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Orientalism 25 May 2012 | 10:36 am
I put quite a lot of time in on <a href=”http://transracialeyes.com/2012/05/23/what-does-culture-say-about-adoption/”>my latest comment at Transracialeyes</a>. It’s kind of a summation of what I’ve l...
Older Adoptees 22 May 2012 | 03:28 am
I was asked to give a speech at GOAL’s Post Adoption Survey final forum on the topic of adoptee identity from an older adoptee’s perspective. I thought I’d share it here. I don’t remember where I got ...
you don’t know me 29 Mar 2012 | 07:56 pm
written in Dec. of 2010 Dear A.B., You don’t know me but your public information says you might be related to the only person in Washington State who has the same birthday as my possible sister. Is S....
Poem by a daughter removed from her mother 19 Dec 2011 | 08:51 pm
Powerful images and rational arguments by an adoptee/scholar/poet on re-humanizing the women who gave birth to us. Jennifer Kwon Dobbs was recently reunited with her birth mother from whom she was for...
please stop – your saving is killing us 12 Dec 2011 | 03:41 pm
Copied from one of my other blogs… Recently I reflected that X and myself really aren’t so far apart on our views. I have come to believe that “justice” is both hard to define and probably a fool’s pu...
Compassion needn’t traumatize 29 Sep 2011 | 05:45 pm
While I was born after the Korean war, it is still sobering to know I was a product of its aftermath. More sobering still, are reminders of just how bad it was for the people of The Forgotten War. Wh...
More than you ask for 10 Mar 2011 | 11:09 pm
For a brief time, after I realized I was adopted and that adoption may have no small part in why the world makes no sense to me, I went into a mad frenzy seeking to find out as much information on ado...
Hope they will search 12 Feb 2011 | 01:53 pm
These days, that’s what unwed mothers giving their babies all seem to say. They give up their babies because they have no options and they hope the babies will grow up, come back, and search for them....
What would Harry Holt Do? 15 Dec 2010 | 04:16 pm
Here is the awesome spoken word, by permission of the author, poet Christy Namee Ericksen. Please support the work of Christy and other poets of color by purchasing their collective CD, of which this ...
must’ve been destiny 2 Dec 2010 | 03:12 am
I think the following poem should be required reading by anyone considering international adoption, and it’s a fine companion piece to John Raible’s spoken-word piece on transracial adoption, Better O...
