Racism in Intercountry Adoption

On April 27, 2022February 2, 2024 By lynellelongIn Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Adoptive Country, Antiracism Education, Birth Country, colourblindness in adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Importance of Connections to Origins, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Politics of Adoption, Racial Mirrors, Racism in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Suicide, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionLeave a comment

ICAV brings you our newest Perspective Paper on Racism, our lived experience as intercountry and transracial adoptees.

Gabbie Beckley on Racism

On April 21, 2022April 22, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

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.

Gypsy shares about Adoptee Anger

On February 21, 2022February 18, 2022 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

Gypsy shares about her adoptee anger which comes from the billion dollar private infant adoption industry that sells adoptees to the highest bidder.

My realities of being adopted from China

On October 17, 2021October 10, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

by Xue Hua adopted from China to the USA. Hi everyone! My name is Xue Hua and I was adopted as a 1 year old from Hunan, China. I live in Indianapolis in the USA, where I've grown up. My (white American) parents had 3 biological children and then adopted me when their youngest was …

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Hurtful Words

On March 5, 2021March 5, 2021 By Guest BloggerIn UncategorizedLeave a comment

by Wes Liu, adopted from China to the USA. Artwork by Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom COVID continues to spread within our communities because people continue to lack seriousness when facing it. Chinese people continue to be blamed. While Asian ethnicities include countless unique, beautiful, and distinguishable cultures, many who are outside of the Asian diaspora can’t …

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