Sure, I could write a new post, with new examples torn from this year’s headlines, but honestly why bother?
I’ve said it all before.
See my post from last year- “National Adoption Day:” a celebration of sealed records & inequality” instead.
Along with this mass spectacle of kids being stripped of their civil rights and equality in Arizona, [...]

Clearly in the wake of today’s earthquake felt up and down the east coast it’s time to revisit these two posts I did last year:
The Great Germantown, Maryland Earthquakes of ‘10, Think of the Children! (part 1)
and
The Great Germantown, Maryland Earthquakes of ‘10, Think of the Children! (part 2)
They comprise a work of parody (tragically [...]

In response to a post at Feministe, Adoption as a Feminist Issue, I threw in my .02 worth:
(As there was a request to limit the number of links in replies, the version of the below on Feministe contains only 3 links, this represents a vastly expanded version with citations for my readership.)
I’ve actually been blogging [...]

Joanne Wolf Small asked:
So, where do you go from here?
The answer deserved a post of its own, though I’ll let Mike find his own voice in his own timing and post whatever he adds as a guest blog.
First of all, we settle back in here at home after the trip Mike and I were on [...]

Today I resigned my Bastard Nation lifetime membership.
There were a number of reasons, but they all came down to BN’s “conditional endorsement” of the Rhode Island bill.
I cannot be a part of any organization willing to in any way shape or form to support legislation that erects new barriers for Bastards deemed  ”young.”
Rhode Island’s bill set [...]

By way of just a brief post on two events of vast significance-
Missouri SB  351 and Rhode Island S 0478 SUBSTITUTE A have both been signed into law by their respective states’ Governors.
Personally, I view both as unclean bills, (others disagree with me about Rhode Island, viewing the age restriction as not “leaving anyone behind,” [...]

Yesterday New Jersey Governor Chris Christie conditionally vetoed NJCare’s botched S799/A1399 bill, offering up his own set of recommendations that draw on both the disastrous NJ CARE bill and the NJ ACLU/Catholic Conference/Right to Life alternative bill. (Neither bill stood firm for authentic Bastard rights.)
Thus Governor Christie, in attempting to sew together bits and pieces [...]

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BASTARD NATION ACTION ALERT
Support adoptee rights for all, not privilege for some
Write New Jersey Governor Chris Christie today
Ask him to veto A1406/1399/S699
A1406/1399/S699 is on its way to New Jersey Governor Chris Christie for signing. Gov. Christie’s views on the bill are unknown. Please take a few minutes to write the governor now and [...]

Mourning Dress and Hat – 1870s
(Owned by Obscura Antiques & Oddities of New York City)
via 19th Century Post
Today, I’m feeling very Casandra.
I shouldn’t have to blog this, I’ve written it all before, over and over again. Today’s events are everything I’ve continually warned of year in and year out.
NJ-CARE’s short sighted, self absorbed damaging and [...]

Bastard Nation’s Testimony in Opposition to Missouri HB 351, posted yesterday:
Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Missouri HB 351: Bastard Nation Submitted Testimony – OPPOSE
Tuesday, the Missouri Senate Health, Mental Health, Seniors, and Families Committee held a hearing on it’s greatly flawed SB 351. (text, status/history) Bastard Nation, through our long-time member Carla McBrine as able to [...]