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Title: Thank you, each and all!
Post by: Shana A on January 25, 2011, 09:25:10 AM
Thank you, each and all!
Leslie Feinberg

http://leslie-feinberg.tumblr.com/day/2011/01/25 (http://leslie-feinberg.tumblr.com/day/2011/01/25)

Thank you to the many hundreds of people who are circulating my statement about who is, and is not, my family into the public record: http://leslie-feinberg.tumblr.com/ (http://leslie-feinberg.tumblr.com/)

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Their counter-narrative leaves out the experiences of my chosen family with these hostile relatives. Instead, they only focus on Catherine Ryan Hyde to make it appear to be a "sibling" problem—not the group dynamics of scapegoating by all three biological relatives. Their argument dismisses a 40-year legal battle for legal, social and political independence from a hostile patriarchal nuclear biological unit as merely a "family squabble."