Ande Stanley
@theadoptionfiles.bsky.social
Adoptee rights advocate. lDA ICA baby scoop era. Host of The Adoption Files podcast. Seeking to amplify the voices of those impacted by family severance.
Every time I try to read the news I am reminded of how the bodies of women and children are treated as commodities and subject to involuntary transactions. Coercion is not consent. #adoption #adopted #pedophiles #commodification #coercion #exploitation #women #children #sexualassault #childabuse
November 19, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Every time I try to read the news I am reminded of how the bodies of women and children are treated as commodities and subject to involuntary transactions. Coercion is not consent. #adoption #adopted #pedophiles #commodification #coercion #exploitation #women #children #sexualassault #childabuse
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Korean adoptee artist Henrik Uldalen returns to Seoul to confront identity, loss, and belonging through raw, distorted portraits that reflect his own journey. His new exhibition “Lost/Found” exposes the emotional impact of adoption and the search for self. 🥚
Adoptee artist Henrik Uldalen explores identity, acceptance through raw portraits - The Korea Times
Born in Seoul in December 1986, Henrik Uldalen was adopted by a Norwegian couple when he was just a few months old. He grew up in Asker, a small to...
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November 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Korean adoptee artist Henrik Uldalen returns to Seoul to confront identity, loss, and belonging through raw, distorted portraits that reflect his own journey. His new exhibition “Lost/Found” exposes the emotional impact of adoption and the search for self. 🥚
Tired of typing Adoptee Rights Advocate on platforms only to have AI translate that as Adoption Agency. No, AI. Quite the opposite. Even AI conspires to erase us. Thén again, humans created AI, so…. #adopteerights #adopted #adoption #truth #identity #erasure #socialjustice
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Tired of typing Adoptee Rights Advocate on platforms only to have AI translate that as Adoption Agency. No, AI. Quite the opposite. Even AI conspires to erase us. Thén again, humans created AI, so…. #adopteerights #adopted #adoption #truth #identity #erasure #socialjustice
So if we assigned weights to all of this administrations illegal acts ànd human rights violations , what would we be up to by now? I am assuming a great number of camels would have been crushed under the mountains of straw that have accumulated. #GOP #Trump #fascism #humanrightsviolations #felons
November 18, 2025 at 3:54 PM
So if we assigned weights to all of this administrations illegal acts ànd human rights violations , what would we be up to by now? I am assuming a great number of camels would have been crushed under the mountains of straw that have accumulated. #GOP #Trump #fascism #humanrightsviolations #felons
As a person who was a child when preyed upon by adult men, I have wondered for a very long time why society always seems to find a way to vilify the child ànd not the grown up. Instead we pretend that men just can’t control themselves. This is bullshit. Where are the men outraged by this insult?
November 18, 2025 at 3:40 PM
As a person who was a child when preyed upon by adult men, I have wondered for a very long time why society always seems to find a way to vilify the child ànd not the grown up. Instead we pretend that men just can’t control themselves. This is bullshit. Where are the men outraged by this insult?
Hopeful Adoptive Parents, hopeful that another person will be so desperate and traumatized that they feel terminating their parental rights and losing their child is the only option available to them. #adoption #adopted #HAP #trauma #loss #familypreservation #predatory
November 18, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Hopeful Adoptive Parents, hopeful that another person will be so desperate and traumatized that they feel terminating their parental rights and losing their child is the only option available to them. #adoption #adopted #HAP #trauma #loss #familypreservation #predatory
Please let your senators know you oppose the nomination of Steve Pearce to head the Bureau of Land Management. His idea of management is managing to make money from the sale of public lands. #BLM #opposeStevePearce #landpreservation #environment #noStevePearce
November 17, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Please let your senators know you oppose the nomination of Steve Pearce to head the Bureau of Land Management. His idea of management is managing to make money from the sale of public lands. #BLM #opposeStevePearce #landpreservation #environment #noStevePearce
I feel like just the words Waiting Adoptive Family are propaganda. 🤔 #adoption #adopted #propaganda #loadedlanguage
November 16, 2025 at 9:54 PM
I feel like just the words Waiting Adoptive Family are propaganda. 🤔 #adoption #adopted #propaganda #loadedlanguage
A police officer spoke to a class I was taking. Every single one of you knows someone who, if given the opportunity, will sexually abuse a child. He wasn’t wrong, was he? Now, what are we going to do about it? #pedophiles #epsteinfiles #sexualassault #accountability
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
A police officer spoke to a class I was taking. Every single one of you knows someone who, if given the opportunity, will sexually abuse a child. He wasn’t wrong, was he? Now, what are we going to do about it? #pedophiles #epsteinfiles #sexualassault #accountability
Àn article in a local paper talks about a priest convicted of child sexual abuse ànd I am immediately driven to check on the whereabouts of Gary Timmons, my old camp director.
November 15, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Àn article in a local paper talks about a priest convicted of child sexual abuse ànd I am immediately driven to check on the whereabouts of Gary Timmons, my old camp director.
It is traumatizing every time a victim of sexual assault is forced to watch predators being lauded as great men. It is disgusting to listen to women defend them. #SSA #sexualabuse #megynkelly #trump #ptsd #mentalhealth
November 15, 2025 at 9:39 PM
It is traumatizing every time a victim of sexual assault is forced to watch predators being lauded as great men. It is disgusting to listen to women defend them. #SSA #sexualabuse #megynkelly #trump #ptsd #mentalhealth
Most crisis pregnancy center employees are like car salesmen. They engage in high pressure sales tactics to separate mothers from their children. They need product, and babies are the best kind-free to them, of high value to the people on their waiting list. #adoption #adopted #crisispregnancy
November 15, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Most crisis pregnancy center employees are like car salesmen. They engage in high pressure sales tactics to separate mothers from their children. They need product, and babies are the best kind-free to them, of high value to the people on their waiting list. #adoption #adopted #crisispregnancy
Someone please explain the rationale(not that it will be rational) for starting a war with Venezuela. Does he think it will get him a bigger parade?
November 15, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Someone please explain the rationale(not that it will be rational) for starting a war with Venezuela. Does he think it will get him a bigger parade?
One of the first things I said to my adoptive mom after discovery was- well, aren’t you lucky I didn’t turn out to be six feet tall? Because I found out by accident. If I had towered over them, I would have had a lot more questions. 🥚. #birthceerificate #lies #identity #truth #adoption
yes, that, which is part of the grand fantasy of #adoption, which is at the core of its appeal for many adopters
November 14, 2025 at 11:10 PM
One of the first things I said to my adoptive mom after discovery was- well, aren’t you lucky I didn’t turn out to be six feet tall? Because I found out by accident. If I had towered over them, I would have had a lot more questions. 🥚. #birthceerificate #lies #identity #truth #adoption
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Join host Anna Sarkitova, intercountry adoptee and advocate, for a powerful conversation with Sandi Morgan Caesar, MSW— a community leader whose life and work illuminate the intersections of identity, belonging, and justice in adoption. 🥚
Bridging Worlds: the Lifelong Impact of Transnational Adoption and Identity
Let's explore how being adopted across borders shapes our identities for a lifetime in Bridging Worlds: the Lifelong Impact of Transnational
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November 14, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Join host Anna Sarkitova, intercountry adoptee and advocate, for a powerful conversation with Sandi Morgan Caesar, MSW— a community leader whose life and work illuminate the intersections of identity, belonging, and justice in adoption. 🥚
Fostered and adopted people who are part of the LGBTQIA community are more likely to experience abuse, abandonment and institutionalization at the hands of their religious(usually Christian) guardians. So how, exactly, are those people qualified to provide care? #fostercare #adoption #lgbtqia
November 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Fostered and adopted people who are part of the LGBTQIA community are more likely to experience abuse, abandonment and institutionalization at the hands of their religious(usually Christian) guardians. So how, exactly, are those people qualified to provide care? #fostercare #adoption #lgbtqia
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Unlike your cabbage patch doll, I didn't come with adoption papers. No adoptee does. In fact, all we're given is nothing but a new birth certificate that falsely lists our adopters as our "parents of live birth". You think we're given some sort of adoption file when we're 18?
Think again.🧵
Think again.🧵
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Unlike your cabbage patch doll, I didn't come with adoption papers. No adoptee does. In fact, all we're given is nothing but a new birth certificate that falsely lists our adopters as our "parents of live birth". You think we're given some sort of adoption file when we're 18?
Think again.🧵
Think again.🧵
November 14, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I do not believe you are qualified to foster or adopt if your religious beliefs lead you to deny a persons right to live as who they are. Thats child abuse, not care. #fostercare #whitehouse #erasure #childabuse #religion #evangelical #lgbtqia #adoption #adoptee #adopteerights
November 14, 2025 at 3:44 PM
I do not believe you are qualified to foster or adopt if your religious beliefs lead you to deny a persons right to live as who they are. Thats child abuse, not care. #fostercare #whitehouse #erasure #childabuse #religion #evangelical #lgbtqia #adoption #adoptee #adopteerights
Sexual predators kill. They kill the person you were before, even if your body keeps breathing. And so many of us don’t. #metoo #sexualpredarors #misogyny #pedophiles
November 14, 2025 at 4:35 AM
Sexual predators kill. They kill the person you were before, even if your body keeps breathing. And so many of us don’t. #metoo #sexualpredarors #misogyny #pedophiles
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U.S. adoptees are being sent to foreign “treatment” facilities where they are abandoned, abused, and left without U.S. oversight or protection. Our nation quietly allows adoptive parents to export “difficult” children, stripped of safety, identity, and justice. 🥚 buff.ly/O0WlPyp
America’s Hidden Pipeline of Exported and Exiled Adoptees that Authorities Are Letting Down
U.S. authorities are failing adoptees overseas; international pressure may be the only path to justice.
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November 13, 2025 at 3:04 PM
U.S. adoptees are being sent to foreign “treatment” facilities where they are abandoned, abused, and left without U.S. oversight or protection. Our nation quietly allows adoptive parents to export “difficult” children, stripped of safety, identity, and justice. 🥚 buff.ly/O0WlPyp
We are finally going to have a disability- friendly bathroom! Demo began today of the old, not so friendly washroom. #disability #handicappedbathroom #safety #disabilityrights #mentalhealth
November 13, 2025 at 9:40 PM
We are finally going to have a disability- friendly bathroom! Demo began today of the old, not so friendly washroom. #disability #handicappedbathroom #safety #disabilityrights #mentalhealth
So, AI is terrible for the environment, but we intend to keep building more AI into our lives?
November 13, 2025 at 2:54 PM
So, AI is terrible for the environment, but we intend to keep building more AI into our lives?
