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“Nobody Wants to Adopt a Black Boy”: Racism and Bias in the Adoption World
By Teesta Bhola-Shah For many families, adoption is presented as a beautiful, uncomplicated story about love. But for my own mother, Devi Bhola, the adoption process revealed something far more uncomfortable: a system deeply shaped by racism, like many things in our society. During a candid interview about our family’s experience adopting my younger brother,…
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A Mosquito in the Ear: One Family’s Honest Adoption Story through a Graphic Novel
For Andrea Ferraris, adoption has had a huge impact on his life. In his graphic novel A Mosquito in the Ear, the Italian author captures how that single word changed his familiar world, pulling him and his wife Daniela into a long, uncertain journey filled with paperwork and waiting for a child they had yet…
