@sheliseg.bsky.social @sheliseg.bsky.social 
Lee Hullender Rubin, DAoM, MS, LAc (she/her) @ladyneedledoctor.bsky.social Acupuncturist, herbalist, researcher
Adopted person, first/birth mother, writer
Clinic rosefinchhealth.com | CEUs courses.rosefinchacademy.com
@hollee-mcginnis.bsky.social @hollee-mcginnis.bsky.social 
Maureen McCauley. @lightofdaystories.bsky.social Writer, editor, reader, artist. Adoptive parent. End-of-Life Doula for companion animals and their humans. Consultant with Adoption Mosaic. Certified Sage-ing Leader. Co-editor, “Lions Roaring Far From Home: An Anthology by Ethiopian Adoptees.” Dog sitter.
Kathryn Joyce @kathrynajoyce.bsky.social Journalist covering the right. Author of The Child Catchers & Quiverfull. Writing in various places.
kathrynajoyce@gmail.com
Signal: kathrynajoyce.01
LisaMarie @lisamarie-rollins.bsky.social Director. Writer. #NewPlay & script developer. Dramaturg. AfroPinay #BlackFeminist Professor. Live music lover. Shower singer. Theater Maker. #DirectorSteez #ReproJustice
Leads the IRIS LAB Residency & Incubator at UCSC 
Mariama J Lockington @marilock.bsky.social 🏳️🌈 Award winning author. Adoptee.
I’VE GOT MY LOVE TO KEEP ME WARM 10/14/25
Katie Gagel @katiethekad.bsky.social 🌱Lived Experience speaker on 🧠 mental health 👶🏼 adoption 🩸chronic illness
🌱Co-host of Adopting Wellness Podcast
🌱Boxer mom | Bird watcher | Plant mom
Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy @fauxclaud.bsky.social AED/C @AFFCNY | #Adoption Blogger, "Birth" Mother of failed adoption, Activist, Journalist, NARC and DV Survivor, Healing | I talk trauma! Join me in the http://AFFCNY.Network
Patrick Armstrong @patrickintheworld.bsky.social Podcaster: Conversation Piece, The Janchi Show
Katie Naftzger @katiejaen.bsky.social Korean adoptee, therapist. Working on online course, “Psychotherapy From An Adoption Lens: A Practical Guide For Therapists.” Interviewed on podcasts: Creating A Family, Adoptees On. Wrote book for adoptive parents in teen years.
Adoption Mosaic @adoptionmosaic.bsky.social Adoption Mosaic is an adoptee-led, BIPOC woman-owned business that creates for and connects our adoption constellation community through adoptee-centered events, education courses, and consultations.https://programs.adoptionmosaic.com/wte-recordings
@maryannaking.bsky.social @maryannaking.bsky.social 
Sanjay Pulver (He/Him/His) @sanjaypulver.bsky.social Indian Transracial Adoptee, queer, trans man, non-monogamous, Leather, advocate, musician, SAI, cat Dad. 
@phatgirlfiddler.bsky.social @phatgirlfiddler.bsky.social Helen-five string fiddle player
nam 남 (she/her) @namnam1.bsky.social artist LCSW adopted human
Mark Shiner @markshiner.bsky.social Musician/drummer and drum teacher in Central New York. Needs a couple more cymbals. 
Gretchen Sisson @gretchensisson.bsky.social Sociologist at ANSIRH/UCSF; founder of Abortion Bridge Collaborative Fund; author of 'RELINQUISHED: The Politics of Adoption & the Privilege of American Motherhood.'
Susan D Harness @sdharness.bsky.social Author, cultural anthropologist, Indigenous transracial adoptee (Salish & Kootenai), quilter, gardener, and all-around nice person. Life happens - there are lessons in each happening.
Craig Mod @craigmod.com Writer & photographer. Japan based for 20+ years.
Author of Things Become Other Things (Random House: May 2025), Kissa by Kissa (2020). Contributor to NYTimes, Atlantic, WIRED, and more. Walks a lot. Bla bla bla!!
shop.specialprojects.jp
craigmod.com
shaaren @shaaren.bsky.social amma | hang w kinders | current DCPS->future Bates mom | adoptee rights | abolitionist | rants abt <gestures> | occupied dc & coastal maine | yarn | plants | books | gym | blm | 🍉 | shaarenpine.com
Louisiana Coalition for Adoption Reform @laadoptreform.bsky.social Act 470 (The Jean and Elise Law) restores the right to all Louisiana adopted people to access their own original birth certificate upon demand, upon the age of 24. LCAR is a non-partisan grassroots 501(c)(4) non-profit organization. www.laadoptreform.org
The Good Adoptee ❌👑 @thegoodadoptee.com AKA Suzanne Bachner • she/her • Award-Winning Playwright & Director • Actor-Lover • Native New Yorker • #AdopteeRights #Theatresky #ArtAndAdvocacy #EqualityForAll
🩷🦋
🙋♀️• linktr.ee/suzannejouve
⭕️• linktr.ee/circletheplay
🐰• linktr.ee/thegoodadoptee
Bonnie @bonnienorman.bsky.social 💙 Adoptee, EV-OG ⚡️ (driving elec since 2011), lover of fabric, retired tech exec, jumper 🪂, wanderer, Pilates, amazing houseguest, IF, can be talked into most anything.
Yes, I'm 70. I'm not dead. So get over that age thing.
Dan Chaon @danchaon.bsky.social Novelist and short story writer.
Signed/personalized copies of my books here: https://www.macsbacks.com/dan-chaon
Dr. Sandra Steingraber 🏳️🌈 @ssteingraber1.bsky.social PhD biologist, author, climate activist, adoptee rights activist. Senior Scientist and Writer in Residence, Science and Environmental Health Network, Rachel Carson scholar with Library of America. Reminder: Nobody’s coming.
Maeve Kelly @maevekelly11.bsky.social Adoptee, corporate lawyer, soccer mom, Bostonian & new Irish citizen 🥚
Saturday O’Brien @saturdayobrien.bsky.social Adoptee. Science and reality. Fairness and decency for all. 
Rebekah #CitizenshipForAdoptees Henson @bekhenson.bsky.social 🎶It’s me! Hi! 👋 I’m Rebekah! It’s me!🎶 #AdopteeRightsAreHumanRights #CitizenshipForAdoptees 🇺🇸🇮🇪🇵🇸🇱🇧🇺🇦
linktr.ee/bekhenson
http://spot.fund/EmergencyHousingUrgentNeed
John Lee Brougher @johnbrougher.com Storyteller across mediums | Award-winning podcaster, TTRPG designer, actor | Founder, Tabletop Revolution | Progressive Korean American disabled adoptee | he/him
johnbrougher.com
tabletoprevolution.com
Angela @angelabarra.bsky.social (She/Her)/#adoptee/#prochoice/#OCD/Adoptee Rights/Abolish Plenary Adoption/Ally🌈
http://medium.com/@angelambarra
Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social Adoptee, ATMOM Podcast Co-Host, adoptee, YA/Children’s book Author, budding writer, FinTech EA….past ice cream trucker.Hiker, dog
/animal lover, kayaker & supporter of ALL people. #adopteevoices
Karen Pickell @karenpickell.bsky.social Author of AN ADOPTEE LEXICON. Founder @AdopteeReading.bsky.social Budding genealogist/family historian. #adoptee #AdopteeVoices #cnf #genealogy #FamilyHistory -- karenpickell.com
Emily N. Bartz, PhD (she/her) @phusaza.bsky.social A Friend in PHLEGM. Part-time Middle-earth door-to-door button salesman. Opinions are mine and mostly silly. Occasionally serious, still mine. PhD in Rhetoric and Composition.
Adoptees Crossing Lines Podcast @adopteecrossing.bsky.social 🗣️ Talking honestly about adoption and the family policing system.
🫂 For adoptees, foster care survivors, and parents harmed by it.
✊🏾 Abolition means families get support, not separation.
https://pod.link/1651229727
B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Coach—editor of the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship; Founder, Severancemag.com
@linaleadswithlove.bsky.social @linaleadswithlove.bsky.social I am an MSW and decolonial social worker who specializes in suicide, adoption, mental health and trauma.
Ande Stanley @theadoptionfiles.bsky.social Adoptee rights advocate. lDA ICA baby scoop era. Host of The Adoption Files podcast. Seeking to amplify the voices of those impacted by family severance. They/them, her if I have to 🏳️🌈 🥚 Exvangelical, Independent
Annette @notyourabortee.bsky.social Mom of a Volunteer Firefighter , Bastard, Adoptee Rights Activist, Blue Through and Through, End Forced Motherhood, AU, BN, NYARC, NY-18
Kassaye @kassayebm.bsky.social Founder @ethioadopteesearch.bsky.social
📚 Lions Roaring Far From Home and others
@thesullivansummer.bsky.social @thesullivansummer.bsky.social 
Kit Myers @kit-myers.bsky.social He/him. Assist. Prof Ethnic Studies at UC Merced. Hong Kong Adoptee. Adoption researcher. Father. Abolitionist (Prisons, CPS, Patriarchy, ICE, etc). Views are my own.
@lisajane.bsky.social @lisajane.bsky.social The President of the United States is not only a rapist. He's a child rapist.
Venezuela? Why? It's the oil, Stupid!
Bastard Nation: the Adoptee Rights Organization @realbastardnation.bsky.social 🖤 Tattoo Artist & DJ 🖤
Kim @kimpenn.bsky.social If you know me from the bad place you know what you're getting.
If you don't know me yet, I guess just ask and I'll probably tell you.
#adoptee
Harrison Mooney @harrisonmooney.bsky.social Author of INVISIBLE BOY, winner of the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize, BITTERSWEET (spring 2027) and I JUST HAVE TO RACE ALL THESE GHOSTS (summer 2027). Host of @TheTyee podcast. East Vancouver.
Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social An #adoptee, my book "Growing in the Dark" explains who was behind the sealing of adoption records and the harm done by these laws. https://www.xlibris.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/572366-growing-in-the-dark
🕊️ "Never again" means never again for anyone.
Dr. Lisa Munro (she/her) @llmunro.bsky.social PhD, historian, writer, Latin America, returned Peace Corps volunteer (Guatemala, 04-06), #adoptee, #studyabroad & intellectual dilettante. Nachos. She/her/Dr.
Áine Bethany (she/they) @ainebet.bsky.social A little bit hooman and a little bit fae 🧚♀️
Queer, adoptee, hairstylist, service dog mom/handler, plant mom, neurodivergent, disabled, weirdo, just wanting a bit more love in the world and to talk to people who agree.
Nik Nadeau 임창훈 @nikchanghoon.bsky.social Korean adoptee writer. '24 Annie Dillard Prize for CNF winner & Iowa Review Award finalist. '24-25 Bread Loaf, Tin House & Kenyon alum. CNF reader @ Hypertext Review. nikchanghoon.com
Mindy Stern @minster12.bsky.social Adoptee. Writer. Wife. Mother. Pizza, dogs, Knicks, Dodgers. Sneakerella on Disney+, words in Business Insider, Huff Post, Esperanza, Human Parts, and more. www.themindystern.com
Patricia Knight Meyer - www.myadoptedlife.com @myadoptedlife.bsky.social #Journalist, #Author, Black Market Baby #adoptee not #adopted, #writer #memoirist with #memoir about being sold as an infant. #amquerying, X-expat, 💙 #writingcommunity, #litagent, #adopteerights #feminist, #LBGTQ. Blog: www.myadoptedlife.com ✈️☕️🍷 🦋
Jennifer Kwon Dobbs 허수진 @jkwondobbs.bsky.social mom, ajumma, poet @White Pine Press @hochroth Verlag @PalmArt Press, senior poetry editor @agnimagazine.bsky.social, translator, professor and assoc. dean, more at jkwondobbs.com
Dr Claire McGettrick Born Lorraine Hughes @cmcgettrick.bsky.social 🏳️🌈Bastard | Problematising adoption | Sociology | @adoptionrights | @maglaundries | @clann_project |🎸🎤| She/her | 🏳️⚧️☂️| Views Mine | RT/Follow ≠ endorsement. | www.criticaladoptiontheory.com
Mirella Stoyanova @mirellastoyanova.bsky.social Writer, therapist. Recovering perfectionist. Adoptee.
Words @writeordiemag @huffpost @businessinsider & more.
Mostly on IG @mirellastoyanova.
mirellastoyanova.com
Mary Bowers @eatbemary.bsky.social I built the infrastructure. Now I advocate for the people crossing through it. 🎬 Directing my first documentary.
🇰🇷🇺🇸 Competitive Eater, Alumni. 🦑 Squid Game: The Challenge. marybowers.carrd.co
Monica Hall Author @monicahallauthor.bsky.social 🌸 I am an adoptee, birth mother, speaker, and writer. Author of memoir, *Practically Still a Virgin, shares the story of my adoption, turbulent upbringing in Alaska, assault, resilience, and redemption.
https://www.monicahall.com/author
Steve Hawaii @stghawaii.bsky.social
@ Adoptive Threads | Supporting Adoptees and Orphanages
~ dogs, hiking, ebiking, traveling, adoptee
Chaitra WL @drchaitra.bsky.social Liberation psychologist, Author, Adoptee, Nature lover, Fierce advocate for equity & compassion, Opinions are my own
Lisette Austin @lisetteaustin.bsky.social Poet, Writer, Traveler, Adoptee.
Unearthing stories.
Reclaiming ancestral lineages.
Connecting history, place and identity.
#adopteevoices lisetteaustin.com
Adoptee Rights Law Center @adopteerights.bsky.social Lawyer, law firm, adopted person. Lover of toast. Based in Minnesota, born and adopted in the District of Columbia | adopteerightslaw.com
JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social She/her. Also known as Harlow's Monkey 🥚🧶
Joon Ae HK (she/they) @joonae.bsky.social Korean adoptee + writer + dog lover + quen of typos | Co-founder of Constellation Reading Series + BIPOC Adoptees | Seoul -> Detroit -> Portland | 흑인의 생명은 소중하다 Black lives are precious & FREE PALESTINE ALL DAY EVERYDAY
Dr joyce maguire pavao @drjoyss4u.bsky.social Adoptee-
child welfare,adoption, fostercare, kinship, mpe, npe, surrogacy, donor competent.
deconstruct and reconstruct archaic systems.
Lecturer in Psychiatry- Harvard Medical School.
www.pavaoconsulting.com.
Love my people- human and fur.
Adoptee Literary Festival @adopteelitfest.bsky.social The Adoptee Literary Festival brings together writers who self-identify as adopted, fostered, or otherwise displaced to share their stories, make their voices heard, and reshape the narrative of adoption. Join us March 22, 2025. https://adopteelitfest.com
Prison Adoptee @prisonadoptee.bsky.social Adopted person born to a criminalized and incarcerated mother at the Andrew Mercer Reformatory. Many adoptees across Canada remain unaware of their carceral birth histories.
Follow @amreformatory.bsky.social.
https://andrewmercerreformatory.org/
Sara Easterly @saraeasterlyauthor.bsky.social Adoptee-author of essays & books that include award-winning SEARCHING FOR MOM and ADOPTION UNFILTERED. Founder of Adoptee Voices, as well as the Faith Collective for Truth and Healing in Adoption.
saraeasterly.com
Lucia Blackwell @luciablackwell.bsky.social Pacific Northwest landscapes & the essays they inspire. Minnesota-raised adopted person writing my way toward home.
https://linktr.ee/luciablackwell
DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social Author of You Don’t Know How Lucky You Are, an adoptee's memoir on US adoption, adoptee rights, & the public health impacts of adoption. Focus: Adoptee rights, adoption reform, all issues re rights to one's identity/bio-kin connections. All views my own.
Adoptee Reading @adopteereading.bsky.social Adoptee Reading helps adopted people discover books about adoption from the adoptee perspective. Browse more than 450 titles at https://adopteereading.com/ and check out our shop at https://bookshop.org/shop/adopteereading
Sandi - I used to be Cristina @ustabecristina.bsky.social Gringa_Panameña, #TransnationalAdoptee (not transracial) 🥚 in reunion, #HUGrad, wife, mom, #Furmom, #SocialWorker and more...
Hear my story: https://linktr.ee/CrisSand
신 선 영 辛善英 Sun Yung Shin @sunyungshin.bsky.social 🍉 ABOLISH ICE. Author of Heart Eater: A Memoir of Immigration, Belonging, and How We Find Ourselves in Language, The Wet Hex, Unbearable Splendor, + 11 other books. Rep: Tricia Lawrence @Aevitas & bookings: @BlueFlowerArts. www.sunyungshin.com
泛依婷 Stefany Valentine @booksbystefany.bsky.social I write books⤵️
FIRST LOVE LANGUAGE (Out now!)
WHEN WE BECOME OURS (Out now!)
LOVE MAKES MOCHI (Feb, 2026)
Alice Stephens @alicestephens.bsky.social FAMOUS ADOPTED PEOPLE (Unnamed Press, 2018), THE TWAIN (forthcoming from Regal House Publishing 2027), book reviewer, essayist, transracial adoptee, KAD, hapa
www.famousadoptedpeople.com
박사라 Sarah Park Dahlen @readingspark.bsky.social Associate Professor iSchool University of Illinois; Asian American Youth Lit; Asian American Studies; Critical Adoption Studies; RDYL co-editor #VeryKorean #VeryAsian sarahpark.com
Cover art: Nancy So Miller
Agent: Tricia Toney Lawrence (Aevitas CM)
Kimberly McKee, PhD @adopteekilljoy.bsky.social Author of Adoption Fantasies & Disrupting Kinship and co-editor of Degrees of Difference; Adoptee; Critical Adoption Studies scholar
https://linktr.ee/mckeekim
Cam Lee Small @camleesmall.bsky.social TEDx Speaker, Counselor, Advocate
Author // The Adoptee’s Journey: From Loss & Trauma to Healing & Empowerment
Keynotes & trainings, scheduling now for 2025
Shannon Gibney @shannongibney.bsky.social Author of The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be; We Miss You, GF; Where We Come From (co-author) + others. Printz Honor, Carter G. Woodson + 3 MN Book Awards.
Also: Adoptee, Blerd, Mama, Prof, Runner, Traveler, working w/you against authoritarianism.
Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social A LIVING REMEDY, a New York Times Notable Book • ALL YOU CAN EVER KNOW, National Book Critics Circle finalist • words in NYT Mag, Time, Esquire, Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Condé Nast Traveler &c. • linktr.ee/nicolesjchung
Tony Corsentino @notalegalrecord.net Protect libraries. Children are people. Fight patriarchy. Abolish plenary adoption. Make streets safe for everyone. Trans rights are human rights.
Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social Writer, adoptee, author of memoir I Would Meet You Anywhere, National Book Critics Circle finalist. 🥚 website: http://www.thesusanito.com member of the Writers Grotto 
Carrie Cahill Mulligan @ccmhats.bsky.social Park ranger turned fiber artist changing the world one felt hat at a time.