Our season 9 finale is out. We had a great conversation with Angela Tucker. I will miss this beautiful book. It is so important. #adoptees www.adoptionthemakingofme.com
Louise Browne
@louisebrowne.bsky.social
Adoptee, ATMOM Podcast Co-Host, adoptee, YA/Children’s book Author, budding writer, FinTech EA….past ice cream trucker.Hiker, dog /animal lover, kayaker & supporter of ALL people. #adopteevoices
Adoptees taking over the Central Coast of CA for an incredible weekend of connection. Sarah and I are still pinching ourselves. Was it real? It was so good! @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social www.adoptionthemakingofme.com
Our panel included @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social (co- host), @thesusanito.bsky.social @gretchensisson.bsky.social @monicahallauthor.bsky.social, Kristal Parke, Greg Gentry and Chris Williams. Adoptees sharing, educating and connecting in California! www.adoptionthemakingofme.com
What a weekend! We (ATMOM )-hosted a live podcast event featuring an incredible panel, Liz DeBetta performing Un-M-Othered, guest:Chris Williams, Jeff Forney with the Innocent People Project and Damon Davis as our emcee & moderator. The entire weekend was adoptees connecting in community. Amazing!❤️
You can still grab a ticket to our Live Podcast Event on the Central Coast of California, happening on March 8th in Atascadero. This is going to be an amazing day of community, learning, laughter, and connection. — www.eventbrite.com/e/live-podca...
Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...
The news is out! I’ll be directing my first short this year. I’m beyond excited! www.overproductiveco.com/home/about-u...
OverProductive - PR: Coming Home Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 3, 2025 Denise Cruz-Castino to Direct Coming Home OverProductive is thrilled to announce that Denise Cruz-Castino will direct Coming Home, marking her directorial debu...
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the question is never “why do adoptees deserve their own birth records;” it is always “why does anyone else deserve to take them away.” 🥚
I haven’t been keeping up on this platform much and I want to. It seems the safe new place to be. Still figuring out the ins and outs. Sharing my recent Substack here today. open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...
The Man on the Corner
A true story...
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I keep thinking about these important and powerful words by Audre Lorde. I first encountered them while reading our current book (S9) for our podcast, Adoption: The Making of Me. The book is: You Should Be Grateful, by Angela Tucker. These words keep coming to me.
Some hearts remain closed Compassion waits quietly Bitter words fall past ~My morning haiku ~Art: Alexander Milov at Burning Man
Saying yes to a challenge and getting out a new essay. A bit insecure about this one. Hence, the challenge. open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...
River
An essay of places remembered and the pull to know who we are...
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Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home
L.A.'s residential writer emeritus, Chris Erskine, pens his thoughts on the #LosAngeles fires and their aftermath. There's sadness, there's concern, and there's hope. chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s... #AltaDena #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #writing
So Much Loss | Chris Erskine LA
Holding out hope in the face of ridiculous misfortune is the most-admirable human trait I can think of.
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This beautiful post by Chris Erskine. He was one of my favorite LA Times columnists for years. I remember when he suffered the loss of his son and we all followed along with him. He let us into his deepest emotions then and now. He’s so poignant. chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s...
So Much Loss | Chris Erskine LA
Holding out hope in the face of ridiculous misfortune is the most-admirable human trait I can think of.
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Shout out to a few people included in the video clip of The Making of Me Podcast— @louisebrowne.bsky.social @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social and @steveinskeep.bsky.social 🥚 Thanks to Paul Kimball and the California Alliance for Adoptee Rights for making this video. 🎬
Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯@janinebaer.bsky.social · 2y ago🥚 California Alliance for Adoptee Rights (Facebook) has a new video about CA's sealed birth certificate law. It's 12 mins long. Many Calif. legislators know very little about our issue; they are the target audience. I'd like to see this ancient law change in 2025! www.youtube.com/watch?v=erHy...
Hi! My first share here. I am already finding friends from the other sites. We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!
This story has such a lovely reunion- it also is heartbreaking. So many layers as we know. www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/20...
Bakery owner discovers longtime customer is her biological son
Lenore Lindsey said her longtime customer’s laugh had always reminded her of her brother’s. Now she knows why.
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64 now! Let’s keep growing it! Please subscribe! Tell me if you want to be added! 🥚
This whole thread. I would suggest that in addition to the forms of family violence described here, we add the entire #adoption industry, which took its modern form less than a century ago, in no small measure owing to the tireless efforts of a literal child thief and trafficker named Georgia Tann.
Georgia Tann - Wikipedia
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑@emilylhauser.bsky.social · 2y ago🧵Well-intentioned ppl often warn that “it” could happen here—state-mandated violent disruption & dislocation of communities, cultures, & families, particularly concentration camps & deportations. US schools mostly don’t teach & US culture mostly doesn’t acknowledge that it already has, many times.
Just for fun. My helpers at work. They sure snore loudly!
Hi! My first share here. I am already finding friends from the other sites. We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!