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Non-Profit Support Needed!! Black Adoptee and Foster Care Organization
Call for Volunteers – Please pass on to students or other folks you know would be interested in our work! AFAAD — Adopted and Fostered Adults of the African Diaspora is looking for qualifi… more →
A Birth Project
Non-Profit Support Needed!! Black Adoptee and Foster Care Organization
Lisa Marie wrote 5 months ago: Call for Volunteers – Please pass on to students or other folks you know would be interested i … more →
Towards a Sustainable Transracial Adoptee Movement
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Lisa Marie wrote 7 months ago: I’m headed to the Pedagogy & Theater of the Oppressed conference in MN this weekend! I … more →
African Diaspora Adoptee Identity
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Lisa Marie wrote 1 year ago: Reprinted from an article I wrote for Pact’s newsletter in 08. Question: I recently met an Afr … more →
AFAAD Bay Area Drinks and Dinner Dec 7th
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Lisa Marie wrote 2 years ago: Adopted and Fostered Adults of the African Diaspora – AFAAD dinner. Its time for another AFAAD … more →
Russian Black Adoptee
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Lisa Marie wrote 2 years ago: We just keep comin out the woodworks. Whoa. ummm. Damn. (in my best Wil Smith voice) Can anybody con … more →
Russian Black Adoptee
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Lisa Marie wrote 2 years ago: We just keep comin out the woodworks. Whoa. ummm. Damn. (in my best Wil Smith voice) Can anybody con … more →
AFAAD Film Event Fundraiser
Lisa Marie wrote 2 years ago: Shameless plug for AFAAD Fundraiser! Please Support! AFAAD has teamed up with the The African /Afric … more →
Multi-Racial vs. Multi-Culti
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Lisa Marie wrote 2 years ago: Lately it seems to me that people continue to confuse the term “multi-racial” and use it … more →
Teaching Black Culture
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Lisa Marie wrote 3 years ago: A bit ago, I spoke with an AP who was very concerned about his ability to ‘teach’ black … more →
Madonna Madness
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Lisa Marie wrote 3 years ago: (sigh) Here’s an article about Mr. Banda, the baby’s father. I cant even respond to this … more →
Things My Black Friends dont know
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Lisa Marie wrote 3 years ago: Let me start off my saying – this is NOT an opportunity for all the AP’s or other well-m … more →
NYTimes Article - Black Babies
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Lisa Marie wrote 3 years ago: Thanks to Julia for this one. New Article today in the NY Times, “Breaking Through Adoptions R … more →
Copper Rose
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Lisa Marie wrote 3 years ago: she is stark blue in her school uniform starched and clipped tight class picture day she is all bu … more →
Welcome to the Birth Project!
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Lisa Marie wrote 4 years ago: Greetings all! This blog will do nothing but attend to the work of finding my birth parents. Its a b … more →
Birthdaze
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Lisa Marie wrote 3 years ago: I got a card from G*** for my bday and I've been recieving emails from her as well. The birthday … more →
Dreams and Genealogy
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Lisa Marie wrote 3 years ago: "I have made it my task to reconstruct the text of a family with contextual clues, and my inten … more →
First Contact - Found Birth Mother - Not BF
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Lisa Marie wrote 3 years ago: Spoke to the birth mother last night for about 50 minutes. I'm still reeling a bit, but what I … more →
For the Record:
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Lisa Marie wrote 4 years ago: Dear Adoptive Parents of African American, Black, mixed-Race children - unless you are involved in a … more →
Ungrateful Daughter Show
Lisa Marie wrote 4 years ago: WOW! last night was the premiere of my work in progress "Ungrateful Daughter" at Off-Marke … more →
