HeyJaredBernadette Kara Thomas
Transracial Adoptee Sharing my Journey and Lived Experience and Voice. I’m passionate about Adoptee Rights.
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Listening To Adoptees Is Vital (opens the original)
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Listening to adoptees means making room for the whole story not only the parts that are comfortable to hear.
Adoptees Shouldn’t Be Silenced. (opens the original)
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One thing that never sat well with me is hearing so many unkind things, such as racial stereotypes, from my White adoptive family and then having those stereotypes used against me in contradictory ways.I know I was also adopted with a disabling eye condition. I was told how I was hard to adopt because of my eyes, but then my adoptive mother went on to say they requested the hardest-to-adopt child ,and she let me know this often and that I wasn’t cheap.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img"
A Transracial Adoptee During the Civil Rights Era. (opens the original)
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I know being transracially adopted, dealing with racism and racial harm, and remaining silenced was excruciating. The pain I endured is a form of racial trauma that deserves acknowledgment. Too many transracial adoptees have suffered in silence, and far too often the systems meant to protect us placed us in situations where our lives, identities, and well-being seemed insignificant. I am a survivor. I share my story because documenting what I experienced matters. Our stories form history. They s
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