Welcome to Harlow’s Monkey, a website and blog about the experience of transracial and intercountry adoption from the adopted person’s perspective. This site contains the blog that I began in 2006 as well as many resources on transracial and intercountry adoption.
The start of a new year encourages reflection and this year I was thinking a…
Reflections I don’t watch award shows anymore but when I learned Michelle Yeoh and Ke…
New year new reads, including this memoir by Sandy White Hawk. Sandy is a friend,…
Each year I complete a free reflection guide called the Year Compass. A review of…
Reflections This week, The Imprint published an editorial, Best Interests Standard is a Judicial False…
Reflections November is a tricky month for me. It’s the month assigned as my birthday.…
Reflections I first came across the idea of “acceptable fictions” from Dr. Jessaca Leinaweaver at…
Reflections Welcome to my new project I’m calling “Lab Notes.” Although I love the longer…
As we head into National Adoption Awareness Month this November, I wanted to share a…
Intercountry adoptees, along with committed allies, have been working for years to raise awareness of…