Kassaye
@kassayebm.bsky.social
Ethiopian Adoptee/Activist • Writer/Author
📚 Co-editor, Lions Roaring Far From Home: An Anthology by Ethiopian Adoptees
🤎 Working to reunite Ethiopian families Separated by International Adoption @ethioadopteesearch.bsky.social
📚 Co-editor, Lions Roaring Far From Home: An Anthology by Ethiopian Adoptees
🤎 Working to reunite Ethiopian families Separated by International Adoption @ethioadopteesearch.bsky.social
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The situation is getting increasingly deadly…
The Sudan Solidarity Collective is doing a big fundraising push to support our partners in El Fashir to support food distribution, evacuation and medications.
Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
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Please help us boost our support. Please share and donate 👇🏾 .
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Solidarity with Sudan! Support the Emergency Response Rooms doing life saving work in Sudan by donating to the Sudan Solidarity Fund. Workshops4Sudan is a new fundraising initiative of the Sudan Solid...
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October 15, 2025 at 11:59 AM
The situation is getting increasingly deadly…
“The incest element of Pelicot’s violence has been largely suppressed and not reported on, which prevents us from understanding the violence and situating it within what we already know about incest and how it works…
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"Your father is incapable of such a thing"
The Dominique Pelicot case is a case of incest
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October 7, 2025 at 1:22 AM
“The incest element of Pelicot’s violence has been largely suppressed and not reported on, which prevents us from understanding the violence and situating it within what we already know about incest and how it works…
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Lidet and I organized an emergency fundraiser for Mussie, an Ethiopian-Eritrean adoptee who is facing eviction. Please donate and share!
gofund.me/15220245
gofund.me/15220245
Donate to Help Mussie Avoid Eviction and Homelessness, organized by Lidet O'Connor
Mussie is a 20-year-old Ethiopian-Eritrean adoptee who urgently needs resou… Lidet O'Connor needs your support for Help Mussie Avoid Eviction and Homelessness
www.gofundme.com
August 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Lidet and I organized an emergency fundraiser for Mussie, an Ethiopian-Eritrean adoptee who is facing eviction. Please donate and share!
gofund.me/15220245
gofund.me/15220245
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The new podcast Liberty Lost reveals how young women at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University maternity home were pressured to surrender their babies for scholarships—uncovering a chilling intersection of faith, power, and reproductive control. 🥚
A pregnant girl sought help from care-giver and it cost the teen her baby
Tucked away on the campus of Liberty University is a maternity home where young, unwed mothers go for support. But a new podcast by Wondery, Liberty Lost, instead reveals a place where vulnerable…
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June 27, 2025 at 1:03 PM
The new podcast Liberty Lost reveals how young women at Jerry Falwell’s Liberty University maternity home were pressured to surrender their babies for scholarships—uncovering a chilling intersection of faith, power, and reproductive control. 🥚
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Utah’s “fast and easy” adoptions are under fire. Agencies like Brighter Adoptions fly in vulnerable birth mothers, offer cash and housing, then pressure them into permanent decisions before they can reconsider. A process that is coercive and irreversible. 🥚
Watch: A mother’s journey through a devastating adoption system
Utah agencies offer moms in crisis airfare, housing, and stipends—with little state oversight.
www.motherjones.com
July 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Utah’s “fast and easy” adoptions are under fire. Agencies like Brighter Adoptions fly in vulnerable birth mothers, offer cash and housing, then pressure them into permanent decisions before they can reconsider. A process that is coercive and irreversible. 🥚
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Decades after Chile’s dictatorship, mothers and families are still searching for children who were forcibly taken, trafficked, and adopted abroad, many to the U.S., without consent. Mothers continue to hope their lost children will one day come home. 🥚 youtu.be/NlivaWe9PyM?...
July 22, 2025 at 1:02 PM
Decades after Chile’s dictatorship, mothers and families are still searching for children who were forcibly taken, trafficked, and adopted abroad, many to the U.S., without consent. Mothers continue to hope their lost children will one day come home. 🥚 youtu.be/NlivaWe9PyM?...
My latest piece.
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Who Protects Ethiopian Children Adopted by Strangers? Begidu and the Failed Promise of Ethiopian Adoption
Photo by Gift Habeshaw on Unsplash
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July 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
My latest piece.
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Ethiopian adoptee Begidu Morris death in 2022 was deemed a homicide but nobody has been held accountable….in 2025.
#JusticeforBegidu
#JusticeforBegiduMorris
#JusticeforBegidu
#JusticeforBegiduMorris
July 27, 2025 at 10:18 PM
Ethiopian adoptee Begidu Morris death in 2022 was deemed a homicide but nobody has been held accountable….in 2025.
#JusticeforBegidu
#JusticeforBegiduMorris
#JusticeforBegidu
#JusticeforBegiduMorris
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USCIS is now removing and redacting most documents from intercountry adoptees’ immigration files. Here are 2 concrete things adoptive parents can do to help, at least for now 🥚 adopteerightslaw.com/parents-inte...
Dear Parents of Intercountry Adoptees | ARLC
Two things parents of adult intercountry adopted people should do today to help secure documents related to US citizenship and immigration benefits.
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May 23, 2025 at 9:21 PM
USCIS is now removing and redacting most documents from intercountry adoptees’ immigration files. Here are 2 concrete things adoptive parents can do to help, at least for now 🥚 adopteerightslaw.com/parents-inte...
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"If accepted, it would be the first time that a sovereign has opened Parliament since Queen Elizabeth II last did so in 1977.
Sources tell Global News he is likely to attend, but Buckingham Palace has not officially accepted &, due to protocol, confirmation would need to be provided by the Palace."
Sources tell Global News he is likely to attend, but Buckingham Palace has not officially accepted &, due to protocol, confirmation would need to be provided by the Palace."
"Canada has extended an invitation to King Charles III to open Parliament in the coming weeks, multiple sources tell Global News." globalnews.ca/news/1116093...
Canada invites King Charles III to open Parliament in rare move: sources - National | Globalnews.ca
If King Charles III accepts the invitation, it would be the first time a sovereign has opened Canada's Parliament since 1977 when his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, did so.
globalnews.ca
May 2, 2025 at 2:36 PM
"If accepted, it would be the first time that a sovereign has opened Parliament since Queen Elizabeth II last did so in 1977.
Sources tell Global News he is likely to attend, but Buckingham Palace has not officially accepted &, due to protocol, confirmation would need to be provided by the Palace."
Sources tell Global News he is likely to attend, but Buckingham Palace has not officially accepted &, due to protocol, confirmation would need to be provided by the Palace."
Begidu Morris, a 10 yo, Ethiopian adoptee died in 2022 in Florida. His death was considered a homicide. This report details the abuse which ultimately led to his death, yet nobody has been charged.
#justiceforbegidu
#justiceforbegidu
April 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Begidu Morris, a 10 yo, Ethiopian adoptee died in 2022 in Florida. His death was considered a homicide. This report details the abuse which ultimately led to his death, yet nobody has been charged.
#justiceforbegidu
#justiceforbegidu
Yes! This is a good win. 👏🏾👏🏾
Jonah Bevin has secured a six-month protective order against his adopted father, former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin.
Jonah, 18, smiled as he left a courtroom in Louisville after a judge approved an order agreed to by the parties.
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Jonah, 18, smiled as he left a courtroom in Louisville after a judge approved an order agreed to by the parties.
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Ex-Gov. Matt Bevin barred from contacting adoptive son under order approved by judge • Kentucky Lantern
Jonah Bevin has secured a six-month protective order against his adopted father, former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin.
kentuckylantern.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Yes! This is a good win. 👏🏾👏🏾
Update on Ethiopian adoptee who filed a protective order against his adopter.
March 23, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Update on Ethiopian adoptee who filed a protective order against his adopter.
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Really powerful piece of writing on a deeply worrying situation in Tigray
The civil war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region was one of the deadliest of this century. The conflict ended with a ceasefire in November 2022. In Mekelle, Zeywegih Leyti describes the anxiety of waiting for another war.
One day in Mekelle
Just two years after the peace deal that ended the civil war, tensions in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are simmering.
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March 11, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Really powerful piece of writing on a deeply worrying situation in Tigray
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After a three-year suspension, Canada is resuming its military collaboration with Ethiopia -- even as civilians continue to be killed in drone attacks by the Ethiopian army. My report:
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
Canada revives military co-operation with Ethiopia despite genocide allegations
Ottawa is bringing Ethiopia back into Canada’s Military Training and Co-operation Program, three years after suspending defence collaboration over the Tigray war
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 13, 2025 at 1:27 PM
After a three-year suspension, Canada is resuming its military collaboration with Ethiopia -- even as civilians continue to be killed in drone attacks by the Ethiopian army. My report:
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
www.theglobeandmail.com/world/articl...
About $500 US needed!
Hey adoptees on here, do show your support to inter-country adoptees who are getting deported for no fault of their own.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-dep...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-dep...
Donate to Help Support a Deported Moroccan Adoptee Access Basic Needs, organized by Kelsey Monaco
Joe (born Mhamed Ellammada) is an intercountry adoptee. He w… Kelsey Monaco needs your support for Help Support a Deported Moroccan Adoptee Access Basic Needs
www.gofundme.com
March 15, 2025 at 3:39 PM
About $500 US needed!
Hey adoptees on here, do show your support to inter-country adoptees who are getting deported for no fault of their own.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-dep...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-dep...
Donate to Help Support a Deported Moroccan Adoptee Access Basic Needs, organized by Kelsey Monaco
Joe (born Mhamed Ellammada) is an intercountry adoptee. He w… Kelsey Monaco needs your support for Help Support a Deported Moroccan Adoptee Access Basic Needs
www.gofundme.com
March 13, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Hey adoptees on here, do show your support to inter-country adoptees who are getting deported for no fault of their own.
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-dep...
www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-dep...
Adoptees love talking about therapy and mental health but I don’t hear about us talking about how many of us are psychiatric survivors.
March 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Adoptees love talking about therapy and mental health but I don’t hear about us talking about how many of us are psychiatric survivors.
To me this frequent institutionalization of adoptees of colour esp is deeply connected to racism, ableism and classism…all the isms. 😩
March 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
To me this frequent institutionalization of adoptees of colour esp is deeply connected to racism, ableism and classism…all the isms. 😩
I only came back to it because I kept hearing about how many Ethiopian adoptees are dying is suicide and being institutionalized and abandoned in programs.
March 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
I only came back to it because I kept hearing about how many Ethiopian adoptees are dying is suicide and being institutionalized and abandoned in programs.
I left the adoptee activism a while ago because I was tired and bored of the same conversations over and over again, with very little concrete action being done to support the most vulnerable in our communities.
March 8, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I left the adoptee activism a while ago because I was tired and bored of the same conversations over and over again, with very little concrete action being done to support the most vulnerable in our communities.
For all my adoptee followers on here…do consider reading about Jonah’s case. I feel like we don’t take concrete action to support adoptees who are in scary and unsafe situations, esp Black adoptees.
March 8, 2025 at 5:23 PM
For all my adoptee followers on here…do consider reading about Jonah’s case. I feel like we don’t take concrete action to support adoptees who are in scary and unsafe situations, esp Black adoptees.
Jonah is putting himself on the line here by speaking out about this. You can show some support by donating to the GoFundMe.
March 8, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Jonah is putting himself on the line here by speaking out about this. You can show some support by donating to the GoFundMe.