There are over 2 million children with an incarcerated parent in the US. In this episode, we speak with Kate, an artist who works to maintain relationships between children and parents in prison.

In this episode, we explore how social services are broken and how we need to rethink their implementation.

In this episode we have frank and vulnerable conversations about how different people overcome infertility and how it relates to the loss of adoptees.

Kassaye and Pascal attend a public talk on adoption at the University of Quebec in Montreal where adoptees and children of adoptees speak about reclaiming their stories through art and advocacy.

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Out of the Fog - Radio Promo by Out of the Fog

In this episode, we draw links between the 60's Scoop and today, where coercion and disempowerment continue to be central themes in mothers giving up their children for adoption. We speak with a mother named Kat about her experience of surrendering her child to adoption in 2001. We also speak with Indigenous adoptee, Nakuset about the systemic removal of Indigenous children and the impact of intergenerational trauma on adoptees parenting their own children.

Other guests in this episode: Historian Dr. Allyson Stevenson and Julie Duchesne from the Sisters of Mercy Museum.

Music used:

Leyla McCalla - Mesi Bondye

Morcheeba- Big Calm

Art Adamas - Dancing Doll

Kid Loco - Theme form the Graffiti Artist

Gustabo Santoalalla - Deportation: Iguazu

Malatu Astatqe - Yegelle Tezeta

Yo la Tengo - Green Arrow

Bensound - Tomorrow

Philip Glass - Japura River (uakti)

Joni Mitchell - Little Green

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Join us for our very first episode of "Out of The Fog" on CKUT 90.3 FM where we discuss gratefulness in adoption, the importance of adoptee communities and much more with Indian-American adoptee, Shaaren Pine (@shaaren) who featured in an Upworthy video "The things adopted kids are afraid to talk about for fear of sounding ungrateful" this past June 2016.

CKUT 90.3 FM: https://ckut.ca/en

Music by:

Fatoumara Diawara - Sowa

Dianogah - Indie Spock Ears

Rick Rozzo & Tara Key - Good Morning Mr. Peckinpah

Tales From the Far Side

Wyclef Jean Ft. Canibus - Gone Till November

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