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Bastardly Basics- a selection of older posts that cover some of the basics

Adoptee Rights 101: Class Bastard and how to recognize a genuine adoptee rights bill

The “joke’s” on us- Bastard access to our own records

Once again Bastardette picks apart the conflations and reveals the anti-autonomist core

Cabbage Patch Mentality

I’ve got your *REAL* fake birth certificate right here, wingnut!

On so called ‘the primal wound’: “personal problems” vs. political solutions

“Expendables”- the human toll of legislation that “compromises” us away

Bastard Access- either we all go together or we don’t go at all- “Nobody gets left behind. Or forgotten.”

My comment on 73 adoptee’s “Compromising On Adoptee Access? The Foot You Shoot May Be Your Own”

Prospect of open records makes IL Catholic Conference fearful of potential lawsuits

Jessica Scovil: when the foster system fails completely

Privacy and consent; early notes, appropriate uses and co-optations of the terms – part I – Introduction

On so called “Secrecy”

Adoption as a modern Feminist institutional blindspot

New Jersey- let A752 die: the conflation of family medical history with authentic restored access, white outs, and preemptive restraining orders among other nightmare senarios

Attachment Quackery first full post

A good article on Late Discovery and the consequences thereof

Catholic Charities offers up another lifetime’s worth of lies and false “reunion”

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

How’s that Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption workin’ out for you then?

China, “Orphans,” and economic and legal coercion- just another example of the “Baby Economy”

Haiti, and the constant drumbeat of the demand for children

Just go read it… now!

Vietnam- the Sept. 1 deadline and the demand for a new intercountry agreement amidst a landscape of fraud

Outsourcing reproduction, fertility tourism, and the money (or lack thereof) at the heart of it all

Orson Mozes and the perfect symbiosis

Adoption subsidies for frozen corpses, more on the Maryland nightmare

Implications of the abandonment laws, adoption financial incentives, and language tangles

A critical perspective on the “baby safe haven”/babydump programs

Still more Border Babies routinely relabeled “safe haven saves” in OH, NJ, MI, and KY

A note concerning adoptees with sealed records, not in reunion, and the census

Dmitry Yakolev’s / Chase Harrison’s death and the lingusistic objectification of adoptees

High speed photolistings, will the adoptions crash and burn?

How not to spend a Sat. afternoon: wiffle ball, face painting, “waiting children”, and the local bomb squad

Well, someone had to be the first to blog “baby trader magazine!”
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Guatemalan Mothers go on hunger strike, demand the return of their stolen children

Two days ago, Sobrevivientes began a hunger strike, demanding the annulment of three of kidnap/adoption cases (The stolen Guatemalan children are now in the United States, living with those who adopted them.) Rather than attempting to characterize any of the aspects of the story, I’d rather direct readers to the raw documentation, first in it’s […]

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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
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