Autore: giuliettavia
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Non puoi consigliarti di appartenere
Juliette shares her thoughts after watching Red Table Talk episode featuring Angela Tucker, transracial adoptee.
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Il ciclo del danno nelle adozioni di celebrità
Adoption is not heroism. It does not fight poverty, disease nor the root causes of inequality. Adoption doesn’t even raise awareness about the real causes of poverty, inequality, parent-child separations, disease or social immobility. Instead it creates idolatry of those who look to adoption in a world which stigmatises infertility, disease, poverty and poor access…
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Celebrare i segreti e la tristezza
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.
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Il corpo adottato mantiene il punteggio
(Also shared at Musings of a Birthmom.) As an intercountry adoptee from Malaysia to the UK, I am still so marginalised that it took a lot of anger at the age of 44 to motivate me to claim my own ethnicity. Yet, when I spoke out loud with frustration, confusion and anger, “I am an…