Happy 2023! What a way for us to begin the new year! One of the people we most highly esteem in the adoptee community is here, JaeRan Kim Ph.D.. JaeRan is an adoptee scholar, community leader, and author of the prolific blog, Harlow’s Monkey. Today she shares some of her personal story and how she landed in critical adoption studies. She also teaches us about the brilliant new model she’s developed with several adoptee scholars to help us move beyond “out of the fog” language and instead come into Adoptee Consciousness.

Show Notes

Full episode transcript here.

Recommended Resources

Harlow’s Monkey
Out of the Fog and into Consciousness: A Model of Adoptee Awareness by Susan F. Branco, JaeRan Kim, Grace Newton, Stephanie Kripa Cooper-Lewter, and Paula O’Loughlin - download in full here: https://harlows-monkey.com/2022/06/23/coming-to-consciousness/
Adoption History Project: https://pages.uoregon.edu/adoption/ and the creator, Ellen Herman's book, Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States

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