Flipping the Script: Adoption and Reproductive Justice
To #FlipTheScript means to challenge staid adoption narratives. It necessitates listening to adoptees’ truths, no matter how uncomfortable.

To #FlipTheScript means to challenge staid adoption narratives. It necessitates listening to adoptees’ truths, no matter how uncomfortable.
Adoption isn’t the sole answer, but when it is the answer, ICWA protects Native children’s best interests.
It’s inhumane to place an American Indian child in the midst of white America whose cultural derision is overwhelmingly evident.
In the United States, the practices of adoption are rarely oriented towards the goals of anti-racism, child-centeredness, and reproductive justice.
Adoption has been and continues to be many things, but “frictionless” isn’t one of them.