Resources
This page is by no means a comprehensive list of resources. It’s just to get started!
Publications
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You Are Holding This
An abolitionist zine for and by adopted, fostered, and trafficked people. The only theme is abolition.
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Tú eres tú / You Are You
Tú eres Tú was originally built to support Latina/x/o foster youth voices. They have expanded to help all foster youth gain self-determination.
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Represent Magazine
A subgroup of Youth Communication, Represent Magazine and YouthComm features stories by teens in foster care.
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Severance Magazine
Severance is a magazine and community for people who’ve been separated from biological family.
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Rise Magazine
Led by parents impacted by the family policing system, Rise aims to support their leadership to dismantle the current family policing system.
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Adoption Quarterly
Adoption Quarterly views adoption from a lifespan perspective, and looks at the psychological and social meanings of the word "family."
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The Journal of the ASAC
Journal of the Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture (ASAC) publishes essays on several topics.
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Gazillion Voices
While no longer in operation, Gazillion Voices provides access to their past work via archival website posts.
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Chain of Life
Chain of Life: a feminist newsletter about adoption ran from 1989-1997.
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Imprint News
The Imprint is an independent daily news outlet focused on the nation’s child welfare and youth justice systems.
Connections
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Harlow's Monkey
This is a longtime blog of the experience of transracial and intercountry adoption from the adopted person’s perspective by JaeRan Kim.
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Pact support group
Adult Adoptees & Former Foster Youth of Color support group.
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Same Race Black Adoptee group
The Same Race Black Adoptee group focuses on the needs of and centers the voices and stories of Same Race Black Adoptees.
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Adoption Mosaic
Adoption Mosaic is a BIPOC woman owned, adoptee-led mission-driven business pushing to see a new future of ethical and conscious adoption.
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Adoptees On
Adoptees On is a gathering of incredible adopted people willing to share their stories about the impact adoption has had on our lives.
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Adoptees Connect
Adoptees Connect is a peer-led, adoptee-centric connect group for adult adoptees with chapters in the U.S. and internationally.
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Adoptee Therapist Directory
This directory includes licensed U.S. mental health professionals who identify as adoptees and work with adoptees and/or adoptive families.
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And We Write!
And We Write! is a creative writing space centering Black, queer and transgender adoptees.
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Trans TRAs Discord Server
This server is a place for trans, nonbinary, and gender questioning transracial adoptees to chat, hangout, and find community.
Advocacy
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First Nations Repatriation Institute
The FNRI’s goal is to create a resource for First Nations people impacted by foster care or adoption to return home and reclaim their identity.
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Adopted, Fostered, and Trafficked folks for abolition
A co-learning space for imagining what the abolition of Family Regulation, Surveillance, Policing, and Separation systems would look like.
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Redwood Collective
A collective of unapologetic, BIPOC transnational adoptees organizing for the abolition of the transnational adoption industrial complex.
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We the Experts: Adoptee speaker series
We the Experts present a monthly panel with a specific theme to amplify adoptee voices. There’s also an ally series that runs quarterly.
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Think of Us
Think of Us is a research & design lab with a goal to fundamentally change how the child welfare system works.
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JMAC for Families
JMACforFamilies works to abolish the child welfare system and to strengthen the systems of supports that keep families and communities together.
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upEND Movement
The upEND Movement is a collaborative movement that works to abolish the existing child welfare system.
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This Land podcast
How a string of custody battles over Native children became a federal lawsuit that threatens everything from tribal sovereignty to civil rights.
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Movement for Family Power
Movement for Family Power works to end the Foster System’s policing and punishment of families and to create a world where the dignity and integrity of all families is valued and supported.
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The Bronx Defenders
The Bronx Defenders is the first institutional provider in the Bronx established to keep families together and to represent and defend parents fighting against the painful and unnecessary removal of their children.