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Stop Weaponizing Adopted People For Your Anti-Choice Agenda

On the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, adoptees have some thoughts Forty-nine years ago on this day, it was decided by the Supreme Court that a pregnant person’s bodily autonomy supersedes any would-be governmental interference with the choice to terminate a pregnancy. Access to safe and legal abortions became a…

Abortion

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Stop Weaponizing Adopted People For Your Anti-Choice Agenda
Stop Weaponizing Adopted People For Your Anti-Choice Agenda
Abortion

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Parenting Is A Privilege, Not A Right

And family preservation is a moral obligation Strap in for the Mother’s Day essay you didn’t see coming. Be prepared to get angry with me. It’s fine. I’m used to it. Just maybe sit with this for a while and read the sources, ok? When I started seriously interrogating my…

Family

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Parenting Is A Privilege, Not A Right
Parenting Is A Privilege, Not A Right
Family

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Aug 19, 2021

My Blue Origins

An adoptee’s reentry does not guarantee safe landing I was 39-years-old, staring at my father’s face for the first time in my life. To be precise, it was the second time, but I have no conscious recollection of the first. I saw him the day I was born, as he…

Mwc Reentry

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My Blue Origins
My Blue Origins
Mwc Reentry

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Aug 11, 2021

Starve, Shrink, Speak

Your mission, should you choose to accept, is to take up space Except, I didn’t want to take up space. I wanted to shrink myself small enough to fit into the emerald tutu. I wanted each sinewy line of every muscle to poke through paper thin skin as I pirouetted…

Mwc Space

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Starve, Shrink, Speak
Starve, Shrink, Speak
Mwc Space

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Resistance Poetry

·Jul 9, 2021

Half a Gram

An eighth of a teaspoon

Adoption

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Half a Gram
Half a Gram
Adoption

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Pets and Animals

·Mar 11, 2021

An Ode to Zany

Reflections from an adoptee on the complex emotions in animal rescue work and adoption It’s the same thing each time I arrive at the shelter. My hand touches the cool metal gate on the chain-link fence and as soon as it clinks and clanks open then shut, I hear the…

Adoption

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An Ode to Zany
An Ode to Zany
Adoption

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Feb 24, 2021

Five Pounds

Honoring myself during National Eating Disorders Awareness Week Five pounds was the goal To dance that part To fit into that tutu With the sparkling rhinestones Five pounds was the stick Ms. Martha used to slap my tummy Telling me I looked pregnant While I did rond de jambe en…

Poetry

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Five Pounds
Five Pounds
Poetry

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Dec 11, 2020

The Second Time My Dad Died

A eulogy for the both of us All day, my stomach did somersaults. I couldn’t even go for a jog because my intestines would not allow it. …

Death

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The Second Time My Dad Died
The Second Time My Dad Died
Death

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Nov 16, 2020

What “The Queen’s Gambit” Gets Right About Adoption

Being a child prodigy is not all fun and games. Neither is being an adoptee. **Spoiler alerts for those who have not seen the series** After watching the Netflix drama mini-series, The Queen’s Gambit, I was struck by so much. The set design, the makeup and costumes, the characters, and…

Adoption

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What “The Queen’s Gambit” Gets Right About Adoption
What “The Queen’s Gambit” Gets Right About Adoption
Adoption

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An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

·Sep 27, 2020

10 Life Lessons, As Told By My Stuffed Animals

It’s not a mid-life crisis. I’m just turning 40 and talking to plush toys. Significant milestones tend to dredge up memories and emotions. Although turning 40 is not as momentous as some of the other events humans celebrate, it has always been a much anticipated day for me. As a…

Life Lessons

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10 Life Lessons, As Told By My Stuffed Animals
10 Life Lessons, As Told By My Stuffed Animals
Life Lessons

35 min read

Michele Merritt

Michele Merritt

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Philosophy professor. Adoptee. Advocate. Activist. Marathon swimmer. Cheese consumer. I write about dogs a lot. michelemerritt.com

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