Stephanie shares about the process of restoring her Korean Citizenship which was severed via intercountry adoption to the Netherlands.
Tag: adopted from Korea
The Significance of Adoptee Eyes
Korean Australian adoptee Alexis Bartlett shares her digital art project exploring adoptee stories. In this piece, Alexis portrays the significance of our eyes.
The Complexities of Adoption
백현숙 (Baek Hyun Sook) shares the memories evoked each year remembering the transition into adopted life. The complexities, the emotions growing up and learning the truth.
My View of Adoption has Changed with Time
Maria shares how her views and understanding of adoption have changed over time as she's connected herself more to the adoption community and educated herself.
25 Years in the Netherlands
Jowan shares writings about being in the Netherlands for 25 years, the connections with homeland in South Korea and the adjusting to a new life and identity.
A Picture Conveys a Thousand Emotions
Sara shares her memories of childhood with her brothers by the well in Korea, just before her father gave them away to an orphanage. She is adopted to the USA.
Connecting with People of Colour is Not Automatic for Transracial Adoptees
Mark Hagland writes about raising transracial adoptees so they are surrounded by people who mirror them and know intuitively how to interact with people of color.
I’m like a Deer Caught in the Headlights
by Krem0076, an Korean intercountry adoptee raised in the USA. Krem0076 as a toddler I am an adoptee from a closed international adoption. I have paperwork but for many of us, our paperwork is often fraught with mistakes, lies and discrepancies. That is a challenge - is my information accurate? My birth name? My birthdate? …
Is Adoption Truly a Mother’s Choice?
Yung Fierens shares her Mother's Day thoughts to remind us to think critically about whether Korean mothers are truly consenting to their children being adopted.
The Bearable Pain of Being Adopted
Kara Bos shares about learning of her father's death and the ongoing pains of adoption.
Adoptees Need Mental Health Services
Christina speaks about the need for mental health services for intercountry adoptees who live many traumas.
The Aloneness of Motherloss
Mila Konomos articulates the aloneness of mother loss, the grief and loss an adoptee lives due to being separated at birth.
The Duality of being Disabled and Adopted
Erin shares the complexities of living with disability AND being an adoptee.
Letter to President Moon
by Michelle Y. K. Piper adopted from Sth Korea to Australia. President Moon, To you, I may be merely a statistic. A Number. Name: 86c-1335. Born: “bastard” Abandoned by: Bio Mother These are the words inked into the brittle pages “cataloguing” my birth, 4 ½ months before I was separated from my mother, exiled from my motherland, …
What Would it Take to Choose to Parent Me?
by Cam Lee Small, adopted from South Korea to the USA, therapist at TherapyRedeemed. Not all children get to ask this question before they become adoptees. And not all expectant mothers get a chance to answer. I know there are so many kinds of circumstances represented in our community, even as you’re reading this and …
Just Because ..
Joon Ae shares her thoughts about intercountry adoption.
어머니 (Mother)
Michelle Piper shares the grief and loss of relinquishment and adoption, the multitude of questions, the lifelong emotional journey.
I Support #NotAThing
Lynelle supports the Korean adoptee campaign #notathing and speaks up about the broader issues that Jeong In-Yi's death have raised.
We are more than Numbers!
Brenna talks about Korean adoption statistics and how adoptees are more than these numbers.
Working through the difficult process as an Adoptee
JoYi Rhyss offers free zoom workshops to help adoptees.
The Adoption Fairy Tale
Sara shares the challenges of post reunion.
Forget Me Not: ICAV Online Event Feedback
by Pamela Kim adopted from Sth Korea to the USA. These are my thoughts about ICAV's online event for adoptees with filmmaker and guest speaker, Sun Hee Engelstoft (adopted from Korea to Denmark). I’ve been thinking about it ever since and putting it off because it’s heavy. I don’t really have the emotional capacity to …
The Brutal Agony of the Calm after the Storm
Kara Bos shares about life after legal case.
Why?
Jayme asks why his parents adopted?