A Girl Like Her coming to Columbus

Back in January I wrote about Ohio adoptee Ann Fessler's film A Girl Like Her,  based on her award winning book, The Girls Who Went Away.    At that time, I hoped the  the film would make it to Ohio.

Good news!  We are happy to announce that the A Girl Like Her will be shown at the Wexner Center, on the Ohio State University  campus in Columbus on November 27.   You can get more information here.

From the Wexner film page:

The powerful A Girl Like Her reveals the hidden history of over a million women who became pregnant in the 1950s and 60s and were banished to maternity homes where they would ultimately give up their children in forced adoptions. At a time when sex education was minimal, single women were often ostracized into enduring their pregnancies in shame-filled institutional isolation. The film allows us to hear heartbreaking stories directly from the women who lived them, combined with footage from educational films and newsreels from the time that reinforce the era’s perceptions of sex, “illegitimate” pregnancy, and adoption. (48 mins., video) 

(view the trailer here.  I'm having a problem putting it directly on the blog)

Also scheduled is Fessler's short, Cliff & Hazel (25 mins., video), "a humorous and poignant portrait of her adoptive parents that was supported through the Wexner Center’s Film/Video Studio Program"   A book signing will follow.

Event support provided by The Living Culture Initiative in the Department of Art and the OSU GLBT Alumni Society. Cosponsored by the Ohio Birthparent Group; Arts and Humanities and the Department of Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies in Ohio State’s College of Arts and Sciences; and the Women and Gender History Workshop.

Tickets are now available online at the Wexner above link..

I'm thrilled that the Wexner and OSU  is supporting Ann and her work.  For far too long academia and liberal feminists have  swept adoption and its repercussions under the rug of political correctness-- bizarre sisterhood- is-powerful propaganda created to hide that adoption policy and practice has been and remains  inter- and intraclass exploitation of women by women.  Adoption, you see,  is just another way for women to"have children." --and we should all celebrate the "choice" with criticism or politics.. (see my Open Letter to NOW for background.).

I'm really looking forward to seeing Ann once again and seeing the film.  Please join me at this important event!

Headbags optional!

Demons of Adoption Ballot: 2012. Vote now!

 The nominations are in!

So many demons!

Only one can win!

 The nominees for this year's edition of Demons of Adoption  are:

• The Christian Post: for running several mind bendingly biased articles about intercountry adoption;
• Congressional Coalition on Adoption Institute: for giving their seal of approval to persons and organizations that promote the interests of the adoption industry and pushing agency friendly legislation in Congress;
• Celebrate Children International: for being the agency behind numerous illegal adoptions, and the agency of record for the stolen child Fernanda;
• Oxygen Network: for producing the absolutely horrendous show "I'm Having Their Baby." Tasteless, manipulative, coercive, and intrusive into the lives of vulnerable women trying to cope with an unplanned pregnancy;
• Adam Pertman: for claiming to be a critic of the adoption system, while at the same time promoting the interest of the adoption industry;
• Martin Narey: for trying to speed up adoptions and make it easier to adopt, and suggesting women who want to abort should abandon;
• Adoption Assistance, Inc. and World Association for Children and Parents (WACAP): for their role in the adoption travesty featuring Artem Justin Hansen (Artem Saveliev) and his so-called "permanent placement" with "forever mom", Torry Hansen, infamous Adoptive mother who returned her problem-child back to Russia like a pair of unwanted shoes;
• U.S. State Department: for their show-boating role in adoption regulation reform talks with Russia this year. Despite all appearances, the DOS has zero power when it comes to enforcing regulations established between the two signatories;
• Larry S. Jenkins: for his involvement in nearly every case where father's rights were violated;
• The United States House of Representatives: for fast-tracking H.R. 1464: North Korean Refugee Adoption Act of 2011; This bill in effect by-passes the limited safe-guards that are in place in international adoption, to bring North Korean children to the US for adoption.;
• Nancy Verrier: for her untested and untestable theory. It creates nothing but weepy distraction in the legitimate battle against adoption secrecy, corruption, and coercion;
• South Korea: for having the longest running international adoption program in the world; for not giving adequate support to single mothers. 

For more information and to vote go here!

Happy voting!.

PS  I admit it . I nominated Adam Pertman