Amanda Gick
@amandagick.bsky.social
Adoptee, feminist, mom, podcast and audio book nerd
Love that Carney is at the womens Rugby World Cup final. 🇨🇦
September 27, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Love that Carney is at the womens Rugby World Cup final. 🇨🇦
Found another decent adoptee story line in The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. #adopteevoices #adoption 🥚
September 27, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Found another decent adoptee story line in The Correspondent by Virginia Evans. #adopteevoices #adoption 🥚
Unimportant question of the day. Who decided on bandaid sizes? I can either have one that fits a 3/4 in or smaller wound, or a 2 1/2 in by 3 1/2 inch wound. Why are there no in between sizes? #random #unimportant
July 17, 2025 at 5:12 PM
Unimportant question of the day. Who decided on bandaid sizes? I can either have one that fits a 3/4 in or smaller wound, or a 2 1/2 in by 3 1/2 inch wound. Why are there no in between sizes? #random #unimportant
Rabbit Moon by Jennifer Haigh, finally a book with an adoptee character that never once made me cringe. There is adoption history, acknowledgment of saviorism, & an adoptee with complex, nuanced, feelings about her transracial adoption (China). The author is either an adoptee or did her research.🥚
June 29, 2025 at 12:54 AM
Rabbit Moon by Jennifer Haigh, finally a book with an adoptee character that never once made me cringe. There is adoption history, acknowledgment of saviorism, & an adoptee with complex, nuanced, feelings about her transracial adoption (China). The author is either an adoptee or did her research.🥚
The thing that makes this beef less interesting to me is the pure predictability of it. We all knew it would end this way.
June 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
The thing that makes this beef less interesting to me is the pure predictability of it. We all knew it would end this way.
Oh how weird it is to be adopted. Despite how often I am asked about my "real parents", it is my birthparents I call(ed) by their first names, and my APs I refer to and call parental titles.
Yall ever call your parents by their first names???
June 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Oh how weird it is to be adopted. Despite how often I am asked about my "real parents", it is my birthparents I call(ed) by their first names, and my APs I refer to and call parental titles.
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For @time.com's Made by History, I wrote an antidote to gushing news stories about babies anonymously relinquished in safe haven drop boxes: time.com/7280998/deva...
The Devastating History of Baby Relinquishment
Positioning baby drop boxes as a solution to unwanted pregnancy ignores important historical lessons.
time.com
May 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
For @time.com's Made by History, I wrote an antidote to gushing news stories about babies anonymously relinquished in safe haven drop boxes: time.com/7280998/deva...
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It's a freeing yet devastating reality to finally understand that the one part of my life everyone told me didn't matter at all actually shaped every single aspect of my life.
Being adopted profoundly altered my life. It's at the root of everything.
It matters. Stop telling me it doesn't.
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Being adopted profoundly altered my life. It's at the root of everything.
It matters. Stop telling me it doesn't.
🥚
May 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
It's a freeing yet devastating reality to finally understand that the one part of my life everyone told me didn't matter at all actually shaped every single aspect of my life.
Being adopted profoundly altered my life. It's at the root of everything.
It matters. Stop telling me it doesn't.
🥚
Being adopted profoundly altered my life. It's at the root of everything.
It matters. Stop telling me it doesn't.
🥚
How about we interrogate adoption systems and look for ethical options? No love lost for this terrible administration, but I'm not crying over fewer adoptions.🥚
May 5, 2025 at 1:25 PM
How about we interrogate adoption systems and look for ethical options? No love lost for this terrible administration, but I'm not crying over fewer adoptions.🥚
My friends continue to think my boundaries around not commenting on my body are but mere suggestions. Stop commenting on people's bodies for Pete's sake, it's weird and rude.
April 3, 2025 at 3:23 PM
My friends continue to think my boundaries around not commenting on my body are but mere suggestions. Stop commenting on people's bodies for Pete's sake, it's weird and rude.
Adolescence on Netflix should be required watching for all parents. My kids are young adults now, and I realize how many mistakes I made wrt social media with them. Just pure luck that they are mostly okay. #adolescence #netflix
March 19, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Adolescence on Netflix should be required watching for all parents. My kids are young adults now, and I realize how many mistakes I made wrt social media with them. Just pure luck that they are mostly okay. #adolescence #netflix
I failed Connections today, but that's okay with me bc the trolling of Trump made up for it.
March 12, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I failed Connections today, but that's okay with me bc the trolling of Trump made up for it.
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I feel like people don’t understand how bad this abortion fight is about to get or how far into poverty a forced pregnancy can sink a person.
What will end up happening is using low income people as breeders to provide children for white evangelicals.
That domestic supply of infants.
What will end up happening is using low income people as breeders to provide children for white evangelicals.
That domestic supply of infants.
February 14, 2025 at 12:24 PM
I feel like people don’t understand how bad this abortion fight is about to get or how far into poverty a forced pregnancy can sink a person.
What will end up happening is using low income people as breeders to provide children for white evangelicals.
That domestic supply of infants.
What will end up happening is using low income people as breeders to provide children for white evangelicals.
That domestic supply of infants.
For writing a poem in 8th grade about my 'real Mom'. #adoption #adopteevoices 🥚
February 12, 2025 at 1:54 PM
For writing a poem in 8th grade about my 'real Mom'. #adoption #adopteevoices 🥚
I've been trying to model sharing health information with my bio family as it arises. The hope is that they will do the same for me. It doesn't work. Forever outsiders. #adoption #adopteevoices 🥚
February 10, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I've been trying to model sharing health information with my bio family as it arises. The hope is that they will do the same for me. It doesn't work. Forever outsiders. #adoption #adopteevoices 🥚
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“reunion” does not and cannot undo what adoption does. 🥚
January 3, 2025 at 2:07 PM
“reunion” does not and cannot undo what adoption does. 🥚
While still gathered around a holiday table with my bio siblings, I casually mentioned that the youngest family members were lucky to escape the cursed giant forehead that I am constantly clamoring to hide.
January 1, 2025 at 5:59 PM
While still gathered around a holiday table with my bio siblings, I casually mentioned that the youngest family members were lucky to escape the cursed giant forehead that I am constantly clamoring to hide.
Happy Full House season to all those 50 somethings, with young adult kids, who celebrate. #emptynest #homefromuniversity
December 15, 2024 at 1:56 PM
Happy Full House season to all those 50 somethings, with young adult kids, who celebrate. #emptynest #homefromuniversity
I'm not especially drawn to IFS therapy, but there are some truth bombs (as usual) in this week's AdopteesOn podcast. 🥚 #ifstherapy #ifs #adoptee #adoption
December 13, 2024 at 7:32 PM
I'm not especially drawn to IFS therapy, but there are some truth bombs (as usual) in this week's AdopteesOn podcast. 🥚 #ifstherapy #ifs #adoptee #adoption
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i am not telling any #adoptee not to be happy about being adopted, but i do believe that for a whole lot of us, being happy with being adopted is like being happy with your health insurance. you might never find out how fucked you are. but then again you might.
December 12, 2024 at 1:06 AM
i am not telling any #adoptee not to be happy about being adopted, but i do believe that for a whole lot of us, being happy with being adopted is like being happy with your health insurance. you might never find out how fucked you are. but then again you might.
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She was pregnant, addicted, and needed cash. Utah's thriving adoption industry was happy to help.
@julialurie.bsky.social's reports on the operators that bait vulnerable pregnant people into giving up their kids:
@julialurie.bsky.social's reports on the operators that bait vulnerable pregnant people into giving up their kids:
She was pregnant and needed cash. Utah's thriving adoption industry was happy to help.
"It's like you're…baiting them in," said one adoptive mother.
www.motherjones.com
December 5, 2024 at 4:53 PM
She was pregnant, addicted, and needed cash. Utah's thriving adoption industry was happy to help.
@julialurie.bsky.social's reports on the operators that bait vulnerable pregnant people into giving up their kids:
@julialurie.bsky.social's reports on the operators that bait vulnerable pregnant people into giving up their kids:
Do you think my mom sent me an Ozempic link the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to
a) remind me not to eat too much,
b) because she thought I'd never heard of it,
c) remind me that my body is too big for her comfort, or
d) all of the above?
#fatphobia #ozempic #amotherslove
a) remind me not to eat too much,
b) because she thought I'd never heard of it,
c) remind me that my body is too big for her comfort, or
d) all of the above?
#fatphobia #ozempic #amotherslove
December 4, 2024 at 4:10 PM
Do you think my mom sent me an Ozempic link the Wednesday before Thanksgiving to
a) remind me not to eat too much,
b) because she thought I'd never heard of it,
c) remind me that my body is too big for her comfort, or
d) all of the above?
#fatphobia #ozempic #amotherslove
a) remind me not to eat too much,
b) because she thought I'd never heard of it,
c) remind me that my body is too big for her comfort, or
d) all of the above?
#fatphobia #ozempic #amotherslove
Perhaps I should have paid more attention to the travel weather forecast for Sunday.😬
November 30, 2024 at 6:38 PM
Perhaps I should have paid more attention to the travel weather forecast for Sunday.😬
I never want my kids to feel the way I feel when I pick up the phone to call relatives on the holidays.
November 27, 2024 at 11:53 PM
I never want my kids to feel the way I feel when I pick up the phone to call relatives on the holidays.