JaeRan
@jaeran.bsky.social
She/her. Also known as Harlow's Monkey 🥚🧶
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A Louisville judge says Jonah Bevin, adopted son of ex-Gov. Matt Bevin, can intervene in his parents' divorce. He cites abuse in teen homes and an invalid degree. Bevin, who pushed adoption reform as governor, adopted Jonah from Ethiopia in 2012. 🥚
Judge lets Matt Bevin's adopted son seek child support, denies request to seal divorce
A court hearing should be held to determine what relief the adopted son of Matt and Glenna Bevin could be entitled to, a judge has ruled.
www.courier-journal.com
May 17, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A Louisville judge says Jonah Bevin, adopted son of ex-Gov. Matt Bevin, can intervene in his parents' divorce. He cites abuse in teen homes and an invalid degree. Bevin, who pushed adoption reform as governor, adopted Jonah from Ethiopia in 2012. 🥚
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This is alarming.
"Beginning about a month ago, USCIS started to withhold and redact large portions of my clients’ A Files, sometimes withholding more than 80 percent of all pages in the file...."
#immigration #adoption #adoptees #citizenship
"Beginning about a month ago, USCIS started to withhold and redact large portions of my clients’ A Files, sometimes withholding more than 80 percent of all pages in the file...."
#immigration #adoption #adoptees #citizenship
The absurdity of USCIS withholding my clients' own immigration records, which include adoption decrees, birth records, and other documents that are necessary to determine and prove immigration status. adopteerightslaw.com/uscis-withho... 🥚
USCIS Is Withholding My Clients' Immigration Records at an Alarming Rate
New USCIS practices are making the job of securing and proving US citizenship for my clients maddeningly slow, difficult, and absurd.
adopteerightslaw.com
May 16, 2025 at 12:17 PM
This is alarming.
"Beginning about a month ago, USCIS started to withhold and redact large portions of my clients’ A Files, sometimes withholding more than 80 percent of all pages in the file...."
#immigration #adoption #adoptees #citizenship
"Beginning about a month ago, USCIS started to withhold and redact large portions of my clients’ A Files, sometimes withholding more than 80 percent of all pages in the file...."
#immigration #adoption #adoptees #citizenship
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Among those fearful of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are adoptees who grew up thinking they were U.S. citizens — only to find out years later, in adulthood, they're not.
She grew up believing she was a U.S. citizen. Then she applied for a passport
Among those fearful of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are adoptees who grew up thinking they were U.S. citizens — only to find out years later, in adulthood, they're not.
www.npr.org
April 19, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Among those fearful of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown are adoptees who grew up thinking they were U.S. citizens — only to find out years later, in adulthood, they're not.
Thank you, Imani Cruzen for talking with me about the Adoptee Consciousness Model 🥚 and the investigation into fraud in Korean adoptions. Great to see adoptee scholar Kim Park Nelson and Korean American scholar Richard Lee also quoted.
www.twincities.com/2025/04/05/m...
www.twincities.com/2025/04/05/m...
MN adoptees respond to fraud reports in South Korean adoption programs
Following a nearly three-year investigation, a South Korean commission in late March shared that the government bears responsibility for facilitating a foreign adoption program with widespread frau…
www.twincities.com
April 5, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Thank you, Imani Cruzen for talking with me about the Adoptee Consciousness Model 🥚 and the investigation into fraud in Korean adoptions. Great to see adoptee scholar Kim Park Nelson and Korean American scholar Richard Lee also quoted.
www.twincities.com/2025/04/05/m...
www.twincities.com/2025/04/05/m...
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BREAKING: South Korea’s Constitutional Court removes impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office. The unanimous decision comes four months after Yoon threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.
South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office over ill-fated declaration of martial law
South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday, four months after he threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law and sending troops to parliament in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.
bit.ly
April 4, 2025 at 2:47 AM
BREAKING: South Korea’s Constitutional Court removes impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office. The unanimous decision comes four months after Yoon threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.
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You've been voting, you've been protesting. What else can you do to make your community a better place? Check out this handy doc listing all kinds of actions you can take - mutual aid, libraries and schools, political education, advocacy, and more!
March 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
You've been voting, you've been protesting. What else can you do to make your community a better place? Check out this handy doc listing all kinds of actions you can take - mutual aid, libraries and schools, political education, advocacy, and more!
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Did you know that Kit Myers' book, The Violence of Love, is available for FREE/open access?? 🥚You can read it now!! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-vi...
The Violence of Love by Kit Myers - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
February 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Did you know that Kit Myers' book, The Violence of Love, is available for FREE/open access?? 🥚You can read it now!! www.ucpress.edu/books/the-vi...
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she is an intercountry #adoptee from China; she has two heart conditions and she requires a transplant; her hospital will not approve the transplant until her adopters agree to her receiving flu and COVID vaccines, which they adamantly refuse to do.
She is in heart failure.
She is in heart failure.
JD Vance’s relative, 12, refused heart transplant over vaccine status
Adaline Deal’s mom says she decided her daughter wouldn’t need a Covid-19 and flu jab because ‘the Holy Spirit put it on our hearts’
www.yahoo.com
February 18, 2025 at 1:39 AM
she is an intercountry #adoptee from China; she has two heart conditions and she requires a transplant; her hospital will not approve the transplant until her adopters agree to her receiving flu and COVID vaccines, which they adamantly refuse to do.
She is in heart failure.
She is in heart failure.
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“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.”
Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
Those of us who work in gender medicine are not going anywhere
What’s more, we’re expanding.
www.startribune.com
February 15, 2025 at 7:17 PM
“We’re not going anywhere. What’s more: we’re expanding.”
Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
Nearly a dozen of Minnesota’s foremost experts on gender-affirming care collaborated on this beautiful op-ed in today’s Strib. No paywall.
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The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI.
apnews.com/article/blac...
apnews.com/article/blac...
NAACP lists companies that dump DEI in its tactical spending guide for Black Americans
The NAACP wants Black Americans to steer their buying power toward corporations that haven’t pulled back from diversity programs under conservative pressure.
apnews.com
February 16, 2025 at 12:52 PM
The NAACP is re-mixing 1930s-era "don't buy where you can't work" campaigns to confront the neo-segregationists targeting DEI.
apnews.com/article/blac...
apnews.com/article/blac...
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This is what I think about as well. You might feel there is little you can do, but you can document, record, write; we can share what we are seeing, reading, hearing. We are history, not just gov data.
Thinking a lot of the role of recording dissent, of the role of bearing witness. My mind goes to Sotomayor's Trump immunity dissent. "The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law."
February 9, 2025 at 5:13 PM
This is what I think about as well. You might feel there is little you can do, but you can document, record, write; we can share what we are seeing, reading, hearing. We are history, not just gov data.
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Researchers are documenting the experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native women whose children were adopted or placed in foster care.
Researchers Study Native Women Whose Children Were Adopted
Researchers are documenting the experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native women whose children were adopted.
imprintnews.org
February 6, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Researchers are documenting the experiences of American Indian and Alaska Native women whose children were adopted or placed in foster care.
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The only immigrant trying to destroy the country.
February 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
The only immigrant trying to destroy the country.
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two drafts
January 30, 2025 at 5:01 PM
two drafts
“In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.” Maxine Hong Kingston
What are you creating? For me it's hand-knit socks 🧶 and submitting an article about adoptee consciousness 🥚
What are you creating? For me it's hand-knit socks 🧶 and submitting an article about adoptee consciousness 🥚
January 30, 2025 at 4:53 PM
“In a time of destruction, create something: a poem, a parade, a community, a school, a vow, a moral principle; one peaceful moment.” Maxine Hong Kingston
What are you creating? For me it's hand-knit socks 🧶 and submitting an article about adoptee consciousness 🥚
What are you creating? For me it's hand-knit socks 🧶 and submitting an article about adoptee consciousness 🥚
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Join AU for an open discussion on immigration and citizenship issues affecting Transnational Adoptees. Stay informed about issues impacting our community and get updates on registration by subscribing to the AU newsletter: https://buff.ly/3WCiARO
January 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Join AU for an open discussion on immigration and citizenship issues affecting Transnational Adoptees. Stay informed about issues impacting our community and get updates on registration by subscribing to the AU newsletter: https://buff.ly/3WCiARO
New published study about primary care physician's approach to treating adult adoptees. 🥚 (as well as others with limited family medical history)
www.annfammed.org/content/23/1...
www.annfammed.org/content/23/1...
A Qualitative Study of Primary Care Physicians’ Approaches to Caring for Adult Adopted Patients
PURPOSE Adoption has lifelong health implications for 7.8 million adopted people and their families in the United States. The majority of adoptees have limited family medical history (LFMH). Primary c...
www.annfammed.org
January 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
New published study about primary care physician's approach to treating adult adoptees. 🥚 (as well as others with limited family medical history)
www.annfammed.org/content/23/1...
www.annfammed.org/content/23/1...
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we will keep track of all the changes, fight in every way we can, and deepen into our visions. but find your grief practice. so many people are going to suffer and die in so many unnecessary ways in the short term because of the decisions and moves being made. learn to feel your grief as we go.
January 25, 2025 at 5:25 AM
we will keep track of all the changes, fight in every way we can, and deepen into our visions. but find your grief practice. so many people are going to suffer and die in so many unnecessary ways in the short term because of the decisions and moves being made. learn to feel your grief as we go.
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This is becoming absurd—federal employees are now being told to remove pronouns from their email signatures. We will always stand by our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, no matter how many things we’re asked to delete or change. Inclusivity is at the core of who we are.
January 26, 2025 at 1:24 PM
This is becoming absurd—federal employees are now being told to remove pronouns from their email signatures. We will always stand by our commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, no matter how many things we’re asked to delete or change. Inclusivity is at the core of who we are.
So glad to get my copy today! I had the honor of providing a blurb. This is an essential contribution to critical adoption scholarship @kit-myers.bsky.social
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-vi...
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-vi...
The Violence of Love by Kit Myers - Paper
Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.
www.ucpress.edu
January 25, 2025 at 2:55 AM
So glad to get my copy today! I had the honor of providing a blurb. This is an essential contribution to critical adoption scholarship @kit-myers.bsky.social
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-vi...
www.ucpress.edu/books/the-vi...