Rescission: A Conversation about Ending Your Own Adoption, the latest from the Adoptees United podcast adopteesunited.org/rescission-con…

'I’m advocating for adult adoptees to start to shift the direction of their activism towards broader systemic reforms within the child welfare system, addressing root causes before adoption becomes necessary.' -- Adoptees United board chair CS Wright adopteesunited.org/essay-intro-fu…

Karma. 'Migrants get visas for being 'victims' of Ron DeSantis' newsweek.com/desantis-migra…

Following this development. It would impact up to 11 million people, and that includes a number of intercountry adoptees who may lack proof of lawful entry to the US reuters.com/world/us/white…

The truth about California birth records---and many other states---is that ADOPTIVE PARENTS control whether a new amended birth record is created after an adoption. They just check a box.

Nice!

A Haitian client was brought to the US on a humanitarian visa and later adopted in Pennsylvania. Her AParents never got her citizenship. The only option we had was securing Temporary Protected Status (TPS). She'll be deportable unless it is extended. hrw.org/news/2024/03/2…

Today my book, In The Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention came out. I worked on it for almost a decade. It is my deepest hope people read and engage with it.

What's kinda cool with this specific podcast episode is the brief narration from one of the actors who provided voices to the parents that Gretchen Sisson interviewed.

I'm getting a number of inquiries about birth records from people who want to establish they are 'sovereign citizens' 🙄 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sovereign…

Upcoming troubled teen industry webinar on Thurs April 18th, hosted by the American Bar Association SOGI Commission. I'll be speaking alongside brilliant change-makers Chelsea Maldonado Jessica Miller Tyler Kingkade The Uplift. Free to register; all are welcome.
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It's not too late to join me and Adoptees United tonight for this super interesting and useful panel discussion adopteesunited.org/dual-citizensh…

California's equal rights bill is dead, before any hearings. Two OBC bills remain this session, and both are kinda stuck. californiaadoptees.org/sb1274-dead

For anyone born after, say, the Middle Ages, adoptees once found each other through paper newsletters. These two brilliant women both had their writing in the Chain of Life newsletter. Susan's poem is in #28, pp 6-7 (1993); Mi Ok's is #42, pp 6-8. digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/chainoflife/in… (PDFs)

On the internet, anyone can be a doctor. 🤪

California's SB1274 has been amended prior to next week's hearing, but it's all good. Update: californiaadoptees.org/amendments-to-…