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 […]

There are a variety of “adoptee rights” organizations out there, both nationally and working state by state. I do not personally endorse any of them. In the past, I worked with both Bastard Nation and the Adoptee Rights Demonstration. I have resigned from both. Previously I linked a variety of state and international organizations in […]

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 […]

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 […]

Over the course of this blogging, I’ve had to rework or outright create new pieces of language to describe concepts core to the Bastard experience. As with any human rights political movement, Bastards often find themselves confined and defined by language no rooted in their own perceptions of the world around them. Constructing new and […]

Yes, there is a bill in Oregon that if passed would gut the previous human rights victory that was Measure 58, effectively undermining the adoptee equality we fought so hard to achieve. That said, take a deep breath, and don’t panic. First of all, please read across to Bastardette’s blog post- Oregon HB 2843: Hold […]

This is the post I don’t want to have to write. Roughly two days ago B.J. Lifton passed away. I’ve been grappling with what to say and how to say it ever since. More to the point though, I’ve been stewing on this post since the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture (ASAC) […]

On Monday the New Jersey Assembly’s Human Services Committee heard testimony on A1406 (The Assembly’s version of the New Jersey Senate’s S799.) The bill has become a mangled beyond repair attempt at what was originally intended to be open records legislation. At this point the two bills have been combined and are now known as […]

For some time now I’ve been following the ongoing disaster in Rhode Island. This time around, they’ve come up to the edge of passing yet another “access for me, but not for thee” bill, by camouflaging it, falsely labeling it an adoptee rights bill, and co-opting Bastard voice by glossing over how their bill is […]

Over the past two days Marley‘s already laid out the basics of the situation, so I won’t attempt to rehash her fine work, first go see her posts about the NJ mess: NEW JERSEY: ANYTHING TO GET A BILL PASSED. WE LEAVE EVERYBODY BEHIND! BASTARD NATION’S LETTER TO NJ HOUSE SPEAKER JOSEPH ROBERTS, JR–PLEASE OPPOSE […]