Through her poetry, Kamina explores adoption, relinquishment and her lifelong journey of discovery.
Tag: search for identity
Ebony at K-Box Adoptee Takeover Night
Ebony Hickey is a Haitian born intercountry adoptee to Australia whose contemporary artwork we included at the K-Box Adoptee Take Over Night.
Adoptee Review of Ra Chapman’s K-Box Play
by Kayla Curtis, Korean adoptee raised in Australia, social worker and counsellor specialising in adoption. I want to share some reflections from going along to the K-Box Adoptee Takeover Night at the Malthouse and seeing Ra Chapman's K-Box play in Melbourne, Australia on 9 September. Personally, I am feeling an excitement from seeing K-Box because …
Identifying with our Genetic Mirrors
Ben shares on the importance of genetic mirrors as an intercountry adoptee and coming to terms with being adopted in our video series to educate about adoption.
Where do I belong?
As a cross cultural adoptee, Charisse shares the complexities of being adopted from the Anglo-Saxon culture to a Latin American culture.
Greek Intercountry Adoptee Advocacy
Linda shares her letter to the Greek Government asking for Greek intercountry adoptee rights and support needs to be met. Adoptee advocacy.
Gypsy shares about Adoptee Anger
Gypsy shares about her adoptee anger which comes from the billion dollar private infant adoption industry that sells adoptees to the highest bidder.
Integrating the Parts in Adoption
Bina shares about the fragmentation adoptees endure in order to survive and the grief work we must do to reintegrate our dual selves.
To Know Your Origins is a Privilege!
Lynelle shares the life experience of intercountry adoptees who don't know anything about their origins.
Don’t Tell Me to be Grateful
Naomi shares the challenges she's experienced and rightfully questions why adoptees are expected to feel grateful for their lives.
From Thailand without an Identity
Lisa Kininger shares her lifelong quest to find her Thai identity. Along the way she discovers it's the journey that matters, not the end result.
The Duality of being Disabled and Adopted
Erin shares the complexities of living with disability AND being an adoptee.
Decolonizing Moses
by Kayla Zheng, adopted from China to the USA. Growing up in an evangelical white Christian home, I learned the story of Moses before I learned the story of Santa or Easter Bunny. White Christianity was a core pillar in my years growing up. Like Moses, who was orphaned and floated down the Nile to …
Adopted to Spain
Andrea Pelaez Castro shares about being adopted to Spain from Colombia.
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 …
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.
Letter to Adoption Agency
Clara writes to adoption agency expressing her frustration and despair.
Cancelling My Adoption
Netra Sommer is adopted from India to Denmark and endured abuse in her adoption and talks about undoing her adoption and the lengthy process to reclaim herself.
The Stolen Children of Cambodia
Lizzie shares her project to explore her return to Cambodia.
The Adoption Fairy Tale
Sara shares the challenges of post reunion.
I Want My Brothers Back
Erika shares the complications after reunion with her biological siblings.
Alone
Debbie shares the secrets and lies in her adoption from Iran to the UK.
I’m an Immigrant, Voting in the USA
Mark shares mixed emotions after voting as an immigrant, adopted to the USA.
French-Indonesian
Artwork by Indonesian adoptee Marie-Atina.