Gretchen Sisson

@gesisson

Sociologist ; Board , c4, . Mom of 3. “Relinquished,” forthcoming from January 2024.

San Francisco, California
Joined February 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Apr 25

    I am so excited to share “Relinquished” with the world. The privilege and obligation of stewarding these women’s stories is one I have carried for years, and I feel it intimately. I can’t wait for you to read these stories.

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  2. 20 hours ago

    Important thread illustrating void of adoption data at which I am trying to chip away. When you consider that foster care adoptions are actually better tracked than private adoptions, “maddening”is only the beginning. The deficit of government data collection is unjustifiable.

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  3. 21 hours ago

    Everyone is joking about this, but has anyone REALLY investigated the relationship between SB8 and the fragility of the Texas power grid? Do your own research, is all I’m saying.

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  4. Retweeted
    May 19

    In case you missed it: Read all the entries in our Adoption, Family Separation & Preservation, and Reproductive Justice symposium, edited by , here⬇️

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  5. May 18

    To clarify: mostly looking for examples with at least one living parent, so the separation isn’t due to death. (I get that my Fantine example confused this, but I was thinking of her effective relinquishment prior to her death.)

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    Hi ! I was at the hearing with Aimee, this witness. She testified for 6 hours like a champ—her first time before Congress. She’d been yelled at in nasty ways for hours and been asked the same questions several times—this is one clip. She was very clear and confident.

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  7. Retweeted
    May 18

    If you're writing about abortion on television and film, I'm here to share data / studies / info 👋🏼 There's a long history and we've done lots of analysis, don't sleep on it! My work email is stephanie.herold@ucsf.edu, and my DMs are open.

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  8. May 18

    Brainstorming examples of relinquishment/family separation in literature & pop culture that are not about formal adoption. (For example, Fantine sending Cosette to the Thenardiers in Les Mis to survive, but not Juno or Philomena. Maybe Edith on Downton Abbey as gray area.) Ideas?

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  9. Retweeted
    May 16

    “Positioning adoption as a replacement to abortion elides pregnant and parenting people’s reproductive autonomy and their ability to be agents over their own reproductive destinies.“ YES, all of this, congrats on a vital article ⁦⁦⁩!

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  10. May 17

    [This thread brought to you by a for-profit company stating they are “quickly becoming an important advocate in the reproductive justice movement” because they are working to make mifepristone (which they sell) more widely available.]

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  11. May 17

    It’s ok if your work/scholarship/advocacy is “just” on abortion and not reproductive justice! We have PLENTY of necessary abortion work. It can be done in a way that aligns with repro justice work! But abortion work is not inherently repro justice work — don’t assume it is.

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  12. May 17

    A reminder that “reproductive justice” means something other than “abortion rights and/or access” and the two should not be conflated! When you use them interchangeably, you are ignoring the Black women-led work at the heart of shaping repro justice theory and advocacy.

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  13. Retweeted
    May 15

    I spoke on both replacement theory and Alito’s reference to “the domestic supply of infants” for adoption. These ideas are deeply rooted in white supremacist ideology, criminalization of abortion, and forced family separation & sterilization of Black, Brown & Native women.

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  14. Retweeted
    May 14

    What happens when someone wants an abortion, but gets denied care? We’ve conducted a 10-year study and the answer is… bleak. [a thread 🧵]

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    May 13

    As adoption is thrown into the abortion rights debate once again, adoptees are calling on Americans to listen to their stories. Read them here:

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    May 13
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    May 13

    Activists within today’s adoptee rights movement are working to establish a right to end a person’s own adoption, explains. Read more:

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    May 13
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    Abortion is liberty. Thank you to these anonymous souls.

    Image of the Statue of Liberty with a green banner draped from her feet that reads “Abortion = Liberty”
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  20. May 12

    Understanding the history of Indian adoption and is a reproductive justice issue with tremendous implications for broader Native rights and tribal sovereignty, and I hope you'll take a moment to read.

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  21. May 12

    And finally, "Native Reproductive Justice: Practices and Policies from Relinquishment to Family Preservation" by Lauren van Schilfgaarde of .

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