KayelaWrites

Cover image for the book Rooted in Wonder. Several animals, like a vulture, snakes, and koala, surround a Baobab tree.

I'm looking forward to this book about the trees of the world! Coming in March by @mcusolito.bsky.social and Marya Wright.

I own them all.
You should read them.

Bright blue background with white curved corner accents. Large dark purple text reads, “Medical concern is often treated as evidence.” Below, white text reads, “For disabled children and parents, that can mean investigation, not care.” Handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top.

Bright blue background with white curved accents. White text lists reasons families are reported, including rare or misunderstood conditions, injuries tied to disability or chronic illness, missed appointments due to access barriers, disagreements with providers, and poverty-related limits on care. Dark purple text at the bottom states that once “medical neglect” is named, the family policing system is often brought in. Handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top.

Bright blue background with white curved accents. White text lists groups most impacted: disabled children, disabled parents, Black families, and families with rare conditions. A section titled “Bias matters” lists that pain is not believed, symptoms are misread, and parenting decisions are questioned. Dark purple text at the bottom reads, “Medical authority carries weight, even when it’s wrong.” Handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top.

Bright blue background with white curved accents. White text explains that when medicine and family policing overlap, care turns into surveillance. A list states families must prove they are attentive, compliant, and informed enough. Dark purple text at the bottom reads that disability and illness do not make families unsafe but do make families visible to the system. Handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top.

Medical concern is often treated as risk.

For disabled families, that can mean surveillance instead of care.

This post breaks that down.

#adopteesky

Tens of Thousands of Mothers Were Flagged to Police Over Flawed Drug Tests at Childbirth The Marshall Project found more than 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.

We found over 70,000 cases referred to law enforcement over allegations of substance use during pregnancy — and that’s a significant undercount.

In many cases, the referrals began with false positive results from flawed drug tests — sometimes triggered by the women’s prescribed medications.

Investigated for a Positive Drug Test While Giving Birth? Tell Us What Happened Next. Help our team continue their reporting on referrals to law enforcement for alleged drug use during pregnancy by sharing your story.

Were you investigated for a positive drug test while giving birth? Help our team continue their reporting on referrals to law enforcement for alleged drug use during pregnancy by sharing your story:

For those who support reproductive justice and family policing abolition.

"But this new investigation shows a much broader swath of patients being surveilled by hospitals, child welfare authorities, and law enforcement than previously known..."

Posting to 🥚 for my fellow interested adoptees.

The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.

My Iranian adoptee friend who is in the removal process by DHS is the anonymous adoptee in this story. Her fears have come true. 🥚💔

www.bbc.com/news/article...

As a Korean adoptee I never really quite know what to do for #seollal. It feels a little like cosplaying my lost culture, whilst also trying to reclaim it. A Korean acquaintance of mine just posted that she will be doing a kimchi workshop for seollal, using her mother's recipe. > #adoption 🥚

Prisons Must Fall

I love that @haymarketbooks.org has published a children's picture book advocating for prison abolition. www.haymarketbooks.org/books/2588-p...

We Built a Patio at My Prison. It Has Changed My Life Incarcerated women built a patio, and we use it for Bible study, leisurely picnics, to engage in mindfulness or yoga, and to play cards or crochet.

"But ever since this patio was built last spring, it has allowed me to catch my breath from the mayhem of prison. My general sadness lifted every time I visited the patio. There, I could read and write without distraction, and I could reimagine my life without prison."

The Family Policing System Is Part of Black History The family policing system hides behind “child welfare.” Learn how CPS surveillance, neglect labels, and bias drive family separation, especially for Black families.

Family separation is not a failure of individual parents.
It’s a historical tool.

This essay breaks down how the family policing system operates through surveillance, and why understanding it is part of Black history.

Read it here ⬇️

buff.ly/XDG8ucd

#adopteesky

Exactly this. Prey on the vulnerable to appease the wants of the wealthy.

It's immoral how we accept #adoption as a "social good" by turning a blind eye to the grotesque injustices it inflicts on families and communities. It's a form of family separation we embrace and endorse without critique. 🥚

The National Council for Adoption has millions of dollars, reflecting the lopsided “demand side” of the industry: affluent hopeful adopters.

Birthmothers, by contrast, repeatedly tell us that if they had even a little more financial stability, they could have chosen to keep their children. +

The Turnaway Study found that NINETY-ONE PERCENT of respondents who had SOUGHT abortions but were denied them nevertheless chose to keep their children.

Lots of people want to adopt babies, but essentially *no one* wants to surrender one. +

Calling something a choice when there are no viable alternatives is not a choice.

One of the first things both my first parents separately said to me when we met was

"I had no choice."

Manipulating someone by telling them relinquishment is service to others or love is immoral.

#adoption 🥚

Their ad depicts relinquishment as the quietly dignified and heroic choice, above the noise of the abortion wars. It tries to sell the idea that relinquishment is an alternative to abortion.

But this is a lie. +

This is why the NCFA can afford a multimillion dollar ad buy during the biggest television spectacle of the year—something that no adoptee or birthparent advocacy organization could *dream*of doing. +

As a lobbying group, it represents adoption agencies and their clients: hopeful adopters, who as a class (professional, affluent, mostly white) bring a degree of wealth and social influence utterly dwarfing that of the economically desperate and marginalized people adoption preys upon. +

The National Council for Adoption describes itself as a “leading authority about adoption,” but that’s only because its mission is to *promote* adoption. It’s best understood as the adoption industry’s main lobbying group. Its president recently resigned to take a job in Trump’s DHS. +

Did you see that ad? Well now read this.

Blue graphic with text stating that stealing children does not start with foster care and often begins with surveillance long before a case is opened. Handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top.

Blue graphic explaining that surveillance does not always feel like punishment and can include schools calling CPS, hospitals flagging parents, social workers documenting parenting choices, or neighbors making reports. Text notes most of this happens without parents knowing. Handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top.

Blue graphic stating that surveillance is not evenly distributed. Text explains that Black families, disabled parents, and poor families are watched more closely and that the same behavior may be labeled “stress” for some families and “risk” for others. Handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top.

Blue graphic explaining that by the time removal happens, the decision often feels inevitable, not because harm was proven, but because surveillance created a record. Text states that investigation is often the response to need, not danger. Handle @adopteescrossinglines appears at the top.

Family separation doesn’t start with removal.

It starts with surveillance.

This post explains how families are watched long before a case is opened.

#adopteesky

A must read.

Stop Baby Boxes Now! Adoptee-centered non-partisan activism to de-propagandize and deconstruct the Safe Haven Baby Box myth and movement

Here is a site that lists a lot of info about these boxes and can explain the problems with them: stopshbbnow.org

These safe haven baby boxes are unnecessary and unneeded. There are already existing safe haven baby laws where a child can be surrendered to a hospital, fire depr, or police dept. These boxes are a way to speed up adoption processes and could lead to increased trafficing of children.

uh oh! They ALL had safe haven laws before the Grifter’s Box made its big debut

Newborn Safely Surrendered in Ohio Baby Box, Founder Thanks Parent for a 'Brave and Loving' Choice Safe Haven Baby Boxes says a newborn was safely surrendered in Ohio and is now in the care of child services.

we have NO FUCKING IDEA why this baby was left in this box, because baby boxes are designed to eliminate all possibility of oversight, documentation, and accountability.

You want domestic trafficking of infants for sale? Here is your pipeline for that. 🥚

people.com/newborn-safe...

🥚 Here comes the Super Bowl adoption propaganda ad from the leading adoption industry lobbying group with its longstanding ties to Christian nationalism and anti-choice politics.

And here is its historically informed, evidence-based counterpoint:

Adoption isn't an alternative to being pregnant. If you don't want to be pregnant, continuing a pregnancy so you can give you kid away to strangers means staying pregnant. You don't owe some childless couple your literal labour or a human being. 🥚

Graphic of Teresa Robeson and Jen Swanson for the “Writing Nonfiction: Hooking Your Readers and Finding Success” mini workshop on the evenings of May 19 and May 21, 2026”

Always wanted to write #nonfiction #kidlit? I will, once again, be faculty at @boydsmills.bsky.social (formerly Highlights) co-teaching a mini-workshop with the amazing @jenswanbooks.bsky.social!

boydsmills.org/workshop/wri...