🍉Harvest Oak 🍉
@harvestoak.bsky.social
FREE PALESTINE
Unable to donate due to poverty
Indigenous Asian (Baraba Tatar, Komi, and Chuvash) exmormon dyke who doesn’t like TERFS. She/her. 24 years old. Ungrateful adoptee.
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Living on Iroquois and Algonquin land.
Unable to donate due to poverty
Indigenous Asian (Baraba Tatar, Komi, and Chuvash) exmormon dyke who doesn’t like TERFS. She/her. 24 years old. Ungrateful adoptee.
🇷🇺 —> 🇺🇸
Living on Iroquois and Algonquin land.
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🍉Harvest Oak 🍉
@harvestoak.bsky.social
· Nov 21
I want to personally beg leftists and liberals to listen to adoptees and our stories. Being critical of adoption and desiring change to this system is incredibly important to the freedom of children in the US. (1)
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"In essence, it’s child trafficking": another article on the state of Utah as a hotbed for #adoption trafficking. With competition among would-be adopters so intense--roughly 1 million couples versus roughly 20,000 adoptions every year--Utah is a hot marketplace.
Inside Utah’s ‘human marketplace’ for adopted babies
Desperate women denied abortion access in much of the US are being offered a way out for the children they cannot raise themselves. It’s not always what it seems
www.thetimes.com
April 22, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"In essence, it’s child trafficking": another article on the state of Utah as a hotbed for #adoption trafficking. With competition among would-be adopters so intense--roughly 1 million couples versus roughly 20,000 adoptions every year--Utah is a hot marketplace.
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I wrote about the Trump administration’s embrace of the pro-natalist movement, and the need to combat pro-natalist misogyny in cultural terms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
April 23, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I wrote about the Trump administration’s embrace of the pro-natalist movement, and the need to combat pro-natalist misogyny in cultural terms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Danish media are only willing to speak to #adoptees if we are willing to be the personal tragic trauma story or the heart warming "I'm so grateful" story.
Very rarely are they willing to just listen to us as experts on the adoption industry, racism, capitalism, sexism etc. 🥚
Very rarely are they willing to just listen to us as experts on the adoption industry, racism, capitalism, sexism etc. 🥚
March 18, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Danish media are only willing to speak to #adoptees if we are willing to be the personal tragic trauma story or the heart warming "I'm so grateful" story.
Very rarely are they willing to just listen to us as experts on the adoption industry, racism, capitalism, sexism etc. 🥚
Very rarely are they willing to just listen to us as experts on the adoption industry, racism, capitalism, sexism etc. 🥚
Update on this: I have hashimoto’s disease. Still waiting for my follow up appointment.
I finally got diagnosed with hypothyroidism! It’s nice to know that I’m not making up my symptoms 😭
March 18, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Update on this: I have hashimoto’s disease. Still waiting for my follow up appointment.
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The interdisciplinary nature of orphanage tourism, by Dr. Westerlaken. 👇🏽🥚
#adopteesky
www.linkedin.com/pulse/interd...
#adopteesky
www.linkedin.com/pulse/interd...
The interdisciplinary nature of orphanage tourism
Orphanage tourism, where tourists visit or volunteer in orphanages, has emerged as a complex issue that intersects various academic disciplines. While often examined through the lenses of social work ...
www.linkedin.com
March 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
The interdisciplinary nature of orphanage tourism, by Dr. Westerlaken. 👇🏽🥚
#adopteesky
www.linkedin.com/pulse/interd...
#adopteesky
www.linkedin.com/pulse/interd...
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Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
Musk cuts the team finding Ukrainian children stolen by Russia
Trump’s federal cost-cutting - led by Elon Musk's Doge – has now hit the unit helping rescue Ukrainian children taken by Russia
inews.co.uk
March 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Russia has kidnapped tens of thousands of Ukrainian children. Putin was indicted for this crime. Yale has a unit searching for them. Musk eliminated the funding.
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
inews.co.uk/news/world/m...
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#adoption is a weapon of war and genocide. we see this again and again when states attack other states, or their own people.
⚡️ Russian woman seeks to adopt abducted Ukrainian child after her son was killed fighting in war, investigation says.
Russian woman seeks to adopt abducted Ukrainian child after her son was killed fighting in war, investigation says
A Russian woman, Olga Dorokhina, took a 4-year-old girl from the occupied part of Kherson Oblast and plans to adopt her, according to an investigation by Ukrainian media outlet Suspilne published on M...
kyivindependent.com
March 11, 2025 at 2:43 PM
#adoption is a weapon of war and genocide. we see this again and again when states attack other states, or their own people.
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Heads up, Utah. Tell your governor to sign this bill and normalize #adoptee rights to know where we come from and access our medical history.
Also, these are our fucking records. They should not be held as state secrets because other people want to play pretend games. 🥚
suunews.net/2025/03/06/u...
Also, these are our fucking records. They should not be held as state secrets because other people want to play pretend games. 🥚
suunews.net/2025/03/06/u...
Utah Legislature passes house bill allowing increased access to adoption records - SUU News
A bill increasing adoptee access to adoption records passed the Utah Legislature on Feb. 21, 2025, and now awaits approval from Gov. Spencer Cox. The bill, HB 129, will allow Utah residents to access ...
suunews.net
March 11, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Heads up, Utah. Tell your governor to sign this bill and normalize #adoptee rights to know where we come from and access our medical history.
Also, these are our fucking records. They should not be held as state secrets because other people want to play pretend games. 🥚
suunews.net/2025/03/06/u...
Also, these are our fucking records. They should not be held as state secrets because other people want to play pretend games. 🥚
suunews.net/2025/03/06/u...
Mutual aid is love
Been a rough two weeks.
- I got fired.
- Everyone in my house except me got COVID.
- I had a pipe leak and required emergency water remediation.
- I'm overdue on 📞 & cc bills.
I'm sorry to ask, but could use ANY #help til my income resumes soon...
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- I got fired.
- Everyone in my house except me got COVID.
- I had a pipe leak and required emergency water remediation.
- I'm overdue on 📞 & cc bills.
I'm sorry to ask, but could use ANY #help til my income resumes soon...
💖💸
#mutualaidrequest #MA
0/360
CA: $DallyBarr
March 7, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Mutual aid is love
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never forget that if #adoption “saves orphans,” it does so by *making* orphans.
I had two living parents. I still do. I was “orphaned” not by an act of god but by an act of *law*.
The absolutely overwhelming majority of adoptees are likewise orphans on paper only.
I had two living parents. I still do. I was “orphaned” not by an act of god but by an act of *law*.
The absolutely overwhelming majority of adoptees are likewise orphans on paper only.
February 25, 2025 at 4:51 PM
never forget that if #adoption “saves orphans,” it does so by *making* orphans.
I had two living parents. I still do. I was “orphaned” not by an act of god but by an act of *law*.
The absolutely overwhelming majority of adoptees are likewise orphans on paper only.
I had two living parents. I still do. I was “orphaned” not by an act of god but by an act of *law*.
The absolutely overwhelming majority of adoptees are likewise orphans on paper only.
I finally got diagnosed with hypothyroidism! It’s nice to know that I’m not making up my symptoms 😭
February 21, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I finally got diagnosed with hypothyroidism! It’s nice to know that I’m not making up my symptoms 😭
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these passages from a “how to adopt” book make it clearer than any ranting of mine that adoption treats pregnant women—who in this book are termed “birth mothers” despite not even having relinquished their children—as nothing more than brood mares for baby buyers. 🥚
February 14, 2025 at 1:48 PM
these passages from a “how to adopt” book make it clearer than any ranting of mine that adoption treats pregnant women—who in this book are termed “birth mothers” despite not even having relinquished their children—as nothing more than brood mares for baby buyers. 🥚
“They are too young to articulate what is going on inside them, but adult adoptees looking back in sorrow as much as in anger, understand what they did to survive.” That hits like a Mac truck going 70 down the freeway. 😭
February 12, 2025 at 10:22 PM
“They are too young to articulate what is going on inside them, but adult adoptees looking back in sorrow as much as in anger, understand what they did to survive.” That hits like a Mac truck going 70 down the freeway. 😭
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We're halfway toward the goal. Funds needed so I can be at my client's naturalization interview in Los Angeles. My services are free, the travel not so much, and my client is homeless and obviously deserves to secure citizenship. Info: adopteerightslaw.com/intercountry...
Aid Request: Travel Costs for Naturalization Interview
It is essential that I appear for this naturalization interview so that my client is approved for US citizenship.
adopteerightslaw.com
February 10, 2025 at 9:28 PM
We're halfway toward the goal. Funds needed so I can be at my client's naturalization interview in Los Angeles. My services are free, the travel not so much, and my client is homeless and obviously deserves to secure citizenship. Info: adopteerightslaw.com/intercountry...
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an analogy, fwiw.
1. your privacy entitles you to conceal your bank account number from me.
2. your privacy does not entitle you to conceal *my* bank account number from me.
3. nor does your privacy entitle you to conceal our *shared* bank account number from me.
OBC access is like # 3.
1. your privacy entitles you to conceal your bank account number from me.
2. your privacy does not entitle you to conceal *my* bank account number from me.
3. nor does your privacy entitle you to conceal our *shared* bank account number from me.
OBC access is like # 3.
February 11, 2025 at 12:55 PM
an analogy, fwiw.
1. your privacy entitles you to conceal your bank account number from me.
2. your privacy does not entitle you to conceal *my* bank account number from me.
3. nor does your privacy entitle you to conceal our *shared* bank account number from me.
OBC access is like # 3.
1. your privacy entitles you to conceal your bank account number from me.
2. your privacy does not entitle you to conceal *my* bank account number from me.
3. nor does your privacy entitle you to conceal our *shared* bank account number from me.
OBC access is like # 3.
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February 10, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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February 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Thank you for the warmth of your hearts.♥️ for helping me and supporting my family, but I still need you. I have collected a quarter of the amount and I still need $600 to be able to complete my goal of building the room♥️Your small donation makes a big difference in our lives
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February 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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This is a great question I'll answer in a thread. If I miss any details hopefully someone else will chime in (1/x)
How (why????) do adopted people not have access to their original birth certificates? I legit don’t understand that
February 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
This is a great question I'll answer in a thread. If I miss any details hopefully someone else will chime in (1/x)
It’s meme’n time. *memes all over the place*
February 8, 2025 at 10:37 PM
It’s meme’n time. *memes all over the place*
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Utah House betrayed Utah adoptees today by passing a last- minute amendment to the clean OBC bill with a Disclosure Veto that allows bparents to petition court to keep document sealed. I will have more later.
February 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Utah House betrayed Utah adoptees today by passing a last- minute amendment to the clean OBC bill with a Disclosure Veto that allows bparents to petition court to keep document sealed. I will have more later.