Two adoption-related stories from this week...

[as_alas_i_was]

Probably I'm the only one interested in this, but two stories written by adoptive parents (or prospective adopters): This good story by Jen Graves from the Seattle free-weekly The Stranger, "Black Kids in White Houses", and this much more problematical one on "gestational surrogacy" entitled "Her Body, My Baby" by Alex Kuczynski (esp. check out

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[theorybitch]

Have you read David Eng on transnational adoption and racial melancholia? I really like his stuff.

[as_alas_i_was]

Yes! I like his stuff, too. There's getting to be a lot of really excellent writing/theorizing/research about transracial adoption--Dorothy Roberts, Laura Briggs, Sarah Dorow, Julia Sudbury/Chinyere Oparah, John Raible, Lisa Rollins, Kim Park Nelson, Jae Ran Kim, etc. etc.