I talk about adoption a lot on this blog and will continue to do so. Its no secret than I am not an advocate of adoption and I think its really important that adoption is crtitiqued through a feminist and social justice lens but I find what often gets lost in anti adoption/adoption reform [...]
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Misogyny in anti adoption rhetoric
Posted in adoption, feminism on February 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Adoption induced rage!
Posted in adoption on December 9, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Today I hate social services and if I don’t get this out of my system I wont de stress
I wanted my pre adoption files and to do this I had to go to the local social services because theyd been passed on from the social services who dealt with my adoption. But its not [...]
“Feminist Lens on Adoption”
Posted in adoption, feminism on November 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am part of a growing number of adult adoptees who view adoption as a feminist issue, part of a continuum of reproductive rights. This perspective extends to the right to raise one’s child the same importance as the right to choose whether or not to bear one.
In her book “Beggars and Choosers: How [...]
Adoption is a Feminist Issue
Posted in adoption, anti adoption, feminism on November 27, 2008 | 10 Comments »
this is fromhere
Does the woman who decides to resolve her infertility by adopting really manage to kid herself that the donor of an adoptable child has a ‘choice’?. Would any woman with a choice put herself through nine months of pregnancy and go into labor having made the decision to surrender her child, if in [...]
Adoptee experiences
Posted in adoption on November 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is a beautiful post on how it feels to be a transracial adoptee
Identification Proclamation
Happy National Adoption Week!
Posted in adoption, anti adoption on November 11, 2008 | 9 Comments »
or something.
In the UK this week is National Adoption Week and in America there’s a whole month of it
And pretty much all of it is aimed at prospective adoptive parents about how rewarding adoption is, how it gives unwanted children a chance, blah, blah, blah
and a lot of adoptive parents or prospective adoptive [...]
Anti adoption doesnt mean pro abuse or pro abandonment
Posted in adoption on November 4, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What she said
This pretty much summs up my stance on it too
