#adoption abolition

[lunarmagicteatime]

As an anarchist I am opposed to all systems of oppression That includes adoption. Happy celebrate loss weekend.

[fraudulentareas]

can someone genuinely in good faith explain the anti-adoption perspective to me? i am asking sincerely. i understand that all parental loss is trauma, i am very personally aware of this myself. i also understand that there is trauma of trans-racial adoption often. i understand that the adoption industry, especially the international one, is basically human trafficking and have heard horror stories. i agree that all of these things are systemic problems and have researched them but there is still one thing i am hung up on: which is stating that adoption in general is bad. what is a child to do if their parents die or do not want them? or if their whole community is abusive? these are very real things. all children deserve a stable home. i cannot see how that would be achieved if we lived in a system where children cannot be placed with families or caretakers. if the solution is to just have state run facilities of caretakers similar to orphanages, that seems inadequate and unfair. i have only seen that solution mentioned once tho. i appreciate any good faith response, as i see a lot of discussions of the problems but very little end goals

[monsterfuckermilligan]

hey… not so quick question op……… are you adopted? or do you love and respect any adoptees? better yet, have you ever even spoken to an adoptee that was adopted through an agency? or do you have knowledge about the adoption industry and the predatory behavior of adoption agencies? or do you just think that adoption is something cute and fun for stuffed or real animals that doesn’t happen to real people via actual adoption agencies? i need you to explain why this is fun for you. you and all the people that do this stuff (voting or making these polls) owe real adoptees explanations on why this is cute and not insensitive towards a marginalized group.

UP FOR ADOPTION

[theremina]

An adoption abolitionist’s plea:

Don’t say your for-profit artwork has been “adopted”.

Don’t advertise your portraits with cutesy phrases like “Isn’t Uwu Smolbean Rag Doll Doodlybunz peachy keen? Adopt her today for just $299!”

Don’t call buying an inanimate friggin object “an adoption”.

Doubt I’ll be heard by many. But I’ll keep saying this stuff til kept people who claim progressive and leftist values begin to comprehend that countless millions of actual living, breathing people in this world have been bought and sold as infants or children and it AIN’T FUCKIN CUTE.

[ofdinosanddais1]

Hi,

Stopping human trafficking requires:

Abolish the prison industry built on slavery

Providing food, water, healthcare, and shelter as basic human rights

Providing resources to minors who runaway

Abolishing the adoption industry that was built off the foundation of a human trafficker (Georgia Tann)

Supporting the Land Back movement so that traffickers can't exploit loopholes when abducting Indigenous people (also because Indigenous people deserve their land back)

Accepting and loving LGBTQ+ youth

Rebuilding the crumbling mental health system

Decriminalizing drugs so that traffickers can't force people to traffick drugs in an effort to make sure they aren't choosing between being an illegally enslaved person or a legally enslaved person.

Decriminalizing sex work so that children forced into sex work aren't going to prison for being a rape victim.

Recognizing that human trafficking is not just being kidnapped and sold but that family members, teachers, employers, friends, roommates, etc. can traffick people and that it's the most common form of trafficking

Recognizing that human trafficking isn't always just drug and sex trafficking but also labor

Human trafficking feeds off the flaws in our system and it is our job as a society to fix those flaws and starve the industry out.

[arakkne]

This is kinda rambly but a pet peeve of mine since becoming a radical feminist is that my ultimate goal is to work towards a world of gender abolition in which gender is meaningless and sex is irrelevant. However. Taking the radfem pill means that I'm now more salient of gender than ever! /neg and pos, mixed bag

Like I'm Thinking About Gender more than I ever was before (and trust me I don't regret learning all that I have since opening my mind), but god, life was just so simple and clear cut as a TRA. I was just... playing in a gender sandbox with others. I wasn't die-hard; I always kind of felt an unserious undercurrent about the whole thing. But I still believed. When the whole ideology is wishy-washy, whatever you want, it's easy to neglect the importance of categories and systems and structural analysis. No, it's all wibbly wobbly and you can do whatever you want forever, so who even cares? So I wasn't actually needing to Think About Gender all that much, tbh.

But now I'm Thinking About Gender all the time!! (/slight neg) Like yes it's WORTH it as I'm restructuring my thoughts and rebuilding a self-philosophy from the ground up, but it still feels backwards to me. I don't want to Think About Gender, I want to Ignore it. Or rather: I want to live in a world where I can afford to ignore it, and the fact that I can't sucks and makes me sad and angry.

Tl;Dr: local radfem rediscovers gender and kicks some rocks about it, whomp whomp :/

[anarchne]

as a q/ueer adoptee (or rainbow adoptee) it pisses me off so much when members of our community say stuff like this.

Shit Takes on Adoption Abolishment.

I don't really want straight people to adopt either but somehow we're always circling back to lg/btq (censored to avoid the searches/ tags).

[bhagavanbhakthi]

Violence or Non-violence - What Hinduism says?

[rejoyous]

Why pay for adopts when I have screencap?

[lunarmagicteatime]

You know what... getting tagged in a post that slaps adoptees around and demands that we be grateful first thing on a monday morning is only going to make me angry.

I am a god damned adoption abolitionist. It should not fucking exist. There are models out there for better. There are so many ways to fix shit now. But no... they make too much money off our trauma.

[fatehbaz]

was thinking about this

To be in "public", you must be a consumer. Or a laborer.

About control of peoples' movement in space/place. Since the beginning.

"Vagrancy" of 1830s-onward Britain, people criminalized for being outside without being a laborer.

Breaking laws resulted in being sentenced to coerced debtor/convict labor. Coinciding with the 1830-ish climax of the Industrial Revolution and the land enclosure acts, the "Workhouse Act" aka "Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834" forced poor people to work for a minimum number of hours every day. The major expansion of the "Vagrancy Act" of 1838 made "joblessness" a crime and enhanced its punishment. (Coincidentally, the law's date of royal assent was 27 July 1838, just 5 days before the British government was scheduled to allow fuller emancipation of its technical legal abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean on 1 August 1838.)

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"Vagrancy" of 1860s-onward United States, people criminalized for being outside while Black.

Widespread emancipation after slavery abolition in 1865 rapidly followed by the outlawing of loitering which de facto outlawed existing as Black in public. Inability to afford fines results in being sentenced to forced labor by working on chain gangs or prisons farms, some built atop plantations.

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"Vagrancy" of 1870s-onward across empires, people criminalized for being outside while being "foreign" and also being poor generally.

Especially from 1880-ish to 1918-ish, this was an age of widespread mass movement of peoples due to mass poverty and famine induced by global colonial extraction and "market expansion", as agricultural "revolutions" of monoculture/cash crop extraction resulted in ecological degradation. This coincides with and is facilitated by new railroads and telegraphs, leading to imperial implementation or expansion of identity documents, strict work contracts, passports, immigration surveillance, and border checkpoints.

All of this in just a few short years: In 1877, British administrators in India develop what would become the Henry Classification System of taking and keeping fingerprints for use in binding colonial Indians to legal contracts. That same year during the 1877 Great Railroad Strike, and in response to white anxiety about Black residents coming to the city during Great Migration, Chicago's policing institutions exponentially expand surveillance and pioneer "intelligence card" registers for tracking labor union organizing and Black movement, as Chicago's experiments become adopted by US military and expanded nationwide, later used by US forces monitoring dissent in colonial Philippines and Cuba. Japan based its 1880 Penal Code anti-vagrancy statutes on French models, and introduced "koseki" register to track poor/vagrant domestic citizens as Tokyo's Governor Matsuda segregates classes, and the nation introduces "modern police forces". In 1882, the United States passes the Chinese Exclusion Act. In 1884, the Ottoman government enacts major "Passport Nizamnamesi" legislation requiring passports. In 1885, during the "Tacoma riot" or "expulsion", a mob of hundreds of white residents rounded up all of the city's Chinese residents, marched them to the train station, kicked them out of the city, and burned down the Chinese neighborhood, introducing what is called "the Tacoma method".

Punished for being Chinese in San Francisco. Punished for being Korean in Japan. Punished for crossing Ottoman borders without correct paperwork. Arrested for whatever, then sent to do convict labor. A poor person in the Punjab, starving during a catastrophic famine, might be coerced into a work contract by British authorities. They will have to travel, shipped off to build a railroad in British Kenya. But now they have to work. Now they are bound. They will be punished for being Punjabi and trying to walk away from Britain's tea plantations in Assam or Britain's rubber plantations in Malaya.

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"Vagrancy" amidst all of this, people also criminalized for being outside while "unsightly" and merely even superficially appearing to be poor. San Francisco introduced the notorious "ugly law" in 1867, making it illegal for "any person, who is diseased, maimed, mutilated or deformed in any way, so as to be an unsightly or disgusting object, to expose himself or herself to public view". Today, if you walk into a building looking a little "weird" (poor, Black, ill, disabled, etc.) or carrying a small backpack, you are given seething spiteful glares and asked to leave.

"Vagrancy" everywhere in the United States, a combination of all of the above. De facto criminalized for simply going for a stroll without downloading the coffee shop's exclusive menu app. "Vagrancy", since at least early nineteenth century Europe. About the control of movement through and access to space/place. Concretizing and weaponizing caste, corralling people, anchoring them in place (de facto confinement), extracting their wealth/labor.

You are permitted to exist only as a paying customer or an employee.

[the-garbanzo-annex-jr]

by Dion J. Pierre

The campus group National Students for Justice in Palestine (NSJP) is waging a campaign to gut Jewish life in academia, calling for the abolition of Hillel International campus chapters, the largest collegiate organization for Jewish students in the world.

“Over the past several decades, Hillel has monopolized for Jewish campus life into a pipeline for pro-Israel indoctrination, genocide-apologia, and material support to the Zionist project and its crimes,” a social media account operating the campaign, titled #DropHillel, said in a manifesto published last week. “Across the country, Hillel chapters have invited Israeli soldiers to their campuses; promoted propaganda trips such as birthright; and organized charity drives for the Israeli military.”

It continued, “Such actions reveal Hillel’s ideological and material investment in Zionism, despite the organization’s facade as being simply a ‘Jewish cultural space.'”

DropHillel claims to be “Jewish-led,” although only a small minority of Jews oppose Zionism, and the group has been linked to and promoted by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters.

Hillel International has provided Jewish students a home away from home during the academic year. However, NSJP says it wants to “weaken” it and “dismantle oppression.”

The idea has already been picked up by pro-Hamas student groups at one college, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, according to The Daily Tar Heel, the school’s official student newspaper. On Oct. 9, it reported, a member of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) unveiled the idea for “no more Hillel” during a rally which, among other things, demanded removing Israel from UNC’s study abroad program and adopting the boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement. Addressing the comments to the paper days later, SJP, which has been linked to Islamist terrorist organizations, proclaimed that shuttering Hillel is a coveted goal of the anti-Zionist movement.

“Zionism is a racist supremacist ideology advocating for the creation and sustenance of an ethnostate through the expulsion and annihilation of native people,” the group told the paper. “Therefore, any group that advocates for a supremacist ideology — be it the KKK, the Proud Boys, Hillel, or Heels for Israel — should not be welcome on campus.”

The #DropHillel campaign came amid an unprecedented surge in anti-Israel incidents on college campuses, which, according to a report published last month by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), have reached crisis levels.

Revealing a “staggering” 477 percent increase in anti-Zionist activity involving assault, vandalism, and other phenomena, the report — titled “Anti-Israel Activism on US Campuses, 2023-2024” — painted a bleak picture of America’s higher education system poisoned by political extremism and hate.

“As the year progressed, Jewish students and Jewish groups on campus came under unrelenting scrutiny for any association, actual or perceived, with Israel or Zionism,” the report said. “This often led to the harassment of Jewish members of campus communities and vandalism of Jewish institutions. In some cases, it led to assault. These developments were underpinned by a steady stream of rhetoric from anti-Israel activists expressing explicit support for US-designated terrorists organizations, such as Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and others.”

The report added that 10 campuses accounted for 16 percent of all incidents tracked by ADL researchers, with Columbia University and the University of Michigan combining for 90 anti-Israel incidents — 52 and 38, respectively. Harvard University, the University of California – Los Angeles, Rutgers University New Brunswick, Stanford University, Cornell University, and others filled out the rest of the top 10. Violence, it continued, was most common at universities in the state of California, where anti-Zionist activists punched a Jewish student for filming him at a protest.

[theremina]

“No one told me that a part of healing from complex trauma was mourning everything I didn’t get to experience. This is your reminder that it’s okay to mourn; you lost your childhood, and that’s a heavy realisation. You deserved better.”

~Jazzlyn Greenzee

Above: a faded, yellowing 70s snapshot of a traumatized af adoptee toddler dissociating like a bawse watching a mirrored vinyl circus carousel spin.

I spent a majority of my little kid years checked out or being performative and I have struggled with multiple debilitating mental and physical health issues my entire life. No one figured out the root cause, not even me, until my late thirties.

I love my life today. I am grateful for all the blessings and kinship I’ve found. I cherish my family, both chosen and biological.

And I am an adoption abolitionist.

Keep abortion safe and legal. Family preservation first. Legal guardianship or bust.

And FFS, let’s add plenary, non-kinship adoption to the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) list, already.

The fog is lifting. A kinder and more equitable world is possible.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Harris stretched her coalition into incoherence. Inhumanly—as well as fruitlessly—she attempted to score points from the right on immigration, accusing Trump of insufficient dedication to building the wall. Her cack-handed performances of sympathy with Palestinians accompanied an evident commitment to follow Benjamin Netanyahu into a regional war. The Harris campaign featured a grab bag of policies, some good, some bad, but sharing no clear thematic unity or vision. She almost always offered evasive answers to challenging questions. And she adopted a generally aristocratic rather than demotic manner, which placed the candidate and her elite friends and allies at the center rather than the people they sought to represent. In these ways, Harris repeated not only Hillary Clinton’s errors but many of the same ones that she herself had made in her ill-starred 2019 presidential campaign, which opportunistically tacked left rather than right, but with equal insincerity and incoherence. Who remembers that campaign’s biggest moment, when she attacked Biden for his opposition to busing and what it would have implied for a younger version of herself, only to reveal when questioned that she also opposed busing? Or when she endorsed Medicare for All, raising her hand in a debate for the idea of private insurance abolition, only to later claim she hadn’t understood the question? Voters, then as now, found her vacuous and unintelligible, a politician of pure artifice seemingly without ideological depths she could draw from and externalize. She often gave the sense of a student caught without having done her homework, trying to work out what she was supposed to say rather than expressing any underlying, decided position. Even abortion rights, her strongest issue, felt at times like a rhetorical prop, given her own and her party’s inaction in the years prior to Dobbs. How many times before had Democrats promised to institutionalize and expand the protections of Roe, only to drop the matter after November?

[...]

The Democrats, in other words, comprehensively failed to set the terms of ideological debate in any respect. Their defensiveness and hypocrisy served only to give encouragement to Trump while demobilizing their own voters, whom they will no doubt now blame—as though millions of disaggregated, disorganized individuals can constitute a culpable agent in the same way a political party’s leadership can. But the party’s leaders are to blame, not that many in the center have cared or even seemed willing to reflect on a decade of catastrophe. Has anyone who complained that the 2020 George Floyd rebellion would cost Democrats votes due to the extremism of its associated demands reckoned with the empirical finding that the opposite proved true? That the narrow victory of Biden in 2020 was likely attributable to noisy protests that liberals wished would be quieter and calmer? Has anyone acknowledged the unique popularity of Sanders with Latinx voters, a once-core constituency that the Democrats are now on the verge of losing outright? The pathologies of the Democrats, though, are in a sense not the result of errors. It is the structural role and composition of the party that produces its duplicitous and incoherent orientation. It is the mainstream party of globalized neoliberal capitalism, and at the same time, by tradition anyway, the party of the working class. As the organized power of the latter has been washed away, the commitment has become somewhat more aspirational: Harris notably cleaned up with the richest income bracket of voters. The only issues on which Harris hinted of a break with Biden concerned more favorable treatment of the billionaires who surrounded her, and her closest advisers included figures like David Plouffe, former senior vice president of Uber, and Harris’s brother-in-law Tony West, formerly the chief legal officer of Uber, who successfully urged her to drop Biden-era populism and cultivate relations with corporate allies.

8 November 2024

[antiquepearlss]

As a history lover, I actually do like that Tangled doesn’t have a set time period, it’s somewhere between the 1600s-1850s. This way I can imagine my favorite characters hanging out with various historical figures without having to think too hard about it.

Eugene and Anne Boleyn are besties. (Jane Seymour is his sworn enemy.)

Arianna and Queen Victoria are pen pals. So are Rapunzel and Princess Alice.

Prince Albert keeps trying to convince Varian to join his court. He will adopt him one day. Albert invited him to the Great Exhibition.

Varian hates Thomas Edison. He thinks he’s a hack. He was friends with Louis Le Prince and is fully convinced Edison killed him.

Eugene was fully in support of the French Revolution, until Varian joked it was going to come to Corona. Then he was a little less in support of it.

Cassandra met Edgar Allan Poe in her travels and even has a poem he wrote for her.

Rapunzel visited Eliza Hamiltons orphanage, and the two remained friends and Rapunzel often provided support during her financial troubles.

Despite appreciating Corona being anti-confederacy and helping to support abolition, Abraham Lincoln wishes Lance would stop asking to try his hat on.

Cass and Julie D’Aubigny fucked.

Varian started WWI