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Gregory Luce

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Hello and welcome to conversations from the adoption and fostering podcast. In this episode we speak to Gregory Luce from the Adoptee Rights Law Center in the US.  Gregory offers professional and personal insight into the challenges faced by adoptees in the US in relation to law and wider culture. He also shares some of his experience of the difficulties of accessing his records and the historical underpinning reasons for that. Gregory runs a podcast here. and you can find his twitter feed here.    As always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com

Hello and welcome to conversations from the adoption and fostering podcast. In this episode we speak to Gregory Luce from the Adoptee Rights Law Center in the US. Gregory offers professional and personal insight into the challenges faced by adoptees in the US in relation to law and wider culture. He also shares some of his experience of the difficulties of accessing his records and the historical underpinning reasons for that. Gregory runs a podcast <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/what-next-the-adoptee-rights-podcast/id1604433633" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here</a>. and you can find his twitter feed <a href="https://twitter.com/adopteelaw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">here.</a> As always if you’ve experience of adoption, Fostering or special guardianship from any perspective and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook or twitter page or email us at <a href="mailto:AandFpodcast@gmail.com">AandFpodcast@gmail.com</a>

Adoption conversations - Gregory Luce  from the Adoptee Rights Law Center

I am excited to introduce you to Gregory Luce today, the attorney behind Adoptee Rights Law. We get to hear some of Greg’s personal story today, including the five-year court battle it took for him to receive his records. We talk about some of the typical arguments adoptee activists hear from legislators against original birth certificate access and what impact DNA testing access has had on OBC legislation. Greg also challenges us to make sure we’re listening to all adoptee voices. Greg is a lawyer but he’s not giving us legal advice during this episode. Full Show Notes Here  Recommended Resources  adopteerightslaw.com  The 5 Most Pernicious Myths about Adult Adopted People by Gregory Luce Adoptees United American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser Cleave by Tiana Noble The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child's Memory Book by Megan Culhane Galbraith Invisible Asians by Kim Park Nelson Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll   Connect With Us  Gregory Luce: adopteerightslaw.com | Twitter | Facebook Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Adoptees On: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook  Subscribe Apple Podcasts |  Google Podcasts |  iHeart Radio | Spotify | Stitcher | YouTube Support Adoptees On One Time Donation | Monthly | Secret Facebook Group Connect Occasional Newsletter | Send a Note

I am excited to introduce you to Gregory Luce today, the attorney behind Adoptee Rights Law. We get to hear some of Greg’s personal story today, including the five-year court battle it took for him to receive his records. We talk about some of the typical arguments adoptee activists hear from legislators against original birth certificate access and what impact DNA testing access has had on OBC legislation. Greg also challenges us to make sure we’re listening to all adoptee voices. Greg is a lawyer but he’s not giving us legal advice during this episode. <a href="https://www.adopteeson.com/listen/182" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Full Show Notes Here</a> Recommended Resources <ul> <li><a href="https://adopteerightslaw.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">adopteerightslaw.com</a></li> <li><a href="https://adopteerightslaw.com/5-most-pernicious-myths-about-adult-adopted-people" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> The 5 Most Pernicious Myths about Adult Adopted People by Gregory Luce</a></li> <li><a href="https://adopteesunited.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Adoptees United</a></li> <li>American Baby: A Mother, A Child, and the Shadow History of Adoption by Gabrielle Glaser</li> <li>Cleave by Tiana Noble</li> <li>The Guild of the Infant Saviour: An Adopted Child's Memory Book by Megan Culhane Galbraith</li> <li>Invisible Asians by Kim Park Nelson</li> <li>Surviving the White Gaze by Rebecca Carroll</li> </ul> Connect With Us <ul> <li>Gregory Luce: <a href="https://adopteerightslaw.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">adopteerightslaw.com</a> | <a href="https://twitter.com/adopteelaw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/adopteerightslaw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a></li> <li>Haley Radke: <a href="https://twitter.com/haleyradke" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/haleyradke/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/haleyradkepodcaster" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a></li> <li>Adoptees On: <a href="https://twitter.com/adopteeson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a> | <a href="https://www.instagram.com/adopteeson/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram</a> | <a href="https://www.facebook.com/adopteesonpodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook</a></li> </ul> Subscribe <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/adoptees-on/id1123372859" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apple Podcasts</a> | <a href="https://www.google.com/podcasts?feed=aHR0cDovL2Fkb3B0ZWVzb24ubGlic3luLmNvbS9yc3M%3D" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Google Podcasts</a> | <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/263-Adoptees-On-Discover-28264488/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> iHeart Radio</a> | <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/6DHevAi3rn7SfugmlPBSKJ" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Spotify</a> | <a href="http://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=93562&amp;refid=stpr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Stitcher</a> | <a href="https://youtube.com/adopteeson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube</a> Support Adoptees On <a href="https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=HU8AYRHKXSJSE" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">One Time Donation</a> | <a href="https://www.patreon.com/adopteeson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Monthly</a> | <a href="https://www.patreon.com/adopteeson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Secret Facebook Group</a> Connect <a href="https://www.adopteeson.com/newsletter" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Occasional Newsletter</a> | <a href="https://www.adopteeson.com/connect" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Send a Note</a>

182 Gregory Luce

Gregory Luce is the author of the chapbooks Signs of Small Grace (Pudding House Publications) and Drinking Weather (Finishing Line Press), the collection Memory and Desire (Sweatshoppe Publications), and the chapbook Tile, (Finishing Line). His poems have appeared in numerous print and online journals, including Kansas Quarterly, Cimarron Review, Innisfree Poetry Review, Northern Virginia Review, Foundling Review, MiPOesias, Little Patuxent Review, Words Dance, Rising Tide Review, Wordgathering, Faircloth Review, Broadkill Review, Bourgeon, Deaf Poets Society, Maryland Poetry Review, Mile Nine, and in the anthologies Living in Storms (Eastern Washington University Press), Bigger Than They Appear (Accents Publishing), and Unrequited: An Anthology of Love Poems about Inanimate Objects. In 2014, he was awarded the Larry Neal Award for adult poetry by the D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities. He is retired from the National Geographic Society, volunteers as a writing tutor/mentor for 826DC, and lives in Arlington, VA.

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