Praise for Mattel
I can often be critical of large companies and systems and the implications of their monetary goals on disenfranchised individuals, but I thought that I would start 2017 out on […]
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DoDW – Touch Down
Touch Down – Nanjing Airport – 2/27/2015 My feet touched the ground, and my heart knew it was home. This is the story I want to tell.
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Greetings all! I want to thank you all so much for reading, following, and listening to my voice throughout the past few years. This blog has connected me to so […]
DoDW – Beijing International Airport
Beijing International Airprot – 2/27/2015 I followed the professor for a while. He was a determined walker with significantly longer legs than me. He veered left, into the men’s room, […]
DoDW – Departure Day
Departure Day – 2/25/2015 My mom and dad woke me up early in the morning in order for us to arrive at the airport in time. I’m not sure if […]
Speak Up for #CitizenshipForAllAdoptees
Originally posted on common ground:
The Child Citizenship Act of 2000 (CCA 2000) was passed with the intention of providing automatic U.S. citizenship for international adoptees. It has, however, a…
An Exploration of Orientalism & Asian Cultural Appropriation as Found in American Music
Adoptee Citizenship Act (S. 2275)
The Child Citizen Act of 2000 granted international adoptees coming into the United States immediate citizenship. This act, however, did not provide retroactive citizenship for adoptees adopted before that date. […]
The Adopted Life Episodes – COMING SOON
Originally posted on Angela Tucker:
I am very excited to launch The Adopted Life Episodes campaign! I plan to host a series where I speak one-on-one with transracially adopted youth posing developmentally appropriate questions…
Scenes of Misrecognition: The Absence of (Visible) Family Ties
Originally posted on Kimberly McKee, PhD:
Adoptive families marked by their transracial or transnational composition find themselves existing in contradiction to traditional definitions of family, which place primacy on genetic-relatedness.…
