April Quinlan O’Fearraigh

The machinery of transferring babies/children to strangers for #adoption is older than most realize. In Ontario, adoptions were originally processed under the Guardianship Act. By 1921, the Adoption Act was created, relieving the Children's Aid Society (CAS) of certain responsibilities.
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Congratulations @gretchensisson.bsky.social check this out #booksky

Covers of the books on the longlist for the NBCC Award for Nonfiction.

We're excited to announce the longlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Nonfiction! Congratulations to all of the nominees. www.bookcritics.org/2024/12/18/2...

the right to own oneself, to own one’s identity: no one honored that for me as an #adoptee, but I refuse to repeat their mistake.

trans rights = adoptee rights = human rights.

If you're an adoptive parent contemplating writing a children's book about adoption, don't.

You tend to write about the day you adopted your child, but that's not a story about adoption. It's a story about you.

Let the adult adoptees write about adoption. It happened to us, not you.

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#adoptees are you getting bot account follows? Seems to be a trend today.

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@llmunro.bsky.social gave me permission to recreate her outstanding Twitter thread of writings about the history of family separation + plenary adoption as it’s practiced in the US. It also includes additions from others on Adoptee Twitter.

Here we go!

A few friends have remarked that it will be a great vacation. And I understand that response. But it isn’t a vacation. It’s inter-generational healing. It’s a spiritual communion in a very sacred place. When and where I can, I will actively repair the harm of adoption to help my children. 🥚

Spoke with 🥚 my aunt today about bringing my children and grandchild back to stay in my family’s home (in north western 🇮🇪). It will be their second visit. We live in 🇨🇦. 1/

This must be activating for a lot of people in your parish - and in other vulnerable communities. I struggle with my Catholic roots - big time - for all the obvious reasons as an adopted person. The culture of exploitation is central to the institution.

Ok I love this so much I’m going to start falling sleep to it. I can safely drift off knowing that the rest of you are out here keeping watch and cussing away in stochastic yet soothing metrical patterns.

A brilliant review. Truly eviscerating. Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving guy.

Thinking of introducing this image to my gr. 12 students. Which inquiry questions should I ask to encourage critical thinking?

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Shamelessly plugging my book about how controversial beliefs are turned into lived realities. One of the groups I studied long supported RFK Jr., sharing his takes on health. Check it out. It has everything: parasites, poop, rogue doctors, and one suspicious death.

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