Holland America ‘One World’ Production Critique
The past couple of weeks, I have had the privilege of traveling to Iceland, Scotland, the Shetland and Faroe Islands on a Holland America cruise. I enjoyed unimaginable scenery with […]
Category Archives: Recent Media + Response
The Trauma of Familial Separation
Around the U.S., people have been outraged by the Trump administration’s policy of separating children from their families when detained at the southern border. Our nation’s collective heart broke when […]
What Would You Do: Onlooker Harasses Parent with Different Race Child (+ Response)
Every family through transracial adoption has experienced inappropriate comments by onlookers in mundane, public settings like the grocery store, small shops, or like in this video, a restaurant. The nature of transracial […]
Lines: A Theatre Lila Invention ( + Response)
Toward the end of last month, my mother invited me to see a play with her by Theatre Lila called Lines. Theatre Lila is a performing arts group that seeks […]
Musings about Language and Loss
by Rachel Rostad – Korean adoptee, writer and poet, former schoolmate, Fulbright Korea I recently took part in an Adoptees Speak project which inspired the following lil musing about language, […]
Disrupted Adoption of 5-Year-Old
While scrolling through my newsfeed on Facebook today, I saw a post by Second Chance Adoptions shared in a group of which I am a member. The post was advertising […]
Thoughts about the Hart family
Originally posted on Harlow's Monkey:
The first thing I tried to do was find photos of the six Hart children without their parents, wanting to celebrate the short lives…
Black Panther – Wakanda Forever
Some time ago I was watching Rodger and Hammerstein’s Cinderella with a couple of friends along with one friend’s nine-year-old cousin. Within the first thirty minutes of the movie, the little blonde girl plainly […]
To Adoptees from “Shithole Countries” and Elsewhere
When I was young and I would get into arguments with my mom, I would oftentimes shout out, “You don’t love me!” Of course, I knew this wasn’t true. My mother […]
Exploring Orientalism in The Nutcracker
As the holiday season draws to a close, I have been reflecting on one of my favorite Christmas traditions. For nearly twenty years, my mother and I have seen Tchaikovsky’s […]
Red Thread Broken 