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🗓️ 29 December 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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In our final Advent episode of the Be the Bridge Podcast, Gina from the Be the Bridge team talks with Counselor, Advocate, TEDx Speaker, and Author of The Adoptee's Journey Cam Lee Small. They delve into the complexities of love within the context of adoption. They discuss how love is often oversimplified in adoption narratives, masking the deeper issues of loss, trauma, and identity struggles faced by adoptees.
Cam shares his insights as both an adoptee and a licensed counselor, emphasizing the importance of humanizing the adoptee experience and validating their feelings. The conversation also explores the systemic issues surrounding adoption and the need for activism and collective responsibility to address these injustices. They remind listeners that love must be accompanied by justice to be truly meaningful.
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Host & Executive Producer - Latasha Morrison
Producer - Sarah Connatser
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0:00.0 | Welcome to the Be the Bridge podcast. Be The Bridge exists to empower people and culture toward racial healing, equity, and reconciliation. |
0:13.0 | Latasha Morrison founded Be The Bridge in 2016 to foster needed dialogue and brave spaces and to give people the tools to pursue racial justice. |
0:24.0 | We provide resources and community to do just that. And this podcast is one of those resources. |
0:30.3 | You'll hear interviews hosted by Latasha and our team, conversations about current events, and encouragement for your racial literacy journey. |
0:38.9 | Thank you for listening, subscribing, and engaging in this important work. |
0:45.9 | Hey everyone, thank you for joining us on the Be the Bridge podcast. My name is Gina, and today we're |
0:53.9 | going to continue our Advent journey, |
0:56.4 | and this week's focus is on love. But as we reflect on love, it's important to recognize |
1:02.5 | how love has been used to mask the deeper complexities and systemic issues within the system |
1:09.6 | of adoption. |
1:17.1 | Love is often presented as the solution to everything, yet we know that love alone cannot heal the loss, trauma, and identity struggles that many adoptees face. |
1:23.3 | This week, we're digging into what it truly means to love in a way that acknowledges and addresses these realities. |
1:31.3 | Adoption is often framed as an act of love, but this narrative can oversimplify the experience, ignoring the adopte's loss, and it has the potential for a savior dynamic. |
1:43.3 | And so, first and foremost, before we dive into this conversation, I just want to acknowledge |
1:48.4 | where I'm coming from. |
1:50.4 | I am a white adoptive parent. |
1:52.8 | Sure, I'm other things too. |
1:54.5 | I'm Appalachian. |
1:55.7 | I'm a daughter, wife, mother. |
1:57.0 | But I think especially in this conversation, it's important for me to socially locate |
2:01.8 | myself within this system and just acknowledge that being a white adopted parent shapes the way |
2:08.2 | that I see adoption and race. And so I'm so excited to introduce our guest on today's podcast. |
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