David Batty @david-batty.bsky.social Senior reporter at The Guardian: visiting journalism lecturer at City St Georgeโs University. http://www.theguardian.com/profile/davidbatty
Dr Barbara Sumner @drbarbarasumner.bsky.social Adoption Deconstructed | critical analysis | research | reflection | reform | NZ | PhD
drbarbarasumner.substack.com
#adoptees
ameliorable @ameliorable.bsky.social asymmetrical human and misbegotten substitute
Loftwerks @loftwerks.bsky.social The pedestrian you honked at on Powell St. Adoptee. East Van.
Laura @playingopossum.bsky.social Just a weary traveler trying to make it home
@moonlyfe.bsky.social @moonlyfe.bsky.social Travel, politics, and Vancouver Island things. Unapologetically #Indigenous. Difficult woman. Opinions are my own.
#adoptee #60sScoop activist ๐ฅ
Kassaye @kassayebm.bsky.social Founder @ethioadopteesearch.bsky.social
๐ Lions Roaring Far From Home and others
J Way @itsjway.bsky.social No time for u Serina ass hoes
Tina Brobby @tbrobbs.bsky.social ๐จ๐ฆ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ง CNF Writer, photographer, lawyer, adoptee. Memoir in the making.
https://christinabrobby.com
Carrie Cahill Mulligan @ccmhats.bsky.social Park ranger turned fiber artist changing the world one felt hat at a time.
Mary @mlassi.bsky.social Reunited Texas born adoptee. Recently moved to Saginaw, MI. If I follow you, you don't have to follow me back.
Scout Kinsley @skinsleyy.bsky.social rootin' tootin' rollerskootin'
district 12, skater, horror nerd, adoptee
(she/her)
Devin @devincole.bsky.social Boston, bikes, basketball.
Juliana Finch @writeplayrepeat.bsky.social singer/songwriter, concert host, and drink slinger. HIS, REL, and folklore nerd. adoptee. dual citizen ๐ฎ๐น. she/her. ๐
ATL>AVL> Bull City.
I am writing you love notes.
https://bio.site/julianafinch
Emily Bernhardt Troper @emtroper.bsky.social mom of 4 cool adults, pro-choice adoptee, cancer/thoracotomy survivor, former preschool teacher, current postpartum doula, anti-racist!
into books, movies, art, comedy, tea, stories, food, memes, music, dogs, democracy and more.
Paige L A Strickland @plastrickland.bsky.social Adoptee-in-reunion, memoir author, wife, parent, grandparent, and pet mom who loves family, exercise, gardens, reading, movies, travel, Mexican food, Diet Dew, wine, drawing, photography, and summertime #adoptee #author #adopteeinreunion #writer
Relocated Midwesterner @lauragoof.bsky.social Ex-wedding photographer, ttrpg & PC gamer, Baby Scoop adoptee, Scorpio, cat lover & foster, born in Chicago, now lives in the South. Sarcasm free of charge, Mr Boffo enthusiast
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
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
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
@linaleadswithlove.bsky.social @linaleadswithlove.bsky.social I am an MSW and decolonial social worker who specializes in suicide, adoption, mental health and trauma.
Alejandra Hope @alejandrahope.bsky.social Psychotherapist who loves iced lavender lattes; the Kansas Jayhawks; and sad, slow songs.
Pronouns: they/them
Seattle, WA
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 | ํ์ธ์ ์๋ช
์ ์์คํ๋ค Black lives are precious & FREE PALESTINE ALL DAY EVERYDAY
เผ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐เผ @phillyangel13.bsky.social ๐๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ฉ๐๐ก๐ข๐ฉ๐ญ๐ฅ๐ฆ๐ ๐
๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ซ ๐๐ซ๐ก ๐
๐ฏ๐ข๐ก ๐๐๐ช๐ ๐ฌ๐ฃ ๐. ๐ฉโก๐ช ๐ฐ๐ญ๐ฏ๐ข๐๐ก ๐๐ฆ๐ซ๐ก๐ซ๐ข๐ฐ๐ฐ, ๐ฐ๐ฒ๐ญ๐ญ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฑ, ๐๐ด๐๐ฏ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ฐ๐ฐ, ๐ฐ๐ฑ๐ฌ๐ฏ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฐ, ๐๐ฏ๐ฑ, ๐ฉ๐ข๐ค๐๐ ๐ฆ๐ข๐ฐ, ๐๐ก๐ฌ๐ญ๐ฑ๐ข๐ข๐ณ๐ฌ๐ฆ๐ ๐ข๐ฐ #FBLC #Adoptee
*+:๏ฝก.๏ฝกโ ๏ฝก.๏ฝก:+*๐ค*+:๏ฝก.๏ฝกโ ๏ฝก.๏ฝก:+*๐ค*+:๏ฝก.๏ฝกโ ๏ฝก.๏ฝก:+*
https://linktr.ee/phillyangel13
Ben Smith @bk-smith.bsky.social Ling anthro-ist; adoptee; intersex; prof at Sonoma State. Interested in what "socialization" might mean, especially in contexts of coloniality and new technology. More playfully (or sadly): NBA (Charlotte Hornets), dogs, US politics, Chicago.
Catherine Johnston @cathyanne.bsky.social Adoptee, knitter, reader, hiker/runner, thinker, parent, love where I live, good with complicated things.
she/her
April @babypanda.bsky.social Kim made me join ๐ซข
Adult transracial and intercountry Adoptee ๐จ๐ณ
I enjoy cross stitching and yappin about my dogs (Eevee & Clementine) ๐๐ถ
TikTok: @/stitchesbyapril โ๏ธ
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
Sam @mxsamb.bsky.social they/them
End genocide everywhere.
disabled. queer. non-binary. Korean transracial adoptee. they/them ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ๐ฐ๐ท
Sara Nicola Ruth @saranicolaruth.bsky.social #AdopteeAnthropology ๐ฅ | โWeโre here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it isโ - Kurt Vonnegut
Dave Sanchez-Brown @davesanchezbrown.bsky.social Adoptee. Evolving Writer. Amateur Cultural Anthropologist.
B.K. Jackson @bkjackson.bsky.social Writer/Editor/Coachโeditor of the anthology Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship; Founder, Severancemag.com
shannon @shanaries.bsky.social big fan of my dog, coffee, coziness, and reading.
(c)(3) ops director.
adoptee.
chicago.
@prismatic-barrier.bsky.social @prismatic-barrier.bsky.social photon_barrier on twt. Adoptee from India living in Sweden. Two-time university dropout. Usually confused.
Old moots, please help me make this new place bearable!
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
Yong Sun @gullach.bsky.social An unproductive artist and long term adoption activist. I block you if you are racist, misogynic terf and/or pro-zionist - even if you don't mean it like that.
Find me in the fediverse: https://helvede.net/@YongSun
No Shoes @noshoes.bsky.social Surfer in the high desert, adopted, she/her, t-inclusive-rf ๐ณ๏ธโ๐
Annalisa Toccara-Jones @annalisatoccara.bsky.social Doctoral researcher in public communication exploring social media, adoptee identity and colonialism // Senior Communication Specialist working in the VCS // Adoptee.
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.
Francesca Behr @franbehr.bsky.social Single Mom of 2 Teenagers and a Border Collie, Adoptee, ACOA, Breast Cancer Survivor, Recovering Catholic, Jersey Girl currently living in North Carolina, Pianist, INFJ, Late-diagnosed AuDHD, Business Analyst, Artist, Star Wars/LOTR Fan
Ryan @arjay1083.bsky.social Love ๐ถ music, โฝ๏ธfootball - Arsenal ๐ดโช๏ธ ๐ดโซ๏ธLewes FC, ๐ฎ๐น๐ช๐ธ๐ฉ๐ช language learning and ๐ฅช food.
Lisa Grimm @lisagrimm.com DAM nerd. Nat'l Library of Ireland Board. USian in Dublin. Beer judge & podcaster @beerladiespod & blog @weirdodublinpubs. Ex-archaeologist/archivist. Runner. Theatre nerd. Whovian. Transit enthusiast. Geek mom to cats/humans. She/her. lisagrimm.com
Marie Gardom Lam @scribbleyoga.bsky.social Marie Gardom ๆ , Adoptee Abolitionist, in reunion across oceans, intercountryadopteevoices.com, iNNERSHiP Coach, INFJ, garden lover, Chindian Malaysian, atheist and cat tourist destination https://linktr.ee/mariegeraldinelam
Amy Breeman @acbrunnergirl.bsky.social Blogger, jogger mommy, international trade guru, lover of doing good, adoptee
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
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.
Dead.Fish.Eyes @winternightskies.bsky.social ๐จ๐ณ ๐ง๐ฉ Former Foster Youth. Sometimes I make art.
@arundohle.bsky.social @arundohle.bsky.social 
JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social She/her. Also known as Harlow's Monkey ๐ฅ๐งถ
JackieFrancesca @jackiefrancesca.bsky.social Adoptee. Americanus Domesticus Supplii. Author. Amateur golfer. Child Advocate. Educator. Only-oldest-middle Child. Wildflower.
Answer Grape.
๐ฅง suzanne ๐ฅง @425suzanne.bsky.social tabletop games + app games + pie + AsAm Adoptee + She/Her = ruining games one skeet at a time. as seen on History's The Toys That Built America. hates puns - but in a fun way. @saltandsass.bsky.social. i keep 3 things: secrets, promises, and grudges.
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
Roquentin @cultofmany.bsky.social Social Worker against the machine. Adoptee. <she/her>
~Trying to live well and do good in the face of calamity.~
hannah ๐ฟ @hnagarne.bsky.social ๐ tn โ nova. // she/her. chinese adoptee. // cats, tv, nwsl, etc.
Adoptee, estranged (Chaws) @saltntights.bsky.social Chronically ill, plantaholic, ex-evangelical, poet, adoptee, raging queer.
guest on treaty 6 territory. Free Palestine!! ๐
Kristin Sparkle @therealksparkle.bsky.social She/Her
Podcaster, Writer, Social Media & Event Coordinator, Mermaid, TR adoptee, real life Twilight Sparkle โจ
Viorica @booblessadoptee.bsky.social Romanian adoptee. Michigan raised. Flattie. Previvor. CHEK2. Crazy Cat Lady. Writer. Tattoos.
Daisy @rapeconception.bsky.social Justice Campaigner #DaisysLaw. #BornFromRape. #TheSecondVictim @audibleuk Podcast documentary. Black ๐ฏ๐ฒ transracial #Adoptee born from child rape. Pro-choice.
Myrtle McK @myrtletee.bsky.social ๐ณ๏ธโ๐ Mombi โช๏ธ SW Engineer โช๏ธ Adoptee โช๏ธ Cosplay Nerd โช๏ธ Friend of Bill โช๏ธ Gen X โช๏ธ Ukulele addict โช๏ธ Lib/Progressive โช๏ธ Bowie Stan โช๏ธ They/Them โช๏ธ ๐๐ค๐๐ค
Jill Daviau ๐ท @neithskye.bsky.social Canadian. Adoptee. Atheist. Long hair enthusiast. She/her. I never know what to say here. I love barbershop quartets. #AdopteeVoices No DMs please, unless adoption related.
Lucky.Reject @annathereject.bsky.social Human. Artist. Author. YA adoptee graphic novel in production.
https://luckyreject.art
Baby Girl L @babygirll.bsky.social #adoptee in reunion, artist/photographer, skier, native Texan living in Colorado, mother of two
๐ท๐ง๐ผโโ๏ธ๐ณ๐ธ๐บ๐๏ธ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐๏ธ
Lulu, among other names @lulu2.bsky.social here to amplify & add to #adoptee voices. anarchist who builds systems for work. city kid w/bog witch energy. trying out healing while the world crumbles.
Mary Bowers @eatbemary.bsky.social I built the infrastructure. Now I advocate for the people crossing through it. ๐ฌ Directing my first documentary.
๐ฐ๐ท๐บ๐ธ Competitive Eater, Alumni. ๐ฆ Squid Game: The Challenge. marybowers.carrd.co
dr.kwittman @kwittman.bsky.social Community eng.+sustainability pro & historian. Knitter, runner, & adoptee rights activist. Cubs fan & cat mom. MS-born, Midwesterner at heart.
๐ ko-fi.com/kwittman
Interests: history of integration @ community colleges.
she/her/dr.
Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social Adoptee, ATMOM Podcast Co-Host, adoptee, YA/Childrenโs book Author, budding writer, FinTech EAโฆ.past ice cream trucker.Hiker, dog
/animal lover, kayaker & supporter of ALL people. #adopteevoices
Patti @pattinh.bsky.social Unapologetically left of center, Geocacher, Traveler, Star Wars Fan, Star Trek Fan, Adoptee, History Buff, Disney Nerd, and more! #LFGM
Reviewer & Blogger: https://thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/
Claude Cowan @claudecowan1.bsky.social Real socialist, not the โpretendโ sort. Seminary alum. Christian radical. I like chocolate chip cookies & books. I love democracy but despise fascism. A warning: If you promote/glorify violence, I will ๐ซ your account.
Jen McRae @girlwith2names.bsky.social Australian domestic adoptee, mum to 3 humans, married to a saint, advocate for survivors of forced adoption, principle petitioner forced adoption WA inquiry (2024), TEDx talker, former reg nurse 30 years.
Mara Or Christine @maraorchristine.bsky.social Survivor of Legalized Human Trafficking/Activist
AAAFC Alumni
Animal Rights Activist
Disney Fanatic
Freedom Fighter
I love Ukraine ๐บ๐ฆ
๐ณ๏ธโ๐
No DMโs No Porn
NATO please help us.
Mirella Stoyanova @mirellastoyanova.bsky.social Writer, therapist. Recovering perfectionist. Adoptee.
Words @writeordiemag @huffpost @businessinsider & more.
Mostly on IG @mirellastoyanova.
mirellastoyanova.com
Stacey Wedlake @staceyaw.bsky.social Digital equity, info & society researcher UW (Seattle) iSchool based in Bay Area | UAW 4121 | tweets don't represent employer | MPA / MLIS | she/her | 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.
Not A Blank Slate @saoirsesmeersha.bsky.social โSEER-shuhโ. She/her. Queer woman, adoptee for abolition, mom of three, and guardian of cats. Terrible bio author. Hope to connect with urban gardeners, fountain pen geeks, and fiber craft friends.
Kailee Pedersen @kaileepedersen.bsky.social THE MINIMALIST (St. Martin's '26)
PASTORALE (Burnside Review '25)
SACRIFICIAL ANIMALS (St. Martinโs + Titan '24)
writer/opera singer/swe | ๐ณ๏ธโ๐๐จ๐ณ adoptee | she/her
rep: Paul Lucas @ Regal Hoffmann
kaileepedersen.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, ๐ #writingcommunity, #litagent, #adopteerights #feminist, #LBGTQ. Blog: www.myadoptedlife.com โ๏ธโ๏ธ๐ท ๐ฆ
Amanda Gick @amandagick.bsky.social Adoptee, feminist, mom, podcast and audio book nerd
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
Caedwyn67 @caedwyn67.bsky.social Adoptee, adoption abolitionist, avid reader and quilter, anti-theist. She/Her.
Brent Snavely @brentasnavely.bsky.social Domestic Transracial Adoptee
isaac @sevier.io Posting about electricity and how we can care for one other. Building @publicgrids.org. SF. they.
Latest: โWhy public power campaigns win"
https://www.isaacsevier.com/notes/public-power-san-francisco-new-york-shrestha-mamdani-organize/
Hello Kitty Law @hellokittylaw.bsky.social Public defender. Abolish the bar. Be more than kind. Adoptee.
KimchiSeoul @kimchiseoul.bsky.social Transracial Korean Adoptee. Writer. Educator. Mother. Puppy mom. ๐ถ Daegu> Seoul >Minneapolis Free Palestine ๐ฐ๐ท๐ซถ๐ฝ๐ต๐ธ
Rebekah #CitizenshipForAdoptees Henson @bekhenson.bsky.social ๐ถItโs me! Hi! ๐ Iโm Rebekah! Itโs me!๐ถ #AdopteeRightsAreHumanRights #CitizenshipForAdoptees ๐บ๐ธ๐ฎ๐ช๐ต๐ธ๐ฑ๐ง๐บ๐ฆ
linktr.ee/bekhenson
http://spot.fund/EmergencyHousingUrgentNeed
Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social #Adoptee, AASECT certified sex therapist, retired psych professor at Montgomery College. Baby Scoop Era Adoptee
Author of โThe Feminist Handbookโ
www.joannebagshaw.com
#writingcommunity
Instagram/threads @joanne.bagshaw
Lego Lost At Sea @legolostatsea.bsky.social Writer, beachcomber, all at sea. Founder of the award-winning Lego Lost At Sea project. Current Archaeology Rescue Project of the Year. Author of Adrift, The Curious Tale of the Lego Lost At Sea. Cornwall. MD ANT.
Anxious Rage @anxiousrage.blacksky.app She/her.๐AP. Earnestposter. Family Preservation. Abolition. Reproductive Justice. Plants. I like to make things.
Jean Schantz @jean-schantz.bsky.social Adoptee, Mom, Grandma, Dog Mom
๐Harvest Oak ๐ @harvestoak.bsky.social FREE PALESTINE
Unable to donate due to poverty
Indigenous Asian (Baraba Tatar, Komi, and Chuvash) exmormon dyke who doesnโt like TERFS. She/her. 24 years old. Ungrateful adoptee.
๐ท๐บ โ> ๐บ๐ธ
Living on Iroquois and Algonquin land.
Mick Nagle @mickn.bsky.social No longer working, busier than ever
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.
Humans Are Greater Than Money @humans-are-greater.bsky.social Succinct bites of wisdom, insights, advice, and motivation.
We're an informal group of volunteers who believe in the power of human effort over wealth. Since 1990, we've been making a real-world difference.
Jim Acosta @jimacosta.bsky.social Independent Journalist. Host of โThe Jim Acosta Showโ on Substack, YouTube and Apple Podcasts: Former Chief WH Correspondent. Author. https://substack.com/@jimacosta?r=lpd3z&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile Inquiries: go to jimacosta.com
Freya Bailes @freyabailes.bsky.social Associate Professor in Music Psychology. Programme leader of the MA/PGDip/PGCert in Music and Wellbeing, and MA Applied Psychology of Music at the University of Leeds.
Oboist.
Camilla Priede @camillapriede.bsky.social Senior University Teacher. Lifelong Learning Sheffield. e-bike convert, tuba playing. views-own etc.
1Adoptee @1adoptee.bsky.social They/them Anti adoption/ child torture survivor/ AUdhd/ lifelong misdiagnosed #DanandTim