KayelaWrites
@kwrights.bsky.social
I write #kidlit stories about finding hope and strength during times of darkness. Nonfiction Enthusiast. Story Collector. Library Lover. Adult ELL teacher. Gardening is my therapy #Adoptee for family preservation
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KayelaWrites
@kwrights.bsky.social
· Jan 23
So let's fight against family separation in any form.
It's all devastating and causes life-long trauma.
Get angry about all of it!
#adoption
#familypolicing
#immigrants
It's all devastating and causes life-long trauma.
Get angry about all of it!
#adoption
#familypolicing
#immigrants
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#tdih 1968 When asked at White House luncheon why young people are angry, Eartha Kitt said, because "You send best of this country off to be shot and maimed."
In retaliation for her honesty, gov't ruined her U.S. career for 10 years & CIA tracked her.
See ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ea...
In retaliation for her honesty, gov't ruined her U.S. career for 10 years & CIA tracked her.
See ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ea...
Jan. 18, 1968: Eartha Kitt Spoke Truth at the White House
When asked at a White House luncheon about “juvenile delinquency,” Eartha Kitt responded by talking about the root causes of rebellion, including the Vietnam War and the draft.
www.zinnedproject.org
January 18, 2026 at 1:40 PM
#tdih 1968 When asked at White House luncheon why young people are angry, Eartha Kitt said, because "You send best of this country off to be shot and maimed."
In retaliation for her honesty, gov't ruined her U.S. career for 10 years & CIA tracked her.
See ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ea...
In retaliation for her honesty, gov't ruined her U.S. career for 10 years & CIA tracked her.
See ⬇️ 🧵
www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ea...
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Today at 3pm Eastern, a conversation for adoptees and allies who want to understand the laws that impact adoptees and their rights and help shape what comes next. 🥚
Citizenship, Voting, and Identity Documents, Advancing Advocacy in Michigan
Anna Sarkitova interviews adoptee rights attorney Gregory Luce on citizenship, voting, identity rights, and advancing adoptee advocacy.
www.eventbrite.com
January 18, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Today at 3pm Eastern, a conversation for adoptees and allies who want to understand the laws that impact adoptees and their rights and help shape what comes next. 🥚
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"The system uses isolation as its ultimate weapon of control... they wield it against anyone who dares to maintain their dignity or fight for basic human rights"
Incarcerated writers @kwanetaharris.bsky.social & @chriswblackwell.bsky.social on the torturous reality of solitary:
Incarcerated writers @kwanetaharris.bsky.social & @chriswblackwell.bsky.social on the torturous reality of solitary:
“Designed to Break You:” Two Incarcerated Writers on the Heavy Toll of Solitary Confinement
The authors of a new book on solitary answer your questions about their experiences with isolation and the movement to end the torturous practice.
boltsmag.org
January 18, 2026 at 2:15 PM
"The system uses isolation as its ultimate weapon of control... they wield it against anyone who dares to maintain their dignity or fight for basic human rights"
Incarcerated writers @kwanetaharris.bsky.social & @chriswblackwell.bsky.social on the torturous reality of solitary:
Incarcerated writers @kwanetaharris.bsky.social & @chriswblackwell.bsky.social on the torturous reality of solitary:
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i got the way i am today in no small part because of growing up being told, in effect, “it’s really not important for you to know where and who you came from. Actually, it’s SO really-not-important that we made a law that requires us to hide it from you forever” 🥚
January 17, 2026 at 8:48 PM
i got the way i am today in no small part because of growing up being told, in effect, “it’s really not important for you to know where and who you came from. Actually, it’s SO really-not-important that we made a law that requires us to hide it from you forever” 🥚
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Oldie but goodie 🌱
January 17, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Oldie but goodie 🌱
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People think they know what’s best for adopted people. I might talk about the interest i might have in my original kinship relations being recognized by law and someone will say “you owe allegiance to your adoptive family, since clearly those other people didn’t want you”
January 17, 2026 at 5:16 PM
People think they know what’s best for adopted people. I might talk about the interest i might have in my original kinship relations being recognized by law and someone will say “you owe allegiance to your adoptive family, since clearly those other people didn’t want you”
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all the objections people raise against the idea of making adoptions annullable at the age of majority pertain to how that would affect the interests of people *other* than the adoptee.
If adoption were truly intended as child welfare, it would be accountable only to the adoptee’s interests.
If adoption were truly intended as child welfare, it would be accountable only to the adoptee’s interests.
January 17, 2026 at 5:10 PM
all the objections people raise against the idea of making adoptions annullable at the age of majority pertain to how that would affect the interests of people *other* than the adoptee.
If adoption were truly intended as child welfare, it would be accountable only to the adoptee’s interests.
If adoption were truly intended as child welfare, it would be accountable only to the adoptee’s interests.
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January 16, 2026 at 11:13 PM
In case you missed it #adopteesky.
This week Inquest shared the story of a life-destroying encounter with child protective services, and exploring the racist history of the U.S. death penalty. Get the full recap: mailchi.mp/inquest.o...
January 17, 2026 at 5:04 PM
In case you missed it #adopteesky.
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New study suggests that metastatic cancer cells may evade the immune system by stealing mitochondria from immune cells and setting up a ‘shield’ that protects them from being killed by immune cells. Wiley little bastards.
#Science 🧪
#Science 🧪
Cancer might evade immune defences by stealing mitochondria
Hijacking the energy-producing organelles from immune cells seems to help tumours in mice to infiltrate lymph nodes.
www.nature.com
January 17, 2026 at 1:39 PM
New study suggests that metastatic cancer cells may evade the immune system by stealing mitochondria from immune cells and setting up a ‘shield’ that protects them from being killed by immune cells. Wiley little bastards.
#Science 🧪
#Science 🧪
😂
Worlds collide!
Plants and politics.
What could be better?!
Worlds collide!
Plants and politics.
What could be better?!
If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before)
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...
January 17, 2026 at 3:56 PM
😂
Worlds collide!
Plants and politics.
What could be better?!
Worlds collide!
Plants and politics.
What could be better?!
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Sorry, forced-birthers, but I am not at all grateful for the CSA I survived as a transracial adoptee in white jesuslandia.
Neither am I grateful for the racism I experienced in the household I was raised in, let alone in the white communities the adoptive parents carted me into.
🥚
Neither am I grateful for the racism I experienced in the household I was raised in, let alone in the white communities the adoptive parents carted me into.
🥚
the premise of these arguments is that adoptees are or ought to be grateful for having been born. But if we should be grateful for having been born, then so should everyone else. And so if our existence justifies banning abortion, so does anyone’s.
Adoptees are not anyone’s proxies in the fight for the right to abortion.
there is no “adoptee case against abortion” that doesn’t already presuppose antiabortion beliefs.
there is no “adoptee case against abortion” that doesn’t already presuppose antiabortion beliefs.
January 17, 2026 at 1:59 PM
Sorry, forced-birthers, but I am not at all grateful for the CSA I survived as a transracial adoptee in white jesuslandia.
Neither am I grateful for the racism I experienced in the household I was raised in, let alone in the white communities the adoptive parents carted me into.
🥚
Neither am I grateful for the racism I experienced in the household I was raised in, let alone in the white communities the adoptive parents carted me into.
🥚
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the premise of these arguments is that adoptees are or ought to be grateful for having been born. But if we should be grateful for having been born, then so should everyone else. And so if our existence justifies banning abortion, so does anyone’s.
Adoptees are not anyone’s proxies in the fight for the right to abortion.
there is no “adoptee case against abortion” that doesn’t already presuppose antiabortion beliefs.
there is no “adoptee case against abortion” that doesn’t already presuppose antiabortion beliefs.
January 17, 2026 at 1:24 PM
the premise of these arguments is that adoptees are or ought to be grateful for having been born. But if we should be grateful for having been born, then so should everyone else. And so if our existence justifies banning abortion, so does anyone’s.
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it's very creepy when people want you to be grateful for being born but also demand that you have zero opinions about what fairnesses and rights you deserve in that life of yours.
January 17, 2026 at 1:30 PM
it's very creepy when people want you to be grateful for being born but also demand that you have zero opinions about what fairnesses and rights you deserve in that life of yours.
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A book never feels real until you hold it in you hands. @profsorelle.bsky.social & I can now confirm that Uncivil Democracy is real! If you care about #peoplepower #housingjustice, #tenantorganizing & transforming our perverse political economy, this is a book for you.
Order here: bit.ly/3NLYCCw
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January 16, 2026 at 6:40 PM
A book never feels real until you hold it in you hands. @profsorelle.bsky.social & I can now confirm that Uncivil Democracy is real! If you care about #peoplepower #housingjustice, #tenantorganizing & transforming our perverse political economy, this is a book for you.
Order here: bit.ly/3NLYCCw
Order here: bit.ly/3NLYCCw
This is how you message.
You're paying for this.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
Trump's Big Ugly Bill gave BILLIONS to ICE and giant corporations—using money meant to lower your health care costs.
Instead of helping your mom get cancer treatment, your tax dollars are being used to terrorize communities.
CNN airs a compilation of escalating ICE aggression towards peaceful protesters.
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 PM
This is how you message.
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Plenary adoption in its current form is legal family separation policy.
Another world is possible.
Another world is possible.
January 16, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Plenary adoption in its current form is legal family separation policy.
Another world is possible.
Another world is possible.
And also say you want to punish the poor people
January 16, 2026 at 9:16 PM
And also say you want to punish the poor people
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The dominant narrative loves to frame relinquishment as a brave sacrifice/gift from birth moms. Spending money on removing children AND incentivizing adoption is insulting as well as injurious.
January 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM
The dominant narrative loves to frame relinquishment as a brave sacrifice/gift from birth moms. Spending money on removing children AND incentivizing adoption is insulting as well as injurious.
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Adoption is one of the most traumatic decisions a society (and family) can inflict on an infant or young child.
There, fixed it for ya. Imagine what the $50+K people or the state via foster care pay for adoption could do for an under-resourced mom.
There, fixed it for ya. Imagine what the $50+K people or the state via foster care pay for adoption could do for an under-resourced mom.
January 16, 2026 at 8:03 PM
Adoption is one of the most traumatic decisions a society (and family) can inflict on an infant or young child.
There, fixed it for ya. Imagine what the $50+K people or the state via foster care pay for adoption could do for an under-resourced mom.
There, fixed it for ya. Imagine what the $50+K people or the state via foster care pay for adoption could do for an under-resourced mom.
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Or maybe, hear me out, you could just give support to families so they can keep their kids. 🙄 so many kids are removed or relinquished because moms don’t have the support or resources to parent. Just say you don’t care about poor people.
www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania...
www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania...
Legislators aim to incentivize adoption
(The Center Square) - The cost of raising children can be prohibitive for many adults who would otherwise choose to expand their families, especially for those considering the adoption process.
www.thecentersquare.com
January 16, 2026 at 7:50 PM
Or maybe, hear me out, you could just give support to families so they can keep their kids. 🙄 so many kids are removed or relinquished because moms don’t have the support or resources to parent. Just say you don’t care about poor people.
www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania...
www.thecentersquare.com/pennsylvania...
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so—someone decided to write a story designed specifically to subject my anger at everything I hate about #adoption and about AI to a massive multiplier effect
I mean, sure, the adopted kids can be real because they'll be grateful Blank Slates telling him what he wants to hear just like his AI "partner" does. #adoption 🥚
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Man Planning to Raise Adopted Children With AI Girlfriend as Their Mother
The man loves his AI girlfriend very, very much, and will one day start a family with her. However that works.
futurism.com
January 16, 2026 at 8:28 PM
so—someone decided to write a story designed specifically to subject my anger at everything I hate about #adoption and about AI to a massive multiplier effect
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Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
Cannot stress enough that you can just do stuff. You don't need permission. You can just do stuff because it needs to be done by someone.
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The Black Zine Fair needs funds to happen. We pay workshop facilitators, it costs us thousands to rent tables and chairs, we feed exhibitors & volunteers & more. Please help us to raise the funds needed: gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
Black Zine Fair Returns in 2026 — Help Us Bring It to Life
The Black Zine Fair was founded by Mariame Kaba and Neta Bomani in 2023 to address a clear gap: Black publishers and artists have long shaped independent publishing, yet we were still underrepresented...
gogetfunding.com
December 29, 2025 at 12:35 AM
The Black Zine Fair needs funds to happen. We pay workshop facilitators, it costs us thousands to rent tables and chairs, we feed exhibitors & volunteers & more. Please help us to raise the funds needed: gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f...
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My inbox is overflowing with organizing trainings, info about organizing meetings, info about organizing campaigns, toolkits, planned actions. People are in motion, everywhere.
January 16, 2026 at 11:43 AM
My inbox is overflowing with organizing trainings, info about organizing meetings, info about organizing campaigns, toolkits, planned actions. People are in motion, everywhere.