Adapted Podcast Kaomi Lee
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- Society & Culture
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This is one of the pioneering podcasts on intercountry adoptees. Started in 2016, Adapted Podcast has interviewed more than 130 Korean intercountry adoptees on their lived experiences. The podcast started as a Fulbright research project in Korea and has been now downloaded more than 100,000 times around the world.
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Season 7, Episode 19: Kit Myers - Ghostly Kinship
Kit Myers, 42, is a transracial Hong Kong adoptee and assistant professor in the Department of History & Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Merced. In this interview, we talk about Myers' search for his birth mother and feelings he's had of having a 'ghostly' or ambiguous kinship with someone he doesn't know. We also talk about his upcoming imprint, " Violence of Love, Race, Adoption and Family in the United States."
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Season 7, Episode 18: Nik Nadeau - Meeting My Birth Mother 2
I continue the conversation with Nik Nadeau, 36, a Korean adoptee who is in reunion with his Korean birth mother. He is a secret, unable to meet his half-siblings who are also in their 30s, or be acknowledged by his mother, publicly. His relationship with his mother is qualified by language barriers, time and mutual grief, and love. We start off this episode with Nadeau recalling the experience of when he first introduced his then-girlfriend, a bilingual Korean-American, to his Korean mother.
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Season 7, Episode 17: Nik Nadeau - Meeting My Birth Mother
Nik Nadeau, 36, met his Korean birth mother 14 years ago. In this episode, he talks about his creative writing process and about how he's unlocked feelings about the reunion and his own identity as a transnational adopted person.
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Season 7, Episode 16: Yukyeong Kim and Banet
Leader Yukyeong Kim and her group of neighbors and friends in Korea have been quietly and determinedly helping adoptees search for their biological family since 2018. I sit down with Kim to find out more about how the group got started and how their willingness to make a simple phone call has often times had surprising results.
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Season 7, Episode 15: JaeHee Chung-Sherman - You Don't Have to Be Resilient
Dr. JaeHee Chung-Sherman, DSW, LCSW, has centered her practice and research on decolonizing adoption and mental health for transracial and international adoptees. A transracial, transnational adoptee herself, Chung-Sherman, 47, has been among the first co-hort of TRIA therapists to do this work. She talks about narcissistic colonial adopt systems, and why she ultimately has decided to move on from private practice.
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Season 7, Episode 14: Leading an Adoptee Organization
Mia Quade Kristensen, 46, and Jannie Jung Westermann, 45, are on the board of the 34-year old Danish Korean adoptee organization, Korea Klubben. They will share about their own search and reunion stories, including one of them being in reunion with her Korean family for more than two decades. The women will also share about their community in Denmark and what is needed for the future. Besides the US and Korea, Denmark is the third most-downloaded country for the podcast.
Audio is available on Friday, March 15, 2024.
Customer Reviews
Sister of Korean Adoptee
As the sister of a Korean adoptee this podcast has really helped me understand the nuance and complexity of feelings around transracial adoption. There’s such a variety of experiences and perspectives to draw on. I’m really sad that I discovered it during season 6 and it’s now coming to an end.
Phenomenal
Love the work and passion put into this by telling REAL stories about Korean American adoptees. There is something to learn and love about with each episode and can’t wait to listen to it all and for more to come! Great work
Beautiful stories
I’ve been listening to Adapted for over two years and it has been a welcome friend during my own adoption journey. I find solace in hearing unique but familiar experiences, and feel encouraged that so many adoptees are sharing their experiences.