Adoptees Crossing Lines

Apr 25 2024 19

In this podcast I deconstruct the romanticism holding up the adoption industry and expose the lies, abuse, and pain that gets silenced. I'm here to unwrap the shiny bow around adoption and speak my truths as an adoptee. In doing so, I explain what it means and what it feels like to “come out of the fog”. This isn't your feel good podcast, I am an angry, healing and honest adoptee.

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Navigating Change: A Conversation with Josh Lamers, Co-founder of Collective of Child Welfare Survivors

Feb 22 2024 49 mins

Josh LamersAdoption is trauma. How do we help surviving children heal the wounds they’ve sustained from the child welfare system? Josh Lamers, a transracial adoptee, is public enemy #1 for child welfare agencies in Canada. He joins the show to discuss what adoption and child welfare are like in Canada; and how his organization, Collective of Child Welfare Survivors, advocates for

Adoptees & Community

Feb 08 2024 24 mins

Adoptees & Community Before I found other adoptees online I was lost. I wanted to know where I came from, and I wanted to know others like me. Most adoption communities center adoptive parents and foster parents. We are left out of the picture. This doesn’t make sense. This episode is a collection of my thoughts on this matter. “One of the most vital ways we sustain ourselv

Confronting the Racist Legacy of the Child Welfare System w/ Alan Dettlaff

Jan 24 2024 43 mins

Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare SystemIt was when Alan arrived at a home with the cops to remove a child and heard his mother say “Charles, run, they're coming to take you and they're going to sell you to the white people” that he realized how the trauma of slavery cannot be disentangled from the trauma of family separation. It was in this

Unveiling Roots: The Journey of Gregory D. Luce, Attorney and Advocate for Adoptee Rights

Nov 09 2023 42 mins

Unveiling Roots: The Journey of Gregory D. Luce, Attorney and Advocate for Adoptee RightsUs adoptees have to pay thousands of dollars and jump through hoops to unseal our records. This robs us of autonomy, dignity, and equality. Gregory D. Luce is an attorney who helps adoptees all across the US go through this hurdle.In this episode we discuss Greg’s personal adoption journey th

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World

Oct 26 2023 70 mins

Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer WorldMore than anyone else, black women get their children kidnapped by the state, by the child “welfare system”. This episode is about the whys and hows of abolishing a system built to strip families away from their children. Through discussing Torn Apart by Dr. Dorothy Robert

Embracing Identity: John's Journey of Self-Discovery

Oct 12 2023 39 mins

Reuniting with his birth family showed John McCormick, a transracial adoptee, a new world. He physically felt a relaxation he had never felt before, he connected with music and art like never before, and he started to own who he is - confidently - even when others denied his identity.This is the story of how John’s reunion with his bio family was a healing journey that led him to

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