As in multiple, and not a command to do math… For some reason I woke up this morning remembering a post-it note of key points I’d scribbled down after a shower about a year ago when I didn’t have time to craft a decent post. Nothing has changed, except the post-it note, sadly, got tossed. […]
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Last week my daughter emailed me asking for the best resources to point someone beginning their identity journey to. I realized I couldn’t give her a straight answer, despite being deeply embedded in adoption land for many years. My own journey didn’t start until I was in my mid 40’s. After my parents died. It […]
So hip to adopt. A new generation of rainbow family. Am I being too cynical, or what? Adoptees, what are your thoughts on this millennial web t.v. fare? https://fusion.kinja.com/the-viola-davis-backed-racism-battling-detective-sitco-1796256983
I came across this article I haven’t been able to unpack yet. It seems to tap into one of the arguments promoting transracial adoption, and I thought it would be a great topic for discussion here. transracial adoptees, your thoughts? If babies were randomly allocated to families would racism end?
My daughter has asked me for assistance, and I thought it would be good to ask the community here: It seems that in every era since International Adoption became a thing, that it’s become a consideration for family planning, especially among the socially conscientious. Today it’s become the defacto solution for those who are interested […]
All the buzz in social media right now is about an NAACP official who turns out to not be black as claimed. She was born to a white couple and raised with black adoptees. There have been other articles wondering whether or not being transracial is analogous to being transgendered. And other articles about syndromes of delusion. Rachel […]
Most intercountry adoptees reading on the internet are gen x’ers or millennials. Very few are baby boomers, because we were the first to have been subjected to this social experiment en masse, and we are aging. And, if the rest of older adoptees are like me, we are exceptionally (acquaintances might even say irrationally) afraid of […]
Like many people here in America, currently in racial turmoil over grand jury decisions not to indict police officers who have killed unarmed black men, I shared this image on facebook. A few days later, articles appeared berating the photo’s manipulation and message. Clearly, other people think harder than I do before sharing. The first […]
I recently commented on a post here, but nobody seemed to notice, and I think it’s something important that we should discuss, because it rarely gets mentioned. So I deleted it and am posing a question so there can be more than just me joining in. So yes, I am gaming the Post & Comment […]
Couldn’t help but wonder what adoptees thought of this Pampers commercial, as seen in this article at Sociological Images: http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2014/06/13/the-white-womans-burden/
It seems at every juncture I turn and run smack into adoption. I consciously try to avoid it, but it seems to seek me out. For four decades I just lived my life and denied my otherly status. Let me tell you: that wasn’t a healthy strategy, though the world seemed very content with that. […]
I’ve been wrangling with my discomfort at a recent Korean American / Korean Adopteee Diaspora / Korean Queer gathering in honor of a Korean holiday (Thanksgiving) NOT in Korea, and I realized that I never want to attend another gathering of people focused on identity exploration and culture embracing from abroad ever again. I wrangled […]
I found this sitting in the “pending” pile; Girl4708 has given me permission to update and post. She originally wrote: As I approved another comment today on a blog post I wrote about Woody Allen, I wondered about tan fever, brown fever, and black fever as Asian adoptions decline and other countries become sources for […]
I’m fascinated by reunion stories. Primarily because adoptees in reunion are privy to the larger account of what creates orphans than the simple beneficient accounts we are told are the reasons. Having had the privilege to edit many adoptee reunion stories and interview many adoptees about their reunions, I am struck by the truths that […]
As an older adoptee, who didn’t address her own adoptee issues, who wasn’t aware of adoptee community and whose grown children also did not benefit from that knowledge and support base, I am very cognizant of all the adoptees who are now raising children of their own. Most of these children of adoptees are bi-racial […]
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