Author of FAMOUS ADOPTED PEOPLE @UnnamedPress. Columnist & book reviewer @WIRoBooks. Co-founder @AdopteeLitFest. @starlingscoll. @bloom_site. KAD. Hapa.
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Completely agree that finding your community as a writer is crucial for so many reasons, and I’m so glad to be a part of this one!
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S. Korea better be lawyering up. They adopted their citizens out to litigious nations, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
SEOUL (AP) — A 70-year-old South Korean woman sued her government, an adoption agency, and an orphanage over the adoption of her daughter, who was sent to the United States in 1976, months after she was kidnapped at age 4.
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Thought I could be a lone wolf as a writer but turns out I need a wolf pack (no horses were harmed in the writing of this column).
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The first of a devastating two-part investigation on South Korean adoption. Tomorrow's article will delve into the complicity of Western countries. This investigation is conjunction with the Frontline documentary airing tomorrow.
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Ka-boom 🔥🔥🔥
Frontline's "South Korea's Adoption Reckoning" airs September 20 on your local PBS station.
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#adoption #KoreanAdoption #SouthKorea
So much of ORDINARY DISASTERS resonated with me--marriage to a white person, raising mixed-race children, aging bodies--but I really appreciated Cheng's pushback on Joan Didion.
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Looking forward to discussing this fabulous SciFi thriller with strong Korean themes tonight with the talented debut author Elaine Cho! Please join us!!
"The more people tell O’Neill about her mother, the less she knows. Stories crisscross, collide, and contradict."
My review of Tracy O'Neill's memoir, WOMAN OF INTEREST, on searching for and finding her Korean mother.
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I’ve been lucky enough to have lived most of my life believing that good was on the ascendance and humanity was steadily inching toward those democratic ideals espoused in America’s foundational documents. Now, I realize I have to prepare myself for the Greek-tragedy ending.
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Want to know how intercounty adoption became a thing? Read Yuri Doolan's groundbreaking book, THE FIRST AMERASIANS, which I reviewed. This book review was very personal for me, an Amerasian first wave Korean adoptee.
#adoption #Amerasians
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Tomorrow 6 pm in Takoma Park, @thesusanito and I in discussion about her blockbuster memoir, I Would Meet You Anywhere.
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Thrilled to have the titular piece to my short story collection WIP, "Alice by Kim Sook," published in @thecitronreview.
#AdopteeVoices
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Adoption Fantasies is an important text that presents a fresh & unapologetic inquiry into a culture that objectifies adopted Asians from infancy to adulthood, perpetuating racism & misogyny under the guise of multicultural love.
To read my review go to
koreanquarterly.org/books/lo…
Thanks to @splcenter for including FAMOUS ADOPTED PEOPLE on their list of books that educate and celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. Honored to be alongside classics like AMERICAN BORN CHINESE and CHINA MEN. #AANHPIHeritageMonth
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Examining Korean #adoption through the lens of reunion, Sara Docan-Morgan enlightens all readers about the complexities of transnational adoption.
Read my review of IN REUNION, an important adoptee-authored critical adoption studies text, at koreanquarterly.org/books/fa…
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Thrilled to share:
"Found in Korea" doc film screening June 20, 2024
@6pm followed by talk back w filmmaker Meggin Nam Holtz.
Unitarian church of Evanston, IL.
$15 suggested donation.
All proceeds will benefit host, "On Your Feet” @Here4Birthmoms
#adopteevoices @foundinkorea
Lots of critical adoption studies books coming out this year! RELINQUISHED by Gretchen Sisson is an important one! Read my review at washingtonindependentreviewo…
#BookReview #adoption
