Christina Cooke
@christinajcooke.bsky.social
Author of BROUGHTUPSY | Winner, Journey Prize | Finalist, Kobo Emerging Writer Prize | shit-talker & snack monster | all snark & unpopular opinions 100% mine | https://linktr.ee/christinajcooke
Reposted by Christina Cooke
From birth moms & other experts, I learned how complicated openness can be—even when it's part of the plan at the start. “We talk about open adoption as if it’s okay for everyone because there are no secrets,” a birth mom & advocate said. “In reality, the hurts of open adoption are just different.”
When Adoption Promises Are Broken
Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.
www.theatlantic.com
October 2, 2025 at 1:57 PM
From birth moms & other experts, I learned how complicated openness can be—even when it's part of the plan at the start. “We talk about open adoption as if it’s okay for everyone because there are no secrets,” a birth mom & advocate said. “In reality, the hurts of open adoption are just different.”
sign me tf up
September 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
sign me tf up
i still think about the evanescence concert we went to from time to time 😂
September 13, 2025 at 3:35 AM
i still think about the evanescence concert we went to from time to time 😂
thx for reading! 🙏🏽
August 5, 2025 at 10:17 PM
thx for reading! 🙏🏽
Reposted by Christina Cooke
"We were in the bathroom, the choir leader and me, but we were meant to be at lunch." *Please* check out What Happened Was by @christinajcooke.bsky.social, what a brilliant, limber, heartbreaking story: splitlipthemag.com/flash/1124/c....
What Happened Was — Split Lip Magazine
Here is a fact: at sixteen, I watched my father take our pictures off the walls and clothes from their drawers as he packed up my brother and sister and took them away from our home in Jamaica.
splitlipthemag.com
July 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
"We were in the bathroom, the choir leader and me, but we were meant to be at lunch." *Please* check out What Happened Was by @christinajcooke.bsky.social, what a brilliant, limber, heartbreaking story: splitlipthemag.com/flash/1124/c....
Reposted by Christina Cooke
WHAT HAPPENED WAS by @christinajcooke.bsky.social, a brilliant Wigleaf Top 50 story: splitlipthemag.com/flash/1124/c...
What Happened Was — Split Lip Magazine
Here is a fact: at sixteen, I watched my father take our pictures off the walls and clothes from their drawers as he packed up my brother and sister and took them away from our home in Jamaica.
splitlipthemag.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:37 PM
WHAT HAPPENED WAS by @christinajcooke.bsky.social, a brilliant Wigleaf Top 50 story: splitlipthemag.com/flash/1124/c...