Influencers and Books.

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-adoption)

http://www.findingpaola.com/

Jean Appolo (non-adoption)

https://jeanappolonexpressions.org/

Adoption-centric Instagram:

​@youngadoptee

@iamadopted

@Lantoines

@angieadoptee

@thecschcollab

@adopteebridge

@adoptee_thoughts

@adoptee_love

@xiaolinhkeller

@diabolically.haitian

@blacktothebeginning

@thisadopteelife

@journeyofmytrasoul

@nedratawwab

Adoption Families to follow:

@raisingculturesfamily

@jeenawilder

@mr.jsmason

@courtney.ellen.brown

@iambarryfarmer

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