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Feminist Bastards and adult adoptees writing adoption and reproductive autonomy

Regular readers here will recognize my own ongoing writings concerning the intersections of race, poverty, fertility and lack thereof, and adoption and international adoption, (from my own radical, or “to the root,” feminist perspective.) Unlike the landscape even a decade ago, we are seeing more feminists willing to explore some of those intersections, examining them […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on November 28th, 2008
Tags: "Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shape, "choice", "the world of men", abortion, Adoption, adult adoptee, and Welfare in the United States", Bastard, colonialism, consumerist, contemplated adoption, demand, domestic adoption, Feminism, FEminist, feminist adoptees, feminist bastards, fertility, global resource extraction, infertility, International Adoption, international marketplace, Katie Leo, language, minor, mothers, narrative, normalization of international adoption, parental ownership, parental rights, poverty, Radical Feminist, reproductive autonomy, Rickie Solinger, supply, womyn, young womyn

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Nebraska- the Staton abandonment and the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)

This is the latest in a series of posts I have done criticizing Nebraska’s legalized child abandonment laws. You can find my earlier posts via my Nebraska tag. *** Before even starting to write about this topic, keep in mind the disclaimer I’ve placed upon earlier writings I’ve done in relation to First Nations peoples […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on October 17th, 2008
Tags: "white", 'aging down', 'familial' history, abandoned infants, access to information, Adoption, adoption intake path, aftermath of abandonment, age limits, American, anonymous abandoners, autonomy, Baby Dump laws, Baby Moses Laws, Bastard, Bastard Nation, Bastard perspective, Bastardette, biological family, burden of raising the claim, Canadian, catch-22, Cherokee Nation, child abandonment, child dump laws, child relinquishment, closed adoptions, colonialism, Contravene sections of the ICWA, crimes, cultural heritage, demands for redress, determining First Nations ancestry, family unit, First (?) ICWA claim post legalized abandonment, first custody rights, First Nations, First Nations Orphan Association, First Nations peoples, forcibly removed for adoption, Gary Staton, genealogy, genetic heritage, historical, ICWA, ICWA bypass, ICWA challenges, ICWA claim, Identity, Indian Child Welfare Act, indigenous peoples, infant dumps, inherent fundamental flaws, knowledge of one's heritage, legalized child abandonment laws, multiple jurisdictions, Native American, Native ancestry, Nebraska, Nebraska Health and Human Services, Nebraska's dump law, nine kids abandoned, non-consentual, Oregon, petition, political, Repeal, resources, resttlement, Sealed records, Shea Grimm, short circuit ICWA, state-created information ‘pocket’, States disregarding obligations under ICWA, testimony, The Adoptee Rights Organization, Tribal futures, Tribal rights

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Adoption as a tool of cultural genocide, the “child grabs” Canadian First Nations peoples have endured

To start from a personal perspective, I’m just a Bastard, a politically active adoptee. Being legally prohibited from attaining my State sealed records, I have no idea what heritage cultural or genetic my biological family might contain, other than a quick glance in a mirror appears to indicate pretty clearly a hefty chunk of what […]

Filed under: Uncategorized on August 3rd, 2008
Tags: "a better life", "child grabs", "health reasons", "white", 'familial' history, 'justifications', 'the disappeared', a good home, a wrong, Aboriginal, abuse, Adoption, adoption agencies, Adoption Council of Canada, adoption marketing, Alaska, ally, amended adoption records, Argentina, Assembly of First Nations, assimilation, assimilationist program, attempted systematic dismantling of First Nations ident, Baby Dump laws, Baby Moses Laws, background, barometer for ‘unfit parents’, Bastard, bastard persepctive, biological family, British colonial government, British Columbia, brute force, California, Canada, Canada’s genocide, Canadian child population, Canadian statistics, capitalizing upon cycles of oppression, centralization, child welfare, child welfare care, child welfare story, China, church, church-run residential schools, Cindy Blackstone, circumvent ICWA, Citizenship and Immigration Canada report, civilize, classes of people, Closing the Socio-Economic Gap for First Nations, collected by force, colonialism, communities, constitutional mandate, context of colonialism, Counselling with First Nations Women, crime, crimes against First Nations peoples, criminal background checks, crowbar, cultural genocide, cultural heritage, Daniel N. Paul, destabilizing First Nations communities, diet, direct experience, discipline, disproportionate representation, distinct people, economic disparities, economic exclusion, Edwin C. Kimelman, European Conference on Educational Research, extermination of the Beothuk, false meme, family, federal-provincial agreements, federally financed, fees, First Nations, First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada, First Nations Drum, forced religion, formal apology, foster care, foster homes, frame of reference, freedom, full unequivocal apology, genetic heritage, genocide, Global adoption tactic, good little Englishmen, government, grievances, guarantees against genocide or any other act of violenc, Guatemala, Haiti, health, historical, holistic framework, House of Commons, humiliation, ICWA, Indian Act (Canadian), Indian Affairs, Indian Boarding Schools, Indian day schools, Indian Residential Schools, Indiana, indigenous peoples' autonomy, indigenous peoples' demands for redress, individual problem, intergenerational trauma, international adoption statistics, investigation, Jean Chretien, Kamloops Indian Residential School, Keeping the Promise, Kenn Richard, Kenora region, lasting legacy of the “scoop” era, lawyers, Legalized Abandonment laws, life as a minority in a dominant culture, lost generation, Manitoba, Massachusetts, media attention, medical experimentation, mental abuse, Michael Downey, milestones, Minister of Indian Affairs, Minnesota, mistreatment, Mi’kmaq, moratorium on the export of children, multiple levels of oppression, National Day of Action, Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, Native traditions, newborn infants, No Quiet Place, Non-Native social workers, nuclear family, one tool in a toolbox, Ontario, oppression, organic process, Our Way Home, outright accusations, over representation, overarching strategy to dismantle Native cultures, peace, Pennsylvania, personal failing, Phil Fontaine, physical abuse, physical resources, placed with white adoptive parents, policy, political, politically destabilizing recalcitrant populations, politically unstable conflict zones, poverty, preparation classes, pretext, private agencies, process and formula, protection and welfare of Registered Indians, provincial governments, record keeping practices, Red Road, redistribute children, reforms, registration fee, religious schools, removal of indigenous children from their families, residential school settlement, restitution, running water, Sandra Scarth, scalp proclamations, Schooling as Genocide, Sealed records, security, self esteem, separate bedroom for each child, separation, sewage or a septic tank, Sexual abuse, sexual assults, Shame, sixties scoop era, Social constructionism, someone just like you, Stephen Harper, Stolen Nation, subordination of a population, substance abuse, suppression, systematic cultural genocide, systematic exclusion of a people, systematic routine manner, systems of punishments, tactics, the Indian Child Welfare Act, timeline, tip of the iceberg, tribal, two-parent families, UN Declaration of Indigenous Rights, University of Hamburg, vacuum, video, violence, wartime, We were not the savages, wealthy, webs of connection and contextualization, westernize, wholesale removal of aboriginal children, ‘resource extraction’, “legally” seized from their parents

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