Love is NOT all you need
Unpopular Adoption Opinion: Love is NOT all an adoptee needs! I oftentimes hear this sentiment as a justification for adoption and people’s desire to help all of the “orphans” around […]
Tag Archives: Adoptee Voices
KAAN Connect 2020
As many of you know, I serve on the Advisory Council for the Korean American Adoptee and Adoptive Family Network (KAAN). Due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, we’ve had to […]
Interview with Midwest Mixed
I was recently asked to do an interview with Midwest Mixed, a group that focuses on programming for mixed race people and their families in the Twin Cities area. I have […]
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 […]
The Yearning
This piece was originally published in an anthology titled Home. … It was late February, and I stood perched at my kitchen window, welcoming the sun-streaked curtains, the slightly rising temperatures, […]
The House I Make
by Jake Neuman – Korean adoptee, film student, martial artist I am a young man, and I was adopted from South Korea in 1994. My two very loving parents have given […]
Parents of adoptees
Originally posted on myownrace:
This post is going to be directed to parents of adoptees. These ideas are not limited to just Chinese adoptions but can be implemented in any…
Please Support Creating Home, A Storytelling Program For Young People
https://ksr-video.imgix.net/projects/922366/video-363213-h264_high.mp4 I’m very excited to promote a combined project between Land of Gazillion Adoptees (LGA) and COMPAS. LGA is a multimedia company based out of Minneapolis, MN whose mission is to […]
Fundraising for Adoption?
On many websites I see advertisements for jewelry or knit hats whose proceeds in part will support an adoption (mostly international). Other websites or blogs simply have a giving link […]
Twinkie
by Jessie Lutz – Chinese adoptee, high school senior, international communications manager for CCI They call me twinkie. An American classic. White creme nestled in a fluffy yellow cake. Yellow on […]
Red Thread Broken 