The Trauma of Familial Separation
Around the U.S., people have been outraged by the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their families when detained at the southern border. Our nation’s collective heart broke when […]
Category Archives: For Adoptive Parents
What Would You Do: Onlooker Harasses Parent with Different Race Child (+ Response)
Every family through transracial adoption has experienced inappropriate comments by onlookers in mundane, public settings like the grocery store, small shops, or like in this video, a restaurant. The nature of transracial […]
Not Quite Narwhal (Review)
Not Quite Narwhal Author and Illustrator: Jessie Sima Ranking: Plot Summary: “Growing up in the ocean, Kelp has always assumed that he was a narwhal like the rest of his family. […]
Ten Names of My First Mother
This Sunday is Mother’s Day, and with this particular holiday comes a barrage of unresolved feelings of grief and loss for many adoptees. I wrote about this last year in a […]
Wearing my Adoptee Identity
This is a pendant that was gifted to me by a Korean adoptee friend right before I embarked on my four month journey back to my hometown, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China. […]
Reclaiming My Name
by Selena Pruitt — Paraguayan adoptee, teacher, incredibly funny friend Originally published in Gazillion Voices Magazine, 2014. The year I was born, the name ‘Sarah’ was the fifth most popular […]
Emma’s Story (Review)
Emma’s Story Authors: Deborah Hodge, Song Nan Zhang (Illustrator) Rating: ★★☆☆☆ Plot Summary: Emma and her brother are making cookies at their grandma’s house when she notices that she is the […]
To Adoptees from “Shithole Countries” and Elsewhere
When I was young and I would get into arguments with my mom, I would oftentimes shout out, “You don’t love me!” Of course, I knew this wasn’t true. My mother […]
Exploring Orientalism in The Nutcracker
As the holiday season draws to a close, I have been reflecting on one of my favorite Christmas traditions. For nearly twenty years, my mother and I have seen Tchaikovsky’s […]
The journey so far being an adoptive mom
Originally posted on The adopted ones blog:
This post is by Tiffany one of my friends I met on an adoption forum years ago. She’s fierce about what’s right, what’s…
