Adoptees Crossing Lines

Operation Stop CPS w/ Amanda Wallace Episode Summary: Amanda Wallace helps families powerfully stop Child Protective Services from stealing their children. In this episode she talk about how you can do it too, how her organization reunited 20+ families...

Operation Stop CPS w/ Amanda Wallace Episode Summary: Amanda Wallace helps families powerfully stop Child Protective Services from stealing their children. In this episode she talk about how you can do it too, how her organization reunited 20+ families, and why we should abolish the belief that the CPS system should even exist. Listen and let’s stop CPS. In this episode, we cover: (00:22) Who is A...

Adoption is Not A Part Of God’s Plan Episode Summary: Some people who adopt say it’s God’s plan for them to adopt. But, they almost never say that God’s plan is for them NOT to have children. This is just one of the many ways people use religion to jus...

Adoption is Not A Part Of God’s Plan Episode Summary: Some people who adopt say it’s God’s plan for them to adopt. But, they almost never say that God’s plan is for them NOT to have children. This is just one of the many ways people use religion to justify human trafficking.  I found out, through an archived article, that I was trafficked by the Church through the One Church, One Child moveme...

Mila's Truth: Navigating Adoption, Liberation, and Community Episode Summary: The Church does an excellent job of silencing you if you oppose them. They’d even hire a marketing company to rebrand adoption so that their business as adoption middlemen ca...

Mila's Truth: Navigating Adoption, Liberation, and Community Episode Summary:  The Church does an excellent job of silencing you if you oppose them. They’d even hire a marketing company to rebrand adoption so that their business as adoption middlemen can continue to thrive. But, it’s not just the Church. The dominant culture is to silence anyone who speaks up against adoption. That was Mila K...

My Journey To Abolition Content Warning: Sexual and Physical Abuse Episode Summary: Every adult in my childhood has failed me, none of them did what they’re supposed to. Every part of the system failed me, it did exactly what it’s supposed to. The syst...

My Journey To Abolition Content Warning: Sexual and Physical Abuse Episode Summary: Every adult in my childhood has failed me, none of them did what they’re supposed to. Every part of the system failed me, it did exactly what it’s supposed to. The system kills children and breaks families, it must be abolished. In this episode, I share how I gradually evolved towards this deep belief starting from...

Navigating Change: A Conversation with Josh Lamers, Co-founder of Collective of Child Welfare Survivors Episode Summary: Adoption is trauma. How do we help surviving children heal the wounds they’ve sustained from the child welfare system? Josh Lamers,...

Navigating Change: A Conversation with Josh Lamers, Co-founder of Collective of Child Welfare Survivors Episode Summary:  Adoption is trauma. How do we help surviving children heal the wounds they’ve sustained from the child welfare system? Josh Lamers, a transracial adoptee, is public enemy #1 for child welfare agencies in Canada. He joins the show to discuss what adoption and child welfare...

Adoptees & Community Episode Summary: Most adoption communities center adoptive parents and foster parents. We are left out of the picture. This doesn’t make sense. This episode is a collection of my thoughts on this matter. “One of the most vital ways...

Adoptees & Community  Episode Summary: Most adoption communities center adoptive parents and foster parents. We are left out of the picture. This doesn’t make sense. This episode is a collection of my thoughts on this matter. “One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance; places where we know we are not alone.” - Bell Hooks In this episode, we c...

Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System Episode Summary: It was when Alan arrived at a home with the cops to remove a child and heard his mother say “Charles, run, they're coming to take you and they're going to sell you to t...

Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System Episode Summary: It was when Alan arrived at a home with the cops to remove a child and heard his mother say “Charles, run, they're coming to take you and they're going to sell you to the white people” that he realized how the trauma of slavery cannot be disentangled from the trauma of family separation. It was in this moment that...

Unveiling Roots: The Journey of Gregory D. Luce, Attorney and Advocate for Adoptee Rights Episode Summary: Us adoptees have to pay thousands of dollars and jump through hoops to unseal our records. This robs us of autonomy, dignity, and equality. Grego...

Unveiling Roots: The Journey of Gregory D. Luce, Attorney and Advocate for Adoptee Rights Episode Summary: Us adoptees have to pay thousands of dollars and jump through hoops to unseal our records. This robs us of autonomy, dignity, and equality.  Gregory D. Luce is an attorney who helps adoptees all across the US go through this hurdle. In this episode we discuss Greg’s personal adoption jou...

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World Episode Summary: More than anyone else, black women get their children kidnapped by the state, by the child “welfare system”. This episode is ab...

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World Episode Summary:   More than anyone else, black women get their children kidnapped by the state, by the child “welfare system”. This episode is about the whys and hows of abolishing a system built to strip families away from their children. Through discussing Torn Apart by Dr. Dorothy R...

Embracing Identity: John's Journey of Self-Discovery Episode Summary: Reuniting with his birth family showed John McCormick, a transracial adoptee, a new world. He physically felt a relaxation he had never felt before, he connected with music and art l...

Embracing Identity: John's Journey of Self-Discovery Episode Summary: Reuniting with his birth family showed John McCormick, a transracial adoptee, a new world. He physically felt a relaxation he had never felt before, he connected with music and art like never before, and he started to own who he is - confidently - even when others denied his identity. This is the story of how John’s reunion with...

Emily's Journey: Identity, Language Learning, and Adoption Realities Episode Summary: After 9 months of living with monks, Emily Harris was adopted from China. She was left behind by her bio family due to the One Child Policy. To process her loss of id...

Emily's Journey: Identity, Language Learning, and Adoption Realities Episode Summary:  After 9 months of living with monks, Emily Harris was adopted from China. She was left behind by her bio family due to the One Child Policy. To process her loss of identity, she has started to learn Chinese with a community of adoptees.   In this episode, she talks about how language learning helps, wh...

Adoption Trauma, Mental Health, and Suicide Risk with Lina Vanegas Episode Summary: Though Lina Vanegas was born to a Colombian family, she was forced to assimilate as a white jewish person. 38 years later, she’s unable to fully connect with her bio fa...

Adoption Trauma, Mental Health, and Suicide Risk with Lina Vanegas Episode Summary: Though Lina Vanegas was born to a Colombian family, she was forced to assimilate as a white jewish person. 38 years later, she’s unable to fully connect with her bio family nor speak their language. Forced assimilation is trauma. Her mission is to educate people on adoption trauma. In the episode, she gives a crash...

Navigating No Contact: Adoptees' Journeys to Healing Episode Summary: Should you cut off your adoptive parents? Should you “go no contact” with your adoptive parents? “Oh hell no. Not this time. I’m done.” That’s what we felt before cutting off contact...