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Bookends with Mattea RoachKate Gies: Reclaiming her body after years of medical traumaWhen Kate Gies was born without an ear on one side, a plastic surgeon told her parents that he could “fix” her. In her new memoir, It Must Be Beautiful to Be Finished, Kate recounts her harrowing journey through numerous surgeries, many of which failed — and questions what it really means to “fix” a body. Kate joins Mattea Roach to talk about blurry medical boundaries, growing up with a congenital difference and pushing back against oppressive beauty standards.If you enjoyed this conversation, check out these episodes:Amy Lin: Widowed at 31, she looks for the be...
2025-02-0933 minBookends with Mattea RoachBookends: Highlights from 2024This episode features highlights from interviews with Teresa Wong, Casey McQuiston, Eric Chacour, Jenny Heijun Wills, and Matt Haig.Music featured in this episode: "Rainy Days and Mondays" written by Paul Williams and Roger Nichols, performed by Carpenters, from the 1971 self-titled album Carpenters, produced by Jack Daugherty.
2024-12-2953 min
House of CrouseALI ABBASI + ELIJAH WOOD + JENNY HEIJUN WILLSOn the Saturday October 19, 2024 episode of The Richard Crouse Show we’ll meet director Ali Abbasi. His film “The Apprentice,” which is now playing in theatres, is a controversial coming-of-age look at Donald Trump’s early years under the mentorship of lawyer Roy Cohn. It paints a picture of the future president of the United States as an ambitious, if slightly awkward guy, who came to believe that there are only two kinds of people in the world, “killers and losers.” Ali Abbasi joined me on the phone to discuss his six year journey to getting this film made and released and...
2024-10-1839 minBookends with Mattea RoachJenny Heijun Wills: Sharing her journey of transracial adoption and self-discovery in her moving essay collectionEverything and Nothing At All by Jenny Heijun Wills is an essay collection where the author reflects on her experiences as a transnational adoptee. Jenny was born in Korea and was adopted by a white Canadian family in southwestern Ontario when she was nine months old. Twenty years ago, she reconnected with her Korean birth family. She talks to Mattea Roach about this journey — which also inspired her prize-winning memoir, Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related — and about how writing and literature have helped her figure out who she is.
2024-10-1625 min
thecommentary.caJenny Heijun WillsThe award-winning writer and academic Jenny Heijun Wills discusses her new collection of essays Everything and Nothing At All (Knopf, 2024), with Joseph Planta.
Everything and Nothing At All by Jenny Heijun Wills (Knopf, 2024).
Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Everything and Nothing At All
Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:
I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.
One of the important books of the year is the new collection of essays by Jenny Heijun Wills, Everything...
2024-09-2341 minthecommentary.caJenny Heijun WillsThe award-winning writer and academic Jenny Heijun Wills discusses her new collection of essays Everything and Nothing At All (Knopf, 2024), with Joseph Planta.
Everything and Nothing At All by Jenny Heijun Wills (Knopf, 2024).
Click to buy this book from Amazon.ca: Everything and Nothing At All
Text of introduction by Joseph Planta:
I am Planta: On the Line, in Vancouver, British Columbia, at TheCommentary.ca.
One of the important books of the year is the new collection of essays by Jenny Heijun Wills, Everything...
2024-09-2341 min
The StartWeasel While You (Don't) WorkEnvironment Canada on Monday's storms & tornado warnings (1:40); Mark Wasyliw gets the boot (6:30); Times you were sneaky to weasel your way out of work (13:05); Weaseling out of work (21:10); Breakfast with the Bombers - Doug Brown (23:55); Equifax: Financial stress continues to rise for businesses across key industries, payments being missed (29:55); Amber Nemeth back from Hollywood! - HayMad & Co got to be in the gift bags at the Emmys (35:45); Winning story on weaseling out of work (42:45); Book: "Everything and Nothing At All" - launch happening Sat Sep 21 7pm McNally Robinson - Jenny Heijun Wills, author, professor at the U of W (46:25).
2024-09-171h 02
Weekends with Ben O’Hara-ByrneUnrolling hidden shrinkflation: Household paper products are getting a lot smallerCredit card debt soars to 17-year high and younger Canadians are falling behind (1:48)Guest: Rebecca Oakes, Vice President of Advanced Analytics, Equifax CanadaUnrolling hidden shrinkflation: Household paper products are getting a lot smaller (16:54) Guest: Edgar Dworsky, Consumer advocate, ConsumerWorld.org and MousePrint.orgRock on: Canadian wins World Air Guitar Championship (33:35) Guest: Zachary Knowles, winner, Air Guitar World ChampionshipDon’t look back in anger: Oasis announces a much anticipated musical reunion (51:17)Guest: Annie Zaleski, music...
2024-08-281h 44
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsEverything and Nothing At All: Essays by Jenny Heijun WillsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765420to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Everything and Nothing At All: Essays
Author: Jenny Heijun Wills
Narrator: Jenny Heijun Wills
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 7 hours 14 minutes
Release date: August 27, 2024
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
'Here is my disconnect: the private and public self. My mind and body. The real person and curated spectacle. . . . Are there actual roots with which to fasten this performance to anything real?' As a transnational and transracial adoptee, Jenny Heijun Wills has spent her life navigating the fraught spaces of ethnicity and belonging. As a pan-polyam individual, she lives between types...
2024-08-277h 14
Discover the Best Audio Stories in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsEverything and Nothing At All: Essays by Jenny Heijun WillsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/765420 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Everything and Nothing At All: Essays Author: Jenny Heijun Wills Narrator: Jenny Heijun Wills Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 7 hours 14 minutes Release date: August 27, 2024 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: 'Here is my disconnect: the private and public self. My mind and body. The real person and curated spectacle. . . . Are there actual roots with which to fasten this performance to anything real?' As a transnational and transracial adoptee, Jenny Heijun Wills has spent her life navigating the fraught spaces of ethnicity and belonging. As a pan-polyam individual, she lives between...
2024-08-2710 min
Absorb This Captivating Full Audiobook And Feel The Difference.When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology by Susan Harness, Stefany Valentine, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, Sun Yung Shin, Lisa Nopachai, Meme Collier, Kelley Baker, Mariama J. Lockington, Meredith Ireland, Jenny Heijun Wills, Nicole Chung, Shannon Gibney, Mark Oshiro, Matthew Salesses, Eric SmithPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659009to listen full audiobooks.
Title: When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
Author: Susan Harness, Stefany Valentine, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, Sun Yung Shin, Lisa Nopachai, Meme Collier, Kelley Baker, Mariama J. Lockington, Meredith Ireland, Jenny Heijun Wills, Nicole Chung, Shannon Gibney, Mark Oshiro, Matthew Salesses, Eric Smith
Narrator: Elena Rey, Karla Serrato, David Lee Huynh, Angel Pean, Delanna Studi, Greta Jung
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Release date: October 24, 2023
Genres: Tough Topics
Publisher's Summary:
''An emotion-filled collection.'' —Kirkus Reviews Two teens take the stage and find their voice . . . A girl lear...
2023-10-248h 46Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Teen & YA, Tough TopicsWhen We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology by Susan Harness, Stefany Valentine, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, Sun Yung Shin, Lisa Nopachai, Meme Collier, Kelley Baker, Mariama J. Lockington, Meredith Ireland, Jenny Heijun Wills, Nicole Chung, Shannon Gibney, Mark Oshiro, Matthew Salesses, Eric SmithPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659009to listen full audiobooks.
Title: When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology
Author: Susan Harness, Stefany Valentine, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, Sun Yung Shin, Lisa Nopachai, Meme Collier, Kelley Baker, Mariama J. Lockington, Meredith Ireland, Jenny Heijun Wills, Nicole Chung, Shannon Gibney, Mark Oshiro, Matthew Salesses, Eric Smith
Narrator: Elena Rey, Karla Serrato, David Lee Huynh, Angel Pean, Delanna Studi, Greta Jung
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 8 hours 46 minutes
Release date: October 24, 2023
Genres: Tough Topics
Publisher's Summary:
''An emotion-filled collection.'' —Kirkus Reviews Two teens take the stage and find their voice . . . A girl lear...
2023-10-248h 46
Listen to Latest Full Audiobooks in Teen & YA, Tough TopicsWhen We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology by Susan Harness, Stefany Valentine, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, Sun Yung Shin, Lisa Nopachai, Meme CPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/659009 to listen full audiobooks. Title: When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology Author: Susan Harness, Stefany Valentine, Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom, Sun Yung Shin, Lisa Nopachai, Meme Collier, Kelley Baker, Mariama J. Lockington, Meredith Ireland, Jenny Heijun Wills, Nicole Chung, Shannon Gibney, Mark Oshiro, Matthew Salesses, Eric Smith Narrator: Elena Rey, Karla Serrato, David Lee Huynh, Angel Pean, Delanna Studi, Greta Jung Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 8 hours 46 minutes Release date: October 24, 2023 Genres: Tough Topics Publisher's Summary: ''An emotion-filled collection.'' —Kirkus Reviews Two teens take the stage and find their voice . . . A girl...
2023-10-2405 min
Labor of Love: A Podcast for BIPOC Adoptees Navigating ParenthoodPandemic Parenting as Adoptees: Managing Up, Passing of Food, and Better Luck TomorrowDr. Kimberly McKee joins us in a lively conversation that touches on her experiences with her blended family through the pandemic, relationship with her birth family, and upcoming research on API adoptee women and girls in the media. Kim generously shares her perspectives on the challenges and privileges of being a working mom, an adoptee in reunion, and in partnership with a fellow Korean adoptee. She is a fierce advocate for Asian Americans and adoptees through her academic work and teaching, the philosophy of “fed is best”, and taking the time and space to be very intentional about cultivating her...
2023-04-2050 min
Voicing CreativityVoicing Creativity - Episode 8 - Dr. Jenny Heijun WillsDr. Jenny Heijun Wills’ Website: https://www.jennyheijunwills.comResources ReferencedBooks by Dr. Jenny Heijun WillsOlder Sister Not Necessarily Related by Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills. byhttps://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/592336/older-sister-not-necessarily-related-by-jenny-heijun-wills/9780771070914Adoption and Multiculturalism: Europe, The Americas, and the Pacific. Jenny Heijun Wills, Tobias Hübinette, and Indigo Willing, Editors. https://www.press.umich.edu/10032835/adoption_and_multiculturalismTeaching Asian North American Texts. Jenny Ho and Jenny Heijun Wills, Editors.https://www.mla.org/Publications/Bookstore/Options-for-Teaching/Teaching-Asian-North-American-TextsA...
2022-08-181h 02
Adoptees OnDr. Jenny Heijun Wills218 | Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills We are honoured to have the brilliant Dr. Jenny Heijun Wills return to Adoptees On today. We talk about what reunion has looked like in the time since she’s published her award-winning memoir, Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related., including the practical “how-tos” of maintaining a relationship with a family member that lives abroad and speaks a different language. Jenny also addresses what it feels like to be raised with Eurocentric beauty standards as a person of colour. Full Show Notes Here Show Notes Recommended Resources Mentio...
2022-06-0351 min
Adopted FeelsFact and fantasy in adoptee creative non-fiction: Jenny Heijun Wills on writing, consent, and self-preservationIn this episode we talk to the inimitable Jenny Heijun Wills and touch on some of the themes that - we feel - go to the very core of our stories and our storytellings as adoptees. Consent and access. Fact and fantasy. The challenges of charting our way through the stories people expect - often even demand of us since we were children - to aim for something that serves us: the nuanced narratives we deserve to have, and which we are allowed to create and invent.
Jenny Heijun Wills is a multi-award winning creative writer and scholar, whose most...
2022-04-0458 min
Migration ConversationsWriting, Identity and RatsMeet Carrianne Leung, Jenny Heijun Wills and Lindsay Wong, all award winning authors in Canada. We talk about the craft of writing, the fluidity and complication of identity as writers, and how migration and diasporic experiences inform their work.
2022-03-031h 10
The Play On Foundation presents: The 2 Degrees PodcastEpisode 4: Jenny Heijun WillsJenny Heijun Wills, english professor, and award winning author of the nonfictional memoir "Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related" shares her story of being adopted from South Korea by Canadian parents and how it became a book.
#The2DegreesPodcast The main purpose of this podcast is to bring awareness to The Play On Foundation. A charity that revolves around neurological research in brain aneurysm detection and prevention. Please check out www.letsplayon.org and follow @playon2013 . Dont forget to follow me @xdeguz for updates.
Art work by Monique Lizardo @mlizardo. Music production by @kidkold.
2022-01-2852 min
The Play On Foundation presents: The 2 Degrees PodcastCOMING SOONThe main purpose of this podcast is to bring awareness to The Play On Foundation. A charity that revolves around neurological research in brain aneurysm detection and prevention. Please check out www.letsplayon.org and follow @playon2013 . Dont forget to follow me @xdeguz for updates.
Art work by Monique Lizardo @mlizardo.
Music production by @kidkold.
COMING SOON:
Ryan Rosery
Brandon McKnight
Alaina Huffman
Kale Olivier
Jenny Heijun Wills
Marlon Parlmer
Keren Burkett
Dubz Priceless
Lovell Adams G...
2022-01-1701 min
Time To Say GoodbyeKori Graves on Black Korean adopteesHello from HISTORY!This week, Tammy interviews Professor Kori A. Graves, a historian of adoption and the family at the University at Albany, SUNY. Kori’s 2020 book, A War Born Family: African American Adoption in the Wake of the Korean War, explores how Black Americans came to adopt Black Korean children. Tammy and Kori talk about the history of transnational, transracial adoption — and the special place of Korea and the Korean diaspora in adoptee activism and the contemporary architecture of family. For more on this subject, Kori recommends:* Global Fami...
2021-11-021h 33
Narrative for Social JusticeNarratives of Asian American and Asian Canadian RepresentationHost Angela Du and special guests Jennifer Ho and Joey S. Kim discuss narratives of race and racism affecting Asian North Americans, especially Asian Americans. They reflect on the history of various terms, solidarities with other minority groups, public-facing scholarship, hazing graduate students, and texts that they love — including Joey’s first book of poems, Body Facts (2021).
Podcast music created by Drew Morgan
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2021-07-0146 min
Adoptee ThoughtsAn Interview with Jenny Heijun Wills, Award Winning AuthorOn Season 2, Episode 3 of the Adoptee Thoughts Podcast, Jenny Heijun Wills, and host, Melissa Guida-Richards discuss Jenny's Memoir Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related (now available in paperback) and the intricacies of reunion with birth family.
Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of Older Sister, Not Necessarily Related (McClelland & Stewart, Penguin Random House Canada, 2019), which won the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize and the 2020 Eileen McTavish Sykes Best First Book Award. She is also the co-editor of Adoption & Multiculturalism: Europe, The Americas, and the Pacific (University of Michigan Press, 2020).
Purchase her mem...
2021-02-2552 min
Adapted PodcastSeason 4, Episode 4: Jenny Heijun WillsKorean adoptee and Canadian Jenny Heijun Wills, 39, talks about her 2019 acclaimed memoir, Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. It's about her relationships with her first family after being reunited in a form of a letter to an older biological half-sister, separated by time, language, boundaries, child removal and international closed adoption. and parental failings. The book also bravely addresses inter-adoptee harm, ways marginalized communities protect and hide sexual assault amongst their own kin, and the fears that come with breaking that code.
2020-10-121h 05
Asians In SpaceIsolation Station: The Words Have Always Been ThereI’m joined in conversation this week in the isolation station by award winning author of the memoir, “Older Sister: Not Necessarily Related,” English professor at the University of Winnipeg, and giving BIPOC makeup booklooks on her socials daily: Jenny Heijun Wills. We discuss her lived experience as an adoptee in relation to her sense of self in the Asian diaspora, the power that a name holds, and her intention when making a syllabus and reading lists for her classes.
2020-06-1544 min
Adoptees On133 Jenny Heijun WillsJenny Heijun Wills is our guest today, the author of the memoir Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. We talk about adoption in literature, why it’s so important to elevate the adoptee voice and Jenny explains what does it really mean when someone asks us “what do your adoptive parents think about all this”. You can listen right here (turn up your sound 🔊🔊🔊) or search Adoptees On in any podcast app! Full Show Notes Here Connect With Us Jenny Heijun Wills: Twitter | Instagram | www.jennyheijunwills.com Haley Radke: Twitter | Instagram | Facebook Adoptees On: Twitter | I...
2020-02-1452 min
Korea, Factual1123 FYI : Transnational adoptionFYI
내용: Transnational adoption
Guest: Jenny Heijun Wills, Author of "Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related", associate professor at the University of Winnipeg
2019-11-2500 min
Embark On The Ground-Breaking Full Audiobook Experience!Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir by Jenny Heijun WillsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369779to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir
Author: Jenny Heijun Wills
Narrator: Diana Bang
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 0 minutes
Release date: September 17, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Relationships & Intimacy
Publisher's Summary:
Winner of the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and...
2019-09-175h 00Listen To Your Ears To A Soul-Stirring Full Audiobook.Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir by Jenny Heijun WillsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369779to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir
Author: Jenny Heijun Wills
Narrator: Diana Bang
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 0 minutes
Release date: September 17, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Winner of the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and returned...
2019-09-175h 00
Grab the Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & MemoirOlder Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir by Jenny Heijun WillsPlease visit https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369779 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir Author: Jenny Heijun Wills Narrator: Diana Bang Format: Unabridged Audiobook Length: 5 hours 0 minutes Release date: September 17, 2019 Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2 Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1 Genres: Memoirs Publisher's Summary: Winner of the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and...
2019-09-1710 minGrab the Top Full Audiobooks in Biography & Memoir, MemoirsOlder Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir by Jenny Heijun WillsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369779to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir
Author: Jenny Heijun Wills
Narrator: Diana Bang
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 0 minutes
Release date: September 17, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Memoirs
Publisher's Summary:
Winner of the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and returned...
2019-09-175h 00Get Top Full Audiobooks in Health & Wellness, Relationships & IntimacyOlder Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir by Jenny Heijun WillsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/1/audiobook/369779to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.: A Memoir
Author: Jenny Heijun Wills
Narrator: Diana Bang
Format: Unabridged Audiobook
Length: 5 hours 0 minutes
Release date: September 17, 2019
Ratings: Ratings of Book: 3 of Total 2
Ratings of Narrator: 5 of Total 1
Genres: Relationships & Intimacy
Publisher's Summary:
Winner of the 2019 Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction A beautiful and haunting memoir of kinship and culture rediscovered. Jenny Heijun Wills was born in Korea and adopted as an infant into a white family in small-town Canada. In her late twenties, she reconnected with her first family and...
2019-09-175h 00
Fuel Your Mind With This Life-Enhancing Full Audiobook — Perfect At Home.Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. by Jenny Heijun WillsPlease visithttps://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/169115to listen full audiobooks.
Title: Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related.
Author: Jenny Heijun Wills
Narrator: Diana Bang
Format: mp3
Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins
Release date: 09-17-19
Ratings: 4 out of 5 stars, 8 ratings
Genres: Adoption & Fostering
Publisher's Summary:
Delving into gender, class, racial, and ethnic complexities, as well as into the complex relationships between Korean women - sisters, mothers and daughters, grandmothers and grandchildren, aunts and nieces - Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related. describes in visceral, lyrical prose the painful ripple effects that follow a child's removal from a family, and the rewards that can...
2019-09-174h 59
The Lit Fantastic PodcastS2 Ep 04: Jennifer Kwon Dobbs (Cooking, Militarism, & Transnational Exchange)Born in Wonju, Republic of Korea and adopted by a steelworker and homemaker in Oklahoma, Jennifer Kwon Dobbs is a poet, essayist, and scholar with interests in creative writing, critical adoption studies, Asian American literature, and Korean literary translation. She holds a BA in English from Oklahoma State University, an MFA in Poetry from the University of Pittsburgh, and an MA in English/PhD in Literature and Creative from the University of Southern California.
Her works include Paper Pavilion (2007), recipient of the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and the New England Poetry Club’s Sheila Motton Book Award; Interrogation Room (Wh...
2018-05-1856 min