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		<title>Guest Podcast on LGA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know it&#8217;s been quiet around here lately&#8230;but that&#8217;s certainly not because of a lack of thoughts around adoption.  I&#8217;ve been helping with Adoption Mosaic&#8217;s Youth Adoptee Travel Group, planning a new full spectrum doula organization (more exciting news on that soon!), and taking pre-requisite classes for OHSU&#8217;s nurse-midwifery program.  Oh, and still working as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younsoohee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15144492&amp;post=235&amp;subd=younsoohee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>{On My Mind&#8230;}</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 15:00:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Should Adoptive Parents Search for their Adopted Children&#8217;s Birth Families? I have mixed feelings about this post&#8230;still trying to sort through them.  And, I&#8217;m not at all surprised that the comment I had submitted was not actually published.  Good lesson learned&#8211;write your comments down somewhere else first, then post.  Unfortunately, they&#8217;re lost in the pit [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younsoohee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15144492&amp;post=230&amp;subd=younsoohee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 17:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lena Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Heading out today to the 5th Annual Adoption Fair, hosted by COAA. Partly to volunteer at the Adoption Mosaic Table, but also to meet other adoption agencies and get the word out about a new full spectrum doula venture a friend and I are starting. This post, short and sweet, about the ways in which [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younsoohee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15144492&amp;post=225&amp;subd=younsoohee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>{On My Mind&#8230;}</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 15:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lena Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chinese Adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Land of Gazillion Adoptees Podcast with Lisa Marie Rollins&#8230;Great conversation with Lisa Marie, hosted by Kevin  Ost-Vollmers.  Lisa is an African-American adoptee, and in addition to being a PhD student, is an artist, playwright and adoptee activist.  In this podcast she shares her journey in exploring her identity and theorizing on adoption and the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younsoohee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15144492&amp;post=184&amp;subd=younsoohee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Map of [International] Adoption Ethics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 06:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lena Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[personal reflection]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a fascinating map, and an extensive, two and a half part post&#8230;but well worth the read. This may be one of the most explicitly clear break-downs of the Land of Adoption Ethics that I&#8217;ve read in the blogging world so far.   It&#8217;s one of the first places online where I&#8217;ve seen an adoptive [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younsoohee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15144492&amp;post=213&amp;subd=younsoohee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Secrecy</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lena Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tonight I watched Donor Unknown, a documentary about donor insemination.  I find the ethical parallels between adoption and donor insemination fascinating.  While the film was focused more on the individual stories, it also explored the culture of cryobanks and their motivations&#8211;which I think should be a film unto itself. On the documentary website you can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younsoohee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15144492&amp;post=182&amp;subd=younsoohee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Still Happening</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lena Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Native American Adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another installation of a year-long NPR investigation on the high rates of Native American children in the foster care system in South Dakota. Years ago, thousands of Native American children were forcibly removed from their homes and sent to boarding schools, where the motto by its founder was &#8220;Kill the Indian, Save the Man.&#8221; Children [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younsoohee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15144492&amp;post=176&amp;subd=younsoohee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Adoption as Trauma?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:43:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lena Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oh, boy. I don&#8217;t even know where to start.  So for now, I&#8217;ll just post the link to this morning&#8217;s NY Times opinion piece by adoptive mother Drucilla Cornell, and get back to my own commentary later. There is a voluminous literature arguing that the act of child adoption itself constitutes a trauma. For example, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younsoohee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15144492&amp;post=174&amp;subd=younsoohee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>{On My Mind&#8230;}</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lena Wood</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Welcome to {On My Mind&#8230;} A weekly post of things that are&#8211;you guessed it&#8211;on my mind. A chance for me to sit down on Sunday evenings and reflect. A space to collect the links for things I want to remember for later. ~ Space and Place, by Yi-Fu Tuan (a geography classic), which I&#8217;m re-reading [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younsoohee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15144492&amp;post=148&amp;subd=younsoohee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>More Follow Up: Supporting Unwed Korean Mothers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lena Wood</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Korean Adoption]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when I posted this video of Choi Hyung-sook, a single mother in Korea and founder of KUMFA? Apparently I missed the New York Times article from two years ago, which profiles Hyung-sook and explores the growing trend of unwed Korean mothers parenting their children, defying cultural norms and the stigma of unwed mothers. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=younsoohee.wordpress.com&amp;blog=15144492&amp;post=141&amp;subd=younsoohee&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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