OPERATION
IDENTITY

Serving Albuquerque, N.M., and all with New Mexico Records since 1979


  The OPERATION IDENTITY LOGO is made up of various southwestern symbols. It represents the aspirations of people with longing thoughts ready to meet and overcome the challenge presented by the inevitable difficulties regarding their creation and roots. The logo also depicts the unknown factors to be encountered in our desires for happiness, as well as the feeling of belonging generated by helping each other in our whirlwind search. It was designed by Judy Jones in April 1980.

Operation Identity is a peer-led support group for all members of the adoption triad, which includes adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive parents, or anyone with an interest in adoption.

The American Adoption Congress has ceased to exist as of August 2024. All of its assets, after payment of all outstanding payables, have been given to Adoptees Liberty Movement Association.

MISSION STATEMENT

Operation Identity is a non-profit organization whose mission is to provide confidential support to those who have been affected by adoption.

Operation Identity is supportive of those in their search for family members. Although we do not conduct searches, we offer helpful suggestions and input throughout the search and reunion processes.

Operation Identity has reference materials and a variety of pamphlets and books in our Lending Library. In addition, we publish a newsletter.

Operation Identity is a member of the American Adoption Congress (AAC), a national organization whose mission is to promote honesty, openness, and respect for family connections in adoption, foster care, and assisted reproduction through education and advocacy.

MONTHLY MEETINGS

O.I. meetings are held on the 4th Thursday of each month (except November and December) beginning at 7:00 p.m.
During our confidential meetings, we share personal updates and news about current events and legislation in adoption.

NEW MEETING LOCATION

Young at Heart Choir Center
2404 San Mateo Place N.E.
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87110

Click here for a MAP & DIRECTIONS
(Courtesy of Google Maps)

IN MEMORIAM


Sally File

SALLY FILE


(April 14, 1944 - February 23, 2011)


O.I.’s Founder and Past President

Leonie Boehmer

LEONIE BOEHMER


(November 1, 1933 - June 8, 2018)


Past President of O.I. (1982-1994) and
Independent Search Consultant

BETTY JEAN LIFTON


(June 11, 1926 - November 19, 2010)


Author of Twice Born: Memoirs of an Adopted Daughter (1975), Lost and Found: The Adoption Experience (1979), I’m Still Me (1981),
and
Journey of the Adopted Self: A Quest for Wholeness (1994), among many other works.

FLORENCE FISHER


(May 28, 1928 - October 1, 2023)


Founder, Adoptees Liberty Movement
Association (1971), and Author of
The Search for Anna Fisher (1973)

 

MEETING DATES
& SPECIAL EVENTS


Special Events are denoted in RED

January 25, 2024
Regular Meeting


February 22, 2024
Regular Meeting


March 28, 2024
Regular Meeting


April 25, 2024
Regular Meeting


May 11, 2024

Birth Mother’s Day



May 23, 2024
Regular Meeting


May 24, 2024
O.I.’s Anniversary


June 27, 2024
Regular Meeting


July 25, 2024
Regular Meeting


August 22, 2024
Regular Meeting


September 26, 2024
Regular Meeting


October 24, 2024
Regular Meeting


November 21, 2024
Regular Meeting


December 2024
Holiday Potluck


in lieu of Regular Meeting

(Date, Time and Locale to be
announced at November Regular Meeting.)

Some Adoption-Related
Books That Appeared in 2023

Adoption Fantasies: The Fetishization of
Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood

by Kimberly D. McKee

In Adoption Fantasies, Kimberly D. McKee explores the ways adopted Asian women and girls are situated at a nexus of objectifications—as adoptees and as Asian American women—and how they negotiate competing expectations based on sensationalist and fictional portrayals of adoption found in US popular culture. (Ohio State University Press / Non-Fiction)

“You Should Be Grateful”: Stories of Race,
Identity, and Transracial Adoption
*
by Angela Tucker

Angela Tucker is a Black woman, adopted from foster care by white parents. She has heard this microaggression her entire life, usually from well-intentioned strangers who view her adoptive parents as noble saviors. She is grateful for many aspects of her life, but being transracially adopted involves layers of rejection, loss, and complexity that cannot be summed up so easily. (Beacon Press / Non-Fiction)

Crazy Bastard: A Memoir of Forced Adoption
by Abraham Maddison

Derek Pedley abandons his 30-year journalism career on the brink of a breakdown, haunted by addiction, compulsion and obsession, and carrying the heavy baggage of a boy who found his adoption papers at 15. When an anguished letter his mother wrote almost half a century earlier arrives five years after her death, it raises more questions than it answers. (Wakefield Press / Non-Fiction)


Inclusion in this list does not necessarily constitute a re­com­men­da­tion by Operation Identity. Thanks, in whole or in part, to Adoptee Reading.
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* Reviewed in the Operation Identity Newsletter.

On March 4, 2011, the Albuquerque Journal remembered our Founder, Sally File.
Read the October 4, 2010 Albuquerque Journal article about our Founder, Sally File’s reunion!

All original material published on this website is the Property of Operation Identity,
which retains all applicable rights under international law.



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