🗞️"What I mean to say is, you cannot take a small dark child into your home, remove them from their blood, then expect them to naturally thrive. Expect them to forget. This shit is deep."

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Coming out of the fog?
#adopteevoices #adoption #transracialadoptee

Corey Goldwaves | Substack A talented black musician adoptee, healing the trauma of being raised in an all white community.

Follow me on Substack for my non-music commentary on my life. substack.com/@coreygoldwa... #adoptee #transracialadoptee #substack

Book launch announcement for 'CEKPA: A Memoir in Beaded Essays' by Leah Altman on November 11, 2025, 6 PM, at Literary Arts, Portland, OR. The design includes decorative bead patterns and a grid background with blue spiders.

From buried cekpas to reconnected kinships, join us in celebrating CEKPA: A MEMOIR IN BEADED ESSAYS, a lyrical memoir of rediscovery, healing, and motherhood.

#CEKPA #BeadedMemoir #NativeWriters #TransracialAdoptee #LeahAltman #IndigenousLiterature #EssayCollection #MemoirRelease

My transracial adoptee story as the only black person in an all white community and schools.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNhC...

#adoption #adoptionisgrief #adoptiontrauma #myadoptionstory #adopteevoices #mentalhealth #adultadoptee #transracialadoptee #RacismStillExists

A reflective piano piece about an adopted person meeting his biological siblings after 20 years. (True story) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvKi... #piano #transracialadoptee #adopteevoices #adopted #mentalhealth

Book cover design for "CEKPĄ: A Memoir in Beaded Essays" by Leah Altman, set against a pink background with intricate beaded patterns. The book release date is November 11, 2025.

My story is stitched with memory.
Each essay in CEKPA is a bead—sharp, beautiful, necessary.
🧵 CEKPA: A MEMOIR IN BEADED ESSAYS
📚 By Leah Altman
🗓️ Coming November 11, 2025
🌐 Preorder now
#CEKPA #BeadedMemoir #NativeWriters #TransracialAdoptee #LeahAltman #IndigenousLiterature #EssayCollection

This isn’t just a memoir—it’s a reclamation.

🌿 CEKPA: A MEMOIR IN BEADED ESSAYS weaves together stories of displacement and return, beading memory back together one essay at a time.

#CEKPA #BeadedEssays #IndigenousAuthor #TransracialAdoptee #MemoirRelease #LeahAltmanWrites #OwnVoices

Geometric border on top and bottom of image. Cekpa book cover on the left of the image. Book title within arrow word bubble, "Cekpa: A Memoir In Beaded Essays". Author name within arrow word bubble, "Leah Altman". Release date in geometric word bubble, Coming November 11, 2025"

"I needed my children to know where we came from—so I wrote it down.”
Leah Altman weaves together the search for family, belonging, and identity, into essays that capture personal and universal struggles.
#ComingSoon #IndigenousMemoir #NativeVoices #Bookstagram #TransracialAdoptee

#adopteesky #adoptionistrauma #transracialadoption #transracialadoptee #adoptionisanadversechildhoodexperience #suicidepostvention #socialwork #adoptionrecovery

Working at a #fatherhoodsupport program as a #Blackwoman, #researcher, #socialworker and #transracialadoptee is… rewriting me.
This job is healing me. Breaking me open. Teaching me things no degree ever did. A thread:

The first thing people see is colour.

I hate that whenever I meet someone new, I have explain that I can perfectly speak in the local dialect despite my brown skin.

And then I have to explain my #adoption to someone's who is essentially a stranger.

#transracial #transracialadoptee #adopteevoices

#asianamericanartists #koreanamerican #transracialadoptee #internationaladoptee #koreanart

My act of resistance today. Openly wearing my trans flag color tie-dye shirt for my pics used in the application to update my citizenship certificate. #transman #protecttranslives #resist #intercountryadoptee #adopteevoices #queer #immigrant #transracialadoptee #IndianAdoptee #FtM #IamACitizen

My bio dad has seemingly dropped off the face of the Earth after I met with him a couple times. It is what it is. 🤷🏿‍♂️ #TransracialAdoptee #Adoption

Epistemic trauma and transracial adoption: Author(iz)ing folkways of knowledge and healing

#TransracialAdoptee
#Adoption
#epistemicinjustice
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35277292/

HAPPY 13TH ADOPTION DAY TO ME!!! THIRTEEN!! Currently sobbing. Done a lot of things differently this whole year. I'm so fucking proud of me.
#keepshowingup #grateful #manifest #peace #adoptionday2024 #unapologetic #adoption #transracialadoptee #VoicesOfAdoptionProject