"Our healing is rooted in decolonizing ourselves"
Description
For our final two episodes of the MinneAsianStories Podcast: Season 2, we're exploring how Asian Minnesotan transnational adoptees have been shifting the dominant narrative around adoption to center adoptee voices and experiences. Our MinneAsianStories Correspondent Hannah Kinzer chats with educator, writer, and DEI consultant Dr. SooJin Pate about the decolonizing process of reclaiming one's history, narrative and story as a transracial and transnational adoptee.
SooJin reveals how policy and colonial power have fueled transnational adoption and made Minnesota the "Land of 10,000 Adoptees." She shares her reflections on adoption and how adoption is woven into Asian Americans movements and communities in Minnesota.
Check out SooJin's podcasts, the Antiracist Parenting Podcast and Decolonize Yourself, and book From Orphan to Adoptee: US Empire and Genealogies of Korean Adoption.
Visit caalmn.org/podcast for a full archive of all of our previous episodes.
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