Desiree shares the complexities of life as an adoptee, the challenges of finding and establishing ones roots, reinventing oneself, finding a place to just be.
Tag: search for self
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.
Search and Reunion in Intercountry Adoption
Lynelle provides a summary of ICAVs 2016 Perspective Paper: Search & Reunion - Impacts & Outcomes
The Ocean, My Mother
Allison shares the struggles of reunion and beyond, the disappointments, re-traumatisation when our mothers reject us again; the lifelong journey of adoption.
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.
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 …
The Stolen Children of Cambodia
Lizzie shares her project to explore her return to Cambodia.
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 …
my inner borealis, mi boreal interior
J Alonso shares his poetry as a Spanish intercountry adoptee.
staring at your stone, mirando fijamente a su piedra
Jesse Alonso visits his mothers grave stone.
Return to Birthland
Vietnamese adoptee Lynelle shares about her second return journey to homeland, a decade later and how things have changed.