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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Thank you! We can’t believe it either!

Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Our season 9 finale is out. We had a great conversation with Angela Tucker. I will miss this beautiful book. It is so important. #adoptees www.adoptionthemakingofme.com

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Love this. We will come east in the fall.

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Adoptees taking over the Central Coast of CA for an incredible weekend of connection. Sarah and I are still pinching ourselves. Was it real? It was so good! @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social www.adoptionthemakingofme.com

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Our panel included @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social (co- host), @thesusanito.bsky.social @gretchensisson.bsky.social @monicahallauthor.bsky.social, Kristal Parke, Greg Gentry and Chris Williams. Adoptees sharing, educating and connecting in California! www.adoptionthemakingofme.com

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

What a weekend! We (ATMOM )-hosted a live podcast event featuring an incredible panel, Liz DeBetta performing Un-M-Othered, guest:Chris Williams, Jeff Forney with the Innocent People Project and Damon Davis as our emcee & moderator. The entire weekend was adoptees connecting in community. Amazing!❤️

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

This was an amazing time. I’m still blown away by it all.

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

You can still grab a ticket to our Live Podcast Event on the Central Coast of California, happening on March 8th in Atascadero. This is going to be an amazing day of community, learning, laughter, and connection. — www.eventbrite.com/e/live-podca...

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Will Ragland @citizenwillis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Just making sure everyone saw what the former Social Security Administrator told CNBC on Saturday...

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MacTraff @mactraff.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

If you get a chance please read @louisebrowne.bsky.social A really lovely essay. Thank You.

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

This made my day. Thank you. 🥰

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 11/02/2025

the question is never “why do adoptees deserve their own birth records;” it is always “why does anyone else deserve to take them away.” 🥚

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I felt like I was cheating for years.

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

I haven’t been keeping up on this platform much and I want to. It seems the safe new place to be. Still figuring out the ins and outs. Sharing my recent Substack here today. open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...

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The Man on the Corner

A true story...

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I keep thinking about these important and powerful words by Audre Lorde. I first encountered them while reading our current book (S9) for our podcast, Adoption: The Making of Me. The book is: You Should Be Grateful, by Angela Tucker. These words keep coming to me.

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Oh! I vaguely remember. You are the best. ;)

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Some hearts remain closed Compassion waits quietly Bitter words fall past ~My morning haiku ~Art: Alexander Milov at Burning Man

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Saying yes to a challenge and getting out a new essay. A bit insecure about this one. Hence, the challenge. open.substack.com/pub/louisebr...

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River

An essay of places remembered and the pull to know who we are...

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Speaking of healthcare. Let's make @bsky.app the platform that fights misinformation. Some great follows are @drsusanoliver.bsky.social @jsm2334.bsky.social @therealtruther.bsky.social Let's get them more followers and engagement than other platforms and let health science accounts find a home

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Looks good! We have a podcast (9 seasons over 4 years) for adoptees. Adoption:The Making of Me. Please DM me- have a question.

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Freddy Tran Nager @professorfreddy.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

L.A.'s residential writer emeritus, Chris Erskine, pens his thoughts on the #LosAngeles fires and their aftermath. There's sadness, there's concern, and there's hope. chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s... #AltaDena #PalisadesFire #EatonFire #writing

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So Much Loss | Chris Erskine LA

Holding out hope in the face of ridiculous misfortune is the most-admirable human trait I can think of.

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

This beautiful post by Chris Erskine. He was one of my favorite LA Times columnists for years. I remember when he suffered the loss of his son and we all followed along with him. He let us into his deepest emotions then and now. He’s so poignant. chriserskinela.com/2025/01/11/s...

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So Much Loss | Chris Erskine LA

Holding out hope in the face of ridiculous misfortune is the most-admirable human trait I can think of.

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Janine Baer 🌈 ☮️ 🕊️ 🌁 🌻 🔯 @janinebaer.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Shout out to a few people included in the video clip of The Making of Me Podcast— @louisebrowne.bsky.social @sarahreinhardt.bsky.social and @steveinskeep.bsky.social 🥚 Thanks to Paul Kimball and the California Alliance for Adoptee Rights for making this video. 🎬

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Hi! My first share here. I am already finding friends from the other sites. We started reading You Should Be Grateful by Angela Tucker on our Podcast this week. I LOVE this Adoptee Manifesto that she sent us. I am going to frame it!

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Same. For me personally it also doesn’t mean I don’t love my family. I do and I’m reclaiming myself. It is my right.

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 14/11/2024

64 now! Let’s keep growing it! Please subscribe! Tell me if you want to be added! 🥚

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Bony 🦴 Skeletino 💀 @notalegalrecord.net · 13/11/2024

This whole thread. I would suggest that in addition to the forms of family violence described here, we add the entire #adoption industry, which took its modern form less than a century ago, in no small measure owing to the tireless efforts of a literal child thief and trafficker named Georgia Tann.

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Georgia Tann - Wikipedia

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Louise Browne @louisebrowne.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Just for fun. My helpers at work. They sure snore loudly!

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