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• Jenna Ushkowitz Singing on Glee

  
  Korean Beacon — Authority: 432
  Nice pickup by our friends at Angry Asian Man on Jenna Ushkowitz singing the 80’s hit “True Colors” on the TV show Glee. Jenna is an adopted Korean girl from New York who’s now belting it out on Fox’s new hit TV show. Here’s a snippet of her auditions for Glee. Related posts: Jenna Ushkowitz is ...
  2 days ago

• The Boxer

  
  Joy's Division — Authority: 113
  I was on the road again tonight. I am on the road a lot. I don’t mind it. Being that I am as laboriously introspective as I am, it gives me time to let my thoughts unravel at will. I get excited at the ideas I have, the ideas pull on me like a thread, from one place to another. So much has been going on. I ...
  3 days ago

• Talking about birth certificate access with others

  
  Joy's Division — Authority: 113
  Boy, did I preach me up a storm today. *sigh* It is exhausting. I was talking with a very interested man from the ACLU, I mean he was interested once we established that NO, I am not asking the ACLU to find my parents for me, NO, I am not concerned that AB372 will LET adoptees get their birth certificates, ...
  5 days ago

• Adoptees Face Sting of Discrimination

  
  "Neither Here Nor There..." — Authority: 118
  Adoptees Face Sting of DiscriminationAdoption Study Says Identity Questions Last a Lifetime; Urges Open Birth RecordsBy SUSAN DONALDSON JAMESNov. 23, 2009 Kate St. Vincent Vogl first learned she should be ashamed when her sister got into a fight with a neighbor boy who retaliated, "Yeah, well, youre adopted!" Her ...
  6 days ago

• “Find My Family”: Exploitive? Or…???

  
  ReadingWritingLiving — Authority: 104
  I wouldn’t have known about the new reality-TV show “Find My Family” if a friend hadn’t emailed me with an urgent “THIS MUST BE STOPPED!” message.  It raised my eyebrow. I clicked on the link . I was like, “Errr… really?” For one thing, I happen to LIKE a couple of reality shows. Top Chef and ...
  6 days ago

• Katherine Heigl Celebrates Naleigh’s Birthday

  
  Korean Beacon — Authority: 432
  Katherine Heigl is on maternity leave from her TV show “Grey’s Anatomy” so she can spend quality time with her newly adopted baby girl, Naleigh.  Mrs. Heigl is actually celebrating her daughter’s birthday today, which is a day before her own birthday. “She was actually born the day before me in November, ...
  1 week ago

• FHL – Adoptee’s Worst Nightmare

  
  Best Celebrity Scoop — Authority: 150
  Matthew Roberts found out he was adopted when he was ten years old. Roberts spent over a decade locating his mother with the help of social services. When she was finally located, his mother informed him that he was once named “Lawrence Alexander”. When Roberts inquired about his father, his mother remained mum on ...
  1 week ago

• Meltdown

  
  Baby Love Child — Authority: 110
  Joy Madsen apparently had a complete melt-down on the Facebook “alt adoption” group’s discussion boards last night. Some of us have seen this behavior from her time and again over the last three years, particularly in relation to the Adoptee Rights Demonstration/Day for Adoptee Rights though usually ...
  1 week ago

• November is national give away month

  
  Joy's Division — Authority: 113
  Get rid of you squalling brat now! Here is a video of two famous adoptees
  1 week ago

• Family Matters

  
  Watermelon Sushi World — Authority: 107
  Wazzup Hip Hapa Homeez?!?!?!? With the holidays almost her e, now is a good time to think about gifts that would appeal to the multi-culti folks in your life (including yourself, ha ha). By purchasing a Hapa*Teez t-shirt , not only are you supporting our agenda by ...
  1 week ago

• Amy Anderson on Motherhood (KoreAm Journal vol. 20, no. 11)

  
  The Transracial Korean Adoptee Nexus — Authority: 113
  I’m so happy to see that a friend of mine, Amy Anderson is featured in KoreAm Journal this month.  If you have never seen or heard her comedy, you can check her out on her myspace page which you can get to by clicking here .  Thanks to KoreAm for increasingly including the perspectives of KADs more and more.  I ...
  1 week ago

• Jared Rehberg’s Somewhere in the Middle Album about “the journey of a Vietnamese adoptee.”

  
  The Transracial Korean Adoptee Nexus — Authority: 113
  I’ve been trying to get an interview with Jared for my blog for quite some time.  Looks like Phil beat me to the punch.  Check out Phil’s review of Jared’s album Somewhere in the Middle.  In case you’re not familiar with Jared, he’s an incredibly talented singer/songwriter and a Vietnamese Adoptee to ...
  1 week ago

• Blogging: In Public

  
  Joy's Division — Authority: 113
  My mother is not reading my blog anymore. She would rather have the relationship with me in real time than react to my blog posts. After the blog I made about the painting that upset her so, which I can understand, but a lot of good came out of. Particularly from Kim.Kim’s comments, which we both appreciated, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Evan B. Donaldson Institute Study

  
  The Transracial Korean Adoptee Nexus — Authority: 113
  I just thought I would circulate a new study that was released by the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute on adult adoptees.  It’s the largest study on adult adoptees that has been done.  It has a large focus on Korean adoptees as well. It made it into an article in the NY Times so I have included a link to the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Korean Government Taking Bold and Noble Stance on Adoption

  
  FAMILY PRESERVATION ADVOCACY — Authority: 135
  A proposed Korean bill "starts with the idea that foreign, and even domestic, adoption is not the best option for children and that public assistance should be given to mothers to help them raise their children, a concept that follows international adoption practices. It also incorporates the notion that adoption ...
  2 weeks ago

• Protected: Testing your love and resistance to abandonment

  
  Anti-Adoption — Authority: 113
  There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
  2 weeks ago

• Hyphen Lynks: Inflating Boobs Edition

  
  Hyphen Blog — Authority: 531
  This is SOOOO apt, because the past week has been all about inflating boobs! Observe:
  2 weeks ago

• Transracial adoption: Did you ever think you were white?

  
  O Solo Mama — Authority: 460
  That’s what I asked my daughter this morning, after reading about Kim Eun Mi Young in the New York Times . In a story highlighting the release of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute study on the challenges of trans-racial adoptees, Beyond Culture Camp , there was this paragraph: “At no time did I ...
  2 weeks ago

• A generation fights to reform adoption laws

  
  Third Mom — Authority: 452
  Must read: A generation fights to reform adoption laws . I understand this far too well: They found that in some cases an orphan hojeok (family registry) is produced for a child sent for international adoption, even if the child has a family. Contradictions were also found between the records held by adoptive ...
  2 weeks ago

• Forever Young (and Other Rants)

  
  Land of the Not-So-Calm — Authority: 482
  ***Did you read the post title?  You have been warned…***This is not a post about the report itself  (sorry, no link).  Or the content, or the conclusions, or the potential impact, or really anything meaningful at all.It’s about the cover.The report itself, in the Executive Summary, boasts of turning to “the ...
  2 weeks ago

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