October 29, 2024

Mari Tatlow Steed: Invitation to Celebration of Life, November 9, 2024

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October 7, 2024

Mari Tatlow Steed, 1960-2024 — Rest in Peace

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Action Alert September 30, 2024

Action Alert: GO FUND ME: Help Mari Steed Get the Care She  Deserves 

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June 24, 2024

James Hamilton: Rest in Peace

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Bastard Nation Statement in Solidarity with Black Lives Matter

June 8, 2020

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.

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Put Yourself in History! Times Change–Except for Bastards:  Bastard Nation’s Sealed Records State-by State Timeline

April 24, 2020

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.

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Action Alert: GO FUND ME: Help Mari Steed Get the Care She  Deserves 

September 30, 2024

“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.

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James Hamilton: Rest in Peace

June 24, 2024

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.

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Minnesota: OBCs Open on July 1. Join the Run-up Events!

June 11, 2024

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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