ISSUE 3
FEATURE INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION REFORM
Feature Editor: Kevin Minh Allen
Transnational Adoption and the “Financialization of Everything”
BY JANE JEONG TRENKA
Jane Jeong Trenka, a Korean adoptee, forms a small policy institute with a big mission: to make transnational adoption ethical.
The Price We All Pay: Human Trafficking in International Adoption
BY KEVIN MINH ALLEN
Kevin Minh Allen, a Vietnamese adoptee, explores ways to address adoption human trafficking. These include, but are not limited to, having the U.S. government sign the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and diverting funds away from the adoption industry and into worthwhile child welfare programs in the home countries.
Video Blog: Daughter from Danang
EDITORIAL International Adoption and the Fight for Human Rights
BY HILBRAND W.S. WESTRA
Hilbrand Westra lays out how international law can help us fight child trafficking.
EDITORIAL Trading in Babies
BY SO YUNG KIM
Writer, activist, and adoptee filmmaker So Yung Kim recommends reorganizing the transnational adoption industry in order to protect the rights of children. Domestic and international adoptees are already coming together to discuss options and partner on policy issues. Kim also proposes more coalition building between adoptee groups and other collectives fighting for the basic rights of all people.
INTERNATIONAL ADOPTION Child Protection or a Breach of Rights?
BY ROELIE POST
Author Roelie Post wants to distance herself from pro and anti-adoption labels and direct the discussion back to the heart of the matter: whether intercountry adoption is a child protection measure, if children have rights in their own country, and if intercountry adoption is ultimately a breach of such rights?
TRANSRACIAL ADOPTION Some Visions I Have Seen…
BY SHANNON GIBNEY
What would a world look like in which women and communities are empowered to care for their newborns? Author activist and mixed-African American adoptee Shannon Gibney lays out her vision for such a world. Through her work Gibney has been building coalitions with the international adoptee movement. These coalitions offer spaces for adoptees to dialogue and use the power of writing, art, and education to begin the process of making the type of world envisioned by Gibney and so many adoptees like her into reality.
Departments
JUSTICE CALLING BY HEATHER TIRADO GILLIGAN
The Opposite of Obama
ACADEMIA AND RACE Why academia needs a change to truly be a progressive institution
Video Blog Henry Louis Gates Jr. discusses DNA lineage on the Colbert Report
THINK TANK
TRANS HEALTH CARE FROM It’s About Life and Death
BY ELEANOR J. BADER
People that do not line up neatly as male or female face social ostracization, as well as outright hostility or violence. For transsexuals, trying to access health care can be an impossible ordeal, and can result in being denied assistance by medical professionals, or being written off as having psychological issues. Writer Eleanor Bader looks at one facility, the Feminist Women’s Health Center in Atlanta, that decided to break this trend.
SPACE STYLE DIALOGUES
Fall 2009 Menswear Trend
BY L.A. CORRALEZ
Many of us would like to be green and socially responsible shoppers, but it can be hard to know which labels are really practicing these values, and which are taking it on like a fad. L.A. Corralez helps out.
Feminist Art: An Interview with Elizabeth Sackler
BY LINDA STEIN
Despite the large numbers of female art students and artists, artistic venues are slim for women and feminist art. Public historian Elizabeth Sackler decided to change this, establishing the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art in the Brooklyn Museum.
BENEFICIAL PEOPLE
Interview With Solar Power Entrepreneur Jeremy Legget
BY CHRISTINE SHEARER
Read interview with environmentalist Jeremy Leggett author of The Empty Tank, Half Gone, and the Carbon War.
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