On today’s episode, SunAh sits down with Katelyn Hemmeke to discuss “Blue Bayou,” a film that follows the fictional story of a Korean adoptee facing deportation. Katelyn talks about the controversies surrounding the film, including the appropriation of an actual adoptee’s story, the ethics of representation, and the inattention to current legislation around adoptee citizenship rights. Katelyn is a two-time Fulbright award recipient who holds an MA in English from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she studied birth family search and trauma in adoptee memoirs. She currently works for the HANA Center, a nonprofit organization in Chicago that serves and organizes Korean and multi-ethnic immigrant populations.