Today’s guest is Sanjay Pulver, an Indian adoptee who has become an outspoken adoptee advocate in recent years. We talk about the complexities of being adopted from an orphanage in a country that is not currently safe for him to return to as a queer trans man. We discuss the intersections between being transnationally and transracially adopted with being a trans person and Sanjay also shares about his experience with somatic therapy.

Show Notes

Full episode transcript here.

Recommended Resources

Torn Apart - a podcast by Dorothy Roberts
Check Sanjay out on these panels:
- Adoption Mosaic We the Experts: Twins (December 2023) and Transgender and Nonbinary Adoptees (May 2022)
- Adoptees United - Rainbow Adoptees: The Intersection of Queerness and Adoption
Sandra Steingraber, Ph.D. - episode 240 of Adoptees On
Rescripting the Narrative - a podcast by Lina Vanegas, MSW and Sol Yaku
Adult Adoptee Movement - “a group of UK adoptees, challenging attitudes to historic adoptions, striving to change the narrative on adoption.”

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