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JaeRan

@jaeran.bsky.social
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She/her. Also known as Harlow's Monkey 🥚🧶

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Michigan Adoptee Rights Coalition @michiganadoptees.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A Louisville judge says Jonah Bevin, adopted son of ex-Gov. Matt Bevin, can intervene in his parents' divorce. He cites abuse in teen homes and an invalid degree. Bevin, who pushed adoption reform as governor, adopted Jonah from Ethiopia in 2012. 🥚
courier-journal.com
Judge lets Matt Bevin's adopted son seek child support, denies request to seal divorce
A court hearing should be held to determine what relief the adopted son of Matt and Glenna Bevin could be entitled to, a judge has ruled.
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Karen Pickell @karenpickell.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is alarming. "Beginning about a month ago, USCIS started to withhold and redact large portions of my clients’ A Files, sometimes withholding more than 80 percent of all pages in the file...." #immigration #adoption #adoptees #citizenship
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NPR @npr.org · 19/04/2025
Among those fearful of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are adoptees who grew up thinking they were U.S. citizens — only to find out years later, in adulthood, they're not.
npr.org
She grew up believing she was a U.S. citizen. Then she applied for a passport
Among those fearful of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are adoptees who grew up thinking they were U.S. citizens — only to find out years later, in adulthood, they're not.
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Rosita Gonzales did a podcast episode about it podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
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I am Gemma.
Podcast Episode · Bless Yer Lil’ Ol’ Heart · 03/26/2025 · Bonus · 11m
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
True. That's how Gloria Anzdaldúa describes herself. From my reading of her work I don't think she identifies as xian but I could be wrong
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Also - We used forgiveness based on a queer Chicana feminist scholar so not inspired by wyt xian philosophy
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
I am part of it and we know some adoptees don't like that part. We have actually adapted that last touchstone - in the process of presenting this adapted model soon based on our research and feedback.
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
For more about the Adoptee Consciousness Model: adopteeconsciousness.com
adopteeconsciousness.com
Adoptee Consciousness Model
Supporting adoptees process of critical consciousness
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Thank you, Imani Cruzen for talking with me about the Adoptee Consciousness Model 🥚 and the investigation into fraud in Korean adoptions. Great to see adoptee scholar Kim Park Nelson and Korean American scholar Richard Lee also quoted. www.twincities.com/2025/04/05/m...
twincities.com
MN adoptees respond to fraud reports in South Korean adoption programs
Following a nearly three-year investigation, a South Korean commission in late March shared that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program with widespread frau…
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 04/04/2025
BREAKING: South Korea’s Constitutional Court removes impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office. The unanimous decision comes four months after Yoon threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.
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South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office over ill-fated declaration of martial law
South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday, four months after he threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law and sending troops to parliament in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
They never thought we would come back. 🥚 www.koreatimes.co.kr/opinion/2022...
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Dialogues with Adoptees: Let's make adoptees' rights mainstream - The Korea Times
gettyimagesbankThis article is the 30th in a series about Koreans adopted abroad. Apparently, many Koreans never expected that the children they had sent away through adoption would return as adults w...
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Marion County FL United @mcflunited.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
You've been voting, you've been protesting. What else can you do to make your community a better place? Check out this handy doc listing all kinds of actions you can take - mutual aid, libraries and schools, political education, advocacy, and more!
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
I feel this so much.
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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Did you know that Kit Myers' book, The Violence of Love, is available for FREE/open access?? 🥚You can read it now!! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-vi...
ucpress.edu
The Violence of Love by Kit Myers - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 18/02/2025
she is an intercountry #adoptee from China; she has two heart conditions and she requires a transplant; her hospital will not approve the transplant until her adopters agree to her receiving flu and COVID vaccines, which they adamantly refuse to do. She is in heart failure.
yahoo.com
JD Vance’s relative, 12, refused heart transplant over vaccine status
Adaline Deal’s mom says she decided her daughter wouldn’t need a Covid-19 and flu jab because ‘the Holy Spirit put it on our hearts’
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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.” Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
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Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere
What’s more, we’re expanding.
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI. apnews.com/article/blac...
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NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.
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Adoptee Advocates of Michigan @aaom-adoptees.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
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South Korean adoptees struggle with US citizenship policies
Adoptees caught between 2 countries' past policies, leaving some stateless - Anadolu Ajansı
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Michigan Adoptee Rights Coalition @michiganadoptees.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
www.buzzfeed.com/ajanibazile/... #adopteesky
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Black People Who Were Adopted By White Parents Are Sharing Their Experiences, And It's A Tough Read
"It’s rough growing up when people keep telling you 'you don’t act Black' yet you don’t look white. It could be awkward going to extended family gatherings with people looking at you like you don’t fi...
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
This is what I think about as well. You might feel there is little you can do, but you can document, record, write; we can share what we are seeing, reading, hearing. We are history, not just gov data.
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The Imprint @theimprintnews.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
Researchers are documenting the experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native women whose children were adopted or placed in foster care.
imprintnews.org
Researchers Study Native Women Whose Children Were Adopted
Researchers are documenting the experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native women whose children were adopted.
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Hoarse Whisperer @therealhoarse.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
The only immigrant trying to destroy the country.
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
Thank you! Sari Nordland's Melpomene from her book!
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
These are great ideas! I have to admit I wasn't into the ESC but now I want to make one!
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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
two drafts
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
“In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.” Maxine Hong Kingston What are you creating? For me it's hand-knit socks 🧶 and submitting an article about adoptee consciousness 🥚
My feet in a pair of blue lace hand-knit socks.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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Adoptee Advocates of Michigan @aaom-adoptees.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Join AU for an open discussion on immigration and citizenship issues affecting Transnational Adoptees. Stay informed about issues impacting our community and get updates on registration by subscribing to the AU newsletter: buff.ly/3WCiARO
Open Discussion. Immigration and Citizenship for Transnational Adoptees. Save the Date February 12th 2025 4pm PT, 6pm CT, 7pm ET
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
New published study about primary care physician's approach to treating adult adoptees. 🥚 (as well as others with limited family medical history) www.annfammed.org/content/23/1...
annfammed.org
A Qualitative Study of Primary Care Physicians’ Approaches to Caring for Adult Adopted Patients
PURPOSE Adoption has lifelong health implications for 7.8 million adopted people and their families in the United States. The majority of adoptees have limited family medical history (LFMH). Primary c...
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
I believe that!
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
Yeah www.shbb.org/history
shbb.org
Our Story | Safe Haven Baby Boxes — Safe Haven Baby Boxes
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adrienne maree brown @adriennemareebrown.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
we will keep track of all the changes, fight in every way we can, and deepen into our visions. but find your grief practice. so many people are going to suffer and die in so many unnecessary ways in the short term because of the decisions and moves being made. learn to feel your grief as we go.
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I will never get over the fact the person behind this mass campaign is an adoptee
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
This is becoming absurd—federal employees are now being told to remove pronouns from their email signatures. We will always stand by our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, no matter how many things we’re asked to delete or change. Inclusivity is at the core of who we are.
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Love that!
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Sure, back when I was younger and could t afford a Costco membership or buying in bulk, my family members would split things up. And not everything has to be split up. Maybe you buy honey somewhere else 🤷🏻‍♀️
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
I wonder if this could be a community opportunity for folks to group together and split up orders, those with cars could do the pick ups, etc. kind of like making it a co-op scenario!
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
And we seem to have collectively forgotten www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...
theatlantic.com
An American Catastrophe
The secret history of the U.S. government’s family-separation policy
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
So many important books and articles documenting family separation
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
The Baby Thief by Barbara Bisantz Raymond www.hbgacademic.com/titles/barba...
hbgacademic.com
The Baby Thief
For almost three decades, renowned baby-seller Georgia Tann ran a children's home in Memphis, Tennessee -- selling her charges to wealthy clients nationwide,...
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
A Generation Remived by Margaret Jacobs www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/978...
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A Generation Removed - Nebraska Press
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco against baby...
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Read The Orphan Trains by Molly Holt www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/bison-books/...
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The Orphan Trains - Nebraska Press
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Not at all, I appreciate it!!
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Thanks for proving the 🥚! I forgot 😂
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
So glad to get my copy today! I had the honor of providing a blurb. This is an essential contribution to critical adoption scholarship @kit-myers.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/the-vi...
ucpress.edu
The Violence of Love by Kit Myers - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
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Susan Kiyo Ito @thesusanito.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Hey SF Bay Area adoptees: I’m so excited to be in conversation with Kit Myers on March 3 at SF State University— would love to see you there 🥚🧾🍃
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
I go back all the time to the film A Bugs Life and I show the scene of Hopper telling the other grasshoppers they need to make the ants forget they outnumber the grasshoppers in my classes
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JaeRan @jaeran.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
From @theimprintnews.bsky.social Georgia Advocates Hope to Ease Adoptees’ Access to Their Original Birth Certificates imprintnews.org/top-stories/...
imprintnews.org
Advocates Fight for Adoptee Birth Certificate Access in Georgia
Under current Georgia law, original birth records are “sealed and locked” once an adoption is finalized. A bill expected to this year aims to change that.
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Farnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
Six sisters separated and adopted by different families. Reunited, now they're trying to find their brother. Adoptees have every right to know their kinship and separation story, but adoption isn't about the children. 🥚😡 #AdopteeSky www-today-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.toda...
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Sisters' Search For Long-Lost Brother Goes Viral
"He's the missing piece."
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