Sonia shares about searching for Romanian family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
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Searching for my family in Vietnam
Hyun shares about searching for Vietnamese family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
Searching for my family in Colombia
Jose shares about searching for Colombian family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
Searching in Intercountry Adoption by Adoptee Experts Webinar
ICAVs newest webinar and perspective paper on searching in intercountry adoption bringing you experiences of intercountry adoptees from around the world.
New Goals as an Adoptee in a New City
Desiree shares the complexities of life as an adoptee, the challenges of finding and establishing ones roots, reinventing oneself, finding a place to just be.
Olivia Atkocaitis is not just a tabloid headline
Maya challenges us to see beyond the tabloids and to give adoptees their space to represent themselves and be heard with their authentic real voices.
Sensitively Responding to Fears of Abandonment
Lyla shares an awesome way her adoptive parents assisted her with abandonment fears - a rational fear all adoptees have borne out of losing their first family.
A Privilege, Not a Right
Kamina shares her thoughts on adoption as an adoptee via her poetry.
Your Grief is Your Gift
Through her poetry, Kamina explores adoption, relinquishment and her lifelong journey of discovery.
How to Truly Save and Help a Child
Jessica shares the realities of intercountry adoption and what people can do to help a vulnerable child in need, challenging the usual narrative of adoption.
Being Adopted
Marcella shares on how being adopted has impacted her being.
Navigating Disability and Rare Medical Conditions as an Intercountry Adoptee
What complex issues do intercountry adoptees living with disability and or a rare disease navigate? We have created a resource to help educate on this topic.
Grief in Adoption
Cosette shares deep feelings of grief during her life, coming to terms with all she's lost and might never know. Being adopted means living deep grief.
Confirmation that we are born as adoptees
Hollee shares on the significance of having access to information about our origins as adoptees.
An Adoptee’s Thoughts on Haaland vs Brackeen
Patrick shares on the current Haaland vs Brackeen case that challenges the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and asks why family preservation isn't the focus.
One Adoptee’s Thoughts on the UN Joint Statement on Illegal Intercountry Adoptions
Lynelle shares her thoughts on the UN Joint Statement on Illegal Intercountry Adoption.
A Question for Adoption Agencies
Cameron asks adoption agencies how well they are incorporating adoptee voices and adoptee led research into their practice and policy.
Bolivian Adoptee Anthology Book Review
Lynelle provides a review of the Bolivian adoptee anthology Communal Histories of Displacement and Adoption by the Network of Bolivian Adoptees
Embracing Therapy as an Adoptee
Oleg shares the journey from being ashamed of needing therapy to fully embracing and recognising the benefits it added to his life as an intercountry adoptee.
Adoptee Fear and Vulnerability
Oleg shares on the fear and vulnerability so many adoptees live and being brave to open up and trust his adoptive mother to understand and support his journey.
My Adoption Day Is An Anniversary of Loss
Mary shares how Adoption Day anniversary can trigger feelings of grief and loss that pervade her life; coming to terms with it, making the most of life now.
Adoption: Not a Default Setting
Mary Cardaras, Greek intercountry adoptee in the USA, critically examines Amy Conley Barrett's assumption that adoption is a default to abortion.
Toxicity and Grief
by Dan R Moen, adopted from the Philippines to the USA. Part three of this series focuses on toxicity and its impact with grief. The black vine-like shapes represent toxicity and how it manifests itself within and around all of us. It’s depicted as an uncontrollable beast and has completely engulfed an individual. It grows …
Does My Perspective Matter?
Part 2 of a 3 part artwork series that Dan Moen creates to share about his adoption experience, in this piece he paints to portray the lived experience of grief