Month: February 2019
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In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories // Part 2
One of the most interesting things that I noticed while reading the men’s stories in Part Two was a large number of similarities that many of the men shared. One’s identity around their perceived “blackness,” was present in almost all of the men’s stories and ideas around how one’s adoptive parents celebrated or, left out…
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In Their Own Voices: Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories – Rhonda & Simon
Many issues around a transracial adoptee’s ethnic, cultural, and self-identity center around the support or, lack of, the support they have experienced from their adoptive parents. Part Two is split between twelve women and twelve men sharing their stories about their transracial adoption.
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You Don’t Look Adopted – Anne Heffron
The main focus of You Don’t Look Adopted is how adoption has caused Heffron emotional trauma and how she’s learning to heal.
The Adoptee Reads 