All and everything about adoptee rights, with interviews, discussions, and the ongoing complexities of being an adopted person in the world.
What Next? The Adoptee Rights Podcast
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All and everything about adoptee rights, with interviews, discussions, and the ongoing complexities of being an adopted person in the world.
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September 30, 2024
21: Truth and Reconciliation
<p dir="ltr">Greg talks with transnational Korean adoptees, scholars, advocates Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and Ryan Gustafsson, about their cases (and others') before the South Korean Truth and Reconcilation Commission. We talk specifically about what is meant by truth and reconciliation, not only in a wider context but more specifically in the context of iillicit intercountry adoptions from a person's country of birth.</p> <p><strong>About Greg's Guests</strong></p> <p><a title="Ryan Gustafsson" href= "https://www.ryangustafsson.com/"><strong>Ryan Gustafsson</strong></a> is a researcher in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. Trained in continental philosophy (phenomenology) and social theory, they conduct research on Korean overseas adoption, transracial adoptee lived experiences, migration, and diaspora. Ryan is the co-founder of the Philosophies of Difference (PoD) group and the Korean Adoptee Adoption Research Network (KAARN), which organize open-to-public seminars and symposia. Their nonfiction writing has appeared in literary outlets including Sydney Review of Books, Liminal Magazine, Peril Magazine, Island Magazine, and others.</p> <p>Born in Wonju, Republic of Korea, <a title="Jennifer Kwon Dobbs" href="https://www.jkwondobbs.com/"><strong>Jennifer Kwon Dobbs</strong></a> is the author of Interrogation Room (White Pine Press, 2018); Paper Pavilion (White Pine, 2007), winner of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize; and the chapbooks Notes from a Missing Person (Essay Press, 2015) and Necro Citizens (German/English edition, hochroth Verlag, 2019). Interrogation Room received mention in The New York Times, was praised by World Literature Today for “a vigorous restlessness,” and won the Association of Asian American Studies Award in Creative Writing: Poetry. She also co-translates Sámi poetry with poet-scholar Johanna Domokos, and their translation of Niillas Holmberg’s Juolgevuođđu, published as Underfoot (White Pine Press, 2022), received the American-Scandinavian Foundation’s Lief and Inger Sjöberg Prize. She is professor of English and Race, Ethnic, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at St. Olaf College and lives in Minnesota.</p> <p><strong>Additional Links/Resources</strong></p> <ul> <li><a title="The Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission" href= "https://www.jinsil.go.kr/en/bbm/bbs/selectBoardArticleView.do?nttId=23429"> The Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission</a></li> <li>Recent AP Report and Frontline Documentary: <a title= "South Korea's Adoption Reckoning" href= "https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/south-koreas-adoption-reckoning/"> South Korea's Adoption Reckoning</a></li> <li><a title="Danish Korean Rights Group" href= "https://danishkorean.dk/">Danish Korean Rights Group</a> (DKRG)</li> <li><a title="Intercountry Adoption Research Reports" href= "https://adopteesunited.org/tag/research-reports/">Reports from the Netherlands, France, and Switzerland on Intercountry Adoption</a></li> </ul> <p> </p>
May 2, 2024
20: Rescission - A Conversation about Ending Your Own Adoption
<p>Greg talks with Chelsey, a US-born adult adopted person who for years has been seeking to end her own adoption, and for good reason. They discuss her story and reasons, the various legal issues surrounding the rescission of an adoption, and <a title="Adoptees United Rescission Project" href= "https://adopteesunited.org/rescission/">the ongoing Adoptees United project</a> that has led to a definition of terms and <a title="Draft Model Rescission Legislation" href= "https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tnhD6AU4KyjAQuEN4j5DvBqoZI5xRQ2wCENq9L0BkSU/edit?usp=sharing"> to a draft model bill</a> that would establish a right as an adult to end your own adoption.</p> <p>More information about the <a title= "The Adoptees United Rescission Project" href= "https://adopteesunited.org/rescission/">Rescission Project and its collective efforts are on Adoptees United</a>. Greg's prior <a title="Adoption and Annulment: A History" href= "https://adopteerightslaw.com/annulment/">overview of the issue is on his law firm website</a>, though efforts have progressed since he published the initial post a few years ago.</p> <p>Support our work and conversations on the podcast by <a title= "Donate to Adoptees United" href= "https://adopteesunited.org/donate">contributing to Adoptees United</a>, a national nonprofit organization working to educate and empower adopted people and to challenge and change the dominant narrative of adoption.</p>
April 24, 2024
19: Kara Bos - Dual Citizenship
<p>Greg and CS talk with Korean-born and US transnational adoptee Kara Bos about her efforts to reclaim her Korean citizenship, lost to her when she was four years of age and adopted to the United States. Her efforts included the first successful paternity action in Korea to establish paternity with her Korean biological father.</p> <p>The conversation is part of an Adoptees United event, Dual Citizenship for Transnational Adoptees, recorded on April 10, 2024, and <a title="Dual Citizenship for Transnational Adoptees" href= "https://youtu.be/V__-EGEupRg">available now on YouTube</a>.</p> <p>Follow and subscribe to What Next? The Adoptee Rights Podcast, and keep us going with a tax-deductible donation at <a title= "Donate to Adoptees United Inc" href= "https://adopteesunited.org/donate/">adopteesunited.org/donate</a>.</p>
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