Etikett: röster från adopterade

Colin Cadier’s speech at the Hague Special Commission 2022, Day 1, Session 1, Voices of Adoptees Panel

Adoptees at the Hague Special Commission

jul 1, 2022

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Lynelle shares the history of adoptee led organisation involvement at the Hague Special Commission meetings and the importance of adoptee voices being included.

Ethiopian Adoptee Anthology

mar 31, 2022

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Aselefech shares her thoughts on the upcoming Ethiopian Adoptee Anthology that she has co-administered, coming soon but first, here is the cover of the book.

What I Lost When I Was Adopted

jan 4, 2022

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Desiree Maru

Stephanie shares questions and thoughts about the complex path traversed to come to integrate losses and gains into a sense of identity as a Filipino adoptee.

Educational Resource for Professionals

okt 1, 2021

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Launch Day I am proud to launch our new adoptee led educational video resource for professionals designed to help doctors, teachers, and mental health professionals better understand our lived experience as intercountry adoptees. This project has been a huge effort over the past 6 months in Australia to gather adult intercountry adoptee voices and share…

Motherloss ensamhet

mar 20, 2021

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Mila Konomos articulates the aloneness of mother loss, the grief and loss an adoptee lives due to being separated at birth.

Decolonizing Moses

mar 8, 2021

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by Kayla Zheng, adopted from China to the USA. Growing up in an evangelical white Christian home, I learned the story of Moses before I learned the story of Santa or Easter Bunny. White Christianity was a core pillar in my years growing up. Like Moses, who was orphaned and floated down the Nile to…

어머니 (Mamma)

feb 6, 2021

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Michelle Piper shares the grief and loss of relinquishment and adoption, the multitude of questions, the lifelong emotional journey.

Jag stöder #NotATing

feb 2, 2021

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Lynelle supports the Korean adoptee campaign #notathing and speaks up about the broader issues that Jeong In-Yi’s death have raised.

Bruten

feb 1, 2021

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by Yolanda, a transracial adoptee (of Jamaican, black mixed with Chipawaue Indian origins) raised in the USA into a black American adoptive family. I was adopted at seven months old and my adoptee story isn’t a good one. Basically I grew up in a religious family full of mental, physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Because…

Peruansk adopterad återvänder till födelselandet

jan 28, 2021

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Milagros Forrester shares with ICAV about her return trips to Peru and how it impacted her search for identity and belonging.

Reflekterande minnen: Hitta min vietnamesiska mamma

jan 1, 2021

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by Denise Sandquist adopted from Vietnam to Sweden. At this time of the year, it’s time for reflection! I want to share my story of how I found my mother and why this time of year is so special. Almost exactly 4 years ago, I found my biological mother in Vietnam! I was adopted from…

Working through the difficult process as an Adoptee

dec 10, 2020

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JoYi Rhyss offers free zoom workshops to help adoptees.

Dualiteter för adopterade

dec 2, 2020

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Abby Forero-Hilty

by Abby Hilty, born in Colombia adopted to the USA, currently living in Canada. She wrote and shared this on her Facebook wall for National Adoption Awareness Month. Adoptees are constantly grappling with a life full of complex dualities. I am an only child, but I have at least 4 siblings. I have a birth…

Life Lessons from an Adoptee – Part 7

jul 15, 2020

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Tamieka Small

Part 7 of Life Lessons by Tamieka Small

Mother’s Day Ponderings

maj 10, 2020

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What does Mother’s Day mean for this adoptee?

when i am old, cuando sea viejo

apr 9, 2020

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when i am old, cuando sea viejo

Kan internationell adoption vara etisk? Gör det bra?

feb 26, 2020

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Are you doing good by intercountry adopting?

Antagen som spädbarn

feb 6, 2020

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ICAV Blogger Collaborative Series #1

Leave Room

jan 7, 2020

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Elena S Hall shares about adoption and

Inte hjälpsam

nov 27, 2019

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juliettevia

Juliette shares on what’s not helpful – we just need to be respectfully heard!

Gräva i smutsen

nov 19, 2019

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Abby Forero-Hilty

Abby shares her about adoptee healing for NAAM 2019.

The Blame Game

okt 3, 2019

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A statement was made while at the recent intercountry adoption symposium in Washington DC about “children at the border and how we need to get them adopted into American families“. That statement combined with articles I’ve seen on Facebook about migrant children who have been separated from their families and are now being adopted into…

Where is the Outrage?

jul 21, 2018

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