"Kids live with people who are not their parents and it's fine until it's actually not." - Raye
"Am I adopted???" That's the question Raye grappled with when she stumbled across her first Black to the Beginning Instagram post. The content and stories from podcast guests resonated, but she wasn't adopted. Until she realized that she was.
Informally.
Raye was raised believing her grandmother was her mother. Meanwhile, the woman who came around simply known as Tasha was, in fact, her biological mother. The revelation opened up a Pandora's box of confusion. While many adoptees are told a story of being chosen, Raye has struggled with feeling like she wasn't chosen.
Is ignorance bliss? Not quite, but life for Raye was emotionally simpler before the truth was revealed.
This conversation is more than another Black kinship care story; this is a conversation that explores the layers of Black adoption. What makes someone "adopted"? Who should identify themselves as an adoptee? If you're raised with and by family, are you adopted enough?
It feels good to finally find Tribe! May this conversation be your soft place to land, too.
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