Today’s guest is Grace Newton, MSW, a Chinese adoptee, author of the prolific blog, Red Thread Broken, and one of the co-authors of the Adoptee Consciousness Model. We discuss the reasons for the rise and fall of international adoption from China, and how the critical adoption scholarship of Chinese adoptees is on the rise, including Grace’s own contributions. Grace also gets more personal, sharing about her relationship with her Chinese American fiancé and how their love story and family have helped her on her racial reclamation journey.

Show Notes

Full episode transcript here.

Recommended Resources

Red Thread Broken blog by Grace Newton, MSW
Out of the Fog and into Consciousness: A Model of Adoptee Awareness - https://www.ibpj.org/issues/articles/Susan F. Branco, JaeRan Kim, Grace Newton, Stephanie Kripa Cooper-Lewter, Paula O'Loughlin - ....pdf
China's Hidden Children: Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy by Kay Ann Johnson

Mentions:

ICAR - International Conference on Adoption Research - https://med.umn.edu/pediatrics/events/international-conference-adoption-research-icar8
ASAC - The Alliance for the Study of Adoption and Culture - https://www.adoptionandculture.org/conference

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