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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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Saturday Jul 27, 2024
Saturday Jul 27, 2024
In this episode, Christelle Pellecuer is in conversation with Sequoijior Bateman-Wilkes.
Sequoijior talked about his adoption and how it has affected his childhood and his teenagehood when he spent time in juvenile hall and joined a gang to find a sense of belonging, a sense of family and trying to find himself.
He shared his reunion with his biological family and how writing, poetry and music saved his life.
He also talked about his current relationships with adoptive mother and birth family as well as changing his name back to his birth family name.
Content warning: mention of molestation from 19min30 to 20min25; talk of abuse from 20min40 to 21min40 and discussion of prostitution, rape and incest 33min00 to 35min00
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