Influencers and Books.
Updated: Aug 5, 2022
It's important to have people who reflect and model the needs of your family.
ADOPTION BOOKS & BOOKS BY BIPOC WRITERS :
Books Written by Adoptees:
Inconvenient Daughter, by Lauren J. Sharkeley
For Black Girls Like Me, by Mariama J. Lockington
Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related, by Jenny Heijun Wills
See No Color, by Shannan Gibney
Through Adopted Eyes, by Elena S. Hall
Black Anthology: Adult Adoptees Claim their space, by Susan Harris O'Connor
My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me, by Jennifer Teege
I am Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black & Biracial Children, by Marguerite Wright
In Their Own Words: Black Americans on Transracial Adoption, by Rhonda M. Roorda
I Met Myself In October: A Memoir of Belonging by Jacob Taylor-Mosquera
Dear Stephen Michael's Mother by Kevin Barhydt
​Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?, Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Website for Books by Country:
https://intercountryadopteevoices.com/adoptee-voices/adoptee-written-books/ ​
100 Best Adoption Books
https://bookauthority.org/books/best-adoption-books?t=y5vfov&s=award&book=0231172214&fbclid=IwAR3qM10XSgh4Ish2ud1sfQb8lrx89dUloDGjao0dnA_usdn72FMhjtb8SX4
Breath Eyes Memory (non-adoption book with Haitian author) -by Edwidge Danticat ​ Co-Dependncy No More (non-adoption book focused on mental health) - Melody Beattie ​ Letting Go -By David R. Hawkins (non-adoption book focused on mental health) ​ Daring Greatly (non-adoption book focused on mental health) -Brene Brown ​ The Girls Who Went Away -by Anne Flessler How to be an Anti-racist (non-adoption book focused on anti-racism) -by Ibram X. Kendi ​ The Haiti Reader: History, Culture, Politics (non-adoption book) - Laurent Dubois ​ Written in Blood -by Robert Debs Heinl ​ The Big Truck That Went By: How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster By Jonathan M. Katz (non-adoption book) ​ Social media Content:
Haitian Blogger:
Finding Paola Blogger (non-adoptee)
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Jean Appolo (non-adoptee Haitian artist)
https://jeanappolonexpressions.org/
Riva Nyri (non-adoptee Haitian singer/dancer)
@riva.nyri
Adoption-centric Instagram:
​@youngadoptee
@saraeasterlyauthor
@digangiauthor
@embodymentor
@linaleadswithlove
@therapyredeemed
@iamadopted
@angieadoptee
@thecschcollab
@adopteebridge
@adoptee_thoughts
@adoptee_love
@xiaolinhkeller
@diabolically.haitian
@blacktothebeginning
@thisadopteelife
@journeyofmytrasoul
@monarchconnection
@theadopteeinme
Adoption Families to follow:
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@raisingculturesfamily
@jeenawilder
@mr.jsmason
@courtney.ellen.brown
@iambarryfarmer
@decsmith50
Facebook Groups:
Haitian Adoptees
Transracial Adoption
Adoptee Mosaic
Adoptee Speaks
Intercountry Adoptee Voices
Breaking Barriers Podcasts
Lost Daughters Blog
Haitian Art Club
Adoptees of Chicago
Podcasts that are adoption centric:
Enneagram Journey Podcast
https://www.theenneagramjourney.org/podcast
Episodes:
Intro to Grieving and the Enneagram: Suzanne Stabile (May 4th, 2022)
Foster care and adoption( May 4th, 2021)
Trauma and Adoption 3 part series (Jan 3, 2020)
Adoption advocacy Podcast:
A podcast to spark open dialogue incorporating all members of the adoption triad.
http://www.adoptionadvocacypodcast.com/
Adapted Podcast
Explores the experiences of Korean adoptees, from post-reunion stories, living in Korea as adults, identity and belonging and more.
https://adaptedpodcast.com/