Bina shares about the complex emotions adoptees have to work through.
Mila Konomos articulates the aloneness of mother loss, the grief and loss an adoptee lives due to being separated at birth.
Milagros Forrester shares with ICAV about her return trips to Peru and how it impacted her search for identity and belonging.
Netra Sommer is adopted from India to Denmark and endured abuse in her adoption and talks about undoing her adoption and the lengthy process to reclaim herself.
Abby explores the complex dualities adoptees face, from identity and family connections to cultural struggles, highlighting the emotional toll of navigating adoption experiences.
Mae adopted from Haiti shares the complexities of being trafficked and having a racist dad
Vietnamese adoptee TLB shares about living with disability, being rehomed, and loss.
ICAVs newest Perspective Paper: How Authorities and Bodies could Respond to Illicit Adoptions
Lynelle's part 2 of 3 on Sexual Abuse within Adoption.
Lynelle shares her thoughts about One Child Nation documentary.
Abby reflects on curiosity, identity, trauma, and the importance of questioning societal norms and systems, while seeking healing and understanding.
ICAV Blogger Collaborative Series #2 addressing adoption colour blindness.
Huang Feng Ying shares artwork and thoughts about being adopted from China.
Joey is adopted from China to the USA and writes about his grief for his first mother.
Abby reflects on reclaiming her Latina identity after growing up in a white Jewish family, highlighting the impact of adoption practices on self-worth and cultural connection.
Abby emphasizes the importance of post-adoption services for healing adoption trauma, highlighting the need for community support, therapy, and resources to thrive.
Lynelle shares about the importance of including adoptee lived experience at the Adoption Symposium for the US Department of State in 2020.
Adoptee birthdays are a day of celebrating secrets and sadness, a complex day of emotions reminding us we are not with the ones who birthed us.
Indian adoptee Pooja shares the challenges of her complex life being adopted to Australia.
An intercountry adoptee shares about their use of magic mushroom as an alternate mode of therapy, aiming to delve deeper into the trauma underlying adoption.
Lynelle discusses the difficulties in relationships as an intercountry adoptee and why is love so difficult: attachment, bonding, connection and adoption.
Vietnamese adoptee Lynelle shares about her second return journey to homeland, a decade later and how things have changed.
Jayme shares about how becoming a parent himself has changed his life and perspective as an intercountry adoptee from South Korea.
Lynelle shares about the burden of being expected to be grateful in being adopted.
