Sullivan Summer

<p>211 | Sullivan Summer</p> <p>Today’s guest is the brilliant Sullivan Summer! Growing up as a black transracial adoptee with white adoptive parents, Sullivan was actively discouraged from identifying as black by her adoptive mother. She shares about her recent decision to change her full name as a sign of identity reclamation and we also discuss the intersection of adoption, race, and the United States’ history of slavery.</p> <h2><a href="https://www.adopteeson.com/listen/211">Full Show Notes Here</a></h2> <h2>Show Notes</h2> <hr /> <h2>Recommended Resources</h2> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/outsiders-within#:~:text=While%20transracial%20adoption%20tends%20to,fiction%2C%20poetry%2C%20and%20art"> Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption (re-release 2021) edited by Jane Jeong Trenka, Julia Chinyere Oparah, and Sun Yung Shin</a></li> <li>University of Minnesota Press podcast episodes with the editors of Outsiders Within:</li> </ul> <ol start="1"> <li><a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/55ff3edf">What society gets wrong about transracial adoption: Sun Yung Shin, Shannon Gibney, and JaeRan Kim.</a></li> <li><a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/878fac1e">Korean and Vietnamese adoptees on the intimate racialized politics of transracial adoption: Jane Jeong Trenka, Indigo Willing, and kimura byol-nathalie lemoine.</a></li> <li><a href="https://share.transistor.fm/s/d00690ad">Outsiders Within: Korean adoptees Jane Jeong Trenka and Ami Nafzger share their stories.</a></li> </ol> <ul> <li><a href= "https://www.nabsw.org/page/PositionStatements">National Association of Black Social Workers 1972 Position Statement on Transracial Adoption</a> (a direct download is available here: <a href= "https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.nabsw.org/resource/collection/E1582D77-E4CD-4104-996A-D42D08F9CA7D/NABSW_Trans-Racial_Adoption_1972_Position_(b).pdf"> https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.nabsw.org/resource/collection/E1582D77-E4CD-4104-996A-D42D08F9CA7D/NABSW_Trans-Racial_Adoption_1972_Position_(b).pdf</