Today’s a good day for me to shut up and let First Nations people speak for themselves. I will merely point out where I’ve written about these annual memorial marches before to provide some background and links to additional resources, let readers explore the news links for themselves, and then close with a few brief […]

Blogs don’t have acknowledgement pages or other such,  but I wanted to simply say thank you tonight to those who have supported me both as a Bastard and specifically in this writing. Some readers stop by from time to time, or are very specific about what they seek and take from my blog. If they’re […]

Just a brief post this evening pointing readers across to this article, Childless couples face jail as part of international baby ban as one of many possible entry points discussing the unfolding story in Australia. Unlike the United States, Australia has been feeling its way forward much more cautiously concerning issues of surrogacy and what […]

I’ve blogged before about how the prospect of adopted people regaining access to their original birth certificates is opposed and seen as a threat by the catholic church. See, Prospect of open records makes IL Catholic Conference fearful of potential lawsuits and how in the course of that, the Illinois Catholic Conference outright admitted that […]

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) […]

Over roughly the past week 4,500 kids have been adopted as part of America’s hypernatalist “National Adoption Day” (“NAD”) rituals, the vast majority of them have also had their records permanently sealed. Each year this so called “National Adoption Month” (“NAM”) builds to a frenzied peak culminating in courtroom based media friendly spectacles of mass […]

(This post is a continuation of National Council for Adoption celebrates 30 years of opposing adoptees’ human rights- part I) In part 1 I made mention of how NCFA attempts to market itself as merely an advocate for children and as not taking sides when it comes to a variety of key issues related to […]

Tonight the National Council for Adoption (NCFA) has been living it up in style in Washington at their 30th anniversary gala. Their “Bow Tie and Pearls” gala at the Willard Hotel is a fundraiser schmooze and booze chance to rub elbows with politicians, agencies, and of course, major donors. The event is also somewhat of […]

Women who donate eggs, what the assisted reproduction industry sometimes refers to as “hens” are often treated as unworthy of even so much as basic follow up in any kind of effort to establish the potential long term health risks to them. Here in the United States, recruited through various forms of advertising, particularly college […]

Tonight’s brief post is another of these, ‘look over here where someone else has written something terribly important, I want you to read it’ posts. See Taking Babies from Undocumented Immigrants. I’m pointing at Jill’s post over on Feministe rather than the raw articles she links as I think her analysis is important, but be […]