Tomorrow afternoon, my Seattle book talk with @theadoptedlife will be on @BookTV @cspan. I really enjoyed this conversation with Angela! Many thanks to her for joining me.
Gretchen Sisson
@gesisson
Sociologist @ANSIRH/UCSF; author of “Relinquished." Please find me on IG (gretchen.sisson) or Bluesky (gretchensisson).
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I don’t know who needs to hear this, but:
You can love an adopted person (even in your own family) and still be critical of adoption as a system, and want to envision what abolition means.
In fact, it’s often because of one’s love for that person that you do.
You can love an adopted person (even in your own family) and still be critical of adoption as a system, and want to envision what abolition means.
In fact, it’s often because of one’s love for that person that you do.
"Adoption experts, including academics, adoptees and a birth mother, told Hearst Newspapers the campaign’s fundamental message paints a misleading picture & oversimplifies what is a complex, traumatic experience for mothers who relinquish their child."
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www.houstonchronicle.com Inside Texas' 'manipulative' adoption marketing campaign that targets young women and teen girls Seven adoption experts told Hearst Newspapers the campaign’s fundamental message paints a misleading picture that oversimplifies the adoption process. It was so wonderful to meet you in person, Sandra. Thank you for being there. 💜
Here in the Tenement Museum, Lower East Side, at the watch party for @gesisson in conversation with Christina Baker Kline. As a Baby Scoop Era #adoptee and manufactured orphan who came from an Orphan Train Movement adoption agency, I’ll be the one hanging on every word.View quoted post on X
Thank you to @Tatum_Hunter_ at @washingtonpost for this thoughtful review. I am grateful for her perspective as a reporter, a reader, and a relinquishing mother.
