Archive - This Is Not A Legal Record

Do Not Worry! You Are Not Paying Substack!

I am reproducing here a post I just sent through my newsletter at its new home, notalegalrecord.net.

Jan 13, 2024 •

Tony Corsentino

Check Your Spam!

Jan 4, 2024 •

Tony Corsentino

December 2023

See you at Buttondown!

Dear subscribers,

Dec 30, 2023 •

Tony Corsentino

A Better Tomorrow, with Other People's Children

Questions about the morality of adoption cross my mind at least as frequently as men are said to think about sex. I’m certain that I think about the…

Dec 17, 2023 •

Tony Corsentino

Substackers Against Nazis

A collective letter to Substack leadership

Dec 14, 2023 •

Tony Corsentino

Political Orphans

In 2021 the Oxford historian Faisal Devji published an essay, “The Childhood of Politics,” which opens this way:

Dec 11, 2023 •

Tony Corsentino

Essence by Accident

New York Times opinion columnist Lydia Polgreen recently wrote about the backlash against the growing acceptance of diverse gender identities, and about…

Dec 3, 2023 •

Tony Corsentino

November 2023

Kinship after Severance

Our family forms outpace our language.—Judy Osborne, Wisdom for Separated Parents

Nov 5, 2023 •

Tony Corsentino

October 2023

Betty Jean Lifton, one of our most psychologically penetrating writers on adoption, believed in ghosts.

Oct 15, 2023 •

Tony Corsentino

September 2023

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.

Sep 11, 2023 •

Tony Corsentino

August 2023

The Victimhood Mentality

Unlike you, I don’t see myself as a victim.

Aug 26, 2023 •

Tony Corsentino

As summer wanes

Aug 20, 2023 •

Tony Corsentino

#nojs-banner { position: fixed; bottom: 0; left: 0; padding: 16px 16px 16px 32px; width: 100%; box-sizing: border-box; background: red; color: white; font-family: -apple-system, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol"; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px; } #nojs-banner a { color: inherit; text-decoration: underline; } This site requires JavaScript to run correctly. Please turn on JavaScript or unblock scripts