So I haven’t felt much like writing about adoption issues lately. Even though I’m always thinking about them. The fact of my adoption is never really that far from the surface. It is there in my relationship with my mother, with my daughters. It is always there, even when it seems not to be. Even [...]
Archive for the ‘belonging’ Category
ambivalence
Posted in Adoption, belonging, biological family, black adoptees, death, family on June 18, 2009 | 5 Comments »
communication
Posted in Adoption, adoptees, belonging, transracial adoptees on March 27, 2009 | 7 Comments »
I realized after talking on the phone the other day with a fellow black transracial adoptee that I have great difficulty articulating how I feel and what I think about adoption issues and my specific adoption experiences. It is relatively easy to sit here at the computer and tap out some thoughts and easy enough [...]
transracial adoptees and marriage
Posted in Obama, adult adoptees, belonging, biracial, family, identity, marriage, mixed race, transracial adoptees on February 10, 2009 | 9 Comments »
I’ve been silent for awhile… many sleepless nights and draining days with little children. I love them intensely and they completely exhaust me. And I’ve been mesmerized – along with the rest of the world – by the Obamas. Barack, Michelle, Sasha, Malia. I just finished reading Dreams From My Father. It was engaging and [...]
Zetta Elliott, Stranger in the Family
Posted in George Elliott Clarke, Zetta Elliott, african canadian, belonging, black canadians, family, identity, mixed race on February 8, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Here is a review by George Elliott Clarke of Zetta Elliott’s memoir Stranger in the Family, an excellent book by a black (biracial) Canadian living in the States. The book does not discuss adoption, but I include it here because it addresses issues many transracial adoptees grapple with: belonging, home and “the shifting terrain upon [...]
