On 13 December 2012, a lawyer wrote to his friend about the difference between a biological son and an adopted one. He wasn’t sure there was a difference. “I can’t imagine feeling any different about…
“The oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors.“Paulo FreireThere is a specific flavor of horror that arrives when you realize the prison guard is wearing…
In 1994, Iomega released the Zip disk. It held 100 megabytes at a time when the floppy disk held 1.44. Seventy times the capacity. The marketing was not subtle about it, and it did not need to be.…
The single was released on 18 February 1991. Yothu Yindi, “Treaty,” Mushroom Records. Written by Mandawuy Yunupingu, Witiyana Marika, Banula Marika, Milkayngu Mununggurr, Stuart Kellaway, Cal…
I have spent the better part of a year giving things names. The Adoptee Paradox. Architecture of Silence. Identity Gravity Well. Administrative Violence. Thirty-six of them now, sitting in a corpus…
What people refuse to believe about adoption isn’t the facts. It’s what the facts say about them.I can tell you the exact shape of the moment someone decides they don’t want to know this anymore. It…
This is a single-source document consolidating a full forensic investigation into the U.S. Administration for Children and Families (ACF), the federal agency inside Health and Human Services that runs…
I wrote about this before there was a name for it back in 2022.In the opening weeks of the invasion, I flagged the risk that children in occupied Ukraine would be moved into Russian territory against…
There’s a particular kind of quiet that happens when you’ve spent a life being told your separation was a good and necessary thing, and then you find the paperwork showing what “good and necessary”…
A century separates Georgia Tann’s Memphis adoption racket from a 2026 YouTube “scam” reveal video, and the mechanism has not moved an inch. Different decades, different technology, different adults,…
