Influencers and Books.
Updated: May 4
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)
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