Today’s guest is Dr. Sandra Steingraber, a public health biologist and climate crisis expert. Sandra shares some of her personal story with us, and then the importance of knowing the interactions of both our biology and our adoptive environments on our health. As a gay woman who came out later in life, Sandra now helps facilitate a Queer Adoptee support group and we talk about the intersections and conflicts she sees between the LGBTQ community and the adoptee rights community. We’ve talked before about the upstream issues causing adoption to continue, but have you ever thought of how the climate crisis may be impacting family separation? Dr. Steingraber will explain!

Show Notes

Full episode transcript here.

Recommended Resources

Always Knew I Was Adopted; Just Found Out I’m Gay By Sandra Steingraber
Books by Dr. Steingraber:
- Post-Diagnosis
- Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment
- Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood
- The Falling Age of Puberty in U.S. Girls: What We Know, what We Need to Know
- Raising Elijah: Protecting Our Children in an Age of Environmental Crisis
Living Downstream - documentary and Unfractured - documentary
AdopteeReading.com
Growing in the Dark by Janine M. Baer

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