Tag: search for identity
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Your Grief is Your Gift
Through her poetry, Kamina explores adoption, relinquishment and her lifelong journey of discovery.
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Ebony at K-Box Adoptee Takeover Night
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in Adoptee Activism, Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Haiti, Importance of Connections to Origins, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionEbony Hickey is a Haitian born intercountry adoptee to Australia whose contemporary artwork we included at the K-Box Adoptee Take Over Night.
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Adoptee Review of Ra Chapman’s K-Box Play
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in Adoptee Artists, Adoptee Artwork, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Australia, Complexities in Adoption, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, Korea, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Origins Search, South Korea, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoptionby 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…
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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.
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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.
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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.
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To Know Your Origins is a Privilege!
Lynelle shares the life experience of intercountry adoptees who don’t know anything about their origins.
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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.
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The Duality of being Disabled and Adopted
Erin shares the complexities of living with disability AND being an adoptee.
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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…
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Peruvian Adoptee Returns to Birth Country
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in Adoptee Search Service Orgs, Adoptee support provided by adoptees, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Education for Professionals, Complexities in Adoption, Importance of Connections to Origins, Key Themes in Search and Reunion, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Origins Search, Peru, Return to Birth Country, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in Adoption, UKMilagros Forrester shares with ICAV about her return trips to Peru and how it impacted her search for identity and belonging.
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Cancelling My Adoption
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in Adoptee Anger, Adoptee vulnerability, Adoptees Educate, Adoption Agencies, Adoption Discharge Annulment, Adoption Education for Adoptive Parents, Adoption Education for Professionals, Compensation to Victims in Adoption, Complexities in Adoption, Critical Thinking in Adoption, Denmark, Family Preservation, Grief and Loss, Importance of Connections to Origins, India, Is adoption the best option, Lifelong Impacts of Adoption, Not Knowing in Adoption, Politics of Adoption, Racism in Adoption, Rights in Adoption, Search and Reunion in Adoption, Sense of Belonging, Therapy, Transracial Adoption, Trauma in AdoptionNetra 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.
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I’m an Immigrant, Voting in the USA
Mark shares mixed emotions after voting as an immigrant, adopted to the USA.
