Naomi shares the challenges she's experienced and rightfully questions why adoptees are expected to feel grateful for their lives.
Tag: identity formation
Peruvian Adoptee Returns to Birth Country
Milagros Forrester shares with ICAV about her return trips to Peru and how it impacted her search for identity and belonging.
What’s in a Name? Identity, Respect, Ownership?
ICAV members share their thoughts on Changing Names at Adoption
Divided by Two Cultures
Xiaolan reflects her cultural identities in this artwork.
You Can’t Counsel Yourself into Belonging
Juliette shares her thoughts after watching Red Table Talk episode featuring Angela Tucker, transracial adoptee.
Embracing our Origins
We explore the intercountry adoptee journey to embrace our ancestry.
Understanding My Adoption in (K)new Ways*
Sophie shares as a Chinese intercountry adoptee.
Asian female adoptee review of Crazy Rich Asians
Asian intercountry adoptee Lynelle shares her thoughts of Crazy Rich Asians film.
Intercountry Adoptee LGBQT+ Journey’s
Collation of LGBQT+ intercountry adoptee journey's.
A journey through space, a journey divided
By Sunny Reed, Korean intercountry adoptee. Intercountry adoptees speak often about the return to their birth country, a time defined by searching and finding. Lynelle’s recent post made me consider my relationship with Korea, the land that, over three decades ago, released me to a country made of dreams. We speak of “the return” as …
Return to Birthland
Vietnamese adoptee Lynelle shares about her second return journey to homeland, a decade later and how things have changed.
Yellow Snow
I grew up on a dairy farm in rural Minnesota. Minnesota is a state, located in the north central region of the United States and borders Canada. Most people do not know the most northern point of the lower 48 states is located in Minnesota. It should be no surprise to learn Minnesota ranks in …
Complexities of Intercountry Adoption
Lynelle shares on intercountry adoption, together with her own experience and hearing from many fellow adoptees on a range of questions asked by a journalist.