The BASTARDIZED states of Alabama, Alaska, Connecticut, Colorado, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Minnesota (July 1 2024), New Hampshire, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Vermont are the only U.S. states where adult adoptees have unrestricted access to their own original birth records!
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Bastard Nation Statement in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter
The Bastard Nation Executive Committee expresses our solidarity with Black Lives Matter and with those in the US and around the world protesting police violence and systemic racism. We support all peaceful protest. We support free expression and the right to address and demand redress from the government. We support self-determination, self- ownership, and autonomy. We support human dignity and civil and human rights. Bastard Nation condemns racism, the abrogation of free speech, civil rights, police repression, police brutality, state secrets, and state-based violence.
Continue readingPut Yourself in History! Times Change–Except for Bastards: Bastard Nation’s Sealed Records State-by State Timeline
Use our timeline for amusement and education. Imagine the fun you’ll have telling your state legislators that your records were sealed before Pearl Harbor was bombed; Babe Ruth retired and Jackie Robinson broke the color line; school segregation was illegal; Social Security and the CIA existed; Watergate, Elizabeth was Queen; Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were assassinated….and before most of those lawmakers were born.
Continue readingMeasurable Rights, the historial documentary about Oregon Ballot Measure 58 is now onlilne
The long-lost documentary Measure Rights: is now online. Measurable Rights The fight for open records in Oregon is the story of Helen Hill and Bastard Nation, who used Oregon’s Ballot Measure 58 to open sealed …
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Stop Baby Safe Haven Drop Boxes
Fed up with Safe Haven Baby Boxes? Let Boxers know. Join us on Stop Safe Haven Baby Drop Boxes today. Open to anyone in and out of AdoptionLand who finds anonymously abandoning a baby by …
Continue readingVisit: Not Your Abortee Not Your Poster Child on FB
If you are tired of forced birthers exploiting adoptees to push their agenda, please check out #NotYourAbortee #NotYourPosterChild on Facebook The page is run by adoptees to smash abortion abolitionist conflation of abortion and adoption
Continue readingBastard Swag Boutique
Bastard Swag Boutique. Your one-stop shop for everything Bastard! Proceeds benefit Bastard Nation.
Continue readingNew Here? Start with The Basic Bastard
If you are new to Bastard Nation or to adoptee rights, start with The Basic Bastard to get up to speed.
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Easy to read, easy to print, easy to distribute. Bastard Nation policy statements for activists, legislators, and the press.
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These papers cover related issues more in depth and can be printed out for use in local public education or legislative campaigns.
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A Brief Memoir: Bill Pierce, Me, and AdoptaTalk with God
One day he told me that he was ready to die more or less, and couldn’t wait to get to heaven “so I can talk to God about adoption for eternity.”
Continue readingMari Tatlow Steed: Invitation to Celebration of Life, November 9, 2024
Please join us in celebrating the life and life-changing adoptee justice activism of Bastard Goddess Mari Tatlow Steed. The event will take place on November 9, 2024 in Philadelphia. You can join us in person or by remote.
Continue readingMari Tatlow Steed, 1960-2024 — Rest in Peace
We are heartbroken. We have lost our beautiful Mari–our friend, our comrade, a true bright star. A force to be reckoned with here, Ireland, and wherever the adopted fight for justice.
Continue readingAction Alert: GO FUND ME: Help Mari Steed Get the Care She Deserves
“Unfortunately I have bad news regarding Mom. This past week she was diagnosed with Stage-IV Liver cancer and the prognosis is short” ..We are now calling on all our Bastard Nation peeps to share this and the GoFundMe
Please help if you can, Bastards! Show Mari Tatlow Steed and her family some love and support !f you can’t donate then send them all tons of Bastard love and light.
Continue readingJames Hamilton: Rest in Peace
James M. Hamilton, after a heroic battle with cancer, passed peacefully at his home in St. Paul, Minnesota on Tuesday, June 18. Jim was our friend and ally, a husband and father, a lawyer, a world traveler, and adoptee rights and adoption reform soldier. An honorary Bastard God…Jim was our friend. He always had time to talk to people . He opened his home and his heart to his extended adoption-related family and to us. He believed in us. His friendship, support, and work gives the lie to the “evil adopter” trope that a certain band of online adopted people carry. He loved us and we loved him. Hopefully, we are all a little smarter and even nicer because of Jim.
Continue readingMinnesota: OBCs Open on July 1. Join the Run-up Events!
July 1 is just around the corner –and Minnesota adoptees will be able to obtain their Original Birth Certificates. No exceptions. No conditions. This has been a long time coming . The law that kept OBCs sealed was the most complicated convoluted secret and sealed records system in the US. Minnesota-based Greg Luce, founder and director of the Adoptee Rights Law Center and the Minnesota Coalition for Adoptee Rights navigated the 2023 campaign that cracked the vault. Two events are scheduled to explain, educate, and celebrate the new law.
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