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There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious–makes you so sick at heart–that you can’t take part. You can’t even passively take part. And you’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop. And you’ve got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you’re free, the machine will be prevented from working at all….
Mario Savio, Sproul Hall steps, Deccember 2, 1964 Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 30. The Wicked Witch is Dead Again

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Perhaps I looked in the wrong place, but I saw very little in the news about infant adoption this year….No doubt, though, that courts across the land were filled with tiny adoptees–girls in Disney princess costumes and boys in suits and ties–getting their names changed and records sealed. It doesn’t have to be that way. We are here for them. Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 29. Exploitation. Why We Fight Safe Haven Baby Boxes

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he objectification and commodification of Boxed Babies is one of our numerous objections (and here) to baby boxes. Critically, objectification and commodification are key elements SHBB Inc survival–finances. The corporation over the last 8+ years, has posted dozens of happy (and not so happy) looking babies and toddlers and their adoptive parents to encourage “desperate mothers” to use its services, and more importantly, to normalize baby boxing to the public. In turn, the photo-ops, press conferences, banquets, and special interest stories fill their coffers and feed the adoption industry’s bloody maw. Continue Reading →

NAM/MNAAM Day 28,: A Couple Reading Suggestions

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NAM/NAAM is winding down, and so am I.  I will be so glad when this is over for political and personal reasons. I have things to do today that are going to take more time than I think, so I’m going to toss out a couple of reading suggestions. Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 27: Turkey, Unthankfulness, and Poetry

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Finally, I re-worked my Day 23, Brief Thoughts on Adoptee Displacement, into a poem, which I will send out next week to an online publication I am pretty sure will publish it right away. I need to fix a word that just doesn’t get it yet. So, I’ve now written 6 adoption poems, something I swore I would never do. If this one is published, I’ll post the link. You can read Pruning the Family Treel on Tangled Locks. Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 26. Adoption Affirmations: Adoption is Redemption

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What in the world does this even mean? Who is rescued? Who is redeemed.  Bastards? Biomothers? Adopters?  The Adoption Industry, which is desperate for new product. If we all work together we can redeem the purpose of adoption. $$$$ Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 25: Safe Haven Baby Box Leader Loses Her Mind

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Despite what the video implies, I can’t think of anything Mrs. Kelsey has that I want . (I lied. I’d not mind her and the Mr.’ s combined near $200k salary). I am certainly not jealous of what “she has.” Her proposed “family compound” makes me think of Waco. AdoptionLand holds nothing but disdain and disgust for her baby abandonment project, and her contempt of us, our rights, the rights of the babies she “saves,” the biofamilies she dismisses, the adoption mills whose doors she doorstops open, and the closets she wants to shove us in. Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM Day 24. Junkyo Ohishi: Dancer, Artist, Buddhist Nun, Activist, Adoptee, Survivor. A Short Portrait

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As a young teenager ,she trained as a dancer and geisha. and performed under the name of  Tsumakichi.. In 1903 ,when she was 15, her adopted father murdered 5 geishas in his school, slashed Ohishi across the face with a knife, and cut off her arms! Continue Reading →

NAM/NAAM2025 Day 23. Brief Thoughts on Adoptee Displacement

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The displacement for me is the acrobatics of adoption,. The handsprings, the way our identities, our histories, our origin, ourselves are tossed into the air, twisted and turned. The tightwire we walk between our adoptee reality and our forced pretense. What the rest of the world sees and believes cluelessly and what we know intimately Continue Reading →

NAM.NAAM Day 22, 2025: Donald Trump’s NAM 2025 Proclamation.

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As I suspected he would, Donald Trump  (AKA his keepers) finally got around to issuing the traditional National Adoption Month Presidential Proclamation. I found this in the Federal Registry, dated November 17, 2025…But…Do we really want the imprimatur of Trump on our foreheads? Continue Reading →

NAN/NAAM Day 21. Federal Legislation Introduced to Kick Adoption Facilitators to the Curb

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No bill number is listed in the press release, and I can’ find it by name on the US Senate Legislative page, so it’s just been dropped with no action yet.  Without reading the details I can’t critique, endorse or diss it, but if there is nothing in language hidey-holes it looks good- (for once!). This is something adoption reformers have practically begged for for decades:  kicking adoption facilitators– aka leeches, crooks, frauds–out of business. Continue Reading →