Adoptee Voices

Brown Eyes

Brown Eyes Can I confide in you about a hesitancy that shadows me? Let me…

The Unrecognized Developmental Trauma of Early Relinquishment in Adoption

Note from Author Hello readers.  This writing is basically a paper lifted from my Master of…

From Political Pawns to Punchlines: Leave Adoptees Out of Your Abortion Arguments (and Memes)

“We will adopt your baby” posts went viral on Twitter only days after the Supreme Court’s…

“I Don’t See Colour”

Colour-blindness is the belief that there are no differences between different races and ethnicities; therefore,…

“These Eyes”

Slant Eyes. That’s what they called me, On the playground, in class, on the bus.…

Growing up Other in a “White Hot” Culture

I recently watched the new Netflix documentary White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie…

My Adoption Story

My name is Miguel Jones, and I am an adoptee from the province of Hà…

A Stolen Life

A stolen life. Tossed away, or thrown. Way out, of my very first home. A…

The Impacts of Our Unconscious Biases

An unconscious bias is defined by a social stereotype about a group of people formed…

After Yang: Racial Mirrors and the Adoptive Family

After Yang presents a techno fueled future musing on family, surveillance, and consciousness. The film…

“Dear Scared White Man”

Last Wednesday was the one year anniversary of the mass shooting in Atlanta, where six…

Adoption Fables and the Right to Know

New Yorkers, Al and Agnes, had moved to an apartment in Sumter, South Carolina in…

Adoptee Games

Rage and Grief are playing hide and seek. Rage covers its eyes and counts to…

Not to be Mentioned

I must have seen at least one expectant mother by the time I was eight,…

Not Everything is Adoption Sabotage

I read a quote on Instagram this week. It said something like: When people say…