MS·Jan 13The Epistemic Violence of Closed Plenary AdoptionEpistemic trauma describes a profound violence done to a person’s capacity to know. To know themselves, their history, and the foundational…
MS·Dec 23, 2025Unholy Alliance: Liberal and Conservative Ideals Coalesce Around Plenary AdoptionAmerican political discourse is characterized by deep division, with liberal and conservative ideologies presenting opposing visions for…A response icon1A response icon1
MS·Oct 23, 2025Indigenous Wisdom and the Violence of Plenary AdoptionFor generations, Indigenous and Native American cultures have understood a child’s place in the world through a lens of deep connection. A…
MS·Oct 15, 2025Abolish Adoption: Why Parental Reassignment is an Ethical FailureParental reassignment is the legal and social process, most clearly enacted in plenary adoption, of severing a child’s filiation from their…
MS·Sep 13, 2025Ending Plenary Adoption Would Help Heal SocietyThe abolition of plenary adoption, the legal practice of severing a child’s ties to their family of origin and fabricating a new birth…
MS·Aug 9, 2025Plenary Adoption as Infanticide: Ending Lives Without BloodstainsA child surrendered in secret is not “given a better life.” They are disappeared. Their name is burned. Their lineage is rewritten. Their…
