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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC

@joannebagshaw.bsky.social
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#Adoptee, AASECT certified sex therapist, retired psych professor at Montgomery College. Baby Scoop Era Adoptee Author of “The Feminist Handbook” www.joannebagshaw.com #writingcommunity Instagram/threads @joanne.bagshaw

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KayelaWrites @kwrights.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Why is it of no consequence that most women who don't get an abortion actually want to parent their child? Why is it inconsequential to know that most women considering #adoption would keep their baby if they were given just $1,000? Why do these questions not matter to you, progressives? They should
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
"Debunking attachment theory or any other generally respected psychological theory won’t solve the problem of using psychological theories to support family separation. Rather than toss out misused theories, better solutions exist at the policy level." open.substack.com/pub/joanne/p... #adoptee
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The Misuse of Psychological Expertise in Child Welfare
The Politics of Foster Care and Adoption
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
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Title X and Baby Scoop Era 2.0
The Trump administration’s fertility-first agenda revives an old system of reproductive coercion, family separation, and control over women’s lives.
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
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Farnad Darnell, PhD @docdarnell.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
@atrupar.com @markhamillofficial.bsky.social @muellershewrote.com @kevinmkruse.bsky.social @yasharali.bsky.social @altnps.bsky.social @katmabu.bsky.social @adamkinzinger.substack.com She is a dear friend, and her story needs to be shared. This is an injustice! apnews.com/article/iran...
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She was an orphan adopted from Iran by a US veteran. The Trump administration wants to deport her
A woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran, who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian, is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriousl...
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
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Is it Trauma, or am I just Difficult?
The Myth of the Difficult Adoptee
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Adoptee Rights Law Center @adopteerights.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
A newly introduced Iowa bill requires post-adoption interviews with the adoptive parents and the adopted person, including a "face-to-face interview with the adopted person conducted outside the presence of the parent named in the final adoption decree." 🥚 www.legis.iowa.gov/legislation/...
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Iowa Legislature - BillBook
Information pertaining to the Iowa Legislature as well as the Executive and Judicial branch in as much as they relate to the legislative branch
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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 22/01/2026
NEW: An Atlanta-area crisis pregnancy center has raked in more than $1 million from an unusual source: the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The CPC is opening a maternity home, worrying advocates that residents may be coerced into relinquishing children for adoption. @autonomynews.co
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One Crisis Pregnancy Center Has Received $1.1 Million in Federal Housing Funds Since 2020
A Georgia anti-abortion organization is building a maternity home. Public opposition surfaced allegations of false advertising and medical licensing issues—and resulted in cease and desist letters.
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Paula - Defend Survivors @defendsurvivors.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
Being an adoptee is spending your life being told you don’t have the right to be upset about anything. You’re lucky to be here and should just be grateful. You don’t matter you’re just a ‘gift’ to someone else or you were saved so just be grateful and be quiet. #adopteevoices
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Childhood emotional neglect can fracture identity and shape adult relationships. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
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Why Childhood Neglect Still Shows Up in Adult Relationships
Childhood emotional neglect can fracture identity and affect adult relationships. Learn how relational therapy helps repair the self.
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 10/01/2026
Sex and relationships are often where adoptees’ deepest questions get lived out. #adoptee open.substack.com/pub/joanne/p...
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
So a lot of these people were really radicalized during BLM. I think they are trying to create a do-over. This is very much a first person player game for them. Yes there’s some electoral interference shaping up & creating slave labor but more than a little bit of a BLM redo.
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
#adoptee
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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 27/12/2025
will also add - yes, this is my personal crusade - that turning podcasts into videos implicitly asks women to once again make more effort than men, as the bar for "camera-ready" for one gender is obviously higher than for the other
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MJ @moonjoo.bsky.social · 26/12/2025
www.koreaherald.com/article/1064... #adoption 🥚
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Korea moves to end overseas adoptions by 2029
The South Korean government is preparing to end overseas adoptions by 2029, shifting responsibility for adoption from private agencies to the state in a move of
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Melissa Martin @doubleemmartin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 14/12/2025
#adoption is wealth transfer from the have-nots to the haves.
COLLINS: I know 100%, if I had had $5,000, I would have gotten a cheap car - right? - and I would have raised my son.

RAPHAEL: CUB members want to help other women avoid adoptions solely because they lack support or financial resources. For NPR News, I'm T.J. Raphael in Atlanta.
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Radical rehumanization for adoptees is an individual and collective process in which we reclaim our full personhood by centering #adoptee voices, asserting our rights to identity, exposing & rejecting the racialized… open.substack.com/pub/joanne/p...
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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 12/11/2025
Here it is. The Republicans and Trump are demanding that we either put more women in jail for abortion or let them bleed out in hospital parking lots OR they’ll starve this country and bring the working class to its knees.
ABORTION RIGHTS
Republicans demand tougher abortion restrictions to extend Obamacare funds
Democrats say that's a nonstarter, arguing there are already limits on abortion access. The dispute could torpedo a deal, leading to higher health insurance premiums for millions.
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
#Adoptees are diagnosed at higher rates with ADHD due to interaction of genes with environmental stressors such as systemic inequities and trauma related to adoption. A little sciencey but I was geeking out on the research. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...
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Why Adoptees Have Higher Rates of ADHD
Adoptees’ higher ADHD rates reflect genetic, prenatal, and social factors, highlighting the need for trauma-informed, adoption-competent care and systemic equity.
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
#adoptee
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
#adoptee
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Joanne Bagshaw (@outsideradoptees)
Parents, Grandparents, and adult siblings are often the first people who push a birth mother towards relinquishment which reinforces social expectations of motherhood and projects the family's collect...
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
#adoptee
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Michigan Adoptee Rights Coalition @michiganadoptees.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
November is National Adoptee Awareness Month. CS Wright reminds us that adoptee and immigrant rights are intertwined, and that reclaiming identity and belonging calls for activism, healing, and solidarity together. 🥚
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Reclaiming Our Place as Immigrants | Adoptees United Inc.
To come out of the fog, as adoptees, is to not only confront the personal myths of adoption but to name the political ones too.
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Nicole Chung @nicolechung.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
“Dozens of adoptees have been deported to their countries of birth in recent years, according to the Adoptee Rights Law Center. A man born in South Korea and adopted as a child by an American family—only to be deported to his country of birth because of a criminal record—took his own life in 2017.”
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The American adoptees who fear deportation to a country they can't remember
Thousands of US adoptees do not have citizenship despite being brought to the country as babies decades ago. Now many fear deportation.
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DetroitRudyOwens @detroitrudyowens.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
The head of the nation's largest pro-adoption industry group, Ryan Hanlon, launches lies and misinformation to disparage mostly the people who are the most harmed by adoption: #Adoptees. The voices of adoptees are making a difference. Discount this garbage. Speak up. ifstudies.org/blog/beyond-...
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Beyond Hashtags: What the Anti-Adoption Movement Gets Wrong
We need a healthier and truthful conversation about the benefits and challenges of adoption.
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
When an adoptive family has unresolved intergenerational trauma, the adopted child can be drawn into those dynamics, and out of loyalty to the adoptive family system, can take on the suffering or burdens of family members.
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Divided Loyalty: Using Family Constellations to Understand Adoptee's Experience of Generational Trauma
What happens when an adoptee gets pulled into the intergenerational trauma of their adoptive family?
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
I wrote this blog a few years ago, and yes it still irks me. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-... #adoptee
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Adoption Is Not a Solution for Abortion
Adoption rates in the U.S. are relatively low and steadily decreasing because of cultural changes, not Roe vs. Wade.
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
“Sometimes I worry about adoptees who share their story publicly before they’ve processed its impact. I can hear and feel them trying to keep the trauma at bay, and I worry—for the storyteller and the listener.” #adoptee
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Ethical Storytelling:
A Therapist's Perspective on Adoptee Narratives
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
This is so insane
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
#Shrinking is doing a very poor job with #adoption. It’s truly cringeworthy.
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
NEWS The NYT has obtained an email that Pete Hegseth’s mom sent to her son in 2018. In the email, Penelope Hegseth refers to her son as “an abuser of women.” In an interview with the New York Times, Penelope Hegseth says she regrets sending the email to her son. Full Story: bit.ly/3ZbUs9h
son,
I have tried to keep quiet about your character and behavior, but after listening to the way you made Samantha feel today, I cannot stay silent. And as a woman and your mother I feel I must speak out..
You are an abuser of women — that is the ugly truth and I have no respect for any man that belittles, lies, cheats, sleeps around, and uses women for his own power and ego. You are that man (and have been for years) and as your mother, it pains me and embarrasses me to say that, but it is the sad, sad truth.
I am not a saint, far from it.. so don't throw that in my face,. but your abuse over the years to women (dishonesty, sleeping around, betrayal, debasing, belittling) needs to be called out.
Sam is a good mother and a good person (under the circumstances that you created) and I know deep down you know that. For you to try to label her as "unstable" for your own advantage is despicable and abusive. Is there any sense of decency left in you? She did not ask for or deserve any of what has come to her by your hand. Neither did Meredith.I know you think this is one big competition and that we have taken her side... bunk... we are on the side of good and that is not you. (Go ahead and call me self-righteous, I dont' care)
Don't you dare run to her and cry foul that we shared with us... that's what babies do. It's time for someone (I wish it was a strong man) to stand up to your abusive behavior and call it out, especially against women
We still love you, but we are broken by your behavior and lack of character. I don't want to write emails like this and never thought I would. If it damages our relationship further, then so be it, but at least I have said my piece. [Redacted]
And yes, we are praying for you (and you don't deserve to know how we are praying, so skip the snarky reply)
I don't want an answer to this... I don't want to debate with you. You twist and abuse everything I say anyway. But... On behalf of all the women (and I know it's many) you have abused in some way, I say... get some help and take an honest look at yourself...
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Trump’s promise of a simpler life and regressive gender norms is unattainable. What happens if his followers ever figure that out? www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/o...
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Opinion | How Trump Tapped Into America’s Online Spaces and Took Control
Trump excelled at tapping into the information ecosystems where minority and young voters express their identity.
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I am beginning to see this at the community college level – – students are accusing me of being political for covering the impact of poverty on families in my child psych class www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/u...
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Florida Tries a Subtler Way to Curb Progressive Ideology: Cut Sociology
Conservatives in Florida have moved from explosive politics to subtler tactics to uproot liberal “indoctrination” in higher education by removing classes like Sociology from core requirements.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/11/2024
not a landslide
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
We need to stay focused this is going to be a long four years.
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bee 🐝 @itsbeebabe.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
the state & failure of women’s healthcare always reminds me that diagnoses of ‘hysteria’ didn’t cease to exist — esp. for women of other marginalised identities — it just goes by different names, different appearances. but the trivialisation & dismissal of women’s pain still very much exists
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Noooooo
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Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
Vaccines do not cause autism.
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Rebecca Traister @rtraister.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
😬 "While waiting for his plate of meat loaf, gravy, and an iceberg wedge at an empty restaurant in Concord, New Hampshire, on the first day of June, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was gently explaining to me that nobody knows whether HIV is the sole cause of AIDS."
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s Inside Job
How a conspiracy-spewing literal Kennedy posing as a populist outsider jolted the Democratic Party.
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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 12/11/2024
And what a nasty irony for #adopted and donor-conceived people who are already barred from access to the truth about their biological parentage, and therefore family health history.
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Joanne Bagshaw, PhD, LCPC @joannebagshaw.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Sex therapist, feminist writer and #adoptee
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Adoption Is Not a Family Planning Tool
Framing adoption as a family planning tool decenters the needs of adoptees and the rights of birth parents.
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