Over 25 years of individual intercountry and transracial adoptee’s experiences, views, thoughts shared here, in their own words, listed in alphabetical order with birth country of adoptee in brackets:
A Thai Adoption Story
一个有问题的印度收养
Abandoned by All (Ethiopia)
Abduction, Adoption & Abuse (India)
Abuse in Adoptive Families
Adoptee Body Keeps Score (Malaysia)
Adoptee Experience of Transracial Adoption (Vietnam)
收养很复杂 (Colombia)
Analee’s Speech for Adoptive Parents (Vietnam)
伊朗跨国收养
Art from the Heart (South Korea)
Bolivian Return Trip 2022 (Bolivia)
Brokenness in Adoption (China)
But He’s Not Your Father (Iran)
Cath Turner Finds her Birth Mother (Vietnam), Returning for 3 Months & Cath Turner Shares in her BOLD talk and Documentary
Celebrating Secrets & Sadness (Malaysia)
Chasna’s Story (India)
Daniel’s Thoughts (Lebanon)
Dario’s Thoughts (Colombia)
Daughter of Danang Finds her Family (Vietnam)
Dear Adoptive Parents (Vietnam)
Dear Belonging (China)
De-twinned by Intercountry Adoption (Vietnam)
分为两种文化 (China)
Divorce and the Transracial Adoption Fear (Vietnam)
Do your Eyes Light Up when I Walk into the Room (Vietnam)
艾莉寻找韩国家庭
Emma’s Poem (Vietnam)
收养时对感恩的期望 (Vietnam)
Faith’s Experience of Racism (Vietnam) & 信仰的伤害
第一印象 (South Korea)
Grieving Mother (China)
Having a Hindi Wedding (India)
霍莉·麦金尼斯谈身份 (South Korea)
I Did it for You: The Paradox of Adoption (South Korea)
I May Not Remember, but I’ll Never Forget (Vietnam)
Identity, Home & Family & Stories about Home (South Korea)
Identity Lost & Found (Colombia)
伊兰的诗 (Taiwan)
In My Own Words (Hong Kong)
Indigo’s Poem 一样的眼睛，不一样的风景, From Dust to Desert & Return During Tet (Vietnam)
Jamie’s Poems & Jamie’s Return to Vietnam
Jen’s Return to Sancta Maria (Vietnam)
Joey’s Journey as a Male Chinese Intercountry Adoptee
Kim’s Vietnamese Australian Life & From His Adoptive Father
Kripa Shares with Adoptive Parents (India)
Lal Shah’s Story: My Own Personal Holocaust, Free as a Bird (Pakistan/Scotland) & his Adoptive Mother’s Story
离开房间 (Russia)
Life After Reunion in the Philippines
Lifelong Impacts of Cross Cultural Adoption (Vietnam)
Lynelle’s Thoughts after Insight (Vietnam)
Madhu’s Story (India)
Moving Forward from Yesteryear’s Intercountry Adoption Processes (Philippines)
My Journey into Same Race Family (India)
我的自由之旅 (Vietnam)
My Mother (Vietnam)
My Story Changes with Time (South Korea)
Negative Externalities of Intercountry Adoption (South Korea)
No Mother No Child & Update (Colombia)
Not Good Enough (South Korea)
Not My Adopted Child (Malaysia)
One Child Policy Impacts (China)
Overcoming Bullying (China)
Perils of a Foreign Born Adoptee (Spain)
Re-Imagining (the) Work in/of Literature (Vietnam)
Return to Birthland (Vietnam)
Return to the Unknown (Vietnam)
Saran’s Speech (Vietnam)
Sarnia Thi Mai’s Poetry (Vietnam)
Secrets and Lies (Vietnam)
被盗并被收养到比利时 (Guatemala)
停止将婴儿送往国外 (South Korea)
SueYen’s Speech at the First Gathering of Adult Intercountry Adoptees in WA
Telling my mother (Greece)
The Face in the Mirror (South Korea)
飞机上的女孩 (South Korea)
The Importance of Pre & Post Adoption Support
种族镜子的重要性
The Janus Tree (South Korea)
The Least Expected Becomes the Unexpected (Philippines)
The Rights of the Child (UK)
The Torment of War (Vietnam)
对养父母的想法 from Lynelle & Adoptive Parent Julia Rollings
了解收养和出生国家 (Colombia)
Understanding My Adoption in (K)new Ways (China)
Unravelling the Mystery (India)
What is it like to be Adopted (Vietnam)
When it’s time to go home (Greece)
当痛苦和损失太多时 (India)
Who am I now? （智利）
谁在卖香蕉 (Vietnam)
为什么？ (South Korea)
是的，我们爱这个国家 (South Korea)
你总能告诉德国人，但你不能告诉他们太多！ （德国）