304 Dr. Michele Merritt
/Today’s guest is Dr. Michele Merritt - a philosophy professor who’s coined the new term Adoptism to describe the ways adoptees are marginalized. Michele shares some of her personal story, including the curiosity she always had about where she came from. We discuss what lead her to start critiquing adoption publicly and the barriers to publishing these critiques that some academic journals put in place, like the classic, “I know one adoptee and they don’t feel that way”.
We do mention suicide during this conversation, so please take care when deciding if this a safe episode for you to listen to.
Show Notes
Full episode transcript here.
Recommended Resources
- We Should Be Fighting for a World Without Adoption by Michele Merritt
- Be Grateful or Be Quiet: Confronting the Epistemic Harms of Adoptism by Michele Merritt
- What it Cost to be Adopted by Michele Merritt
- https://www.michelemerritt.com/
- The Silenced Adoptee
- Ryan Gustafson
- Adoption is F*cked Article https://www.pdcnet.org/pcw/content/pcw_2024_0030_0001_0048_0067) and https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bhsSuTx5Thre03gTc8FWF7SIM3Re5Bx3/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=108187279857953554034&rtpof=true&sd=true
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