Best Sarah Chung Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 51: Sarah Manguso & the Liars marriage makes 1:04:52

3h ago1:04:52

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Sarah Manguso joins Laura to talk about her newest book, Liars. Telling the blistering story of a marriage as it burns to the ground, Liars depicts the slow and normalized forms of abuse and misogyny baked into marriage. Pre-order liars now, for release on July 23rd. Sarah Manguso's book tour comes to San Francisco on Wednesday, July 24, 2024 at 7:…

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Season 7, Episode 22: Sarah Harris - Camptowns and Belonging 1:07:22

11d ago1:07:22

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Korean mixed-race adoptee Sarah Harris, 54, of Los Angeles, shares her story of visiting Korea and finding the place where she felt truly rooted.

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Secrets Revealed: Grand Master Ramon Smith & late Bruce Lee 26:59

9d ago26:59

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Learn the secrets of Grand Master Ramon Smith and the late Bruce Lee in this podcast episode. Discover martial arts philosophy, Bruce Lee's wisdom, self-mastery, and the connection between Christian values and martial arts. Support the Show.By Sarah Chung

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Season 7, Episode 21: Delight Roberts - Marrying into a Korean-American Family 1:19:26

23d ago1:19:26

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Korean adoptee Delight Roberts, 52, talks about marrying into a Korean-American family and the challenges and benefits that provided her. Some were surprising – like table eating etiquette – but all of Roberts’ experiences from childhood bullying to having future in-laws who didn’t approve of her because she is adopted, have strengthened Roberts’ r…

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Season 7, Episode 20: Wyatt Tuell - An Unconventional Family 1:05:26

1M ago1:05:26

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Wyatt Tuell, 45, is a Korean-American adoptee who was raised outside Omaha, Nebraska with a Korean immigrant adoptive mother and a white American adoptive father who was much older than his mother. Growing up in the 80s, Wyatt often felt different from his white school peers around him and was sometimes teased for being Korean. At home, his family …

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Episode 50 - Jessica Calarco: Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women. 1:03:06

1M ago1:03:06

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Jessica Calarco joins Laura and Adrian to unpack her newly released book, Holding It Together: How Women Became America’s Social Safety Net. They discuss the histories and the sociological interviews central to Calarco's book, painting a picture of the women who are tasked with holding society together with their labor. Dr. Jessica Calarco is an As…

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Season 7, Episode 19: Kit Myers - Ghostly Kinship 58:06

2M ago58:06

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Kit Myers, 42, is a transracial Hong Kong adoptee and assistant professor in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Merced. In this interview, we talk about Myers' search for his birth mother and feelings he's had of having a 'ghostly' or ambiguous kinship with someone he doesn't know. We also talk about his upcoming imp…

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Season 7, Episode 18: Nik Nadeau - Meeting My Birth Mother 2 37:27

2M ago37:27

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I continue the conversation with Nik Nadeau, 36, a Korean adoptee who is in reunion with his Korean birth mother. He is a secret, unable to meet his half-siblings who are also in their 30s, or be acknowledged by his mother, publicly. His relationship with his mother is qualified by language barriers, time and mutual grief, and love. We start off th…

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Season 7, Episode 17: Nik Nadeau - Meeting My Birth Mother 1:03:39

3M ago1:03:39

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Nik Nadeau, 36, met his Korean birth mother 14 years ago. In this episode, he talks about his creative writing process and about how he's unlocked feelings about the reunion and his own identity as a transnational adopted person.

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Season 7, Episode 16: Yukyeong Kim and Banet 1:17:04

3M ago1:17:04

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Leader Yukyeong Kim and her group of neighbors and friends in Korea have been quietly and determinedly helping adoptees search for their biological family since 2018. I sit down with Kim to find out more about how the group got started and how their willingness to make a simple phone call has often times had surprising results.…

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Season 7, Episode 15: JaeHee Chung-Sherman - You Don't Have to Be Resilient 1:29:54

4M ago1:29:54

1:29:54

Dr. JaeHee Chung-Sherman, DSW, LCSW, has centered her practice and research on decolonizing adoption and mental health for transracial and international adoptees. A transracial, transnational adoptee herself, Chung-Sherman, 47, has been among the first co-hort of TRIA therapists to do this work. She talks about narcissistic colonial adopt systems, …

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Season 7, Episode 14: Leading an Adoptee Organization 47:06

4M ago47:06

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Mia Quade Kristensen, 46, and Jannie Jung Westermann, 45, are on the board of the 34-year old Danish Korean adoptee organization, Korea Klubben. They will share about their own search and reunion stories, including one of them being in reunion with her Korean family for more than two decades. The women will also share about their community in Denma…

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Season 7, Episode 13: Adoptee Consciousness Model 1:21:42

5M ago1:21:42

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I talk with Dr. JaeRan Kim and PhD student Grace Newton about the Adoptee Consciousness Model - a framework for understanding adoptee awareness of the impact of adoption. Together with Dr. Susan Branco (not featured), the model is now being discussed and critiqued in academic and adoptee communities. Kim, 55, and Newton, 29, also talk about their e…

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Episode 49 - Lyz Lenz RETURNS! 1:17:53

5M ago1:17:53

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Author and self-described "soccer mom Simone de Beauvoir" Lyz Lenz makes a triumphant return to the pod to discuss her new book THIS AMERICAN EX-WIFE with Laura and Adrian. (Please refer to TFP Episode 7 from December 2020 for Lyz's first mid-derecho podcast appearance!) Her third book in five years, THIS AMERICAN EX-WIFE brings Lenz's characterist…

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Season 7 Episode 12: Thomas Haessly and the Imposter Within 1:21:41

5M ago1:21:41

1:21:41

Thomas Haessly, 40, has felt like an outsider ever since he can remember. Adopted from Korea by a Danish mother and American father to Racine, Wisconsin, Haessly recalls feeling like an imposter within his family, of not quite fitting in, and again as an adult at Korean grocery stores and parenting his own children. Haessly’s sister, Mia, also an a…

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Rachel Forbes and the 4Fs (of Survival and Trauma Responses) 48:41

6M ago48:41

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Rachel Forbes, LCSW, is a Korean-American adoptee with a psychotherapy practice in Connecticut where she specializes in transracial adoption and trauma-informed care. She is also an educator who speaks about trauma, attachment and healing within the adoption constellation. Forbes, 34, talks about the 4Fs regarding emotion disregulation and provides…

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Season 7, Episode 10: Marissa Lichwick and Her Ghosts 1:04:48

6M ago1:04:48

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Marissa Lichwick, 46, is a Korean adoptee and filmmaker, playwright and actor. She is using her past pain and trauma surrounding her family separation, abuse in the orphanage and in her father and stepmother's home and the haunting loss of a half-sister she's never met in her art, to process the events of her life and to encourage healing and commu…

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Season 7, Episode 9: Sara Docan-Morgan and Being In-Reunion 1:09:04

7M ago1:09:04

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Sara Docan-Morgan, PhD, 44, is a Korean adoptee and communications professor in Wisconsin. She's also the youngest child in her Korean biological family, with whom she reunited with many years ago. Her research has focussed on experiences of Korean adoptees and their families, and this month she is out with a new book, "In Reunion: Transnational Ko…

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Season 7, Episode 8: Mia Haessly is Coexisting with Biological and Adoptive Family 1:09:33

7M ago1:09:33

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Mia Haessly, 44, is a working mother and adopted Korean-American who has reunited with her Korean biological father. And while introducing her family to him and seeing her children connect with Korea in a way she never had has been meaningful, the reunion has presented new challenges. Besides the language and cultural barriers, there is the physica…

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Season 7, Episode 7: Helen Noh, From Adoption Worker to Critic in South Korea 1:33:05

8M ago1:33:05

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Helen Noh, PhD., is retiring next year after four decades working in child welfare in Korea, first as an adoption social worker to now a professor of social work, training generations of students to make an imprint on improving the lives of children and families. Noh, 64, has become a leading academic voice in Korea on changing policies regarding a…

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Episode 48 - Nicole Chung 58:12

8M ago58:12

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After a stunning revelation about a life-changing moment THE Dr. Roxane Gay offered Laura, Adrian and Laura join acclaimed memoirist Nicole Chung to discuss her second book, A Living Remedy. Following the contours of A Living Remedy, this discussion travels through the national tragedy of American healthcare, what an elite education and successful …

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Season 7, Episode 5: Robert Holloway and Menzeba Hasati Are Children of an Adoptee 1:13:36

8M ago1:13:36

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Robert Holloway, 34, and Menzeba Hasati, 40, are siblings who are adult children of a Black Korean adoptee. Their mother is a first-wave adoptee, whose mother was Korean and father an American G.I. She was adopted to Alaska in the 1960s by a Black couple. Her children forged their own identities; one in spite of their mother's strong influence towa…

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Season 7, Episode 5: Matthew Rodriguez and Fact Versus Fiction 1:25:08

8M ago1:25:08

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Korean adoptee Matthew Rodriguez, 43, is trying to make sense of his adoption story. For years, it's been clouded by stories told to him and those he told himself, even if they weren't accurate. It was a means to survive. But Rodriguez, whose adoptive parents are white and Mexican American, has his own memories. And now in his 40s, he's learning ho…

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Season 7, Episode 4: Jenna Antoniewicz is Ready 1:30:40

9M ago1:30:40

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Korean adoptee Jenna Antoniewicz, 40, has been on a whirlwind over the past 24 months since beginning to reckon her adoption history and adoptee identity. While a mayor of a town in Pennsylvania, she found herself speaking for Asian America during the coronavirus pandemic about anti-Asian hate. But it triggered an imposter syndrome for Antoniewicz,…

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Season 7, Episode 3: Hollee McGinnis and Her Soul Work 1:14:52

9M ago1:14:52

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Hollee McGinnis, 51, is a Korean adoptee and founder of Also Known As, one of the longest continuously running international adoptee community organization and based in the New York Tri-State area. In this episode, she discusses her new project, Mapping the Life Course of Adoption, and provides some insights from some of the preliminary findings.…

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Season 7, Episode 2: Scar and Flower 1:01:07

10M ago1:01:07

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Lee Herrick, 52, is a poet, author, educator and adoptee. He was adopted from South Korea to the San Francisco Bay area in 1971. Herrick discusses how he uses his lens as an adoptee to observe and write verse about life. He also reads from his 2019 acclaimed collection of poems, “Scar and Flower.”

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Season 7, Episode 1: Kimberly McKee and Asian Adoptee Festishization 1:07:12

10M ago1:07:12

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Dr. Kimberly McKee, 39, currently a visiting Fulbright scholar at Sogang University in Seoul, Korea, is a critical adoption studies researcher. This November, her latest book, "Adoption Fantasies: Fetishization of Asian Adoptees from Girlhood to Womanhood" (The Ohio State University Press) will come out. We'll talk about her latest monograph as wel…

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Episode 47 - Lydia Kiesling 55:47

10M ago55:47

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Laura interviews novelist Lydia Kiesling about her second novel Mobility. Related discussion topics also include the astrology of The Sopranos (Laura and Lydia are both Christopher suns, Mobility's protagonist Bunny Glenn is more of a Meadow rising), the '90s in girlhood, the time Lydia joined a panel Laura organized at Stanford with a newborn on h…

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Episode 46 - Aliens 46:33

11M ago46:33

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Laura and Adrian embark on their new series: feminism and the horror genre. We dedicate the first episode of this series to two favorites of ours: Hollywood treasure Sigourney Weaver and slimy aliens with acid for blood. A discussion of 1986’s Aliens, horror and motherhood, and dueling queens.

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Episode 45 - Deadloch with Moira Donegan 38:00

11M ago38:00

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This episode is basically a PSA: if you’re not watching the Australian feminist crime show Deadloch, then Laura, Adrian and guest Moira Donegan have one question for you: why not? Depressed industrial towns, toxic masculinity, lesbians, a four-hour movie called ‘Poseidon’s Uterus’: this show has everything, and we’re here for all of it.…

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In Bed With The Right: Midge Decter with Matt Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell 1:22:39

1y ago1:22:39

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Midge Decter (1927-2022) has often been called the "grandmother of neoconservatism" -- hers was in some ways a pretty classic trajectory, from New Deal liberalism to profound unease with the social movements of the 1960s, to the center of the conservative movement and Republican politics. But unlike most of her fellow neocons, Midge Decter always f…

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In Bed With The Right: Gay Marriage with Moira and Adrian 1:40:00

1y ago1:40:00

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Join us for the first episode of the all-new show In Bed With The Right. For their inaugural episode, Moira and Adrian delve into right-wing (ahem) contributions to the gay marriage debate. Ten years ago the Supreme Court decided Windsor v. US and Hollingsworth v. Perry, which together spelled the beginning of the end of the gay marriage debate (ga…

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In Bed With The Right - Trailer 2:07

1y ago2:07

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Get a sneak peek at the upcoming, all-new show In Bed With the Right hosted by Moira Donegan and TFP's very own Adrian Daub.

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Episode 44 - A Guestless Catch-up-isode Spectacular 30:46

1y ago30:46

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After a few months of absence, your trusty co-hosts return to tell you about new projects, new episodes, and new friends of the pod! Live from cyberspace, it's ... a guestless update spectacular!

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Season 6, Episode 21: Randy Walker and Finding Self-Worth 1:16:19

1y ago1:16:19

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Imagine a story told to you from childhood, that your biological mother died and your biological father decided to relinquish you? And the people who adopted you rehomed you to another couple, where you found abuse and neglect? Randy Walker, 48, has lived such a life and re-examines his trauma and discusses how negative family experiences can shape…

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Season 6, Episode 20: Sara Jones Was Marked By Love 1:16:49

1y ago1:16:49

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Sara Jones isn't sure whether she's 48 or 49. That's because the circumstances surrounding her relinquishment are still a bit unclear. What she does know for certain, is that her father never wanted her to be separated from her family or be adopted overseas. But his worst fears happened anyway, and against most all odds she was able to find her way…

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Season 6, Episode 19: Eric Poole and His New Hope 1:16:14

1y ago1:16:14

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Eric Poole, 55, continues his conversation in this second-part of a two-part interview. In this episode, we follow his adoption to the U.S. and adjustment in New Hope, Minnesota, where as a Black Korean boy, he felt like he traded one outsider life for another. CW: N word

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Season 6, Episode 18: Eric Poole is the Boy from Uijeongbu 59:17

1y ago59:17

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Eric Poole, 55, is a transracially adopted Black Korean who has come a long way from his early days as a mixed-race Korean child in a US military camptown in Korea. He's now a father to three kids, husband, and one of the few Black pilots in the commercial flight industry. But his success story is built on the complicated foundation of being orphan…

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Season 6, Episode 17: Karen Lechelt and Shapeshifting 1:10:10

1+ y ago1:10:10

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Karen Lechelt, 50, is a mother, wife and a returned East coaster after two decades in the San Francisco Bay area and a few years in Amsterdam in between. Their childhood in New Jersey was marked with feeling not quite fitting wherever she was, and having to always adapt themself. Because of the loss of their first family, Karen says there's always …

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Season 6, Episode 16: Megan Nyberg - Superheroes Have Feelings Too 58:28

1+ y ago58:28

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Megan Nyberg, 37, was adopted as an infant from South Korea to parents in Minnesota. But ever since her premature birth, she has struggled with medical conditions that have been constant reminders of the mystery surrounding her origins. Now a licensed therapist, Nyberg gives other grace and more recently, has started to give it to herself too.…

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Season 6, Episode 15: After Midnite - Santa Claus, Birth Parents and Other Myths 1:19:47

1+ y ago1:19:47

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Queer Korean adoptee Midnite Townsend, 38, is many things. A large part of her/their past has been as a performer; first training to enter the world of musical theater to realizing her/their real desires were better applied to the art of burlesque and drag king performance. Midnite's throughline has been a quest for authenticity - and the test of w…

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Season 6, Episode 14: Laure Badufle (Rebroadcast) Returns to Seoul 1:11:41

1+ y ago1:11:41

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Korean-born French adoptee Laure Badufle's story and search for idenity is now the subject of a new Sony Pictures film, "Return to Seoul." In December of 2021, Badufle, then 37, shared some of that story, including meeting her birth parents in her 20s. The film is now opening to more international audiences this month and is already winning accolad…

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Season 6, Episode 13: Michael Jessup and His Inner Game 1:23:42

1+ y ago1:23:42

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Michael Jessup of Mountain View, California is a father, coach and adopted Korean. But it's only been in the last six years that the 46-year old has explored his feelings about his adoption and faced his pain about being abandoned and given up by presumably his first family at 13 months of age. He opens up about his life, how tennis has carried him…

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Season 6, Episode 12: Aneyah Elmore Has a Story 1:33:54

1+ y ago1:33:54

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Reunion with biological parents can be complicated for adoptees. Relinquishment or losing a child or parent, language, and culture can be traumatic and represent lifelong grief. But whose story is it? Aneyah Elmore, 56, is a Black and Korean adoptee who is balancing the need to tell her own story and the desire of her biological mother not to. CW**…

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Season 6, Episode 11: Lisa Woolrim Sjöblom - Our Bodies Have Been in Survival Mode 1:15:21

1+ y ago1:15:21

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Lisa Woolrim Sjöblom, 45, is a Swedish Korean who was adopted at a young age from Korea and grew up in Sweden. The illustrator, comic book artist and adoptee and first families activist shares some deep personal insights about motherhood, attachment and the trauma and grief that is brought up with these life events.…

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Season 6, Episode 10: Samantha Lyons and Exploring Adoptee Identity Later in Life 1:06:59

1+ y ago1:06:59

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Samantha Kim Lyons, 41, grew up with racial mirrors unlike many other transrcial adoptees. Her late father was white; her mom is a third-generation Japanese-American. Her childhood was spent in Hawai'i and later southern California. But like other Korean adoptees, Lyons finds herself searching for deeper connection to Korea and to her adoptee ident…

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Season 6, Episode 9: Ed Pokropski is Case 84-1410 1:13:00

1+ y ago1:13:00

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Edward Pokropski, 39, of New York, NY is an adopted Korean-American who has a new one-man show out unpacking that experience. He talks about why not all audiences are comfortable laughing at jokes about adoption and how he approaches the topic while staying true to himself.

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Season 6, Episode 8: An Investigation Starts (Part 2 of 2) 35:37

1+ y ago35:37

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This is the second-half of a recent conversation with Peter Møller of the Danish Korean Rights Group. The discussion takes place on Dec. 11, 2022 (KST), just days after the Korean Truth and Reconciliation Commission decided to start an investigation on Korean adoption by examining an initial 34 cases of the more than 300 submissions. We also discus…

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Season 6, Episode 7: An Investigation Starts 55:30

1+ y ago55:30

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I sit down and talk again to Peter Møller, one of the co-founders of Danish Korean Rights Group, which has succeeded in convincing a truth commission in Korea to open an investigation into Korean adoption. The group has submitted more than 300 cases representing adopted Koreans in a number of countries, alleging false paperwork and switched identit…

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Season 6, Episode 6: Zhen E Rammelsberg and Her Puzzle Piece 1:11:40

1+ y ago1:11:40

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Zhen E Rammelsberg, 50, was adopted from Korea by a white couple in Iowa in the US. She grew up without mirrors or anyone that looked like her. It would be more than four decades later that she would finally return to her native country. But instead of being able to neatly complete her puzzle she realized the missing piece - herself - no longer fit…

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