![]() ![]() Orange Peel Pocket – lewis – her name is “chan Ming” – her parents call her orange peel becuase they can’t pronounce her name? they claim they call her that because she tried to eat the orange peel when she was little and some of this reeks of white supremacy seeing cultures unfamiliar with new things as ignorant and humiliating. Straight up racism – Othering, objectification & fetishizing the symbolism of seeing the sweater get ripped and shredded was for her experience I guess? author is adoptive/foster mother, but her bio is SUPER problematic, talking about how she wished she had been switched at birth and fantasized about being adopted. not particularly interesting for non-foster/adoptive kids. but the ending felt very tight and fairytale-like as if things were magically solved once she was adopted. it does validate some feelings kids in foster care have, like not wanting to let go of first families, sneaking food, worrying she’ll be given up. the sweater is symbolic of her old life and connection to her first parents, but she gets adopted, sees her foster brothers adopted into other families and she kind of just swaps into a new sweater, which she hands down to her own child when she grows up. not bad and validating / destigmatizing for kids in foster care. Speranza’s sweater – pusey – foster families, mother tells the story from the perspective of a narrator telling a once upon a time story, but it’s about her (which is odd). It’s like giving permission for international kidnapping and trauma and victimization, so long as these children are adopted by nice white people. Does my birth mother’s hair stick up like mine? Is my birth father a good reader like me? One thing I know for sure is that they wanted me to have a family to love - and I sure do!” Except no… in many cases these first parents wanted to keep her. Later, at least she wonders about her first family “sometimes I wonder about my birth parents. ![]() It was time to go meet me!” The only pre adoption story she gets is “once I told Jeffrey I flew to my parents on a spaceship, just like a superhero.” Way to sanitize trauma for easy consumption. They had to wait and wait.” (This last sentence irks me the most – their feeelings!!!) “ but they were so excited about me that they found lots of ways to keep busy. So they asked an adoption counselor to help them find a child. “ My mom and dad really wanted a child to love, and they looked forward to the day thy would become parents. 6 pages of her family’s pre adoption narrative before she joins the family. Even though this one is narrated by the girl, the story STILL centers on her parents – their POV before adoption and none of her own or her family of origin. She looks like a wierd alien, which whatever, Carlson is a shitty artist anyway and her people are blehhh putty monsters. When the white people smile they get slit eyes but not once does this girl open her eyes. My family is forever – Carlson – Can we talk about how Nancy’s Lack of intersectionality really pains me when I like her other books? transracial adoption white saviors.
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