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Dialogues With Adoptees: The unrestrained expansion of ‘child exports’ during 1980s
Full title: Dialogues With Adoptees: The unrestrained expansion of ‘child exports’ during 1980s authoritarian period Reposted from The...
Dr. Kyung-eun Lee
Apr 14, 2022


Food: Truly colorblind glue
As I walked the streets in the Asian part of Rome near Termini Station, the Asian stores were mostly empty, perhaps as a result of COVID...
OSH
Apr 13, 2022


Poems
Nothing What can you do when there’s nothing to do The sun shines bright and the sky so blue Yet sitting inside thinking of you It seems...

Lauren Kofalt
Apr 10, 2022


Musings of a Middle-aged Matriarch: My face does not match me — a six-word memoir
Moon face. I have a really big, round moon face. I never really considered my face until the boys at school wanted to point out that my...

Heather Lewis
Apr 7, 2022


My Thoughts on Adoption: From an Asian American woman without children
I had always dreamed of having children. I grew up in a big family with lots of siblings, relatives, and cousins. There were so many...

Samantha Der
Apr 6, 2022


Dialogues With Adoptees: The failure of adoption system
Reposted from The Korea Times This is the 14th article of the series on Korea’s policies on adoption. The history of the politics of...
Dr. Kyung-eun Lee
Apr 3, 2022


Dialogues With Adoptees: The systematization of ‘child exports’ for economic and political aims
Reposted from The Korea Times This is the 13th article in an adoption series. Some adoptees have echoed the previous article’s question,...
Dr. Kyung-eun Lee
Mar 29, 2022


The Price of a DNA Test
The Korean Consulate sits on a busy roundabout in the Dupont Circle area of Washington, D.C. It is indistinguishable from the surrounding...

Cynthia Landesberg
Mar 27, 2022


'Everything, Everywhere All at Once'
Warning: possible spoilers ahead! Available in cinemas on March 25th On behalf of The Universal Asian, I had the privilege of attending...

Ella Wu
Mar 24, 2022
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