HeyJaredThe Adopted Life
The Adopted Life is written by me, Angela Tucker, a transracial adoptee. I confront adoption, race, identity, and belonging head-on, centering adoptee voices while refusing simplistic narratives and insisting on truth, complexity, and accountability.
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The Microphone Is Not a Favor (opens the original)
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Asking Better Questions (opens the original)
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For most of modern adoption history, adoptees have been studied.This week, standing at a podium in Porto, Portugal, presenting my own research alongside some of the world’s leading adoption scholars, I noticed a shift: adoptees are no longer only the subject of the field. We are beginning to become the ones who shape it.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!41iU!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amaz
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