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November is #AdoptionAwarenessMonth a month to increase awareness around children & youth in the foster care system (mainly the need for "permanent families")
November also features #OrphanSunday a call for Christians to be the hands/feet of Christ to orphans* at home & abroad
November also features #OrphanSunday a call for Christians to be the hands/feet of Christ to orphans* at home & abroad
*orphans here encompassing the many ways that children are separated from their families. so this also includes children in the adoption and foster care systems.
the main call is to consider adoption, foster care, & participating in ministry to orphans (via orphan sponsorship)
the main call is to consider adoption, foster care, & participating in ministry to orphans (via orphan sponsorship)
#adoption is one of the many issues that have demanded our attention this year
how could we forget YouTuber Myka Stauffer rehoming Huxley, her internationally adopted son, after crowdsourcing
for his adoption & making him a feature of her channel https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/myka-stauffer-huxley-announcement
how could we forget YouTuber Myka Stauffer rehoming Huxley, her internationally adopted son, after crowdsourcing
for his adoption & making him a feature of her channel https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemcneal/myka-stauffer-huxley-announcement
then there was Abby Johnson saying how it would be "smart" for police to racially profile her adopted "brown son" https://www.thecut.com/2020/08/abby-johnson-said-police-should-profile-her-brown-son.html
Abby Johnsonâs comments about her adopted Black son are problematic. Hereâs why. https://www.brookings.edu/blog/how-we-rise/2020/08/26/abby-johnsons-comments-about-her-adopted-black-son-are-problematic-heres-why/
then there was the parade of Amy Coney Barrett's adopted children to make her seem empathetic and not racist, i guess.
and her own description of her children https://msmagazine.com/2020/10/21/amy-coney-barrett-haiti-black-children-white-savior/
and her own description of her children https://msmagazine.com/2020/10/21/amy-coney-barrett-haiti-black-children-white-savior/
and most recently, the news of the government's inability to reunite children, who had been forcibly separated from their families at the border. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/21/us/migrant-children-separated.html
taken together, what this makes abundantly clear is that we continue to misunderstand adoption, our government's role in family separation (how adoptable children & the foster care system are created), and adoptees as people (not props, products, or projects)
some suggested readings to understand more about the policies, practices, and politics of #ADOPTION
#adoptionawarenessmonth #orphansunday #naam #iaam
#adoptionawarenessmonth #orphansunday #naam #iaam
Ellen Herman's Kinship by Design: A HISTORY OF ADOPTION IN THE MODERN UNITED STATES
answering the question: what constitutes a family? who decides, how, and for what purposes https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo5896619.html
answering the question: what constitutes a family? who decides, how, and for what purposes https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/K/bo5896619.html
centering the experiences of mothers who have lost their children to adoption
Laura Brigg's Somebodyâ˛s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption
https://dukeupress.edu/somebodys-children
Laura Brigg's Somebodyâ˛s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption
https://dukeupress.edu/somebodys-children
to understand the attitudes, misconceptions, and controversies that have shaped the practices of adoption
E. Wayne Carp's Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674001862
E. Wayne Carp's Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674001862
what happens when children get caught up in political conflicts? focusing on Canada, the United States, Cuba, and Guatemala
Karen Dubinsky's Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas https://nyupress.org/9780814720929/babies-without-borders/
Karen Dubinsky's Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas https://nyupress.org/9780814720929/babies-without-borders/
bc racism & classism affects all aspects of our social world, it's also in adoption
Christine Ward Gailey's Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love: Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practice https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/gaiblu
Christine Ward Gailey's Blue-Ribbon Babies and Labors of Love: Race, Class, and Gender in U.S. Adoption Practice https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/gaiblu
given so much continued convo around adoption as race-blind or transracial adoption as evidence of society moving beyond race...
Pamela Anne Quiroz's Adoption in a Color-Blind Society https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780742559417/Adoption-in-a-Color-Blind-Society
Pamela Anne Quiroz's Adoption in a Color-Blind Society https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780742559417/Adoption-in-a-Color-Blind-Society
considering more about adoptive parenting practices and what it tell us about family and difference...
Heather Jacobson's Culture Keeping
White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference https://www.vanderbilt.edu/university-press/book/9780826516183
Heather Jacobson's Culture Keeping
White Mothers, International Adoption, and the Negotiation of Family Difference https://www.vanderbilt.edu/university-press/book/9780826516183
but how do prospective parents decide who to adopt? examining the role of adoption providers in pitching transracial adoption
Elizabeth Raleigh's Selling Transracial Adoption: Families, Markets, and the Color Line
http://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000009451
Elizabeth Raleigh's Selling Transracial Adoption: Families, Markets, and the Color Line
http://tupress.temple.edu/book/20000000009451
in thinking more about this idea of adoption as a global industry, @mckeekee introduces the idea of a transnational adoption industrial complex
Kim McKee's Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/83ywp5cx9780252042287.html
Kim McKee's Disrupting Kinship: Transnational Politics of Korean Adoption in the United States
https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/83ywp5cx9780252042287.html
and because we cannot talk about international transracial adoption without talking about adoption from Asia
Catherine Ceniza Choy's Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America
@CCenizaChoy https://nyupress.org/9781479892174/global-families/
Catherine Ceniza Choy's Global Families: A History of Asian International Adoption in America
@CCenizaChoy https://nyupress.org/9781479892174/global-families/
since we're here in November with #OrphanSunday and thinking about the role of Christianity in adoption
@arissaoh's: To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24463
@arissaoh's: To Save the Children of Korea: The Cold War Origins of International Adoption https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=24463
for more on Korean adoption, race, and the model minority myth
Kim Park Nelson's: Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/invisible-asians/9780813570686
Kim Park Nelson's: Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism
https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/invisible-asians/9780813570686
and for all of my fellow #KAD #koreanadoptees
if you have not read Eleana Kim's Adopted Territory:
Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging, it is an absolute must
https://www.dukeupress.edu/adopted-territory
if you have not read Eleana Kim's Adopted Territory:
Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging, it is an absolute must
https://www.dukeupress.edu/adopted-territory
as a Korean adoptee reading E. Kim's work, it is among the first from an academic standpoint that centered adoptees.
While E. Kim is not an adoptee, her work shows how vital it is to do our work WITH communities, building relationships, and listening.
While E. Kim is not an adoptee, her work shows how vital it is to do our work WITH communities, building relationships, and listening.
E. Kim focused on adoptees as PEOPLE. people whose personhood is created within but, importantly, outside of the existing expectations of race & nation
i can think of other adoption research that has similar questions or populations but comes to drastically different conclusions
i can think of other adoption research that has similar questions or populations but comes to drastically different conclusions
with the internet there are so many more options available to LISTEN to #adopteevoices whether on blogs, podcasts, vlogs, etc. (not to mention the adoptees in your own families!!)
so "oh i never thought of that" or "i had no idea" is not acceptable. NOT ACCEPTABLE.
so "oh i never thought of that" or "i had no idea" is not acceptable. NOT ACCEPTABLE.
a few of my first/fav adoptee-authored works
Seeds from a Silent Tree: An Anthology By Korean Adoptees, Tonya Bishoff & Jo Rankin, eds
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, & Sun Yung Shin, eds https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/outsiders-within
Seeds from a Silent Tree: An Anthology By Korean Adoptees, Tonya Bishoff & Jo Rankin, eds
Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption, Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, & Sun Yung Shin, eds https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/outsiders-within
Black Anthology: Adult Adoptees Claim Their Space - A diverse exploration of the Black Adoptee Journey
(The AN-YA Project)
Susan Harris O'Connor, Diane RenĂŠ Christian, and Mei-Mei Akwai Ellerman, eds
(The AN-YA Project)
Susan Harris O'Connor, Diane RenĂŠ Christian, and Mei-Mei Akwai Ellerman, eds
Nicole Chung's All You Can Ever Know
which i think is such a great starting point for adoptees, def recommend
@nicolesjchung https://nicolechung.net/
which i think is such a great starting point for adoptees, def recommend
@nicolesjchung https://nicolechung.net/
and because i love food
Yes, Chef: A MEMOIR
By MARCUS SAMUELSSON and VERONICA CHAMBERS
@MarcusCooks https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/160301/yes-chef-by-marcus-samuelsson-with-veronica-chambers/
Yes, Chef: A MEMOIR
By MARCUS SAMUELSSON and VERONICA CHAMBERS
@MarcusCooks https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/160301/yes-chef-by-marcus-samuelsson-with-veronica-chambers/
