In this episode, Nathan sits down with Hasina, a transracial adoptee born in Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1977. With little known about her birth story, Hasina spent her earliest years in an orphanage before being adopted at age three by a white Canadian family and raised on a farm outside of London, Ontario.
Hasina shares what it was like growing up in isolation, navigating identity without mirrors, and carrying unanswered questions about her beginnings. She also reflects on a later turning point—leaving home and moving to Toronto, where she entered a family made up of adoptees from around the world and experienced diversity in a new, embodied way.
This conversation explores belonging, displacement, and the quiet shifts that happen when adoptees find reflection, proximity, and chosen family.
Find Hasina's book here: Longing to Belong
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