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One of the worst harms done to transracial adoptees of color, especially transracial AND transnational adoptees of color, is stealing us from our homelands while depriving us of cultural connection and community.
#TransracialTrauma
#TransracialTrauma
We are permanent outcasts. Isolated. At the margins of the margins.
I don't belong anywhere.
White people want me to be a safe (to be openly racist to/around), palatable (to white respectability), assimilated (into whiteness) East Asian.
#TransracialTrauma
I don't belong anywhere.
White people want me to be a safe (to be openly racist to/around), palatable (to white respectability), assimilated (into whiteness) East Asian.
#TransracialTrauma
At the same time AsAm communities feel out of reach.
I don't belong to AsAm family that's been here for generations.
I'm not the AsAm (grand)child of immigrants.
I am culturally illiterate. My attempts to reclaim heritage+ancestral wisdom feel artificial.
#TransracialTrauma
I don't belong to AsAm family that's been here for generations.
I'm not the AsAm (grand)child of immigrants.
I am culturally illiterate. My attempts to reclaim heritage+ancestral wisdom feel artificial.
#TransracialTrauma
