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Adopt-O-Bot, part 1
What does ChatGPT "know" about the ethical questions adoption raises?
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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…
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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…
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In the Woods
Sometimes, even I wonder if I gripe too much. But once again, recent events demonstrate the need to shout ever louder. I have been following, with…
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Unattached
An uncompromising statement: I am opposed to adoption because adoption is opposed to the truth. I need to qualify this. I am opposed to the dominant…
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Absurd Reality, part 2: Mandatory Gratitude
I have said that adopted people owe no one gratitude for their adoptions. I’m going to explain this thought by linking it to the idea in my previous…
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Absurd Reality, part 1
I want to state this as plainly and neutrally as possible, with no polemical intention: Adoption is absurd. When I call adoption absurd, I am not…
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Beautiful Man
I picture my relationship to my childhood memories as something like the view, from an airplane at 30,000 feet, of cloud cover far below. Most of the…
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