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Rip City Not Rip Off @ripcitynotripoff.bsky.social A data-driven resource promoting a fair Arena deal for Portland and every other city in the US. Sign & share the fan compact: ripcitynotripoff.com/compact
Brett Harper @brettharper.bsky.social #Disabled anti #ChildAbuse and #TroubledTeenIndustry #author & #activist. #Musician & #poet. #Progressive living in #PDX. Check out my #books on #Amazon or my #blog on my website for more info. Brett-Harper.com
Candace Avalos @candaceavalos.bsky.social Blacktina 🇬🇹 organizer at heart, Councilor by choice. 🩷 Fighting for justice, joy, and a future we deserve. ✊🏾 East Portland District 1. Personal page for big thoughts and bigger dreams. 🫶🏾 👉🏾Follow @counciloravalos.bsky.social for official city biz
Taylor Griggs @taylorgriggs.bsky.social Portlander, journalist, bicyclist Writing about transportation/climate/city stuff @portlandmercury.com tgriggs @ portlandmercury dot com She/her
Councilor Candace Avalos @counciloravalos.bsky.social Official account of Portland City Councilor Candace Avalos (she/ella), representing East Portland’s District 1. 🔗 More Info: linktr.ee/counciloravalos 📘 Online Policy: portland.gov/Disclaimer #LiveFromPDXCouncil26 #LiveFromHH26
Portland Bureau of Transportation @pbotinfo.bsky.social Official account for the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT). Report road hazards 24/7 to 503-823-1700. Learn more at https://www.portland.gov/transportation
Portland: Neighbors Welcome @portlandneighborswelcome.org Housing is a human right. Fighting for tenants rights along with four floors and corner stores across Portland for all ages, wages and stages of life. 🏘️
Portland DSA @portlanddsa.bsky.social Democratic Socialists of America of Portland, OR. We organize for power for the working class to build a socialist future. linktr.ee/portlanddsa
Brandon Mullen @brandonmullen.com Dad, public servant, Oregonian. brandonmullen.com
mitch (he/him) @drmitchpdx.bsky.social This is my personal account. Posts here should not be construed as the official government communications of Councilor Mitch Green. “Bald and bearded, middle-aged, plucky data nerd who is also a cuddly cousin of Vladimir Lenin” - Sophie Peel, probably
Councilor Sameer Kanal @councilorkanal.bsky.social Official account for Portland City Councilor Sameer Kanal, District 2 (North/NE Portland). DMs not checked regularly. Reach out through portland.gov/kanal portland.gov/Disclaimer
@jamiegpartridge.bsky.social @jamiegpartridge.bsky.social
pnwpolicyangel aka Angelita 👼 @pnwpolicyangel.bsky.social 🏛️ Portland City Councilor 🇵🇾 Paraguayan Immigrant 💥 Occasional Rabble Rouser ✨This is my personal account✨ 💙 Follow @councilorangelitamorillo for city hall updates 💙 Follow =/= endorsement
Councilor Angelita Morillo @councilormorillo.bsky.social ✊🏼 Formerly houseless anti-hunger advocate 🏛️ Portland City Councilor 🇵🇾 Paraguayan immigrant 💥 Occasional rabble rouser Portland.gov/Disclaimer linktr.ee/councilor.angelita.morillo Follow =/= endorsement!
Alex Zielinski @alexzee.bsky.social Portland city politics reporter, @opb.org Past lives: CA, DC, TX 📬 azielinski@opb.org Signal: alex_zee.03 www.opb.org/author/alex-zielinski/
Mitch Green @councilorgreen.bsky.social Official account for Portland City Councilor Mitch Green from District 4. portland.gov/disclaimer https://linktr.ee/councilorgreen
Councilor Olivia Clark @councilorclark.bsky.social Official account for Portland City Councilor Olivia Clark from District 4
Councilor Zimmerman @councilorzimmerman.bsky.social Official account for Portland City Councilor Eric Zimmerman from District 4. For comments, questions, and concerns please contact me here: https://linktr.ee/councilor.zimmerman
Councilor Tiffany Koyama Lane @councilortkl.bsky.social City Councilor representing District 3 in Portland, Oregon. Public school teacher, union organizer, Japanese American (Yonsei), activist and mama of two.
California Alliance for Adoptee Rights @caladoptees.bsky.social Working to restore the right of unrestricted access to OBCs for all California adoptees https://caallianceforadopteerights.org/ #adopteesky 🥚 #adopteerights DO PASS CA SB 381
Brian Benson @mrbrianbenson.bsky.social Writer, teacher, wanderer. He/him. Books: GOING SOMEWHERE, THIS IS NOT FOR YOU. Essays: Tahoma Review, Pithead Chapel, X-R-A-Y, Sweet, Hippocampus & elsewhere. brianbensonwrites.com
Dae-Na @dae-na.bsky.social I’m a mom, student, teacher, friend.
Sharon @123soffie.bsky.social Retired Dental tech. Help to raise 4 great gran kids
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
Bets Von Count @betsvc.bsky.social Dedicated feline enthusiast, avid reader, music lover, tea drinker, pro-abortion feminist, history fan, Marshmallow, pro adoptee rights, fond of the gin. Si/i. Dublin, Ireland.
The Colour of Belonging @colourofbelonging.bsky.social 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐝𝐨𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐞 💗 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘩𝘢𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴 - 𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘢𝘱𝘦𝘥 𝘣𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺, 𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘴, 𝘭𝘰𝘷𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘺. 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘺 𝘫𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮.
Hyunnie Kim @hyunniejoo.bsky.social Writer with a PhD in history. 🎓 Korean adoptee. 🇰🇷 Poetry published in Lunch Ticket, The Maine Review, & others.🫰🏻 Founder of Saseo.Studio 🌸 She/Her(s)
Leah 수진 Kim @leahsoojinkim.bsky.social Author. Host of the Voices on the Side podcast. Forthcoming book on maternal mental health, by Rowman & Littlefield in 2026. Justice, liberation, then peace.
Chaitra WL @drchaitra.bsky.social Liberation psychologist, Author, Adoptee, Nature lover, Fierce advocate for equity & compassion, Opinions are my own
@eraldo.bsky.social @eraldo.bsky.social https://eraldosouzadossantos.com/
@bunchofmalarkey.bsky.social @bunchofmalarkey.bsky.social
Shine Kim, PhD @shinekimdoc.bsky.social PhD in Education 👸🏻 What is your story? Love your neighbor more than your opinion 💛🌈
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
Haley Radke @adopteeson.bsky.social I’m adopted. I spend my days talking to adoptees. 8 years of those conversations are recorded (It’s a podcast).
@tmoonsnail.bsky.social @tmoonsnail.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.
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.
JDaniel Richer ✊🏿❤️🔱🖤 @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.
@kristyreineke.bsky.social @kristyreineke.bsky.social
1Adoptee @1adoptee.bsky.social They/them Anti adoption/ child torture survivor/ AUdhd/ lifelong misdiagnosed #DanandTim
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
Rosemary’s Enfant @rosemarysenfant.bsky.social Adoptee. Animist. Grow food, share resources. Dog & cat mom. Gen X. Resistance. Connecting the dots. Coexist. Maine. 🔵 🧷 🧚‍♀️
Adoptee Cultural Archives @acadoptees.bsky.social https://adopteeculturalarchives.wordpress.com/ ~ archives by/on international or/and inter-racial adoptee culture reviewed in media ~ archives sur la culture faite par/sur les adopté.e.s à l’international et/ou inter-raciaux dans les medias. (-2015)
@blreview.bsky.social @blreview.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. 📸🎼🔉🏫🗽
H Rowena Alegría @handle.invalid Denver storyteller, speaker, consultant
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
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
Smyth Lai @smythlai.bsky.social
Melissa L. Bennett (she/her) @melissalbennett.bsky.social Writer, storyteller, storylistener, spirit worker, tarot reader, ancestor whisperer, Indigenous Auntie, cat mom, transracial adoptee. Message me for your spiritual needs - my appointments are conducted virtually so I’m here for you no matter where you are.
elaine c. walsh @elainecwalsh.bsky.social End the Duopoly 🎭 Free Palestine 🍉 Adoptee for Abolition ⛓️ Abortion Rights ✊🏼 Human Rights ☮️ Save the Earth 🌍 Protect Nature & Animals 🕊️
kbgreenland @kbgreenland.bsky.social Librarian, former scientist, adoptee, LGBTQ+, gamer, pro cycling fan 😷📚🌈😡 pfp is from the game Gris and header is John Wick checking out a book to his friend at the library
Nelly Delly @marconi333.bsky.social • dsausa.org • btselem.org • thriveaz.org • thebulletin.org • funeyefund.org • tractionpnw.org • aliforneycenter.org • thetrevorproject.org • housingnothandcuffs.org • detentionwatchnetwork.org
Cat Powell-Hoffmann @accidentallylucky.bsky.social Korean Adoptee, Pisces, pocket obsessed, awkward in person, writer Published in the NYTs (Modern Love), HuffPost, Hobart, and storyteller on The Moth podcast
April Quinlan O’Fearraigh @aprilshewill.bsky.social Reading texts playing scrabble trekking outdoors marking something silly dancing guitar strumming ballad singing and still adopted. she/her 🇨🇦🇮🇪🏳️‍🌈
Kristen Annes @krisared.bsky.social
🌈Rev. Pat Raube @patraube.bsky.social She/ her. PCUSA Pastor, singer, mother, adoptee, member of the family, sharing photos and opinions about politics, books, LGBTQ+, and, of course, religion.
Snaff | Foops | Lala @snaffoopsadaisy.bsky.social Hey y'all!! Happy to be here! 📍 Georgia 🍑 USA ⛰️ Southern Appalachia 🤍 Adoptee | in reunion 🐾 I’ve dogs & cats 🎨 Artist + BuJo | #bujotinker 🐔 #StardewValley Please🐝 kind https://lauraweiller.com
Farnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social Foundling. Iranian adoptee. Social psychologist. Nomad.
Renee @adoptee.bsky.social Purchased human being. She/Her. #StopAllHumanTrafficking #StopBuyingUs Best place on earth - Yosemite. #SaveThePlanet 🌎 🌊 🌊 🌊 🌊
Mary Ellen Macdonald @memacdonald.bsky.social Grief and death literacy. Medical Anthropologist in Palliative Medicine, Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada). Check out Griefmatters.ca and TEDx https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBulO8OsQ3M
John Gallaher @jgallaher.bsky.social I write, make pictures, and I edit and read, etc.
Adopted Connor @adoptedconnor.bsky.social Adopted person, activist, marketer, writer. Working on my memoir.
Tory Bae @torybae.bsky.social The Little Asian That Could 🇰🇷🏳️‍🌈 adoptee • mn ⇉ nc 💜 lupus + celiac AuDHD
C.B. Bernard @cbbernard.com Novelist (ORDINARY BEAR, SMALL ANIMALS CAUGHT IN TRAPS), nonfiction writer (CHASING ALASKA). Pacific NW/Alaska expat in Rhode Island exile. Dogs, books, boats. Feet in the ocean, head in the clouds. Find me at www.cbbernard.com.
Karpoozy @karpoozy.bsky.social
Grandiloquent Word of the Day @grandiloquentwords.bsky.social Fancy words, witty descriptions, and vintage illustrations to educate and entertain. My Book! https://wwnorton.com/books/9781682687994 Calendars! https://grandiloquent-word-of-the-day-2026-calendars.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders
Carrie Cahill Mulligan @ccmhats.bsky.social Park ranger turned fiber artist changing the world one felt hat at a time.
Armin Tolentino @armintolentino.bsky.social Poetry, Knicks, boxing, ukuleles, fishing, noodle soups. www.armintolentino.com
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.
Jordan Rosenfeld @jrosenfeldwrites.bsky.social Writer, journalist, editor, teacher, mother, vigorous hand talker. Author of novels, Forged in Grace, Fallout, Women in Red & 6 books on craft of writing. Linktr.ee/jordanr30
Deixis Press @deixispress.bsky.social Independent publisher, award-winning books. EIC: Angel Belsey. Hello Booksky! https://deixis.press https://linktr.ee/deixispress
jeff heavydog @jeffheavydog.bsky.social manicposting pixie dream guy. "quality assurance" aka thing-breaker. he/him but not fussy about it. failed writer. old nerd. on a radicalization journey. some may find me annoying, and that is okay. mischief cryptid. shitposter semifinalist.
Genevieve DeGuzman @gendeguzman.bsky.social Poet & writer based in Portland, OR. Tin House Workshop. StoryStudio. Oregon Lit Fellowship. KARAOKE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (JackLeg Press). https://linktr.ee/genevievedeguzman
Katherine Williams @katherwilliams.bsky.social Lifelong Austinite, Music Lover, Adult Adoptee
Sydnie Dan'el Mares @syddanel.com communications manager at upEND Movement. abolitionist. htx. (she/her) https://linktr.ee/syddanel
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
Anthony 🍉💚 @leviathanwakes.bsky.social Leftist, Gamer, Reader, Cinephile, Music Lover, Creative, Green Party.🔻
Edward Sung @edwardsung.bsky.social The marketplace of ideas put my ideas on clearance.
Cat Wei @catwei.bsky.social poet, writer, dancer writing in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, The Slowdown podcast | Bread Loaf | Tin House linktr.ee/catwei
C @cripsarah.bsky.social @cripsarah.bsky.social
@cloudshoveller.bsky.social @cloudshoveller.bsky.social pnw please don't add me to starter packs
ML Roy (MaLoRoMa on that other platform) @mlroy.bsky.social Massachusetts-based writer, animal lover, adoptee, and believer in a sane world
@linaleadswithlove.bsky.social @linaleadswithlove.bsky.social I am an MSW and decolonial social worker who specializes in suicide, adoption, mental health and trauma.
Andrew Mercer Ontario Reformatory for Females @amreformatory.bsky.social Criminalized Women and Girls’ Ancestral Research: Supporting Descendants of Those Incarcerated or Born at the Institution and Adopted. #PrisonAdoptees #PrisonBorn #PunishedInUtero #Genealogy https://andrewmercerreformatory.org/
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/
D. Carreira Ching, PhD @mistahdonald.bsky.social Award-winning writer, tenured professor, occasional editor, and avid gamer. I share info on literary agents etc. Querying 80k grounded cli-fi novel. Winner of the CMLP 2026 Firecracker Award in Fiction. www.donaldcarreiraching.com
erin @ghostradish.bsky.social Korean adoptee they/them
Kim Tong-hyung @kimtonghyung.bsky.social Covering the Koreas for The Associated Press since 2014. Opinions are mine. Reach me at tkim@ap.org
Jonathan Wittmaier @jonathanwittmaier.bsky.social Writer // Educator // Lactose Intolerant 📍SEA https://www.jonathanwittmaier.com
Jake Eduardo Vermaas @itsalljake.bsky.social 🇵🇭 🇳🇱🇺🇸🦀 ♋️ poet on occupied kānaka maoli lands - Black Lives Matter, protect Mauna Kea, free Palestine, #LandBack
Meals4HeelsPDX @blaqleftistbginnr.bsky.social Portland Oregons only meal delivery service tailored to the Sex Worker community. 2024 @blackwomeninfood Game Changer awardee. 💪🏾Food activism in action Small batch caterer & so much more
Andrea Emerson @acemerson.bsky.social Lover of people, words, good recipes and the liberation of our minds, bodies and spirits