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I am reproducing here a post I just sent through my newsletter at its new home, notalegalrecord.net. But first. If you do not see that email from…
Jan 13
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Check Your Spam!
Hi everyone, Quick note about my move to the Buttondown newsletter platform: If you subscribed to This Is Not A Legal Record at any time before around…
Jan 4
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December 2023
See you at Buttondown!
Dear subscribers, If you haven’t heard, I have migrated my newsletter elsewhere. I even secured my own domain for it: This Is Not A Legal Record…
Dec 30, 2023
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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
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Substackers Against Nazis
A collective letter to Substack leadership
Dec 14, 2023
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Tony Corsentino
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Substackers Against Nazis
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Political Orphans
In 2021 the Oxford historian Faisal Devji published an essay, “The Childhood of Politics,” which opens this way: Children, along with the mentally ill…
Dec 11, 2023
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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
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Essence by Accident
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November 2023
Kinship after Severance
Our family forms outpace our language.—Judy Osborne, Wisdom for Separated Parents When I was preparing for a career teaching and studying philosophy, I…
Nov 5, 2023
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October 2023
Ghosting
Betty Jean Lifton, one of our most psychologically penetrating writers on adoption, believed in ghosts. Not “respectable” ghosts, perhaps, who are…
Oct 15, 2023
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Tony Corsentino
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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. That is my…
Sep 11, 2023
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August 2023
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…
Aug 26, 2023
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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, 2023
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