Louise Browne
@louisebrowne.bsky.social
Adoptee, ATMOM Podcast Co-Host, adoptee, YA/Children’s book Author, budding writer, FinTech EA….past ice cream trucker.Hiker, dog
/animal lover, kayaker & supporter of ALL people. #adopteevoices
/animal lover, kayaker & supporter of ALL people. #adopteevoices
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Louise Browne
@louisebrowne.bsky.social
· Jan 30
River
An essay of places remembered and the pull to know who we are...
open.substack.com
Saying yes to a challenge and getting out a new essay. A bit insecure about this one. Hence, the challenge. open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...
Our season 9 finale is out. We had a great conversation with Angela Tucker. I will miss this beautiful book. It is so important. #adoptees www.adoptionthemakingofme.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Our season 9 finale is out. We had a great conversation with Angela Tucker. I will miss this beautiful book. It is so important. #adoptees www.adoptionthemakingofme.com
Adoptees taking over the Central Coast of CA for an incredible weekend of connection. Sarah and I are still pinching ourselves. Was it real? It was so good! @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social
www.adoptionthemakingofme.com
www.adoptionthemakingofme.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Adoptees taking over the Central Coast of CA for an incredible weekend of connection. Sarah and I are still pinching ourselves. Was it real? It was so good! @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social
www.adoptionthemakingofme.com
www.adoptionthemakingofme.com
Our panel included @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social (co- host), @thesusanito.bsky.social @gretchensisson.bsky.social @monicahallauthor.bsky.social, Kristal Parke, Greg Gentry and Chris Williams. Adoptees sharing, educating and connecting in California! www.adoptionthemakingofme.com
March 11, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Our panel included @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social (co- host), @thesusanito.bsky.social @gretchensisson.bsky.social @monicahallauthor.bsky.social, Kristal Parke, Greg Gentry and Chris Williams. Adoptees sharing, educating and connecting in California! www.adoptionthemakingofme.com
What a weekend! We (ATMOM )-hosted a live podcast event featuring an incredible panel, Liz DeBetta performing Un-M-Othered, guest:Chris Williams, Jeff Forney with the Innocent People Project and Damon Davis as our emcee & moderator. The entire weekend was adoptees connecting in community. Amazing!❤️
March 11, 2025 at 1:16 AM
What a weekend! We (ATMOM )-hosted a live podcast event featuring an incredible panel, Liz DeBetta performing Un-M-Othered, guest:Chris Williams, Jeff Forney with the Innocent People Project and Damon Davis as our emcee & moderator. The entire weekend was adoptees connecting in community. Amazing!❤️
This was an amazing time. I’m still blown away by it all.
It was quite something to spend a weekend in adoptee-land. 🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚🥚Thank you @louisebrowne.bsky.social and @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social for bringing us together. Community is healing.
March 11, 2025 at 1:10 AM
This was an amazing time. I’m still blown away by it all.
You can still grab a ticket to our Live Podcast Event on the Central Coast of California, happening on March 8th in Atascadero.
This is going to be an amazing day of community, learning, laughter, and connection.
— www.eventbrite.com/e/live-podca...
This is going to be an amazing day of community, learning, laughter, and connection.
— www.eventbrite.com/e/live-podca...
March 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
You can still grab a ticket to our Live Podcast Event on the Central Coast of California, happening on March 8th in Atascadero.
This is going to be an amazing day of community, learning, laughter, and connection.
— www.eventbrite.com/e/live-podca...
This is going to be an amazing day of community, learning, laughter, and connection.
— www.eventbrite.com/e/live-podca...
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Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...
March 3, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...
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The news is out! I’ll be directing my first short this year. I’m beyond excited! www.overproductiveco.com/home/about-u...
OverProductive - PR: Coming Home Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 3, 2025
Denise Cruz-Castino to Direct Coming Home
OverProductive is thrilled to announce that Denise Cruz-Castino will direct Coming Home, marking her directorial debu...
www.overproductiveco.com
January 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
The news is out! I’ll be directing my first short this year. I’m beyond excited! www.overproductiveco.com/home/about-u...
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If you get a chance please read @louisebrowne.bsky.social A really lovely essay. Thank You.
Saying yes to a challenge and getting out a new essay. A bit insecure about this one. Hence, the challenge. open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...
River
An essay of places remembered and the pull to know who we are...
open.substack.com
February 23, 2025 at 11:17 AM
If you get a chance please read @louisebrowne.bsky.social A really lovely essay. Thank You.
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the question is never “why do adoptees deserve their own birth records;” it is always “why does anyone else deserve to take them away.” 🥚
February 11, 2025 at 12:39 PM
the question is never “why do adoptees deserve their own birth records;” it is always “why does anyone else deserve to take them away.” 🥚
I haven’t been keeping up on this platform much and I want to. It seems the safe new place to be. Still figuring out the ins and outs.
Sharing my recent Substack here today.
open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...
Sharing my recent Substack here today.
open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...
The Man on the Corner
A true story...
open.substack.com
February 11, 2025 at 3:33 PM
I haven’t been keeping up on this platform much and I want to. It seems the safe new place to be. Still figuring out the ins and outs.
Sharing my recent Substack here today.
open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...
Sharing my recent Substack here today.
open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...
I keep thinking about these important and powerful words by Audre Lorde. I first encountered them while reading our current book (S9) for our podcast, Adoption: The Making of Me. The book is: You Should Be Grateful, by Angela Tucker. These words keep coming to me.
February 4, 2025 at 5:00 PM
I keep thinking about these important and powerful words by Audre Lorde. I first encountered them while reading our current book (S9) for our podcast, Adoption: The Making of Me. The book is: You Should Be Grateful, by Angela Tucker. These words keep coming to me.
Some hearts remain closed
Compassion waits quietly
Bitter words fall past
~My morning haiku
~Art: Alexander Milov at Burning Man
Compassion waits quietly
Bitter words fall past
~My morning haiku
~Art: Alexander Milov at Burning Man
February 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Some hearts remain closed
Compassion waits quietly
Bitter words fall past
~My morning haiku
~Art: Alexander Milov at Burning Man
Compassion waits quietly
Bitter words fall past
~My morning haiku
~Art: Alexander Milov at Burning Man
Saying yes to a challenge and getting out a new essay. A bit insecure about this one. Hence, the challenge. open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...
River
An essay of places remembered and the pull to know who we are...
open.substack.com
January 30, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Saying yes to a challenge and getting out a new essay. A bit insecure about this one. Hence, the challenge. open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...
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Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
January 25, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
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L.A.'s residential writer emeritus, Chris Erskine, pens his thoughts on the #LosAngeles fires and their aftermath. There's sadness, there's concern, and there's hope.
chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s...
#AltaDena #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #writing
chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s...
#AltaDena #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #writing
So Much Loss | Chris Erskine LA
Holding out hope in the face of ridiculous misfortune is the most-admirable human trait I can think of.
chriserskinela.com
January 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
L.A.'s residential writer emeritus, Chris Erskine, pens his thoughts on the #LosAngeles fires and their aftermath. There's sadness, there's concern, and there's hope.
chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s...
#AltaDena #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #writing
chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s...
#AltaDena #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #writing
This beautiful post by Chris Erskine. He was one of my favorite LA Times columnists for years. I remember when he suffered the loss of his son and we all followed along with him. He let us into his deepest emotions then and now. He’s so poignant.
chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s...
chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s...
So Much Loss | Chris Erskine LA
Holding out hope in the face of ridiculous misfortune is the most-admirable human trait I can think of.
chriserskinela.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
This beautiful post by Chris Erskine. He was one of my favorite LA Times columnists for years. I remember when he suffered the loss of his son and we all followed along with him. He let us into his deepest emotions then and now. He’s so poignant.
chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s...
chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s...
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Shout out to a few people included in the video clip of The Making of Me Podcast— @louisebrowne.bsky.social @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social and @steveinskeep.bsky.social
🥚 Thanks to Paul Kimball and the California Alliance for Adoptee Rights for making this video. 🎬
🥚 Thanks to Paul Kimball and the California Alliance for Adoptee Rights for making this video. 🎬
🥚 California Alliance for Adoptee Rights (Facebook) has a new video about CA's sealed birth certificate law. It's 12 mins long. Many Calif. legislators know very little about our issue; they are the target audience. I'd like to see this ancient law change in 2025!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=erHy...
Original Birth Certificates to California Born Adoptees
YouTube video by Paul Kimball
www.youtube.com
December 12, 2024 at 9:02 PM
Shout out to a few people included in the video clip of The Making of Me Podcast— @louisebrowne.bsky.social @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social and @steveinskeep.bsky.social
🥚 Thanks to Paul Kimball and the California Alliance for Adoptee Rights for making this video. 🎬
🥚 Thanks to Paul Kimball and the California Alliance for Adoptee Rights for making this video. 🎬
100% yes!
Can you imagine not knowing your own identity? Check out the trailer for Suzanne Bachner’s award-winning play, THE GOOD ADOPTEE starring Anna Bridgforth & dramaturged by Bob Brader. “A powerful story the entire world needs to see.” - Suz Bednarz, birthmother.
Streaming & Booking Now. Link in bio. 🩷
Streaming & Booking Now. Link in bio. 🩷
December 12, 2024 at 6:14 PM
100% yes!
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Hi! My first share here. I am already finding friends from the other sites.
We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!
We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!
November 14, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Hi! My first share here. I am already finding friends from the other sites.
We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!
We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!
This story has such a lovely reunion- it also is heartbreaking. So many layers as we know.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Bakery owner discovers longtime customer is her biological son
Lenore Lindsey said her longtime customer’s laugh had always reminded her of her brother’s. Now she knows why.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 14, 2024 at 5:33 PM
This story has such a lovely reunion- it also is heartbreaking. So many layers as we know.
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
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64 now! Let’s keep growing it!
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November 14, 2024 at 1:00 AM
64 now! Let’s keep growing it!
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This whole thread.
I would suggest that in addition to the forms of family violence described here, we add the entire #adoption industry, which took its modern form less than a century ago, in no small measure owing to the tireless efforts of a literal child thief and trafficker named Georgia Tann.
I would suggest that in addition to the forms of family violence described here, we add the entire #adoption industry, which took its modern form less than a century ago, in no small measure owing to the tireless efforts of a literal child thief and trafficker named Georgia Tann.
November 13, 2024 at 7:12 PM
This whole thread.
I would suggest that in addition to the forms of family violence described here, we add the entire #adoption industry, which took its modern form less than a century ago, in no small measure owing to the tireless efforts of a literal child thief and trafficker named Georgia Tann.
I would suggest that in addition to the forms of family violence described here, we add the entire #adoption industry, which took its modern form less than a century ago, in no small measure owing to the tireless efforts of a literal child thief and trafficker named Georgia Tann.
Just for fun. My helpers at work. They sure snore loudly!
November 14, 2024 at 12:28 AM
Just for fun. My helpers at work. They sure snore loudly!
Hi! My first share here. I am already finding friends from the other sites.
We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!
We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!
November 14, 2024 at 12:16 AM
Hi! My first share here. I am already finding friends from the other sites.
We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!
We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!