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Today, Daniel Drennan ElAwar and I are continuing our conversation on The Adoptee Voice. We talk about what it means to be a bridge as an adoptee, Daniel redefines adoption as “a candy coated band-aide”, we talk about the breakdown of kinship care as a tactic of colonial violence, movement histories that can teach us something today, and at the end Daniel answers Abby’s question about “rematriation”, finding our way back to our mother(land), and what it means to him.
Resource List:
https://danielibnzayd.wordpress.com/2022/06/25/little-did-u-know-part-2/
Reddit thread : https://teddit.net/r/Adoption/comments/vgqdgk/adoption_focused_media/
Daniel's writings on Adoption and his blog: https://ecuad.academia.edu/DanielDrennanElAwar danielibnzayd.wordpress.com/
Ideas of grounding and place: On Extirpation, Rerooting, and Creative Liberation https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40087/On-Extirpation,-Rerooting,-and-Creative-Liberation
Abby asked if I could ask Daniel about "rematriation". I do, in part 2 of this episode. Term coined by Steven Newcomb, Executive Director, Indigenous Law Institute. http://ili.nativeweb.org/perspect.html
Daniel's recommended reading list
Dorothy Roberts- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
Dorothy Roberts- Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare
Dorothy Roberts- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century
Kali Akuno- Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi
Lisa Marie Cacho- Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (Nation of Nations)
Orlando Patterson- Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study
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