Tag: adoptee
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“You’re lucky, you were chosen…”
As much as I appreciate the sentiment behind these words, they still require me to hold back anger and to clam up in sharing more about me as an adoptee. First of all, to say I’m lucky because my birth family gave me up or because I finally found a loving home is a bit…
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New documentary on young adoptees
Thanks again to 8Asians, this trailer for a documentary on young adopted girls – Somewhere Between – looks interesting. It is nice to see/hear the voices of young adoptees and those from other countries. What is striking is that the issues and thoughts are the same as those I am familiar with – a sign…
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My Adoption Journey – 1
I have decided to start a new series of posts related directly to my adoption experience. This is mostly because I have started to delve more and more into the world of adoptees who are starting to express themselves about this whole being adopted thing – especially Korean-American adoptees. I know that some are reading,…
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Korean Adoptees – 1
I have been spending some time reading articles on Korean adoptees the past couple of days. I always have a long list of links and posts to read from adoptees or about adoption backed up and when I manage to start reading, I get on a long chain of open tabs and items to read.…
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_Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging_
_Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging_ by Eleana J Kim I found this title off of another adoptee’s blog who had written about it and said that it was the best intellectual presentation of the situation for the first few decades of adoptees who have now grown up and are raising…
