HeyJaredApril Dinwoodie
Making sense of family, identity & belonging. Black/biracial. Adopted by white parents. Keynote speaker, podcast host, coach, consultant. RI raised 🌊 Harlem rooted 🏙️ Born June ☀️ Became April 🌸
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Adoption, Truth, and Independence (opens the original)
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Eleven years ago, I sat down around the Fourth of July to write about what freedom and independence meant to me as a transracially adopted person. Looking back at that 2015 piece, I smile remembering images of my childhood; riding my bike down our big hill with no hands, body surfing in the ocean waves, and swinging on a homemade swing. To my younger self, that was the ultimate definition of freedom: simple, joyful, and entirely untethered from the heavy realities of the adult world.In my twenti
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