Adoptees Crossing Lines

Navigating No Contact: Adoptees' Journeys to Healing Episode Summary: Should you cut off your adoptive parents? Should you “go no contact” with your adoptive parents? “Oh hell no. Not this time. I’m done.” That’s what we felt before cutting off contact with your adoptive parents. Sometimes, the healthiest thing we can do is to go no contact with our adoptive parents. Escaping abuse. Escaping racis...

Navigating Holidays as an Adoptee: Exploring Complex Emotions & Self Care Episode Summary: For adoptees, holidays mean performance. Acting like you care, acting like you’re happy, acting like you’re grateful. And if you don’t perform, then you live in ...

Navigating Holidays as an Adoptee: Exploring Complex Emotions & Self Care Episode Summary:  For adoptees, holidays mean performance. Acting like you care, acting like you’re happy, acting like you’re grateful. And if you don’t perform, then you live in guilt. It’s ironic, because adoption itself is an act. Join us as we explore this and discuss what holidays are like for us adoptees.&nbsp...

Challenging Adoption Norms and Embracing Queer Parenting: A Conversation with Yomi Episode Summary: Selling children is human trafficking, so why isn’t adoption considered human trafficking? It’s state-sanctioned trafficking with a paper trail. Ayomide...

Challenging Adoption Norms and Embracing Queer Parenting: A Conversation with Yomi Episode Summary: Selling children is human trafficking, so why isn’t adoption considered human trafficking? It’s state-sanctioned trafficking with a paper trail. Ayomide Bee shares her adoption story as a queer transracial adoptee. Their take is not only that gay couples shouldn’t adopt - but that adoption should be...

Activism & Origin Story: Erica Babino Episode Summary: What’s it like to be an activist for adoptees? What’s the story of someone who is an adoptees activist? How would you feel if you discovered that your bio mom lives on your street, after you’ve bee...

Activism & Origin Story: Erica Babino Episode Summary: What’s it like to be an activist for adoptees? What’s the story of someone who is an adoptees activist? How would you feel if you discovered that your bio mom lives on your street, after you’ve been searching for her for 25 years? This week, we speak to Erica Babino a Black same race adoptee who is a former American Adoption Congress Board...

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Dr. Noelle's Origin Story: A Journey of Adoption, Identity, and Reunion Episode Summary: Two white people raised me, a Black child. I’m Dr. Noelle and this is the secret filled story of my adoption. In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Cosplaying as adop...

Dr. Noelle's Origin Story: A Journey of Adoption, Identity, and Reunion Episode Summary:   Two white people raised me, a Black child. I’m Dr. Noelle and this is the secret filled story of my adoption. In this episode, we cover: (00:00) Cosplaying as adoptees? (01:35) The stories I was told (05:30) My abusive adoptive mother  (06:15) Taking a DNA test to find my family (09:42) They didn’t...

Navigating Adoption and Rediscovering Family: Lia's Journey Episode Summary: I’m Lia and this is my adoptee origin story from foster care to reuniting with my siblings. In this episode, we cover: (01:02) What I was told about my bio parents (02:18) Wha...

Navigating Adoption and Rediscovering Family: Lia's Journey Episode Summary: I’m Lia and this is my adoptee origin story from foster care to reuniting with my siblings.  In this episode, we cover: (01:02) What I was told about my bio parents (02:18) What actually happened  (04:59) My adoptive parents  (05:34) My birth father’s side of the story (06:36) My access to adoption informat...

Exploring the Impact of Adoption on Mental Health: Insights from Adoptees Content Warning: Suicide, Suicidal ideation, Involuntary hospitalization Episode Summary: Adoptees are 4x more likely to attempt suicide, in this episode we unpack why that is. B...

Exploring the Impact of Adoption on Mental Health: Insights from Adoptees Content Warning: Suicide, Suicidal ideation, Involuntary hospitalization Episode Summary:   Adoptees are 4x more likely to attempt suicide, in this episode we unpack why that is. Being an adoptee is a lifelong sentence, we have to cosplay as someone else’s child, we belong almost nowhere - and on top of all that, we inv...

Navigating Parenthood as Adoptees: Insights from Dr. Noelle and Tosha Episode Summary: What’s it like when you’re adopted and then become a parent? We discuss the unexpected joys and reliefs of parenting, the mistakes we were almost programmed to make,...

Navigating Parenthood as Adoptees: Insights from Dr. Noelle and Tosha Episode Summary: What’s it like when you’re adopted and then become a parent? We discuss the unexpected joys and reliefs of parenting, the mistakes we were almost programmed to make, how parenting can heal us, how to tell your children you’re adopted, and being careful about not placing a burden on our children that they aren’t...

Identity & Adoption Episode Summary: In this episode, we dive into the complex topic of identity and how it intersects with adoption. We discuss how adoption severs connections to identity, the disconnection adoptees feel, the complications of biologic...

Identity & Adoption Episode Summary: In this episode, we dive into the complex topic of identity and how it intersects with adoption. We discuss how adoption severs connections to identity, the disconnection adoptees feel, the complications of biological family searches, and the struggle to reconcile our identities with the information we discover. This episode covers: (00:49) How adoptees def...

Exploring Blackness and Adoption: Navigating Identity and Challenges Episode Summary: In this episode, we discuss the unique and often challenging experience of being a Black adoptee. We explore the intersection of Blackness and adoption, the harmful i...

Exploring Blackness and Adoption: Navigating Identity and Challenges Episode Summary: In this episode, we discuss the unique and often challenging experience of being a Black adoptee. We explore the intersection of Blackness and adoption, the harmful impact of transracial adoption, how the adoption industry profits from Black children, and the ways in which Black adoptees navigate identity, cultur...

Navigating Relationships as an Adoptee Episode Summary: In this episode of Adoptees Crossing Lines, Noelle, Lia, and Tosha explore the complexities of navigating relationships as adoptees. From dating to friendships and family dynamics, they discuss ho...

Navigating Relationships as an Adoptee Episode Summary: In this episode of Adoptees Crossing Lines, Noelle, Lia, and Tosha explore the complexities of navigating relationships as adoptees. From dating to friendships and family dynamics, they discuss how adoption trauma, abandonment issues, and people-pleasing tendencies impact their ability to connect with others. The conversation delves into why...

Saviorism, Narcissism, and the Adoption Industry Episode Summary: In this episode of Adoptees Crossing Lines, Noelle, Lia, and Tosha discuss adoption as it relates to saviorism and narcissism, particularly in the context of adoptive parents. They explo...

Saviorism, Narcissism, and the Adoption Industry Episode Summary:  In this episode of Adoptees Crossing Lines, Noelle, Lia, and Tosha discuss adoption as it relates to saviorism and narcissism, particularly in the context of adoptive parents. They explore how saviorism centers the adoptive parents while disregarding the child's needs and how adoption as an industry upholds harmful power dynam...