Colson Alderwood
@limegreenpenguin.bsky.social
They/Them 🏳️⚧️
Queer, Autistic, Disabled, and proud.
LDA (Late Discovery Adoptee) & Adoption Abolitionist
Loud bitch 💗✨
Queer, Autistic, Disabled, and proud.
LDA (Late Discovery Adoptee) & Adoption Abolitionist
Loud bitch 💗✨
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if you're an adoption abolitionist you should also be anti-ICE.
sincerely, a fellow adoptee.
sincerely, a fellow adoptee.
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no one should ever be allowed to "close" an #adoption and legally anonymize a person from their family. we need to imagine long-term custodial care without the pernicious idea of erasing and rewriting a child's identity to suit other people's dreams of family building.
i am an #adoption abolitionist. This means different things to different people who favor abolition, but to me at a basic minimum it means no legal falsification of a person's vital records.
I don’t understand why such a practice isn’t illegal.
April 1, 2026 at 3:07 PM
no one should ever be allowed to "close" an #adoption and legally anonymize a person from their family. we need to imagine long-term custodial care without the pernicious idea of erasing and rewriting a child's identity to suit other people's dreams of family building.
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"but didn't you have a good #adoption experience?"
to the extent one can have a good experience being raised by people who resolved their infertility crisis by acquiring a child who was born to a family purposely made legally anonymous and was told to live in a fictitious timeline--yeah, sure
to the extent one can have a good experience being raised by people who resolved their infertility crisis by acquiring a child who was born to a family purposely made legally anonymous and was told to live in a fictitious timeline--yeah, sure
April 1, 2026 at 3:49 PM
"but didn't you have a good #adoption experience?"
to the extent one can have a good experience being raised by people who resolved their infertility crisis by acquiring a child who was born to a family purposely made legally anonymous and was told to live in a fictitious timeline--yeah, sure
to the extent one can have a good experience being raised by people who resolved their infertility crisis by acquiring a child who was born to a family purposely made legally anonymous and was told to live in a fictitious timeline--yeah, sure
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finally got a copy of this 🥚
April 2, 2026 at 1:28 AM
finally got a copy of this 🥚
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If birthright citizenship is overturned in the US, would it affect adoptees? International ones, yes. Domestic? Our birth certificates are fake. They don't have the names of our birth parents and sometimes our birth dates and birth places have been changed too. So yeah, it could impact us. 🥚
April 1, 2026 at 5:54 PM
If birthright citizenship is overturned in the US, would it affect adoptees? International ones, yes. Domestic? Our birth certificates are fake. They don't have the names of our birth parents and sometimes our birth dates and birth places have been changed too. So yeah, it could impact us. 🥚
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Another fun day of navigating the medical system as an adopted person prevented by law from access to my family history. Today I’m getting a 2nd opinion on my unexpected and scary diagnosis of macular degeneration.*
Presuming that the ability to answer these questions matters. But I can’t. 1/2
🥚
Presuming that the ability to answer these questions matters. But I can’t. 1/2
🥚
January 2, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Another fun day of navigating the medical system as an adopted person prevented by law from access to my family history. Today I’m getting a 2nd opinion on my unexpected and scary diagnosis of macular degeneration.*
Presuming that the ability to answer these questions matters. But I can’t. 1/2
🥚
Presuming that the ability to answer these questions matters. But I can’t. 1/2
🥚
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Thanks, New Yorker
October 7, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Thanks, New Yorker
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Lol got unfollowed for this by someone who keeps saying they've adopted Palestinian families like some sort of Boy Scout badge.
Y'all know that "look at me! I'm a saviour!" shit is Christian fundamentalist trash, right?
That you sound like a mega church pastor?
Do I need to check your hard drive?
Y'all know that "look at me! I'm a saviour!" shit is Christian fundamentalist trash, right?
That you sound like a mega church pastor?
Do I need to check your hard drive?
All y'all saying you "adopted" families are giving "ownership" vibes
Stop.
Stop.
If you are saying "adopt" when you mean "sponsor" or "buy", you are using saviour complex language, which benefits fascism and colonialism. Stop it.
September 13, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Lol got unfollowed for this by someone who keeps saying they've adopted Palestinian families like some sort of Boy Scout badge.
Y'all know that "look at me! I'm a saviour!" shit is Christian fundamentalist trash, right?
That you sound like a mega church pastor?
Do I need to check your hard drive?
Y'all know that "look at me! I'm a saviour!" shit is Christian fundamentalist trash, right?
That you sound like a mega church pastor?
Do I need to check your hard drive?
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And just bc there's always a whiner:
It's not on us to eat it or try to ignore it.
It's on you to stop perpetuating ideals and language that support white supremacy, colonialism, and the saviour complex.
And you're refusing.
What does that make you.
It's not on us to eat it or try to ignore it.
It's on you to stop perpetuating ideals and language that support white supremacy, colonialism, and the saviour complex.
And you're refusing.
What does that make you.
September 23, 2025 at 5:17 PM
And just bc there's always a whiner:
It's not on us to eat it or try to ignore it.
It's on you to stop perpetuating ideals and language that support white supremacy, colonialism, and the saviour complex.
And you're refusing.
What does that make you.
It's not on us to eat it or try to ignore it.
It's on you to stop perpetuating ideals and language that support white supremacy, colonialism, and the saviour complex.
And you're refusing.
What does that make you.
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If you can figure out why saying r*t*rd is wrong, you can learn why saying "adopt" when you mean "sponsor" or "buy" or "trafficked" is wrong, too.
You just don't care about us enough to bother.
And we see it CONSTANTLY
You just don't care about us enough to bother.
And we see it CONSTANTLY
September 23, 2025 at 5:06 PM
If you can figure out why saying r*t*rd is wrong, you can learn why saying "adopt" when you mean "sponsor" or "buy" or "trafficked" is wrong, too.
You just don't care about us enough to bother.
And we see it CONSTANTLY
You just don't care about us enough to bother.
And we see it CONSTANTLY
My subscriptions to all of these have been cancelled since they made massive donations to Israel. They've openly supported genocide & they're constantly bending the knee to trump.
If y'all haven't cancelled your subscriptions yet, what are you doing? What do you "need" to watch so badly? /genq
If y'all haven't cancelled your subscriptions yet, what are you doing? What do you "need" to watch so badly? /genq
Cancel your Disney plus, cancel your Hulu subscription and boycott ABC. We need to hit them where it hurts, their wallets!
This is so messed up.
September 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
My subscriptions to all of these have been cancelled since they made massive donations to Israel. They've openly supported genocide & they're constantly bending the knee to trump.
If y'all haven't cancelled your subscriptions yet, what are you doing? What do you "need" to watch so badly? /genq
If y'all haven't cancelled your subscriptions yet, what are you doing? What do you "need" to watch so badly? /genq
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On top of everything going on--- I still have a Resistance School to run!
My classes for Race, Media and International Affairs 101 begin Monday, October 6th!
We are expanding the class size (but not by much!)
So you still have a chance to enroll! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
My classes for Race, Media and International Affairs 101 begin Monday, October 6th!
We are expanding the class size (but not by much!)
So you still have a chance to enroll! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
Fall Registration for Race, Media & International Affairs with Karen Attiah — Resistance Study Series
A virtual, seven week beginner and intermediate course on the history of race, mass media, and the modern world order.
www.resistancesummerschool.com
September 27, 2025 at 11:00 PM
On top of everything going on--- I still have a Resistance School to run!
My classes for Race, Media and International Affairs 101 begin Monday, October 6th!
We are expanding the class size (but not by much!)
So you still have a chance to enroll! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
My classes for Race, Media and International Affairs 101 begin Monday, October 6th!
We are expanding the class size (but not by much!)
So you still have a chance to enroll! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...
I will not hold your hand while I, or any other adoptee on here, is sharing the truth about our experiences.
I will not politely provide answers to questions about why the sale or transfer of children or the erasure of identities or people & media pushing the fairytale narrative is all wrong.
I will not politely provide answers to questions about why the sale or transfer of children or the erasure of identities or people & media pushing the fairytale narrative is all wrong.
September 27, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I will not hold your hand while I, or any other adoptee on here, is sharing the truth about our experiences.
I will not politely provide answers to questions about why the sale or transfer of children or the erasure of identities or people & media pushing the fairytale narrative is all wrong.
I will not politely provide answers to questions about why the sale or transfer of children or the erasure of identities or people & media pushing the fairytale narrative is all wrong.
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Said it before and I'll say it again:
It takes time and energy for me to handhold people through why dehumanizing and commodifying us is wrong, and frankly, I should be compensated.
It takes time and energy for me to handhold people through why dehumanizing and commodifying us is wrong, and frankly, I should be compensated.
September 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Said it before and I'll say it again:
It takes time and energy for me to handhold people through why dehumanizing and commodifying us is wrong, and frankly, I should be compensated.
It takes time and energy for me to handhold people through why dehumanizing and commodifying us is wrong, and frankly, I should be compensated.
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Look I'm gonna come right out and say it- adoptees who defend the police state/billionaires are not gonna find adoptee solidarity with me- I do not defend the systems that sold us and I'm frankly disgusted that you do.
December 13, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Look I'm gonna come right out and say it- adoptees who defend the police state/billionaires are not gonna find adoptee solidarity with me- I do not defend the systems that sold us and I'm frankly disgusted that you do.
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Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.
September 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Wounded Knee is a dark stain upon our nation’s history. We must remember it for what it truly was, not for what white nationalists would have it be.
if you're an adoption abolitionist you should also be anti-ICE.
sincerely, a fellow adoptee.
sincerely, a fellow adoptee.
September 27, 2025 at 2:58 AM
if you're an adoption abolitionist you should also be anti-ICE.
sincerely, a fellow adoptee.
sincerely, a fellow adoptee.
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Taking the twins out for a stroll
Lily Lake, Estes Park, Colorado
Lily Lake, Estes Park, Colorado
September 4, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Taking the twins out for a stroll
Lily Lake, Estes Park, Colorado
Lily Lake, Estes Park, Colorado
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Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
August 28, 2025 at 1:29 AM
Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years:
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
1. Make them fire you
2. Don’t go along to get along
3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role
4. Always escalate the conflict
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It would be nice if y'all would remember that the people spending time to educate everyone about the adoption industry are people that were trafficked through it.
September 27, 2024 at 4:07 PM
It would be nice if y'all would remember that the people spending time to educate everyone about the adoption industry are people that were trafficked through it.