“That Intersection is Everything”: Susan Kiyo Ito on Owning Her Adoption Story
February 15th, 2024 | by Cheryl Klein
"It wasn’t about finances, or youth, or inexperience. It was one hundred percent based on stigma and shame."
Browsing the "adoptee voices" Tag
Like a Heartbeat: An Excerpt from I WOULD MEET YOU ANYWHERE
February 15th, 2024 | by Susan Kiyo Ito
Here I had found a place for my rage and grief over my birth mother turning away
She’s Both of Our Daughters
October 4th, 2022 | by Jody Kesiner
One mother vanishes while another mother becomes. This vanishing, I remind myself, is only on paper.
Writing FOR BLACK GIRLS LIKE ME: an interview with Mariama Lockington
August 10th, 2019 | by Ezra Stone
Earlier this summer, I read an advance reader copy of For Black Girls Like Me, Mariama Lockington’s glorious debut YA novel.