Marie Gardom Lam
@scribbleyoga.bsky.social
Marie Gardom 林 , Adoptee Abolitionist, in reunion across oceans, intercountryadopteevoices.com, iNNERSHiP Coach, INFJ, garden lover, Chindian Malaysian, atheist and cat tourist destination https://linktr.ee/mariegeraldinelam
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🥚These trends are the result of national bans enacted around the world after exposés in international media revealed systemic deception, corruption, coercion, fraud, and baby-stealing by adoption agencies.
And those exposés were the result of relentless, ongoing #adoptee rights activism. BRAVO🧵
And those exposés were the result of relentless, ongoing #adoptee rights activism. BRAVO🧵
𝟐𝟐,𝟗𝟖𝟖: the number of international adoptions to the US in 2004
𝟏,𝟐𝟕𝟓: the number of international adoptions to the US in 2023
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
𝟏,𝟐𝟕𝟓: the number of international adoptions to the US in 2023
www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
July 26, 2025 at 6:12 PM
🥚These trends are the result of national bans enacted around the world after exposés in international media revealed systemic deception, corruption, coercion, fraud, and baby-stealing by adoption agencies.
And those exposés were the result of relentless, ongoing #adoptee rights activism. BRAVO🧵
And those exposés were the result of relentless, ongoing #adoptee rights activism. BRAVO🧵
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Trans women to be strip-searched by male police officers after UK court ruling
Trans women to be strip-searched by male police officers after UK court ruling
Trans women held in custody by police in the UK will now be strip-searched by male officers, following the UK Supreme Court ruling.
www.thepinknews.com
May 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Trans women to be strip-searched by male police officers after UK court ruling
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Among those fearful of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are adoptees who grew up thinking they were U.S. citizens — only to find out years later, in adulthood, they're not.
She grew up believing she was a U.S. citizen. Then she applied for a passport
Among those fearful of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are adoptees who grew up thinking they were U.S. citizens — only to find out years later, in adulthood, they're not.
www.npr.org
April 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Among those fearful of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are adoptees who grew up thinking they were U.S. citizens — only to find out years later, in adulthood, they're not.
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some of you need to think a whole lot harder about the differences between privacy, secrecy, and anonymity.
no one has a privacy right to keep my own identity a secret from me. My identity belongs to me.
people seem to care a whole lot about personal autonomy EXCEPT when #adoptees demand theirs.
no one has a privacy right to keep my own identity a secret from me. My identity belongs to me.
people seem to care a whole lot about personal autonomy EXCEPT when #adoptees demand theirs.
March 24, 2025 at 5:25 PM
some of you need to think a whole lot harder about the differences between privacy, secrecy, and anonymity.
no one has a privacy right to keep my own identity a secret from me. My identity belongs to me.
people seem to care a whole lot about personal autonomy EXCEPT when #adoptees demand theirs.
no one has a privacy right to keep my own identity a secret from me. My identity belongs to me.
people seem to care a whole lot about personal autonomy EXCEPT when #adoptees demand theirs.
An observable violence I wanted to name - a thread
March 24, 2025 at 7:30 PM
An observable violence I wanted to name - a thread
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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
Finland ends homelessness and provides shelter for all in need - scoop.me
In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Why? The country applies the "Housing First" concept agains homelessness.
thebetter.news
March 6, 2025 at 5:45 AM
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
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Garcia was removed from her mother a few days after birth and sent abroad for adoption, one of as many as 20,000 children authorities estimate were forcibly taken from their parents by a military government that saw int'l adoptions as a way to reduce child poverty.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Mother reunites with American daughter taken as baby during Chile's dictatorship
"I knew she'd find me," Edita Bizama, 64, said from her home in the Chilean port city of San Antonio after finally reuniting with the daughter who was taken from her over 40 years ago during the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet.
www.reuters.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:39 AM
Garcia was removed from her mother a few days after birth and sent abroad for adoption, one of as many as 20,000 children authorities estimate were forcibly taken from their parents by a military government that saw int'l adoptions as a way to reduce child poverty.
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
www.reuters.com/world/americ...
Small things like these…
February 26, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Small things like these…
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Petition asking PM to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship garners support #GoCanadaGo #LetsDoThis #Canada #cdnpoli
Link here: sign the parliamentary petition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Link here: sign the parliamentary petition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Petition asking PM to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship garners support
Thousands of people have electronically signed a parliamentary petition calling for revocation of Elon Musk’s Canadian citizenship over his role in the Trump administration, which is pointedly threate...
www.ctvnews.ca
February 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Petition asking PM to revoke Elon Musk's Canadian citizenship garners support #GoCanadaGo #LetsDoThis #Canada #cdnpoli
Link here: sign the parliamentary petition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
Link here: sign the parliamentary petition www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en...
www.ctvnews.ca/canada/artic...
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Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
February 25, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Maddow: I think it is a bad mistake to let Joy Reid walk out the door. It is also unnerving to see that on a network where we've got two nonwhite hosts in primetime, both of our nonwhite hosts in primetime are losing their shows, as is Katie Phang on the weekend. I do not defend it.
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Exactly right. And in this era, they woo us to get our babies, then kick us to the curb. Before, we’re selfless saints and heroes. After, we’re heartless sluts. They’d love us to just go away and die.
As adoptees, our exiled mothers knew consciously or not that as babies, we’d get support on the condition that she didn’t. People will take babies on the understanding the mother must disappear. She is the one who must not receive support.
February 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Exactly right. And in this era, they woo us to get our babies, then kick us to the curb. Before, we’re selfless saints and heroes. After, we’re heartless sluts. They’d love us to just go away and die.
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Indeed. The reason this guy can keep chatting away happily about baseball is his pal's opinions are unlikely to leave him homeless, deported, violated or dead.
These takes are always framed as if they’re just trying to be reasonable but when you read the comments, you realise how intellectually dishonest they’re being. They want you to normalise their intolerance and expect coverage from a social contract they want to eradicate for anyone but themselves.
February 24, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Indeed. The reason this guy can keep chatting away happily about baseball is his pal's opinions are unlikely to leave him homeless, deported, violated or dead.
As adoptees, our exiled mothers knew consciously or not that as babies, we’d get support on the condition that she didn’t. People will take babies on the understanding the mother must disappear. She is the one who must not receive support.
February 24, 2025 at 3:36 PM
As adoptees, our exiled mothers knew consciously or not that as babies, we’d get support on the condition that she didn’t. People will take babies on the understanding the mother must disappear. She is the one who must not receive support.
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If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.
Public comment is now open for passport gender marker changes.
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
You can go here to go to each of the three proposed passport rules, and submit comment.
My suggestion: be unique, argue for trans-inclusive policies, against the constitutionality of the changes, etc.
www.reddit.com/r/Passports/...
Public comment on US passport form changes related to trans
www.reddit.com
February 19, 2025 at 9:47 PM
If you are a cis person *please* take 2 minutes to do this. Trans people with non-updated gender markers, historical gender marker changes, and X markers are terrified to travel right now; rolling back this policy would mean a lot.
I wrote this piece in the early months of my reunion four years ago, I notice now how much it’s my dads story more than mine which is invisible and so important but also so are we and we so easily forget and are told to …https://intercountryadopteevoices.com/2021/08/12/shape-shifting/
February 21, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I wrote this piece in the early months of my reunion four years ago, I notice now how much it’s my dads story more than mine which is invisible and so important but also so are we and we so easily forget and are told to …https://intercountryadopteevoices.com/2021/08/12/shape-shifting/
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Will post more thank yous for my blurbers tomorrow! Today is publication and Luminosoa just activated the free electronic version of my book. I think it's most accessible and best viewed when downloaded as a pdf: www.luminosoa.org/site/books/m...
January 28, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Will post more thank yous for my blurbers tomorrow! Today is publication and Luminosoa just activated the free electronic version of my book. I think it's most accessible and best viewed when downloaded as a pdf: www.luminosoa.org/site/books/m...
I feel like we need to address the predatory practice of adoption agencies in the U.K. grooming adult and often famous adoptees into promoting adoption
February 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
I feel like we need to address the predatory practice of adoption agencies in the U.K. grooming adult and often famous adoptees into promoting adoption
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In the 1940s, the government incarcerated Japanese Americans in remote desert camps, but now they have gone 10 steps beyond and sending them to cages in the Panama desert where they are completely inaccessible is beyond beyond evil.
February 20, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In the 1940s, the government incarcerated Japanese Americans in remote desert camps, but now they have gone 10 steps beyond and sending them to cages in the Panama desert where they are completely inaccessible is beyond beyond evil.
If ur in the corporate world in companies who put values at the forefront, ask regularly and publicly if your business will end relationships with Accenture and anyone else rolling back DEI. Boycotts can be bigger than individuals
February 20, 2025 at 4:53 PM
If ur in the corporate world in companies who put values at the forefront, ask regularly and publicly if your business will end relationships with Accenture and anyone else rolling back DEI. Boycotts can be bigger than individuals
What’s not working here? Looks like twitter / many of my community are signed up but not interacting that I see, is it me?!
February 20, 2025 at 10:12 AM
What’s not working here? Looks like twitter / many of my community are signed up but not interacting that I see, is it me?!
Adoptees in America how does the SAVE Act affect you, particularly if adopted intercountry - internationally? One to watch here campaignlegal.org/update/what-...
What You Need to Know About the SAVE Act
campaignlegal.org
February 20, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Adoptees in America how does the SAVE Act affect you, particularly if adopted intercountry - internationally? One to watch here campaignlegal.org/update/what-...
The regular claim that without adoption children would be without care is as ridiculous as suggesting without marriage there would be no love. It’s nothing but a legal process - it doesn’t guarantee care, nor does care need paperwork
February 18, 2025 at 2:22 PM
The regular claim that without adoption children would be without care is as ridiculous as suggesting without marriage there would be no love. It’s nothing but a legal process - it doesn’t guarantee care, nor does care need paperwork
Even in the U.K. intercountry adoptees never have access to their records, identity and reunion. Nothing but gate guards and financial burdens to find our own families.
February 14, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Even in the U.K. intercountry adoptees never have access to their records, identity and reunion. Nothing but gate guards and financial burdens to find our own families.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... lovely to hear @annalisatoccara.bsky.social turn up on my feed talking about relatable experiences. Great to hear a Brit experience too
Adoptee Identity & Research: Roots and Self-Discovery with Annalisa Toccara-Jones
Podcast Episode · Adoptees Crossing Lines · 14/02/2025 · 50m
podcasts.apple.com
February 14, 2025 at 8:47 AM
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a... lovely to hear @annalisatoccara.bsky.social turn up on my feed talking about relatable experiences. Great to hear a Brit experience too
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Sun and Moon as a Pair of Eyes (1 of 2)
#foundling #adopteevoices #openformscript #beyondasamic #openformcalligraphy #calligraphy #secularart
#foundling #adopteevoices #openformscript #beyondasamic #openformcalligraphy #calligraphy #secularart
January 7, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Sun and Moon as a Pair of Eyes (1 of 2)
#foundling #adopteevoices #openformscript #beyondasamic #openformcalligraphy #calligraphy #secularart
#foundling #adopteevoices #openformscript #beyondasamic #openformcalligraphy #calligraphy #secularart