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A DNA Test Changed his Life
Episode 12
Michael Knox was adopted in 1961 in Illinois. He was raised with two younger sisters, one adopted and one bio. He moved to Southern California when h…
4 years, 3 months ago
Finding a Sense of Self
Episode 11
Carolina Khan is a transnational adoptee from Palmira, Colombia. As early as she can recall, she has always been informed of her adoption that took p…
4 years, 3 months ago
Better Late than Never
Episode 10
Adopted at birth, Edward Di Gangi was born and raised in New York City. Although he knew for most of his life that he was adopted, it wasn’t until he…
4 years, 4 months ago
An Adoptee Raised by an Adoptee
Episode 9
Beth Figuls is a technical writer and aspiring novelist/memoirist from Los Angeles. A Baby Scoop-era adoptee, she was raised by a father who was also…
4 years, 4 months ago
A Transracial Adoptee Speaks his Truth
Episode 8
Matthew Charles is the host of "little did u know", an abolitionist podcast that seeks to reveal the precarity inherent in transracial/national adopt…
4 years, 4 months ago
The "Good" Adopted Child
Episode 7
Emma Stevens is a U.S. domestic adoptee from birth and has survived layers of trauma that have put her on multiple journeys. She developed the inner …
4 years, 5 months ago
The Dark Side of Foster Care
Episode 6
Mikayla Mains is a dancer teacher, small business owner and SAHM. She was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri where she now resides with her husba…
4 years, 5 months ago
Sometimes You Have to Get Loud
Episode 5
Tony Corsentino is a cataloger at a public library near Boston, Massachusetts, after a prior career as a philosophy professor. A child of a closed ad…
4 years, 6 months ago
Digging through the Layers of International Adoption
Episode 4
Trishina was born in 1991 in Sevastopol, Ukraine and was adopted at just 18 months old. She was always curious about her biological family, searching…
4 years, 6 months ago
An Adoptee Gives Back
Episode 3
David was born in 1972 in Newcastle, in the North East of England and adopted shortly after he was six weeks old. He is now a therapist working pre…
4 years, 7 months ago