Black Lotus

On January 17, 2025December 30, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee Anger, Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoption Attachment, Alternate therapies in adoption, Art therapy, Complexities in Adoption, Difficult discussions in adoption, Generational trauma, Germany, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, Sense of BelongingLeave a comment

Jonas Haid shares his artwork Black Lotus created and inspired by his own story of adoption from Sth Korea to Germany.

Diagnosis

On January 10, 2025December 30, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Complexities in Adoption, Generational trauma, Germany, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

Jonas Haid shares his latest artwork Diagnosis that helps him see himself and the complex impacts of adoption.

Adopted to Norway

On February 14, 2024February 14, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoption Attachment, Adoption Book, Complexities in Adoption, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Multiple Identities, Norway, Poetry by Adoptees, South Korea, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption1 Comment

Vår Benum is adopted from Sth Korea to Norway and shares artwork created for her poetry, describing the lifelong journey of being an intercountry adoptee.

Afrocentric

On February 6, 2024February 5, 2024 By Guest BloggerIn Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptees Educate, Australia, Complexities in Adoption, Haiti, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Racial Mirrors, Return to Birth Country, Sense of Belonging, Transracial AdoptionLeave a comment

Ebony Hickey, a Haitian Australian intercountry adoptee performed in Afrocentric at the Victorian Gallery of Victoria. We share her voice performance and photos

If the Moon Could Be My Birthmother Now

On May 5, 2022April 20, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Roxas-Chua shares their artwork and thoughts when contemplating their birthmother, giving tenderness to self and coming to terms with being an adopted person.

On the Road to Recovery

On November 18, 2021July 25, 2022 By Desiree MaruIn Uncategorized1 Comment

Stephanie shares her 5 tips that helped her on the road to recovery as an intercountry adoptee. Adopted from the Philippines to the USA.

Sunday Junk Journaling

On August 26, 2021July 29, 2022 By Desiree MaruIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Filipino adoptee Desiree Maru shares her method of Junk Journaling that gives her a tool to help process life and its challenges. Creative, therapeutic, fun.

French-Indonesian

On September 25, 2020September 13, 2020 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Artwork by Indonesian adoptee Marie-Atina.

Overcoming Bullying

On February 21, 2020April 16, 2020 By Guest BloggerIn Uncategorized3 Comments

Guest post by FaerieWarrior who shares on overcoming bullying.

Art Auction for ICAV

On July 22, 2019July 9, 2019 By lynellelongIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

As a result of my attendance at The Hague Working Group for Illicit Practices in Adoption meeting in May, I met with over 20 Central Authority representatives. One of them was the Executive Director of the Inter-Country Adoption Board (ICAB) in the Philippines. She has invited ICAV as a guest speaker to the 15th Philippine Global …

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A Picture Is Worth 1000 Words

On July 31, 2018April 16, 2020 By Guest BloggerIn Uncategorized2 Comments

Adoptee artist Jonas Haid shares his powerful talent.

InterCountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV)

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