My name is Folasade Badetito. My names are Yoruba because I am a first generation Nigerian American. My parents emigrated to the USA in the early ’80s and subsequently birthed me. And then they were deported when I was 6. So I was raised by my aunts and uncles and moved around often. Growing up...
Indigenous Kazakh author explains that Kazakhstan is NOT Borat. She walks us through history, culture, food, and her own life journey through and out of the country.
Most people have baby photos taken in the hospital when they were born. The parents look sweaty, exhausted, but happy, with an infant swaddled in their arms. I don’t have hospital photos. I have airport photos. I’m what you’d call a “transracial adoptee.” And no, not “transracial” like that Rachel Dolezal nonsense. “Transracial adoptee” means...