Day 1: Welcome to National Adoption/National Adoption Awareness Month 2025. Where the Midol?

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Well, it’s that time again! National Adoption or–if you please –National Adoption Awareness Month (NAM/NAAM) when adoptees stock up on barf bags and bunker in while the multi-billion-dollar Adoption Industry and its incurious media toadies commodify us like we’re a can of tuna. Somewhere along the line, we’ll even get a NAN/NAAM Presidential Proclamation from Donald Trump written by a Heritage Foundation intern, which I’m sure we will all appreciate. I wonder how many of us are stashed away in the Great Leader’s closet? Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 30: The Wicked Witch is Dead Again. Goodbye and Good Riddance, NAAM 2024

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Well, the Wicked Witch has finished her annual rampage through November and has once more done died dead on us.  Good riddance! Adios, National Adoption Awareness Month 2024. I do not feel acrimonious about NanoPoblano2024, however, which can be fun and fulfilling, even if the writing rules or intentions are pretty much the same as my own for NAAM. Imagine an adoption-writing-free world where you can write what you want not what politics demands. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 29: Hate v Incompetence: My Personal and Political Social Media Challenges

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I have been hesitant to add Bluesky to my itinerary. Why? Because various folks tell me it is full of  “nice people”…and well…I just don’t want to spend my time with” nice people.”  As far as I’m concerned it’s a bunch of “nice people” as a class, (nothing personal) afraid to lock and load, that has turned the US into a clown car of fascists, white Christian nationalists, queerphobics, misogynists, sexual deviants and predators, crooks, embezzlers, fraudsters, grifters, plastic surgery freaks. anti-science nuts, and overall incompetents who probably spent their high school years in detention.  All fronted by sleeve-snickering billionaires and foreign tyrants. You know who you are, bitch boys.  Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 27 :Oh No! Am I Writing Adoption Poetry?

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So here’s the catch.  I am going over my new stuff and suddenly I see a pattern that screams adoptee dysfunction. Every damn poem written since Soier died carries the theme of disengagement: disembodiment: memory, forgetfulness, remembrance, history, identity, the loss of identity; identity switches, twinning.  It’s shocking, but at least it’s not nostalgic. Exactly. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 25: Adopted Woman Speaks Out; Haters Hate on Her, Part 2: The Language of Adoptaphobia and Hate. (Quotes Included)

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The shitstorm response Pellecuer received, however, far exceeds anything I have ever seen or heard. According to my computer when I hit the print key, Pellecuer had received 81 pages of adoptee-hating, racist, nativist, and misogynist hate-filled  clap backs. 81 pages!  I did not print them out. but read every one of them. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 24: Adopted Woman Speaks Out; Haters Hate on Her. Part 1

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Pellecuer, now 46, is from Madagascar. Her mother died when she was 7 and she was adopted at age 10 by a white  couple in southern France. She does not say much about her adoptive parents, (despite what her “critics” claim)  but her relationship with them, or rather what they read into her statements, is what got them to run for their hoods and pitchforks  Things like: Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 23: Monica Kelsey Receives Awards for Implementing Humanitarian Baby Abandonment

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Within the last 6 weeks, Safe Haven Baby Boxes Inc  Founder/CEO Monica Kelsey received awards for what these days passes for humanitarian service. That is, encouraging girls and women to conceal pregnancies, forego pre and post-natal care and safe delivery, and the dump and run anonymous “legalized” newborn-abandonment-by box-in-the-firehouse-wall schemes she is attempting  to sweep across the country. Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 22: Unintended Consequences: Nutbar Joel Webbon’s Violent Plan to End Immigration Could Kill IntercountryAdoption

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. He wants the US to shoot migrants approaching Trump’s “wall.” (apparently on the Mexican side) calling it a “more merciful option.” The murders of the few that get their heads blown off, which he calls “Biblical justice” would actually be an instrument of family preservation: Continue Reading →

NAAM Day 21: Here We Go Again! Why is a Safe Haven Baby Box Considered an “Act of Love”

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How is erasing your child’s identity, history, family, and community from the world, sticking them in an origininless, histsoryless black hole that they cannot climb out of an act of “great love?” Continue Reading →