Roxas-Chua shares their artwork and thoughts when contemplating their birthmother, giving tenderness to self and coming to terms with being an adopted person.
Tag: grieving our mothers
어머니 (Mother)
Michelle Piper shares the grief and loss of relinquishment and adoption, the multitude of questions, the lifelong emotional journey.
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 …
My Mother
My Huong Lé shares both her mother and her thoughts on Mother's Day.
Mother’s Day Ponderings
What does Mother's Day mean for this adoptee?
tears of my life, lagrimas de mi vida
J Alonso shares his poetry as a Spanish intercountry adoptee.
Grieving Mother
Joey is adopted from China to the USA and writes about his grief for his first mother.