Dr. Atamhi Cawayu was born in Bolivia and adopted to Belgium. In 2023, he earned his PhD in Gender and Diversity Studies from Ghent University. Dr. Cawayu’s academic work centers on childhood and child protection, with specific interests in transnational adoption and the right to live in a family...

Kirsta Bowman, an adopted person well-known on social media for her thoughtful and nuanced videos discussing the adoption landscape, joins us to discuss her research into unethical rehoming practices on social media. Unregulated custody transfer, often referred to as “rehoming,” is the practice o...

While reflecting on her theater piece, Placing Home, which centers birthmother stories, adoptive mother Katy Finn unpacks the powerful role adoptive mothers can play in shifting the pervasive adoption narrative. Katy’s talk centers around three questions: What role does the adoptive mother play i...

Bethany Fraser is a transacially adopted person and host of the podcast, The Adoptee Diaries: Truth, Trust, and Transparency. Bethany always knew she was adopted, but it wasn’t until she did a home DNA kit that she learned some stunning secrets about her origins, including the discovery that she ...