Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️‍🌈

This conversation gives me new appreciation for how the damaging secrecies of adoption harm even our kept siblings.

children endured

Author is @tracyclarkflory.bsky.social. Apologies for not tagging! Looking forward to learning more about this book and pre-ordering it.

Don’t know either! I feel OK about kept children telling their own stories. Sounds like the author’s mom suffered a series of mental breakdowns after losing her first child. Living with that grief could not have been easy on the second child, who had no other siblings. It’s a POV I’m interested in.

Reminder that HPV vaccine in boys prevents penile, anal, and throat cancers as well as genital warts —and protects their sexual partners. So grateful that BOTH my kids, one girl and one boy—got this vaccine series. Optimal timing is ages 11-12.

Extended follow-up of invasive cervical cancer risk after quadrivalent HPV vaccination: nationwide, register based study Objectives To evaluate the long term risk of invasive cervical cancer after receiving the quadrivalent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, how risk varies by time since vaccination, and to assess the ...

The HPV vaccine is durably AMAZING.A massive Swedish registry study w 18 years of follow-up found no waning protection against invasive cervical cancer. If vaccinated before age 17, cancer risk is cut by ~80%. Even those vaccinated later still had substantial protection.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...

CIDRAP Op-Ed: The HPV vaccine prevents cancer. The new ACIP wants to re-examine that.

Let's not forget that this highly and durably effective vaccine which is on track to eliminate cervical cancer in countries that adopted it early and have had good up take is the next target on RFK.Jr's ACIP list.
www.cidrap.umn.edu/human-papill...

Reminder

Without getting all metaphysical: would there even be war in Iran without oil?

Jacket cover of the book, My Mother’s daughter by Tracy Clark-Flury

Description of book by Tracy Clark-Flory

🥚 New adoption memoir/social critique coming out in May from Simon & Schuster. The author, Tracy Clark-Flory—an essayist by profession—is the kept daughter of a mother who lost her first child for adoption in 1965. She found her sister through a DNA test after their mom died.

Can pre-order now.

I will continue the fight for environmental justice in Black communities Nicknamed the father of environmental justice, Robert Bullard argues that researchers in the field have more reason than ever to back up their work with action.

"I will continue the fight for environmental justice in Black communities." The Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Southern University stands with and supports frontline communities. Nature www.nature.com/articles/d41... #HBCU #HBCUalum #Justiceforshiloh

Fetterman comes to mind.

Among many others.

I condemn this latest war.

I’m so glad! Adoptees shouldn’t have to fight an entire legal system and turn over the cells of our bodies to commercial DNA labs to find out the identities of our siblings. Clearly, this knowledge has meaning. Why else would non-adoptees be so freaked out that their cousin is really their brother?

It’s completely unfair the adoptees can’t get their original birth certificate. My husband was fortunate to get his. He found 3 full siblings! They are all very close now. It has been one of the greatest gifts of his life.

We know enough to unequivocally condemn this latest war.

inthesetimes.com/article/iran...

“Life likes to abide” is the basic lesson of biology. I think about that a lot.

It would be nice if statements by members of Congress on the U.S. attack on Iran started with something like:

“This attack is an unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’s war powers.”

But while kept people are getting all fucked up bc grandpa got someone pregnant that wasn’t grandma, we adoptees are told to feel grateful for the lies and the secrets that obscure our own ancestry cuz love makes a family and none of this matters. Got it.

Just me, an adoptee with sealed birth records, noting that kept people sure get shook when their family tree has surprises. 🥚

11 of 17 are about unknown siblings or deception about parentage:

“17 People Are Anonymously Sharing Their Darkest Family Secrets That They Learned YEARS Later, And Wowwww”

Damnation to all those reasons. Sending love to you and an application to serve as your confidant an commiserator. ❤️

Gentle reminder that livable futures almost never seem possible in February. [Goes back to looking at findings on air and water pollution from hyperscale data centers because fuck me.]

sitting here grading student homework, struggling as a teacher and as a parent to believe that a livable future remains possible

See also “celebration of life, U.S. funeral practices”

celebrating the 250th birthday of a nation committed to a constitutional order it has dropped every last pretense of obeying

*stares in adoptee*

We’re like six months away from “let them eat bugs.”

It really is incredible how they're just Marie Antoinetteing themselves and don't seem to understand where that leads

Love you guys! Too bad I write so slowly that I have to serve the world as creative non-fiction writer instead of a reporter…

Getting a PhD ruined me as a bumblebee.

Learned way more than was necessary. Still struggles with decisions.