Kimberly McKee, PhD
@adopteekilljoy.bsky.social
Author of Adoption Fantasies & Disrupting Kinship and co-editor of Degrees of Difference; Adoptee; Critical Adoption Studies scholar
https://linktr.ee/mckeekim
https://linktr.ee/mckeekim
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New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
February 20, 2025 at 9:00 PM
New:
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
DOGE's spending has been secret.
No longer.
My colleagues have uncovered it.
www.propublica.org/article/doge...
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Exactly this. It’s generation-spanning damage
It will take years to repair the damage that Trump and Musk have done in less than two weeks. And it’s going to take a lot of hard work to make sure we even get the chance.
February 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Exactly this. It’s generation-spanning damage
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NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
US Government Websites Are Disappearing in Real Time
A growing number of US government websites have gone offline as of Saturday, including several related to USAID and others focused on youth programs, Africa, and more.
www.wired.com
February 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
NEW: USAID source says staff are scrambling to save archived copies of US regulations before they're gone & are being actively locked out of systems, including a publicly available database of USAID documents.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
WIRED has built software to systematically check the status of 1,374 government domains.
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Seen on my news and academic feeds today:
"This is highly illegal!"
"Where are the courts?"
"Someone needs to arrest him/them!"
"The military needs to oust them!"
"WHERE ARE THE DEMS?"
This is the denial stage of grief. None of the above institutions are coming to save us.
We are all we've got.
"This is highly illegal!"
"Where are the courts?"
"Someone needs to arrest him/them!"
"The military needs to oust them!"
"WHERE ARE THE DEMS?"
This is the denial stage of grief. None of the above institutions are coming to save us.
We are all we've got.
February 2, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Seen on my news and academic feeds today:
"This is highly illegal!"
"Where are the courts?"
"Someone needs to arrest him/them!"
"The military needs to oust them!"
"WHERE ARE THE DEMS?"
This is the denial stage of grief. None of the above institutions are coming to save us.
We are all we've got.
"This is highly illegal!"
"Where are the courts?"
"Someone needs to arrest him/them!"
"The military needs to oust them!"
"WHERE ARE THE DEMS?"
This is the denial stage of grief. None of the above institutions are coming to save us.
We are all we've got.
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Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
I go to @timothysnyder.bsky.social and @hcrichardson.bsky.social for historical perspective and contemporary context about the dystopia we're experiencing. Snyder's post today has both, plus real actionable guidance. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
The Logic of Destruction
And how to resist it
open.substack.com
February 2, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Please, everyone, drop what you’re doing and read this:
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Hope people will read the excellent piece you wrote Kim--and the other tremendous contributions in addressing global anti-Asian racism. We know there will be another resurgence under Trump 2.0--SIGH
February 2, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Hope people will read the excellent piece you wrote Kim--and the other tremendous contributions in addressing global anti-Asian racism. We know there will be another resurgence under Trump 2.0--SIGH
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S. Bear Bergman offers suggestions for practical things that you can do to support the #transgender community as it's come under attack by #DonaldTrump & the forces of #transphobia:
medium.com/@sbearbergma...
medium.com/@sbearbergma...
February 2, 2025 at 7:43 PM
S. Bear Bergman offers suggestions for practical things that you can do to support the #transgender community as it's come under attack by #DonaldTrump & the forces of #transphobia:
medium.com/@sbearbergma...
medium.com/@sbearbergma...
Transracial adoption as a virtue signal for how progressive one’s family is…
…we also know the first time many of us encounter racism is within the family.
…we also know the first time many of us encounter racism is within the family.
Transracial adoption is the ultimate diversity hire. Just like adoption has been used as a racist tool to control, erase and oppress, it has also been used to appear including and non-racist. The transracial adoptee performs the role of the token diversity hire, whilst being forced to assimilate.
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February 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Transracial adoption as a virtue signal for how progressive one’s family is…
…we also know the first time many of us encounter racism is within the family.
…we also know the first time many of us encounter racism is within the family.
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What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv
February 1, 2025 at 2:30 PM
What I should have done in the beginning - here's a starter pack of 20-odd experts who journalists or others might want to read/talk to to understand the gutting of the administrative state (as opposed to broad decline of democracy etc). I've focused on academics go.bsky.app/MaC7vnv
The waves of feelings that wash over you reading this when home is here and over there.
Someone just reminded me that I wrote this story in 2022:
"This new season should be ushering in a new world, but instead it’s only the old one, drained of its power and beauty—the radio is warning of an unseasonal snowstorm later that night. All planes would be grounded, possibly for days."
"This new season should be ushering in a new world, but instead it’s only the old one, drained of its power and beauty—the radio is warning of an unseasonal snowstorm later that night. All planes would be grounded, possibly for days."
Escape from America | Anton Hur
Sometime in the near future, Anton Hur decides to leave America for good.
astra-mag.com
February 1, 2025 at 1:09 PM
The waves of feelings that wash over you reading this when home is here and over there.
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Ask yourself what you’d think about another country if a new regime quickly prohibited all government agencies from communicating with the public, then began deleting data from government websites that it deemed unacceptable.
FYI if you are looking for the Dec. 2024 AFFHT-0007 dataset from the Office of Fair Housing and Equal Opportunity (which has apparently been deleted by the Trump administration) I've got the nationwide backup on my hard drive.
January 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Ask yourself what you’d think about another country if a new regime quickly prohibited all government agencies from communicating with the public, then began deleting data from government websites that it deemed unacceptable.
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Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
January 29, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Somewhere in the U.S., there’s a scientist staring at their NSF/NIH grant application wondering why they bother. This post is for you. Science and society both need you. Hang in there and know there is a whole community supporting you.
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IMPEACHMENT HAS PASSED
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS IMPEACHED PRESIDENT YOON
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS IMPEACHED PRESIDENT YOON
December 14, 2024 at 8:02 AM
IMPEACHMENT HAS PASSED
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS IMPEACHED PRESIDENT YOON
THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY HAS IMPEACHED PRESIDENT YOON
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From 1977-2007, 30,000 kids from Guatemala were spirited away and adopted internationally. Human rights groups have documented corruption so systemic, it’s now being recognized as “legalized theft.”
If you are defending privacy and sealed records in adoption practices, this is what you stand for.
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If you are defending privacy and sealed records in adoption practices, this is what you stand for.
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November 24, 2024 at 3:17 PM
From 1977-2007, 30,000 kids from Guatemala were spirited away and adopted internationally. Human rights groups have documented corruption so systemic, it’s now being recognized as “legalized theft.”
If you are defending privacy and sealed records in adoption practices, this is what you stand for.
🥚
If you are defending privacy and sealed records in adoption practices, this is what you stand for.
🥚
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CALL FOR PAPERS 🌿
@ebonyteach.bsky.social Ebony Elizabeth Thomas & I are co-editing a book!
ANNE FOR EVERYONE: GREEN GABLES, CHILDREN OF COLOR, and GLOBAL CHILDHOODS @upmississippi.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/AnneForEvery... proposals by Dec 1!
#AnneOfGreenGables #ChildLit #ProfessorLife #iSchoolUI
@ebonyteach.bsky.social Ebony Elizabeth Thomas & I are co-editing a book!
ANNE FOR EVERYONE: GREEN GABLES, CHILDREN OF COLOR, and GLOBAL CHILDHOODS @upmississippi.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/AnneForEvery... proposals by Dec 1!
#AnneOfGreenGables #ChildLit #ProfessorLife #iSchoolUI
November 21, 2024 at 2:16 PM
CALL FOR PAPERS 🌿
@ebonyteach.bsky.social Ebony Elizabeth Thomas & I are co-editing a book!
ANNE FOR EVERYONE: GREEN GABLES, CHILDREN OF COLOR, and GLOBAL CHILDHOODS @upmississippi.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/AnneForEvery... proposals by Dec 1!
#AnneOfGreenGables #ChildLit #ProfessorLife #iSchoolUI
@ebonyteach.bsky.social Ebony Elizabeth Thomas & I are co-editing a book!
ANNE FOR EVERYONE: GREEN GABLES, CHILDREN OF COLOR, and GLOBAL CHILDHOODS @upmississippi.bsky.social
tinyurl.com/AnneForEvery... proposals by Dec 1!
#AnneOfGreenGables #ChildLit #ProfessorLife #iSchoolUI
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"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
November 21, 2024 at 2:44 AM
"If a woman doesn't look woman enough to a Republican, they want to be able to inspect your genitals to use a bathroom? It's disgusting.
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
Everyone should reject it completely... they're endangering women, they're endangering girls of all kind, and everyone should reject it. It's gross." - AOC
There’s so much in this book. It’s more than #adoption. It’s a story of kinship in the most nuanced sense of the word. 💖💖💖 magical to read
My memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere, came out last year with @ohiostatepress.bsky.social. It’s about being biracial, adopted, and Japanese American, about identity, family, reproductive stigma and more.
November 17, 2024 at 2:28 PM
There’s so much in this book. It’s more than #adoption. It’s a story of kinship in the most nuanced sense of the word. 💖💖💖 magical to read
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Being an expert on global warming from an African nation prone to disaster can depress Joyce Kimutai during the creaking COP climate summits, where politics often drowns out science.
World not listening to us, laments Kenyan climate scientist at COP29
'If the world was listening to science, maybe we wouldn't be doing these COPs,' the 36-year-old Kenyan climate scientist said.
buff.ly
November 16, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Being an expert on global warming from an African nation prone to disaster can depress Joyce Kimutai during the creaking COP climate summits, where politics often drowns out science.
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So, I’m putting an #adoptees starter pack into the world! Adopted people: PLEASE reach out if you would like to be added. This is just a list of recommended follows. The feed is a whole nother thing!
go.bsky.app/Ma6pgE4
go.bsky.app/Ma6pgE4
November 11, 2024 at 10:45 PM
So, I’m putting an #adoptees starter pack into the world! Adopted people: PLEASE reach out if you would like to be added. This is just a list of recommended follows. The feed is a whole nother thing!
go.bsky.app/Ma6pgE4
go.bsky.app/Ma6pgE4
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Historians talk about archival silence, but @kawulf.bsky.social reminded us that some archives are deafening in their prominence.
Archival Shouting – AHA
Some collections of historical sources have been given a microphone, with profound consequences for the practices of history.
www.historians.org
November 15, 2024 at 1:13 PM
Historians talk about archival silence, but @kawulf.bsky.social reminded us that some archives are deafening in their prominence.