Mila's Truth: Navigating Adoption, Liberation, and Community

Episode Summary: 

The Church does an excellent job of silencing you if you oppose them. They’d even hire a marketing company to rebrand adoption so that their business as adoption middlemen can continue to thrive. But, it’s not just the Church. The dominant culture is to silence anyone who speaks up against adoption. That was Mila Konomos’ experience once she realized how adoption has wounded her.  Mila tells her story of how she was forcibly removed from her family in 1975 to the realization in 2009 that everything she thought she knew about adoption was a lie. She discusses how reuniting with her biological parents changed everything, how similar she realized she was hto her bio parents, grappling with her identity, the power of speaking up,  and the cultural resistance against accepting the truth about adoption.  Mila is the host of the podcast called Everything You Think You Know About Adoption Is A Lie. 

In this episode, we cover:

(00:22) Who is Mila Kanomos? 

(01:39) Being a (clueless) grateful adoptee 

(06:00) “You had this information all of my life?!”

(12:55) Terrified of opposing adoption publicly 

(15:50) The church is complicit 

(18:23) Propaganda around adoption 

(19:38) Surviving reunion 

(22:04) How do I become Korean?

(30:55) Everything you know about adoption is a lie

(36:43) Church PAID to rebrand adoption 

(41:03) Centering adoptee narratives  

(44:47) Adoption IS oppression 

(49:03) What can you do about this?

(55:51) You already know who you are

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Resources:

• Everything You Think You Know About Adoption Is A Lie Podcast
• Child Catchers by Catherine Joyce 

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Editing by  Samuel Oyedele (Editor)

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