... Film Festival is happening this Saturday, November 14, in Minneapolis. It's the first festival in the Twin Cities to showcase transracial and transcultural voices from the adoption community. Some details:Minnesota Transracial Film FestivalNovember 14, 2009Oak Street CinemaOak Street SEMinneapolis MN 55414Featured

A big thanks again to all of you who came to join us for the MN Transracial Film Festival of Saturday, November 14th at the Oak Street Cinema. It was a brisk day but everyone reports there was a great attendance throughout the day. Considering the great lineup and the historic nature of the festival it was wonderful to see such vibrant support, and I hope we'll see more of these in the future. ...

"I hear people say 'well we are not prejudice' that's great but that wont equip your kid. You need to see the world in color. I became so conscious of when the world was white. What was on posters, what's on TV shows, who's in my house. I noticed stuff that normally white people don't have to notice THAT'S WHAT WHITE PRIVILEGE IS and so if I'm gonna be these ...

... post.) Each adoption paid in full through God's provision. The majority have been transracial adoptions, and it was the adoption of their first African American child that led to the characteristic ... of posts for the Carolina Hope adoption blog: Many of these address the topic of transracial adoption and have been encouraging to me personally. I appreciated her thoughtful response to a reader ...

... are trained to include adoption when options counseling, that the socioeconomic factors underlying transracial adoption are uncovered and discussed and that all individuals and families, regardless of race, sexual ... at Spence-Chapin Molly HyoJung Bidol, LMSW, Counselor, Coach, Consultant on Transracial AdoptionBirth Mother who placed for adoption through Spence-ChapinEvent is free and open to all ...

... rape and racism 16 Blasians 15 Shaniya Davis 14 voodoo 13 black abortion 11 transracial adoption 3 Jesse Owens If your topic lost, do not feel bad: I voted for transracial adoption! (But if it was not me doing the writing, I would have picked black marriage). I might do some of the losers in time, particularly Blasians and voodoo. View ...

... with soap, covering them with yogurt, or using up all my curse words, but the burning has subsided. Sometimes it's a pointer to a blog entry specifically aimed at What I Do: SFWA Blog: Transracial Writing for the Sincere (good entry, btw - especially for writers) Some are pointers to "warnings" or "commiserations" jay_lake Clients From Hell: - for all you artists and ...

... the switch). I wonder what's going on there... #fb # 12:59 Fantastic Nisi Shawl article: "Transracial Writing for the Sincere" www.sfwa.org/2009/12/transracial-writing-for-the-sincere/ #fb # 13:19 the new power adaptor (brick) and laptop are here, so it must be time for The Great Switchover ...

... at any minute! I am totally sending up prayers for them each nite for a speedy placement, but I am also stoked that we will know another transracial family in the 'burg with a child similar to Payton's age. I have thought about starting some kind of play group for transracial families in our area because so many other "mom blogs" (of people who do not live near ...

... and I were heading out the door to hear Adam Pertman, the executive director of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, speak about the institute's initial findings in regards to exciting new research about transracial adoption. I promised y'all back then that I would share the results of that study once the institute published the results. Well... the results came out this week. And ...

... the U.S. or abroad. More longitudinal research that combines quantitative and qualitative methods is needed to better understand the process through which children, teens and young adults progress in confronting transracial adoption identity issues. Additional research is also needed on the identity journey experienced by in-race adoptees - and, pointedly, more of the studies of every kind need to ...

... the U.S. or abroad. More longitudinal research that combines quantitative and qualitative methods is needed to better understand the process through which children, teens and young adults progress in confronting transracial adoption identity issues. Additional research is also needed on the identity journey experienced by in-race adoptees - and, pointedly, more of the studies of every kind need to ...

... to a service in years. He tends to keep his spirituality more private but I do think he misses having a church. Thankfully, our Conservative synagogue is very welcoming to us as an interfaith and transracial family. Many interfaith families attend Reformed synagogues but I was raised in a Conservative synagogue and never felt comfortable in a Reformed service--I like Hebrew and hearing the ...

... part of the study, but the title "Beyond Culture Camp" implies otherwise. That's not to dismiss the important conclusions reached concerning transracial adoptees, but I would have liked to have seen a more all-encompassing summary. I also agree with what others have said, that putting children on the cover of a study about ADULT adoptees perpetuates the notion that, like Peter Pan, ...

So I guess its time for another post about adoption...well kinda ;) We went to an adoption conference in Oct.  One of the presentations had some interesting information about transracial adoption.  One thing that was said/implied (since Nels went, while I was at another presentation) was that the family avoided talking about race or acknowledging it with their biracial babies, mind you ...