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Contextless Bodies
I write about adoption because, having lived the first half of my life without the language to describe it, I now seek adequate words for it. That is my…
Sep 11
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The Victimhood Mentality
Unlike you, I don’t see myself as a victim. My adoption was a good thing. I was raised by loving people who could take care of me. I am sure I am better…
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As summer wanes
Dear readers, I write this the night before my annual hike to the summit of Mount Monadnock in New Hampshire, reputed to be the world’s most climbed…
Aug 20
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Falsification
a meditation on adopted and transgender people's identity rights
Jul 9
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D. N. A.
[Do Not Agitate] I learned my biological father’s name from my birth mother. She mentioned it in the first words I’d ever received from her, an email…
Jun 17
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Adopt-O-Bot, part 1
What does ChatGPT "know" about the ethical questions adoption raises?
Jun 4
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Unmothers
About a month ago, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) entered into the politics of kinship language when at a hearing of the House Select…
May 29
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#notallmothers
If things go as I intend, my birth mother will receive a lavish bouquet from her local florist this afternoon. If instead things had gone as everyone…
May 13
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