Kara Bos shares about life after legal case.
Tag: search for identity
Self Portrait by Alessia
by Alessia Petrolito, born in the USA and adopted to Italy. Founder of ArP Adoptic and AdoptCLOUD. Past Present Future Oil on canvas 2011 cm 100 x 80 x 4.5 Petrolito Alessia, Past Present and Future - Scheda di dettaglio This depiction is a self-portrait of my past and my American roots at my back …
Bitten and Suffering
Lily shares about the fight for her rights as an intercountry adoptee.
COVID Makes Me Rethink My Birth Country
How does COVID-19 challenge assumptions about our birth countries?
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.
Why?
Jayme asks why his parents adopted?
One Child Policy Impacts
Chinese adoptee Fuyi expresses her search for identity and origins via her artwork.
staring at your stone, mirando fijamente a su piedra
Jesse Alonso visits his mothers grave stone.
two lives, dos vidas
J Alonso shares his poetry as a Spanish intercountry adoptee.
You Can’t Counsel Yourself into Belonging
Juliette shares her thoughts after watching Red Table Talk episode featuring Angela Tucker, transracial adoptee.
Excerpt: First Letter to my Iranian Father
Iranian adoptee shares her thoughts (excerpt) to her new found Iranian father.
Understanding My Adoption in (K)new Ways*
Sophie shares as a Chinese intercountry adoptee.
Not Existing
Lynelle shares how difficult it can be not knowing who we are or having any documentation.
Korean Killdeers
I was reared on a small dairy farm that rested on the edge of the Red River Valley on the Minnesota side. I grew up in a rural farming community that was filled with a lush green forest of corn, amber waves of grain and intermittent dots of farm homesteads covered with thick deciduous trees. …
Who Am I?
Jayme questions who he is as an intercountry adoptee from Sth Korea.