HeyJaredThe Adoptee Clown Diaries
I'm a transracial adoptee that learned to clown to keep my emotions down. To put it simply...I'm an expert at fitting in but I belong nowhere. Welcome to the clown show...
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Words as Lifelines (opens the original)
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Y’all. I realized that I spend a lot of my time working on things that you, my dear readers, will never see or know about. ESPECIALLY if you don’t use Instagram. One of the things I work on - on a consistent basis - is a virtual author reading that centers the voices of Black and brown adopted people while also raising money for two of my dear friends, and their families, to survive the genocide in Gaza. I’ve been doing this series with Joon Ae, my soul sister, for over a year now. Joon Ae intro
The Circles of Life (opens the original)
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When I first started using social media sites like MySpace and FaceBook, I remember it feeling like I was in high school again. There I was, surrounded by friends but feeling alone. The goal? To get as many friends as you could. Back then - they weren’t followers. They were friends. Each box on the screen with a picture inside indicated my worth. The more friends - the more worthy. This felt like high school to me because this is how I behaved in high school. And junior high. And elementary scho
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