HeyJaredAdoptees Crossing Lines
Adoptees Crossing Lines is a podcast about adoption told through lived experience. Hosted by an adoptee who survived the foster care system, it names the harm of the family policing system. The work centers survivors, abolition, and community care.
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- Sep 18, 2026
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- Aug 21, 2026
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The Wild Robot: Rewriting Harm as Love (opens the original)
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The Wild Robot: Rewriting Harm as Love Episode Summary: The Wild Robot isn’t technically an adoption story, or at least it doesn’t look like one at first. But once you strip away the animation, sweeping music, and story about a robot learning to love, what’s left feels remarkably familiar. Roz arrives in a community that isn’t hers, accidentally kills Brightbill’s entire family, raises him herself, withholds the truth about where he came from, and is ultimately celebrated for the care she provid
Short Term 12: Who Gets Centered When We Tell Stories About Care? (opens the original)
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Short Term 12: Who Gets Centered When We Tell Stories About Care? Episode Summary: In this episode of Adoptees Crossing Lines , Zaira and J Way continue their Family Policing in the Media series with Short Term 12 . Once remembered as a rare film that centered young people in care, the rewatch lands differently. Together, they unpack how the film still centers caregivers, relies on familiar stereotypes about children in the system, and asks audiences to pity or fear young people without fully ex
Beyond the Happy Ending: Matilda and Child Autonomy (opens the original)
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Beyond the Happy Ending: Matilda and Child Autonomy Episode Summary: In this episode of Adoptees Crossing Lines , Zaira and J Way continue their Family Policing in the Media series with a childhood classic: Matilda . Rewatching the film as adults, they explore what its story says about child autonomy, neglect, survival, education, and the people who become safe places when home isn’t one. They also unpack Miss Honey’s own experience with kinship care, the role of imagination and escapism, and wh
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