Ep. 53 Sandy Whitehawk: We Must Keep Our Birth Names
When They Were Young: Amplifying Voices of Adoptees
English - July 02, 2022 18:00 - 1 hour - 44.5 MBRelationships Society & Culture Education Self-Improvement lanise antoine shelley adoption adoptee transracial interracial intercultural biological family haiti haitian adoptive family Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Today’s guest is Sandy Whitehawk who is the Executive Director at First Nations Repatriation Institute. She and I take the gloves off with this one. We discuss white supremacy in indigenous communities, systematic removal and problematic placements of adoptees, changing of adoptee names, and what unconditional love looks like. The mainstream doesn’t talk about what happens when the adoptee is adopted into an unsafe or unsupportive household. You hear stories of re-homing because the child had special needs or didn’t get along with the biblical children, but conversely the adoptive child’s perspective is just as valuable and needs to be brought to the forefront.
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Guest: Sandy Whitehawk
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