In honor of transracial adopted people whose voices are not properly heard. For those who lived silenced and took their lives due to the complexities of race, gratitude, and identity. Your legacy remains. Your deaths were not in vain. — Who is Colin Kaepernick? Colin Kaepernick is a person who beat the odds. It is not his football career that causes me to say this. It is merely him being alive and thriving.

A lifetime that never was now lives in me. I never had a Korean Umma make comfort food for me. She never came to my side to make me Tteokbokki. It didn’t come to me. Not with extra rice cakes. Not with melted cheese. When I was 20 something I had it and later in my early 30s I…

Artwork by Cristina Rago, “Liberated” This is the body that came to America and struggled in a lily white world. This is the body that contains the soul which carries residual trauma of her birth mother. This is the body that feels language in her bones as memory and pain…

White Woman Privileges in Interracial Friendship Whenever I pick up my son at school, his friend’s mom and I make it a point to find one another. We’re not just friends because our kids go to school together. We have been good friends for years, and were even pregnant together…

Courageous survivors like Casandra Ventura (ie Fine) help educate womxn on lesser known statutes to access justice via civil lawsuits Access the lawsuit documents here. The same law in New York, The Gender Violence Act, that acted as a catalyst and cause of action for survivor Casandra Ventura (Cassie) to…

What will it take to restore communities of color? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Za4Q3hCi3yM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XZS8wPJlzGg It is time to tax the ultra Rich and hold the city of Chicago accountable until they restore and repair the harm that was created long before the Migrant Crisis. It is clear that all Communities of color have had about enough. We are in solidarity about this…

In a spirit of Restorative Justice As a child, my father made a sabbatical trip to Israel/Palestine. He went to Jerusalem. For Christians, this is also a holy city. He went to the wailing wall (Buraq) and prayed. …

I work between the immigrant and Black American communities (yes there are often intersections). I’m an LSW and a DOJ. It’s been challenging to drive past the CPD on the West Side and see migrants at the station in this moment of crisis. It is demoralizing to see human beings…

A letter to my adoptive parents Dear Mom and Dad, I’ve worked with people wanting to become United States citizens for a decent amount of time now. While there is a diversity in everyone’s cases, I’ve also come across a lot of sad adoption stories. …