RESSOURCES

Here, you’ll find a selection of books, blogs, podcasts, films, and documentaries I’ve encountered along the way—works primarily created by adoptees.

This space seeks to discover and amplify adoptee voices and lived experiences, and to accompany adult adoptees as they navigate their story.

BOOKS

Amanda H.L Transue-Woolston et al. Adult Adoptee Anthology. PERPETUAL CHILD, dismantling the stereotype (2013)

Amandine Gay. Une poupée en chocolat (2021)

Andrea Ross. Unnatural Selection (2021)

Angela Tucker. You should be grateful. Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption (2019)

Ann Fessler. The Girls Who Went Away. The hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decade before Row v. Wade(2006)

Anne Heffron. Truth and Agency: Writing Ideas for Adopted People (2024)

Anne Heffron. You don’t look adopted (2016) 

Barbara Sumner. Tree of Strangers (2020)

Betty Jean Lifton. Journey of the Adopted Self. A Quest for Wholeness (1994)

Betty Jean Lifton. Lost & found. The Adoption Experience (1979)

Betty Jean Lifton. Twice born. Memoirs of an adopted daughter (1975)

Cameroun Lee Small. The Adoptees journeys (2024)

Heidi Marble et Alysa Salma Md. Pulled by the root (2024)

Jean Beatty. American Bastard, a memoir (2019)

Jenny Heijun Wills. Older Sisters. Not necessarily related (2021)

Jung-Sik Jun. Couleur de peau: Miel (2007)

Jung et Laëticia Marty. Destins Coréens (2025)

Louis-Daniel Godin. Le compte est bon (2023)

Lucie Bourdeau. Les Retrouvailles en adoption. Une quête de soi (2014)

Manuelle Alix-Surprenant et Renaud Vinet-Houle.  La couleur de l’adoption (2018)

Nicole Chung et Shannon Gibson. When we become Ours. A YA Adoptee Anthology (2023)

Nicole Chung. All you can ever know (2018)

Patrice Godin. Toutes les vies possibles. Carnets minimalistes (2021)

Phara Thibault. Chokola. Monologue autobiographique (2021)

Rebecca MaKonnen. Dans mon sang (2024)

Sara Docan-Morgan. In Reunion (2024)

Shannon Gibney, Nicole Chung et al. When We Become Ours. A YA Adoptee Anthology (2024)

Susan Kiyo Ito. I would meet you anywhere (2023)

Tanguay, Renée. Retrouvailles. Sous le sceau du secret (2025)

PODCASTS

Adapted Podcast: https://adaptedpodcast.com/

Adopted Feels: https://www.adoptedfeels.com/

Adoptees-on:  https://www.adopteeson.com/

Adoption, The Making of Me: https://www.adoptionthemakingofme.com/

Because She’s Adopted Podcast. https://kristalparke.net/because-shes-adopted/

CutOff Genes: https://cutoffgenes.libsyn.com/

Origines: de l’adoption aux retrouvailles
https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/balados/12845/origines-adoption-famille-parent-biologique#:~:text=Origines%20plonge%20dans%20des%20histoires,%2DGuy%2C%20Matthieu%20et%20Dani%C3%A8le

D’un destin à l’autre, 6 portraits d’adoption: https://ici.radio-canada.ca/ohdio/premiere/grandes-series/6665/adoption-joselito-michaud-enfants-parcours

Déconstruire les mythes: https://coconadoption.ca/a-propos/balados/

La vie qu’on s’est faite : des histoires d’adoption: https://coconadoption.ca/a-propos/balados/?utm_source=fb&utm_medium=cocon&utm_campaign=publicationlancement

Loin des yeux, près du cœur: https://soundcloud.com/mouvement-retrouvailles

Retrouver ses origines:
https://www.crave.ca/fr/series/retracer-ses-origines-55490

The Adoptee Next Door: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-adoptee-next-door/id1525068563

The Janchi Show: https://janchishow.com/

Thriving Adoptees: https://www.thrivingadoptees.com/podcast

Who Am I Really Podcast: https://whoamireallypodcast.com/

Adopt Perspective. Jigsaw Queensland: https://www.jigsawqueensland.com/podcast