Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories

A Transracial Adoptee Speaks his Truth


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Matthew Charles is the host of "little did u know", an abolitionist podcast that seeks to reveal the precarity inherent in transracial/national adoption and dream of a new future by centering the voices of Adoptees and Professionals. His is also an essayist, poet, and sometimes actor whose work explores (dis)placement, belonging, and colony and appears in VISIBLE and Severance Magazine.

To learn more about Matthew Charles and his poetry you can visit his website: MatthewCharlesPoet.com

Also in this episode, Sarah and Louise discuss B.J. Lifton's Journey of the Adopted Self.

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