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The podcast where black adoptees discuss their adoption experience and how they navigate their identities. We all have an internal need to know who we are as a person as our identity helps us to navigate the world and to know what unique about us. We all develop an identity but the process of navigating this journey can be more difficultg for adoptees in relation to early challenges they might have faced through their adoption.
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Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
Tuesday Jun 11, 2024
In this episode, Christelle Pellecuer is in conversation with Uwera Franckaerts, a transracial adoptee based in Belgium.
Uwera discussed the circumstances around her adoption from Rwanda to Belgium. She also talked about reconnecting with her birth family and discovering that her birth family never agreed to her adoption.
They also explored how reunion is extra difficult when you can't communicate with your birth family as you no longer speak the same language or share the same culture and how family perceptions and expectations can be difficult to navigate.
Uwera also shared how she navigated identity issues growing up in a white environment.
They also discussed issues around international adoption and Uwera's hopes around the adoption system.
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