Helen Hill, Chief Petitioner of M58"It was literally like a light bulb went off in my head. Well yeah... I could do that. I really could do that in Oregon. Maybe the only state in the whole nation where you could accomplish this for less than a quarter of a million dollars, too. And I knew... I knew I could do it." 
Ron Morgan, Bastard Nation Exec Dir 1998"Most of the available literature about adoptees as adults that I had come across was very much therapeutic, based on psychological models of victimhood, which were true in their way, but they weren't very empowering. I didn't want to identify myself as a victim. I didn't feel like a victim. I felt pissed off. And Bastard Nation were a bunch of pissed off adoptees." 
Damsel Plum, Bastard Nation Founding Foundling"In the case of Bastard Nation, our mission is two fold: one, the legislative, which is to ensure that all adult adoptees have equal access to their original birth certificates, basically that they have equal access to government documents that every other adult citizen has access to; and on the other, is to provide a forum for all adoptees on the diversity of the adoptee experience." 
Denise Castellucci, Bastard Nation"I came in as just somebody who happened to search and find. And be able to trace my roots to the 1700s, yet they wouldn't give me my birth certificate." "So Bastard Nation, at that point, was just a collection of adoptees with an idea, with an argument." |
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