Claudia Corrigan D'Arcy
NPR again has chosen to allow a white adoptive parent speak for the trans-racial adopted adult. The adult adoptees who belong at the table are rightfully angry about being left out of the conversation and having their voices silenced. #NPRGate, #NPR, #NPRadopteelist, @NPRWeekend, #SundayConvo, #adoptees, #adoption, #racism, #White Privilege,
Never have I been so happy to have to eat my words! And, yup. They taste just like chicken! The adoption community spoke out (those of us no longer drunk on the industry koolaid), and they listened! They actually listened! NPR Takes Advice and Features Transracial Adult Adoptee In a world where most people don't want to...
Besides being a big money entity, society is more accustomed to hearing about adoptions going through than they have been to listening to people's actual experience with adoption. From all 3 perspectives, it is not the win-win that it has been portrayed. Parenting an adopted child has its own set of unforeseen challenges, and the...
Following a tangled thread.
On Sunday, January 12th, in light of the recent controversy that was stirred concerning a joke by Melissa Harris-Perry about the Romney family's trans-racial adoption and her apology that followed, this interview was aired on NPR's The Sunday Conversation: Transracial Family Gets Double Takes 'Everywhere We Go' - which would have been fine except for this: NPR & Exclusion from...
"Adoptee voices must be included in conversations about adoption. Adoptee voices must be valued." By Matthew Salesses - NPR is currently doing a #SundayConvo on transracial adoption, following an article that draws solely from the adoptive parents' experience. Adoptee comments have been erased. This is part of a disturbing pattern.
I know what its like to be the only one in the picture.To be the only one means you have to be strongTo be the only one means you have to shrink yourself up into an invisible beingColorlessThoughtlessEmotionlessBut on the inside, you are a Sea of EmotionsOn the inside you know you are Black.Even if you...
It would be nice if transracial adoptees were asked more often to share their own experiences of "double takes" and discrimination. - Nicole 수정 (@nicolecallahan)January 12, 2014 A few days ago, I received an email from NPR looking for Angela Tucker's contact information for an upcoming show on The Sunday Conversation.
Will NPR ever get Adoption Reporting right? @NPRWeekend #adoptees
Each week, Weekend Edition Sunday host Rachel Martin brings listeners an unexpected side of the news by talking with someone personally affected by the stories making headlines. Rachel Garlinghouse and her husband, Steve are both white, and they've adopted three kids - two girls and a boy - who are African-American.
White Privilege is hard for Whites to understand. But I'm colorblind, But I have Black friends! But my kids' school is so diverse! But I thought we lived in a post-racial society! But I voted for Obama! I don't discriminate! But I listen to NPR, I'm super progressive!
Recently there was an uproar of sorts concerning NPR, after they aired an interview with a white adoptive mother of black children. The main point of offense most stated by those commenting on this show was that in this report and on her blog, the woman interviewed claims for herself a voice which is basically not hers, and there was a perceived need for "balance", which was to come from transracial adoptees.
We speak to educate. We listen to learn. How can @npr @NPRWeekend talk about #transracial #adoptees without the adoptee's adult voice?!?! Adoptees have a voice. Listen & learn. - mothermade (@mothermade)January 12, 2014 I love NPR, as most know. I listen to all sorts of podcasts.
We listened. Yesterday, a 6 minute segment on NPR created hours' worth of responses, frustration, blogging, conversations, tweeting, disappointment, and shaking of heads. The Sunday Morning Edition featured Rachel Garlinghouse, a white adoptive mother of 3 very young black children, and the topic of the show was transracial adoption.
I had to change that title, because really the problem isn't just with the media, it's with APs, too. And that includes me. Time to take the plunge back into a little writing! NPR's Sunday interview with transracial adoptive parent Rachel Garlinghouse is a great way to jump back in.
I will preface this by saying that I had promised myself I would give myself a long break from writing about adoption, for psychological-becoming-physical health reasons; the past 10 years have taken their toll, and I need to take a step back. All the same, I found it imperative to add some "talking points" to...
Last week, NPR requested to interview my friend and fellow Lost Daughters blogger, Angela Tucker, on the issue of transracial adoption. Angela was the perfect choice for their interview, not only because she is a transracial adoptee but also because of her powerful story that has been chronicled in the documentary, Closure.
As a journalist who has a passion for news and human interest stories, I have long been a listener of NPR's programming efforts. I have a two-hour daily commute and NPR often makes it feel as though I have a friendly companion riding shotgun. As with all relationships, however, there are sometimes bumps in the...
It would be nice if transracial adoptees were asked more often to share their own experiences of "double takes" and discrimination. - Nicole 수정 (@nicolecallahan)January 12, 2014 A few days ago, I received an email from NPR looking for Angela Tucker's contact information for an upcoming show on The Sunday Conversation.
Do Trans-racial Adoptees Know Anything About Trans-racial Adoption? By Angela Tucker, cross-posted from Angela's blog. NPR contacted me and asked me to be a part of the Sunday Conversation that aired yesterday morning.
https://twitter.com/salesses/status/422440072164544513 NPR contacted me and asked me to be a part of the Sunday Conversation that aired yesterday morning. I spoke in depth about my story, my upbringing, the challenges and joys of my experience being raised by White parents, only to receive an email the next day stating that they had chosen to go...
Yesterday on their Sunday Conversation segment, National Public Radio (NPR) aired an interview with a white, adoptive mother of three young black children, Rachel Garlinghouse. The angle for this interview was to discuss bias against mixed race adoptions in light of the recent controversy over comments made on the Melissa Harris-Perry show about Mitt Romney's...
Dawn Davenport, of "Creating A Family: Adoption and Infertility Education and Support," just posted on Facebook: "NPR Weekend Edition has asked us for help finding a young adult transracial adoptee (black child adopted by white parents) for a follow-up on their show on transracial adoption last week.
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Claudia Corrigan D’Arcy has been writing about life as a birthmother, Adoptee Rights & the unethical adoption industry since 2005. She has been online and involved in the adoption community since...
