Check out Blogher writer Laina on why love is not enough in transracial adoptions.
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Unless you have walked in a person’s shoes, you cannot understand what happens to them when they walk out of your house every morning. Love is not going to ease the pain that your child feels because their parents do not look [...]
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love is not enough
Posted in abandonment, black adoptees, love, transracial adoptees, transracial adoption on October 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
John Raible
Posted in Adoption, John Raible, adult adoptees, black adoptees, transracial adoption on April 18, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Please visit John Raible’s excellent blog, especially to read his series of Mock Interviews with himself where he describes his experiences as a transracial adoptee growing up in what he calls “Whitesville” and his personal and political transformation by living in racially and culturally diverse communities.
Mock Interview, Part 1
Mock Interview, Part 2
Mock Interview, Part 3
Mock [...]
mother daughter
Posted in Adoption, black adoptees, family, transracial adoptees, transracial adoption on March 30, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Tragic Adoptee, or shades of grey
Posted in Adoption, adult adoptees, family, identity, tragic adoptee, tragic mulatto, transracial adoption on November 15, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Some days I feel like The Tragic Adoptee, sort of like The Tragic Mulatto (i say, with more than a twinge of irony in my throat), neither black nor white, but in this instance, neither real nor imagined, lost or found, belonging or outcast. Other adoptees no doubt feel this. This is not just me [...]
Experimental film by black adoptee
Posted in Adoption, Dana Inkster, adoptees, adult adoptees, black Canadian adoptee, black adoptees, film, identity, transracial adoption on October 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Art of Autobiography: Redux 1
Canada 2006, 5 min, Dir: Dana C. Inkster
Watch it on YouTube!
Although this film is not new, I wanted to highlight it here. Metro Cinema describes the film:
This experimental video treatise is based on the documentary directed by Dana Inkster, The Art of Autobiography (2003). This documentary [...]
Rejection: adoptee woes in a nutshell
Posted in Adoption, adoptees, birth father, birth mother, closed records, identity, rejection, searching, transracial adoption on October 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Time for a little background. I mentioned in an earlier post that I do not know who my biological parents are. I have tried for years to find out. Here are some of my searching woes in a nutshell…
I was adopted in NS, where we have antiquated laws, or in other words, CLOSED adoption records. [...]
Connor’s Boy: a play about a transracial adoptee
Posted in Zetta Elliott, adult adoptees, black adoptees, transracial adoption on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Connor’s Boy, a play about a black transracial adoptee, was staged in January 2008 as part of two new play festivals: in Cleveland, OH as part of Karamu House’s R. Joyce Whitley Festival of New Plays ARENAFEST, and in New York City as part of Maieutic Theatre Works’ Newborn Festival.
CONNOR’S BOY, a play by Zetta [...]
Adoption: missing pieces
Posted in adoptees, black adoptees, transracial adoption on October 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I don’t mean to characterize adoptees or transracial adoptees as ‘missing pieces’ or incomplete human beings, so just hear me out. An old, true friend introduced me to The Missing Piece, by Shel Silverstein many years ago. It succinctly and beautifully sums up the road many of us take to find ourselves, but especially adoptees [...]
who am I?
Posted in black Canadian adoptee, black adoptees, identity, transracial adoption on October 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
If I really knew who I was, I probably would not start this blog. I envy all those people out there with a strong sense of self. I am not one of them. I tend to think that not knowing who I am is because I am adopted. I don’t blame all my personality quirks [...]
