Adapted Podcast Season 7, Episode 13: Adoptee Consciousness Model
I’m happy to share with you all that JaeRan Kim and I were recently interviewed for a new episode of the Adapted podcast by Kaomi Lee. We discuss our entry […]
I’m happy to share with you all that JaeRan Kim and I were recently interviewed for a new episode of the Adapted podcast by Kaomi Lee. We discuss our entry […]
This past Tuesday, I received a phone call that I could have never expected. “Hi Grace, we have some really hard news to share,” my friend’s mother said, “Helen died.” […]
In the summer of 2022, I was interviewed for an article about the experiences of Asian American adoptees in the Midwest. I was recently notified of a shift in the […]
I’m writing this post in the upstairs office of my new house the weekend before my first set of PhD classes begin. With the deadlines of home-buying paperwork, a cross-state […]
He took my hand and led me through a small wooded area that opened up to a beautiful beach. To the left, lush green flora climbed up the sides of […]
When we celebrate and honor the complex people in a community rather than a one-sided portrayal of an extremely complex practice, it enables a more holistic appreciation and acknowledgement of the impacted people. The expectation of thankfulness with Thanksgiving coupled with the celebration of National Adoption Awareness Month during November demands gratitude and compliance from me while smothering all of this complexity, which forces an opposite reaction and a desperation for everything suffocated to be seen and heard. National Adoptee Awareness Month allows me to express gratitude in a way that National Adoption Awareness Month does not.
I received an email from Chinese adoptee Hannah Gershone about her project that is looking at the intersection between adoption and environmental justice. I am happy to share her project […]
Hello all, If you’ve been following my social media, you’ve seen hints about this post in my “soft launch.” I am so excited to finally share with you this paper […]
This autoethnography recounts experiences from my emerging adoptee identity situated in academic institutions. I use my story to connect with larger themes in adoption and propose a framework that expands upon existing theories of trauma. My hope in recognizing trauma, that is not necessarily historical, collective, or intergenerational by definition but is still present, is to better understand the adoptee experience, validate the existence of trauma, and to promote opportunities for lifelong healing.
Last year, I took a class on social work practice with children and families. One of the final assignments during the semester was to create a presentation of either a […]