Dr. Abigail Hasberry, a transracially adopted person and birthmother, sat down with us today to talk about her memoir, Adopting Privilege: A Memoir of Reinventing my Adoptee Narrative, which was released on February 18th, 2025. Through the lens of memoir, Dr. Hasberry takes a deep-dive into adoptee experience in transracial adoption, the adoption industry, and ultimately, how she found growth and healing.
Meet this year's Create! Birthparent Arts Grant winner, Sydney S., who combined artistic creativity with entrepreneurship, using her art to solve a real-world problem. Buying Birthday, Mother's Day, and other holiday cards can be a real challenge for adoption constellation members, because the pre-written greetings often don't match our relationships or experiences. Sydney developed a line of greeting cards specifically for those relationships, giving adoptive parents, adopted people, and birthparents new ways to connect through cards and messages created especially for them.
We sit down with Activism in Adoption speaker Dr. Maxine Bryant, to talk about her new book, Finding Peoples, A Family’s Journey Through Six Decades of Separation and Hope, which she wrote with her biological siblings. This book offers a unique and intimate look at adoption from dual perspectives: Maxine's story, as an adopted person, and the stories of her biological siblings, who watched her go. It is incredibly rare to hear an adoption story told by both biological family and adoptee, and those voices together make for a powerful and memorable read.
Shared Journeys has put together a comprehensive, state-by-state resource list for anyone currently struggling with food insecurity. Please use this if you need it, and send the link to anyone you know who may be struggling right now and in need of help.
As we wrap up 2024, we take a look back at what we've accomplished, the milestones the birthparents we serve have achieved, and look ahead to 2025, when we are pioneering an innovative new program to assess and treat PMAD in birthparents - the first program of it's kind.
