The Adoptee Thoughts Podcast will offer an inside look from a transracial adoptee‘s perspective on international adoption, race, identity, and more. This podcast will explore other adoptees‘ experiences in interviews while delving into the nuances of adoption, and will not shy away from the tough topics. So if you have adopted, plan to adopt a child of color, or are an adoptee... this is the place for you.
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The Adoptee Thoughts Podcast will offer an inside look from a transracial adoptee‘s perspective on international adoption, race, identity, and more. This podcast will explore other adoptees‘ experiences in interviews while delving into the nuances of adoption, and will not shy away from the tough topics. So if you have adopted, plan to adopt a child of color, or are an adoptee... this is the place for you.
An Interview with Jenny Heijun Wills, Award Winning Author
Adoptee Thoughts
52 minutes 33 seconds
4 years ago
An Interview with Jenny Heijun Wills, Award Winning Author
On Season 2, Episode 3 of the Adoptee Thoughts Podcast, Jenny Heijun Wills, and host, Melissa Guida-Richards discuss Jenny's Memoir Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related (now available in paperback) and the intricacies of reunion with birth family.
Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related (McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada, 2019), which won the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the 2020 Eileen McTavish Sykes Best First Book Award. She is also the co-editor of Adoption & Multiculturalism: Europe, The Americas, and the Pacific (University of Michigan Press, 2020).
Purchase her memoir here and follow Jenny on Instagram.
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Adoptee Thoughts
The Adoptee Thoughts Podcast will offer an inside look from a transracial adoptee‘s perspective on international adoption, race, identity, and more. This podcast will explore other adoptees‘ experiences in interviews while delving into the nuances of adoption, and will not shy away from the tough topics. So if you have adopted, plan to adopt a child of color, or are an adoptee... this is the place for you.
