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STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) All Eyes on the Senate

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated)
My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT.
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

Book review: Fight For the Right to Read, by Jeff Gottesfeld and Michelle Green Gottesfeld, Jeff and Michelle Y. Green. Illustrated by Kim Holt. Fight For the Right to Read. Creston Books, 2025. $19.99. ISBN . Unpaged. Ages 7-13. P8Q9. Kim Holt’s jewel-toned paintings bring al…

"An excellent depiction of the efforts to desegregate libraries in the Jim Crow south" FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO READ "introduces an activist whom children are unlikely to have heard of before" firstthursdaybookreviews.wordpress.com/2026/01/14/b...

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On this day in 2020, two white men killed Ahmaud Arbery, a young unarmed Black man out jogging. Local officials lied and did not hold the men accountable for months, until a video was released.

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tapping the sign again after someone told me that what ICE and Bethany Christian Services are doing “is not adoption, it’s human trafficking”

To understand the range of the empty promises and outright lies the industry tells vulnerable pregnant people, see the testimonies presented by Concerned United Birthparents, and those collected in Gretchen Sisson’s book RELINQUISHED.

There is no eliminating coercion and conflicts of interest from the private adoption industry, which survives only to the extent that it continues to extract babies from desperate people.

The design of #adoption as a family-building tool ensures the persistence of these conflicts of interest.

The private adoption industry sets the privileged and the powerless on a direct collision course. The industry survives by collecting handsome fees from adopters. The support the industry offers to pregnant people is aimed at, and ends with, securing relinquishments. +

Those caught up on the relinquishment side of adoption are almost without exception in that position not by choice but by abject necessity. Relinquishment is so unpopular that even people who wish to end their pregnancies *overwhelmingly* choose to parent if denied abortions. +

the result is a system that promises great reward for some at the expense of lifelong trauma and marginalization for others. The rewards accrue to those who are on the power and privilege side of the imbalance; the punishment goes to those on the other side. +

people want to believe that there is a clear distinction between “ethical” family separation & #adoption versus the bad kinds—the forced and fraudulent kinds. There is at root no such distinction. +

repeat after me, liberals:
“There will always be a shortage of adoptable infants.”

These days it’s on the order of 35 hopeful adopters for every adoptable infant.

colettepaperie on Threads; There are 400,000 kids waiting to be adopted - you pro lifers are helping with that, right? ... right?

liberals love this “gotcha” whereas i, an #adoptee who knows what the fuck i’m talking about, hate it with the heat of 1 million suns

Welcome to the reality of adoption, a completely unregulated billion dollar human trafficking industry. Adoptees have been screaming about this for ages, only to be told we should be more grateful for being stolen and sold to evangelicals.

some of us are obsessed with this history because, well, being bought by strangers can do that to you.

WHO KNEW that an #adoption agency would partner with ICE.

Adoptees, that’s who. Listen to adoptees.

please do ask why ICE is trafficking children for #adoption, but be open to the possibility that no solution short of abolishing private adoption as we know it will touch the problem.

another #adoptee i know calls intercountry adoption “disaster capitalism,” and i think that’s absolutely on the nose.

Kathryn Joyce’s THE CHILD CATCHERS makes this vivid.

There is not one single example of transnational #adoption that isn't tied to either colonialism, war, occupation, genocide, stolen land or good old fashioned money. No country has ever entered the transnational adoption industry because they wanted to help children. 🥚

i’m well past 18. i don’t need a “loving home to be raised in” anymore. custodianship is temporary. why is my #adoption permanent?

She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriousl...

Yahoo has a piece on my Iranian adoptee friend who is in the removal process! Please share!! 🥚

www.yahoo.com/news/article...

But when regular ass adoptees refer to adoption as a form of human trafficking, ppl clutch their pearls. Very very very interesting to me. 🥚

Just in case anyone thinks this is a new development: destroying families and trafficking their children into new ones is and has always been one of the *paradigmatic* forms of American terror. Here’s a preeminent scholar of this history talking about it. 🥚

www.dsausa.org/blog/we-are-...

The general response to an adoptee calling it human trafficking:

“OMG YOU ARE INSANE AND NEED TO SEEK HELP”

The general response to literally anyone else calling it human trafficking:

“Wow you are so right. We have to do something.” 🥚

I really wish people on *all* sides of the political aisle actually gave a damn enough to LISTEN to adoptees and ACKNOWLEDGE that we AND our experiences are VALID. 🥚

I cannot recommend this book strongly enough.

That's fantastic!

I'm reading A Flower Traveled in My Blood right now and see the parallels.

I have been saying that these ICE thugs look and operate like nothing so much as the paramilitary death squads in the Southern Cone countries in the 1970s and 1980s, who disappeared people and adopted out their children, and HERE WE ARE. 🥚