Favorite topics
Where to start? These links will help you get started on some of the favorite blog posts over the years.
PERSONAL REFLECTIONS ABOUT MY ADOPTIVE EXPERIENCE
- Adoptee vs. Adoptee
- Adoption Poster Child™
- Angry Adoptee
- Being married to Harlow’s Monkey
- BiBimBap
- Cooking Lessons
- Fear
- Home again
- In eight days
- In the Shadow of My Family Tree
- Jealousy
- Life in the fishbowl
- Reflection
- Searching Seoul
- Speaking out
- Survivor’s Guilt
- The Dating Game
- The Name Game
- The other end of the telescope
- The personal is political and the political is personal
- The root of fear
- What No One Told Me About Adoption
- Windows and Mirrors
THOUGHTS ABOUT TRANSRACIAL TRANSNATIONAL ADOPTION
- (Relative) choices
- A chorus of starfish
- Adoptee radar
- Asian adoptees as a Hollywood trend
- Behaviors & Attitudes of Allies to Transracially Adopted Persons
- Client, Ambassador, Gift*
- Drive-by Culture
- Fearing the Adult Adoptee
- How to suppress discussions about transracial and transnational adoption
- MEPA/IEPA
- Moral relativism and moral pluralism in adoption
- Parenting Tips for White Parents with Adopted Children of Color
- Parents’ embrace of the ”home” culture can have its costs
- Race Matters: What does it mean in your transracial family?
- Rainbow Families conference – transracial adoption in the GLBTQ community
- Re/Defining Orphans
- Reversing the gaze
- Taking off the blindfold
- Transracial Parenting in Foster Care and Adoption book
- What does your world look like?
- Young HM Magazine?
REFLECTIONS ABOUT SOCIAL WORK AND CHILD WELFARE
- A brief history of child removal/child protection
- Adoption disruptions and adoption dissolutions
- Ambiguous Loss
- And even more about adoption disruptions and dissolutions
- Discriminating against communities of color in the child welfare system
- Don’t Stop Believing
- Giving it away
- Learning to question
- MEPA/IEPA
- More thoughts about MEPA
- My right to know
- One of the masses
- Orphanages or Adoption?
- Rage against the machine
- Summer Adoption Programs
- They’re talking about Me
- Thinking outside the box
- Who deserves to be a parent?
REFLECTIONS ABOUT RACE
- “Great White Hope” or What the media teaches my daughter
- Can’t We Just All Get Along?
- Freaking out over Freakonomics
- How children learn racism
- Inviting me to the party
- Learning about your culture causes bad identity issues
- Little pitchers have big ears
- My response to “color blind” theory
- Race and the Food Network
- Race Matters: What does it mean in your transracial family?
- Taking off the blindfold
- The other “white” meat
- What does your world look like?
- What’s for dinner? A tossed salad or a melting pot?
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