C.M.T (woke progressive socialist liberal who leans left) @cynthiamarie1969.bsky.social I wasn't born. ๐๐๐ค
I was chosen.๐ค๐ค๐
Mother of a wonderful human.๐ฃ
Adoptee.๐ฉโโ๏ธ
Deli clerk.๐ฉโ๐ซ
Kentucky girl livin in Arizona.๐
Immigrants daughter.๐โโ๏ธ
Underachiever.๐ฉโ๐ฆฑ
Survivor.๐
Catherine Johnston @cathyanne.bsky.social Adoptee, knitter, reader, hiker/runner, thinker, parent, love where I live, good with complicated things.
she/her
Dr Barbara Sumner @drbarbarasumner.bsky.social Adoption Deconstructed | critical analysis | research | reflection | reform | NZ | PhD
drbarbarasumner.substack.com
#adoptees
Emma C @ejcleeds.bsky.social Flute player, adoptee, recreational swimmer, university employee
nam ๋จ (she/her) @namnam1.bsky.social artist LCSW adopted human
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
Jean Schantz @jean-schantz.bsky.social Adoptee, Mom, Grandma, Dog Mom
@sittingwithchaos.bsky.social @sittingwithchaos.bsky.social 
Dr. Liz DeBetta @dr-liz-debetta.bsky.social Transforming Lives Through Connection and Creativity | Award-Winning Artist, Educator & Creator of Migrating Toward Wholenessยฉ | Trauma-Informed Storytelling & Healing Expert
www.LizDeBetta.com
Blue Sky Farm and Sanctuary @blueskyfarmct.bsky.social Blue Sky Farm and Sanctuary is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. ๐ฉท We provide both mounted and unmounted horsemanship programs for youth, 5-21, in foster care.๐ฆ
http://www.blueskyfarmandsanctuary.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
Delores Sullivan @deesullivan.bsky.social Therapist, writer, social activist, ex model
Judy Cockerton @jcockerton.bsky.social Founder, 100% Massachusetts
Ensuring that all families access
10 vital services for thriving.
JDaniel Richer โ๐ฟโค๏ธ๐ฑ๐ค @jdwritesthefuture.bsky.social Ontological designer rooted in Black radical thought. Co-creating systems that love Black life back and refuse domination at the level of worldview. Follow me here if you're non-Black. Follow @jdwritesthefuture.blacksky.app if you're Black.
@frankiebaci.bsky.social @frankiebaci.bsky.social 
@zoetarrant.bsky.social @zoetarrant.bsky.social 
Kevin Winstead @bbqinokc.bsky.social Union advocate adoptee that loves to smoke bbq and dig in my pre-birth history.
AGreatSound @agreatsound.bsky.social Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominated sound designer, composer, professor, and photographer in NYC.
I am an adoptee shaping stories with sound, and music.
๐ธ๐ผ๐๐ซ๐ฝ
@kristinepdx.bsky.social @kristinepdx.bsky.social Adult adoptee in reunion. Adoptee rights advocate. Learner and Educator. Music fan. Happily married and monogamous with my spouse. Piper McPoodlekins' human.
@kristyreineke.bsky.social @kristyreineke.bsky.social 
@profpatti.bsky.social @profpatti.bsky.social Mom, professor of social work, psychotherapist. Avid tennis fan and avid researcher of Jewish genealogy and swimmer.
@cpresseau.bsky.social @cpresseau.bsky.social 
LoraK @lorak3.bsky.social 
Sandi - I used to be Cristina @ustabecristina.bsky.social Gringa_Panameรฑa, #TransnationalAdoptee (not transracial) ๐ฅ in reunion, #HUGrad, wife, mom, #Furmom, #SocialWorker and more...
Hear my story: https://linktr.ee/CrisSand
@sallypm.bsky.social @sallypm.bsky.social 
CarCrashPrincess - AdopteeRightsUK @carcrashprincess.bsky.social SAAM | Adoptee Rights UK Campaigner
www.adopteerightsuk.co.uk
The Korean Hillbillyโท @mothermade.bsky.social Forever longing. Always searching.
Therapy in creating.
์์ํ ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ์. ํญ์ ๊ฒ์ ์ค. ๋ง๋๋ ๋ฐ
์์ด ์น๋ฃ๋ฒ.
#Thisํ๊ตญvida #Tennerican #adoptee
#์์ธ #ํ๊ตญ #Seoul #ceramics #foodporn
#๋์๊ธฐ
AnnaLeela @annaleela.bsky.social I want a world where everyone has someone who loves them, everyone has enough food, enough money, and a safe and comfortable place to sleep and just be.
Colson Alderwood @limegreenpenguin.bsky.social They/Them ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Queer, Autistic, Disabled, and proud.
LDA (Late Discovery Adoptee) & Adoption Abolitionist
Loud bitch ๐โจ
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 ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ ๐ฅ Exvangelical, Independent
@normanroots.bsky.social @normanroots.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ Grandpa of 9, genealogist, MS Access developer, economist
Patricia Carey @patriciac.bsky.social Running Slow , Thinking Fast ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ช๐บ๐ฎ๐ช๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
Special Advocate for Survivors of Institutional Abuse
Be Kind
Listening Learning
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
DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social Author of You Donโt 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.
Holly R. Valakresch @hollyvalakresch.bsky.social Author & Screenwriter | I ๐ฉถ Arts & Sciences, Sculpting, Cartography, Cooking, Baking, Fashion, Fitness, Fairytales, & Historical Things.
https://linktr.ee/hollyvalakresch
Ed Knight @knighted2.bsky.social Retired adoptee living in same retirement community as my birth mother, married to a Deaf man who uses ASL, we are into travel. Brushing up on my high school Spanish and planning more travel in Latin America. Also into art and fitness.
Roca Poma @rocapoma.bsky.social 
Zinn Education Project @zinnedproject.bsky.social Free classroom lessons, workshops, seminars, campaigns, teacher study groups, & more to teach outside the textbook.
Coord. by @rethinkingschools.bsky.social & @teachingchange.bsky.social
Donate & more: https://linktr.ee/zinneducationproject
Adoptees For Justice @adoptees4justice.bsky.social We are an intercountry adoptee-led group working to educate, empower, and organize intercountry & transracial adoptees. #AdopteeCitizenshipAct
๐ https://linktr.ee/adopteesforjustice
Adoptees Crossing Lines Podcast @adopteecrossing.bsky.social ๐ฃ๏ธ Talking honestly about adoption and the family policing system.
๐ซ For adoptees, foster care survivors, and parents harmed by it.
โ๐พ Abolition means families get support, not separation.
https://pod.link/1651229727
momwifelawyer @childwelfarelaw.bsky.social Fundamental rights, at risk
Dr. Laura M. Furlan @laurafurlan.bsky.social Associate Professor of English. Author of Indigenous Cities (UNP 2017). ACLS Fellow. Writer of creative nonfiction. Adoptee. Native Chicagoan. Queer mommy. She/her.
Fatbobslim @bobdonelan.bsky.social Company director. Photographer. Cyclist. Live in the historic town of Rye in UK. Wife is Venetian so thatโs my second home. Hate the Tories, Trump and Farage. Iโll FOLLOW BACK like minded people.
QuyetPawz @quyetpawz.bsky.social 43 - Disabled polyam quest non-binary femme, geek living in Ottawa, Canada.
Loves board games & 3D Printing. Retired CanFURence Co-Chair
PFP is by Jinxsis
Ask to DM because my DMs are off.
https://voggtech.ca/qp/
Wooftom57 @wooftom57.bsky.social Gay and Married to a wonderful gentle man 30 years. I am older but I am dancing as fast as I can!
I have hope and I try to see the best in things but I am beyond disappointed in the 2024 Election and the divisions and hatefulness Americans have embraced!๐ณ๏ธโ๐
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
Mrs. Uzh @gerryu.bsky.social Grandma progressive wish govt had the skills taught to kindergarten.Traveler, seeker, creator, Deadhead 4 life, D&D, KoL. AmazingDigitalCircus. DMs are Off. Plz NO PORN
#FBR #Blue #Resist #USDemocracy #Voices4Victory #BLUEUNITY
RosalieLober @susan999.bsky.social Author: Run Your Business Like a Fortune 100: 7 Principles for Boosting PROFITS (John Wiley & Sons) Specialty conversations w/businesses $10mm & greater. Licensed Psychologist
Political Psychologist
Bea Mariam Killguss @queenbeaoflondon.bsky.social lover of wor(l)ds. polyglot. neurofam & mama of two. wanderer.lecturer.existential philosophy. phenomenology. auto-ethnography research supervisor. psychosocial education. liberation.
Lived in๐ต๐ฐ๐ฉ๐ช๐ซ๐ท๐ฌ๐ง๐บ๐ธ๐ช๐ธ๐ฆ๐ซ๐น๐ฟ๐ฆ๐บ
Founder at:
www.ThirdSpacePractice.org
akaalison @akaalison.bsky.social DIA Irish Trans Cultural Adoptee,
Equity, Equality, Decency, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Children's Rights,
Immuno Compromised Artist, Carer, Mother, Woman, Anti Maga, Pro Choice
Rain @ms-raindrop.bsky.social Born and relinquished in California. (Adoption no longer defines me but it still affects me.) Raised in the NorthWest. Passionate nature lover. I'm against fake food, the overuse of plastic. I believe the U.S. is failing children in every way.
JEFFREY ROBINSON @writingfactory.bsky.social Old fashioned storyteller, bestselling #author 30+books, keynote speaker, television, film, radio. #9/11 #MoneyLaundering #Fraud #Fiction #BookSky
WEBSITE: jeffreyrobinson.com
https://substack.com/@writingfactory
https://linktr.ee/jeffreyrobinson
Nelly Delly @marconi333.bsky.social โข dsausa.org
โข btselem.org
โข thriveaz.org
โข thebulletin.org
โข funeyefund.org
โข tractionpnw.org
โข aliforneycenter.org
โข thetrevorproject.org
โข housingnothandcuffs.org
โข detentionwatchnetwork.org
Scout Kinsley @skinsleyy.bsky.social rootin' tootin' rollerskootin'
district 12, skater, horror nerd, adoptee
(she/her)
leon clowes @leonclowes.bsky.social artist (story, sound, social)
@kinshipcaregivers.bsky.social @kinshipcaregivers.bsky.social 
Daniel Rolph Author @danielrolphauthor.bsky.social Daniel Rolph grew up in the UK foster care system, experiencing firsthand the challenges that come with it. Now, he's channelling those experiences into his debut novel, Shattered Paths
Buy Now: https://geni.us/OEi75Gh
John Gallaher @jgallaher.bsky.social I write, make pictures, and I edit and read, etc. 
Adoptees United Inc @adopteesunited.bsky.social National nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of all adopted people | adopteesunited.org
Dr. Rob Davidson @drrobdavidson.bsky.social Executive Director of The Committee to Protect Health Care. MD from MSU/CHM, MPH from U of M. Dad, husband and ER doc. All people deserve affordable healthcare.
Snaff | Foops | Lala @snaffoopsadaisy.bsky.social Hey y'all!! Happy to be here!
๐ Georgia ๐ USA
โฐ๏ธ Southern Appalachia
๐ค Adoptee | in reunion
๐พ Iโve dogs & cats
๐จ Artist + BuJo | #bujotinker
๐ #StardewValley
Please๐ kind
https://lauraweiller.com
Sarah Reinhardt @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social Writer, adoptee, co-host of the podcast Adoption: The Making of Me, human and dog parent, empty-nester, Public Media (KCUR)
Krystal Cashen, PhD. @krystalcashen.bsky.social Assistant Professor of Psychology | Developmental & Family Psychology | LGBTQ+/Adoptive Families | (She/Her/Hers)๐ณ๏ธโ๐
www.krystalcashen.com
Alexander @alexolotl26.bsky.social Undergrad student, future therapist. Interests are mainly adoption and covid awareness.
Mark @maplesystemsroad.bsky.social Genealogy nerd, archaeology enthusiast, adoptee, and proud union member from unceded sแธตwxฬฑwรบ7mesh, selฬรญlฬwitulh, and xสทmษฮธkสทษyฬษm territories (he/they)
Steve Hawaii @stghawaii.bsky.social
@ Adoptive Threads | Supporting Adoptees and Orphanages
~ dogs, hiking, ebiking, traveling, adoptee
Monica Hall Author @monicahallauthor.bsky.social ๐ธ 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
Poohbear @poohbear1369.bsky.social NO DMsโผ๏ธI enjoy sewing, TV, #adoptee, pets, nature, happiness, progressive politics, ๐๐ฉต๐ฆ๐and kindness. I DO NOT support the separation of families through adoption. I support keeping families together by helping them where they are.
ML Roy (MaLoRoMa on that other platform) @mlroy.bsky.social Massachusetts-based writer, animal lover, adoptee, and believer in a sane world
eeka @eeka1313.bsky.social Boston USA. Personal account. All opinions mine.
#JewSky #MedSky #LawSky #QueerSky #WhateverWeAreCallingBikeSky
Erika R. Shira, LMHC, MT-BC @erikashira.com Boston MA USA. Account for professional and related content. Posts are my own unapologetically leftist views and are not any kind of advice. www.erikashira.com
Farnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social Foundling. Iranian adoptee. Social psychologist. Nomad.
Kivakiva @kivakiva.bsky.social Pre-digital graphic designer from when it was art. Yep, we drew everything. Oil painter. Adoptee rights are human rights.
Nik Nadeau ์์ฐฝํ @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
Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social The pedestrian you honked at on Powell St. Adoptee. East Van.
Charlotte @thetravellingcrab.bsky.social Manchester ๐
On wandering, reading, parenting, adopting, living and catting
Laura @playingopossum.bsky.social Just a weary traveler trying to make it home
Yvonne Liu. Writer. Adoptee. Memoir-in-Progress @yvonneliuwriter.bsky.social Over 3 million read HuffPost #adoptee essay. NYT, Salon, Newsweek, NBC News. Sewanee Tennessee Williams Scholar. Received support from PEN America & Bread Loaf Writers. Modern Love podcast. Mental Health Advocate. James Patterson grant #writer #memoirs
A Lizard Lady @locallizardlady.bsky.social Reptile fancier, anarchist, feminist. I build online community and help young people find their path. Adoptee, mother and sister. If you're still mad at me from something from twitter, I'm on and always have been on reddit. lustylizardlady.
Rich Lee @richleephd.bsky.social UMN professor of psych, Asian American Studies, public speaker incl TEDx, consultant, and comic creator TheOtherOnesByLee
COMIC https://instagram.com/theotheronesbylee?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
TEDx https://youtu.be/yxeGzHbXzlo?si=7UNUg8_HUgGmIl3R
โค๏ธ๐งก๐Robin๐๐๐ @robin-redbird.bsky.social Happily married, mom, yia yia, adopted person, on a healing journey, adoption abolitionist.
@josheamg.bsky.social @josheamg.bsky.social 
@blueskylaughing.bsky.social @blueskylaughing.bsky.social Retired statistician, ed policy analyst. Worked at National Academy of Science. Authored 12 books on ed policy, with co-authors. Avid listener of audiobooks ,learning to garden and grow herbs. Trying to stay sane in this messed up world.
@maxwelllouis.bsky.social @maxwelllouis.bsky.social 
@kristinnoelle.bsky.social @kristinnoelle.bsky.social 
Michigan Adoptee Rights Coalition @michiganadoptees.bsky.social Activists, allies, and adoptee rights organizations working in unity to secure equal rights for all Michigan adopted people. michiganadoptees.org
kbgreenland @kbgreenland.bsky.social Librarian, former scientist, adoptee, LGBTQ+, gamer, pro cycling fan ๐ท๐๐๐ก
pfp is from the game Gris and header is John Wick checking out a book to his friend at the library
Raquel Lainde @lainde.bsky.social #Diversidad #Inclusiรณn #Comunicaciรณn #TransformaciรณnDigital
En ratos libres busco la forma de entender el mundo con la quijotesca intenciรณn de mejorar mi parte.
@maryacdn.bsky.social @maryacdn.bsky.social 
Stevie B @bve2100.bsky.social In an infinite Universe, anything can happen
May @matchdaymay.bsky.social I used to use The Other Place to yell about football. 1/3 of the Not A Football Podcast. (she/her)
Carrlyn @carrlyn.bsky.social Owner customer boot shop, has the best husband. Mom and Grandma. NO DMโs please.
Karen P. Stevens PhD, RN @nursepub.bsky.social PhD, CNE, academic and clinical nurse educator, professor, author.
ER & Trauma Nurse. Fly fisherwoman.
Small, but mighty blue dot in Idaho.
Always evolving human.
Mom/Gramma/Friend/Animal whisperer.
Opinons = mine. No DMs. 
Imani Perry @imaniperry.bsky.social Writer, Intellectual, Professor, Mother, Daughter, Sister, Child of God, nothing more, nothing less: http://imaniperryauthor.com/
Karma & Chaos @karma-chaos.bsky.social Life is Magical - Sometimes a Dream, Sometimes a Nightmare!!
Author @ Penguin India. Writing on Philosophy of Complexity Science.