Today’s guest is Angela Tucker, one of the most well-known adopted people in our community, subject of the documentary Closure, now turned author of You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption. Angela shares about her time as a caseworker in private adoption, and about the difficulties of balancing the tightrope act of critiquing adoption and still being invited back into adoption spaces. We also chat about how the subject of adoption shows up in Hollywood storylines is slowly evolving.

Show Notes

Full episode transcript here.

Recommended Resources

Robert Ballard: Narrative Burden
"You Should Be Grateful" Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption By Angela Tucker

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