The Unofficial “Why the adoption establishment annoys me” Blog Week beginstoday. If you would like to read the blog entries or participate, visit Land of Gazillion Adoptees: http://landofgazillionadoptees.com/ LGA also has a facebook group where the blogs will be posted and PEAR will try to keep up withthem on our facebook page as well. Participating Bloggers committed to the event …
Category: Adoptee Voices
Adoptee Voice: Jennifer Kwon Dobbs
On June 26, PEAR published a link to an article written by Jennifer Kwon Dobbs entitled “Ending South Korea’s Child Export Shame“, http://pear-now.blogspot.com/2011/06/article-ending-south-koreas-child.html. Today we wish to share a video of Jennifer that was put together and published on the blog Land of Gazillion Adoptees, Birth Searches as Public Pedagogy http://landofgazillionadoptees.wordpress.com/2011/06/28/%E2%80%9Cbirth-searches-as-public-pedagogy%E2%80%9D-unedited-voices-of-adoption-featuring-jennifer-kwon-dobbs/ The video is quite powerful. We recommend that adoptive …
SURVEY: Stories of Adult Transnational Adoptees and their American Parents
A mother – daughter team of researchers is putting together research on the relationship between adult transnational adoptees and their adoptive parents. The goal is open dialogue between adoptees and their adoptive parents on issues related to transnational adoption. If you are an adult transnational adoptee or the adoptive parent of an adult transnational adoptee and you would like to …
SYMPOSIUM: Korean-American Academics to Throw Light on Adoption
Korean-American Academics to Throw Light on Adoption Korean-born academics who were adopted by Americans will attend a symposium titled “From Global to Glocal: The Future of American Studies” by the American Studies Association of Korea at Seoul National University to discuss adoption, still something of a taboo subject in Korea. In a session titled “Korean Adoptee” on Friday, Eleana Kim …
Adoptee Voice: Camryn Mosley
Camryn Mosely recently completed an interview with Guam Family Magazine. The resulting article was published in November 2009 and is now available online at: http://issuu.com/guamfamilymagazine/docs/nov09issuehires Camryn was adopted from Cambodia in December 1999. Her adoption adoption story was highlighted in the Washington Post and People magazine after it was discovered and reported that her history and documents had been falsified. …
Adoptee Voice: Journee Bradshaw
The below poem was written by Journee Bradshaw. Journee was adopted from Ethiopia and is attempting to come to terms with the circumstances of her adoption.Her story was highlighted in the ABC Australia news story Fly Away Home http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2009/s2834100.htm We are honored to reprint Journee’s poem: It is Everything ~ Journee Bradshaw “Hold your head up”, they say.I walk with …
Reminder: Adoptee Rights Demonstation July 21
Adoptee Rights Demonstration, a rally and protest in Philadelphia, PA, is being held at 11 AM on July 21, 2009. This rally will coincide with the opening day of the Legislative Summit of the National Conference of State Legislators. Read more on the blog Adult adoptees in most of the advanced, industrialized nations of the world have unrestricted access to …
The Un-Angry Adoptee and Adoption Guilt
~ By Barbara J McArtney I was relinquished at birth to a local agency and adopted at 6 weeks of age. I was told by my Parents that my birth Parents “gave me up” because they were unmarried college students. My Parents adopted following the death of their second born son and simultaneous loss of my Mother’s fertility. I am …