the original gift link to the story has expired, so here’s another one. I worked on this for 2+ years and learned so much from the dozens of birth mothers who shared their experiences in open adoption.

When Adoption Promises Are Broken

Many birth mothers hope to maintain contact with their child. But their agreements with adoptive parents can be fragile.

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Nicole Chung@nicolechung.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I spoke with Robin Young @wbur.org Here & Now about my story on birth mothers in open adoption for @theatlantic.com and my reunion with my birth family. Listen here: www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...

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Five Star White Trash Giveaway

Win a Copy of Five Star White Trash by Georgiann Davis!   Lit Hub and NYU Press are giving away 25 copies of this bold, witty memoir. As intersex scholar-activist Georgiann Davis shares her remarka…

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“When white people talk about how we “made it,” we must also acknowledge that whiteness is an invisible and built-in advantage in how we achieve success.” @georgianndavis.bsky.social explains why, despite similar experiences, she isn’t like JD Vance.

When the American Dream Goes Sideways; Or, Why I Am Not Like JD Vance

“It’s in right now to be with an Indian girl,” Mom quipped after seeing Vice President JD Vance and his wife, Usha, flash across the Fox News screen she was watching. “Please,” I begged, “please do…

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Georgiann Davis’ account of growing up intersex and obese in a dysfunctional family is a ‘queer’ response to J. D. Vance’s Hillbilly Elegy. But will the Trump administration spoil her happy ending? https://www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/hillbilly-energy-middle-school-dropout-academic-tenure

In their new book, Five Star White Trash: A Memoir of Fraud and Family, ASA member Georgiann Davis @georgianndavis.bsky.social @unm.edu chronicles her surprising journey from middle-school dropout to professor. @nyupress.bsky.social

Five Star White Trash

An unforgettable journey from seventh-grade dropout to celebrated professor Her family was white, but not the right kind of white. They were five star white ...

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Intersex people have existed since the beginning of time and will exist until the end of time. No law, executive order, judge or advocate of pseudoscience can erase us. Their goal is to conceal any existence outside of an impossibly narrow sex binary. Our existence is resistance.