptee
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
#adoptee
Adoption Is Not a Solution for Abortion
Adoption rates in the U.S. are relatively low and steadily decreasing because of cultural changes, not Roe vs. Wade.
www.psychologytoday.com
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
I wrote this blog a few years ago, and yes it still irks me.
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
#adoptee
www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
#adoptee
“Sometimes I worry about adoptees who share their story publicly before they’ve processed its impact. I can hear and feel them trying to keep the trauma at bay, and I worry—for the storyteller and the listener.” #adoptee
Ethical Storytelling:
A Therapist's Perspective on Adoptee Narratives
open.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 12:00 AM
“Sometimes I worry about adoptees who share their story publicly before they’ve processed its impact. I can hear and feel them trying to keep the trauma at bay, and I worry—for the storyteller and the listener.” #adoptee
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This is so insane
December 12, 2024 at 12:19 AM
This is so insane
#Shrinking is doing a very poor job with #adoption. It’s truly cringeworthy.
December 6, 2024 at 12:42 AM
#Shrinking is doing a very poor job with #adoption. It’s truly cringeworthy.
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NEWS
The NYT has obtained an email that Pete Hegseth’s mom sent to her son in 2018.
In the email, Penelope Hegseth refers to her son as “an abuser of women.”
In an interview with the New York Times, Penelope Hegseth says she regrets sending the email to her son.
Full Story: bit.ly/3ZbUs9h
The NYT has obtained an email that Pete Hegseth’s mom sent to her son in 2018.
In the email, Penelope Hegseth refers to her son as “an abuser of women.”
In an interview with the New York Times, Penelope Hegseth says she regrets sending the email to her son.
Full Story: bit.ly/3ZbUs9h
![I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side... bunk... we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont' care)
Don't you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us... that's what babies do. It's time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women
We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted]
And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply)
I don't want an answer to this... I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But... On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say... get some help and take an honest look at yourself...
Mom](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:t46sqvutibvsmjgwn6r6izve/bafkreie2kzc3io4sqvusq7fhsun5azugv4noqwq35sdhhuinuih7pgkx7q@jpeg)
November 30, 2024 at 2:18 AM
NEWS
The NYT has obtained an email that Pete Hegseth’s mom sent to her son in 2018.
In the email, Penelope Hegseth refers to her son as “an abuser of women.”
In an interview with the New York Times, Penelope Hegseth says she regrets sending the email to her son.
Full Story: bit.ly/3ZbUs9h
The NYT has obtained an email that Pete Hegseth’s mom sent to her son in 2018.
In the email, Penelope Hegseth refers to her son as “an abuser of women.”
In an interview with the New York Times, Penelope Hegseth says she regrets sending the email to her son.
Full Story: bit.ly/3ZbUs9h
Trump’s promise of a simpler life and regressive gender norms is unattainable. What happens if his followers ever figure that out?
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
Opinion | How Trump Tapped Into America’s Online Spaces and Took Control
Trump excelled at tapping into the information ecosystems where minority and young voters express their identity.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Trump’s promise of a simpler life and regressive gender norms is unattainable. What happens if his followers ever figure that out?
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
I am beginning to see this at the community college level – – students are accusing me of being political for covering the impact of poverty on families in my child psych class
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
Florida Tries a Subtler Way to Curb Progressive Ideology: Cut Sociology
Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.
www.nytimes.com
November 21, 2024 at 2:11 PM
I am beginning to see this at the community college level – – students are accusing me of being political for covering the impact of poverty on families in my child psych class
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
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We need to stay focused this is going to be a long four years.
November 20, 2024 at 12:59 AM
We need to stay focused this is going to be a long four years.
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the state & failure of women’s healthcare always reminds me that diagnoses of ‘hysteria’ didn’t cease to exist — esp. for women of other marginalised identities — it just goes by different names, different appearances. but the trivialisation & dismissal of women’s pain still very much exists
Gynaecology waiting lists double, leaving women in pain www.bbc.com/news/article...
Gynaecology waiting lists in UK double, leaving women in pain
Around 630,000 women are waiting for gynaecology appointments as waiting lists double in four years.
www.bbc.com
November 19, 2024 at 3:28 PM
the state & failure of women’s healthcare always reminds me that diagnoses of ‘hysteria’ didn’t cease to exist — esp. for women of other marginalised identities — it just goes by different names, different appearances. but the trivialisation & dismissal of women’s pain still very much exists
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Vaccines do not cause autism.
November 17, 2024 at 4:31 PM
Vaccines do not cause autism.
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😬 "While waiting for his plate of meat loaf, gravy, and an iceberg wedge at an empty restaurant in Concord, New Hampshire, on the first day of June, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was gently explaining to me that nobody knows whether HIV is the sole cause of AIDS."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Inside Job
How a conspiracy-spewing literal Kennedy posing as a populist outsider jolted the Democratic Party.
nymag.com
November 14, 2024 at 9:31 PM
😬 "While waiting for his plate of meat loaf, gravy, and an iceberg wedge at an empty restaurant in Concord, New Hampshire, on the first day of June, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was gently explaining to me that nobody knows whether HIV is the sole cause of AIDS."
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And what a nasty irony for #adopted and donor-conceived people who are already barred from access to the truth about their biological parentage, and therefore family health history.
Genetic Discrimination Is Coming for Us All
Insurers are refusing to cover Americans whose DNA reveals health risks. It’s perfectly legal.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Insurers are refusing to cover Americans whose DNA reveals health risks. It’s perfectly legal.
www.theatlantic.com/health/archi...
Genetic Discrimination Is Coming for Us All
Insurers are refusing to cover Americans whose DNA reveals health risks. It’s perfectly legal.
www.theatlantic.com
November 12, 2024 at 8:21 PM
And what a nasty irony for #adopted and donor-conceived people who are already barred from access to the truth about their biological parentage, and therefore family health history.
Sex therapist, feminist writer and #adoptee
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 13, 2024 at 12:09 AM
Sex therapist, feminist writer and #adoptee