​After living in North Texas for 31 years, I had forgotten how beautiful South Jersey was. I remember when I first moved to Texas and told them I grew up on a horse farm, the… 

Bo is thankful to be included on AKA’s blog, in the newsletter, and the adoptee community.  Her poem “Junnam Province, My Birthplace” originally appeared in Tinderbox Poetry Journal.

By Dianne Sonnenberg, AKA Board Member & International (First Nations) Adoptee Headline: Remains of 215 children found buried at former B.C. residential school, First Nation says. Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc say ground-penetrating radar was used to locate… 

When I gave birth to my first daughter, the daughter I placed for adoption, I was newly a fifteen-year-old on the heels of a physically abusive relationship with her biological father. I youthfully claimed I… 

Growing up as an adoptee, St Patrick’s Day always brought up feelings around my own lack of specific ethnicity information. While everyone was running around with garish green hats and eating green pancakes – declaring… 

“As the adoption industry migrates to social media, regretful adoptees and birth mothers are confronting prospective parents with their personal pain—and anger,” reads the subheadline of a recent article on WIRED.com. ​ I wouldn’t have expected to…