Gabbie shares about searching for Sri Lankan family in our series dedicated to exploring the complexities, challenges, and realities for intercountry adoptees.
Tag: adopted from Sri Lanka
Searching in Intercountry Adoption by Adoptee Experts
ICAV presents a webinar on Searching on 23 April 2023 from lived experience and those who provide a formal search and support service.
Gabbie Beckley on Racism
Gabbie Beckley shares her experience of racism in being born in Sri Lanka and adopted to Australia. This is ICAVs newest Series on Lived Experience of Racism.
Confronting my greatest fear led to my best discovery!
Sharinda shares her emotional journey this year in discovering her Sri Lankan mother is alive and eager to meet her. Sharinda will film this in a documentary.
I Lost My Mother Twice
by Linzi Ibrahim adopted from Sri Lanka to Australia, founder of Sri Lankan Adoptees. I miss you every day but most of all today. The pain never fades. You were taken from me twice, I have grieved you twice. You lived the hardest life and still managed to be the most incredible human. You were …
Dualities
Artwork by Dilsah, adopted from Sri Lanka to Switzerland. She explores the duality of the adoptee experience.
Little Question
by Pradeep adopted from Sri Lanka to Belgium, Founder of Empreintes Vivantes. Have you already made an appointment with yourself? I remember having to forge myself, like many adoptees! Forge my own personality without any stable benchmarks and this mainly due to the absence of biological parents. Indeed, children who live with their biological parents …
One More Day Without You
Pradeep shares about his mother's birth date.
Good intentions gone wrong
Kristopher Hinz discusses the dark side of voluntourism and adoption.
The Happy Adoptee
Linzi shares her eating and weight struggles as an adoptee.
Adoption is Complex
Rowan shares his thoughts about being adopted.
Alone
Geetha shares about feeling alone.