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Guest Bio: Daniel Drennan ElAwar was adopted via Lebanon to the United States at the age of two months. In 2004 he returned sight unseen, and taught graphic design and illustration at various Beirut universities. He continues to work as a special advisor to the Beirut-based children's rights organization Badael/Alternatives on issues of adoption and adoptee return. From January to June, 2016, he was a research fellow at the Asfari Institute of Civil Society and Citizenship, focusing on adoption and citizenship in terms of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance. As of June 2016, he is in reunion with his family in Greater Syria. He currently works as an associate professor teaching Illustration and Printmaking at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada.

Resource List:

• Daniel's writings on Adoption and his blog:
  https://ecuad.academia.edu/DanielDrennanElAwar
  danielibnzayd.wordpress.com/

• Abby you asked if I could ask Daniel about "rematriation". I do, in part 2 of this episode.
  Term coined by Steven Newcomb, Executive Director, Indigenous Law Institute. http://ili.nativeweb.org/perspect.html

• An open letter to Lebanon, and naming himself for his mother:
  [In Arab culture, one is known as "son of" and one's father's name; here I state I am my mother's son.]
  https://www.academia.edu/39679794/Daniel_Ibn_Bahija_An_Open_Letter_to_Lebanon

• Ideas of grounding and place:
  On Extirpation, Rerooting, and Creative Liberation
  https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40087/On-Extirpation,-Rerooting,-and-Creative-Liberation

Daniel's recommended reading list

Dorothy Roberts- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty

Dorothy Roberts- Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare

Dorothy Roberts- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century

Kali Akuno- Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi

Lisa Marie Cacho- Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (Nation of Nations)

Orlando Patterson- Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study

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On this episode our guest is Tiffany Henness. Our convo is described in the timestamps below.
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timestamps:
00:00 - 3:57 Intro
3:37 - 14:00 Greetings / adoptee influencer group
14:01 - 32:06 spectrum of adoption politic perspectives held by adopted persons
32:07 - 42:36 growing up racially marooned in Oregon
42:37 - 51:15 danger of coming “out of the fog” without support
51:16 - 1:18:12 popular narratives of adoption and how we situate ourselves
1:18:13 - 1:24:40 Transracial Adoption Paradox: White Shield / White Veil
1:24:41 - 1:44:20 Adoption, Christianity, and the fogs of both
1:44:21 - 2:00:56 Advent & what is a Christ?
2:00:57 - 2:18:48 What is home for displaced/transracially adopted persons in a racist nation?
2:18:49 - 2:28:28 Journeying Home: Advent Readings for Adoptees Deconstructing their Faith
2:28:29 - end Matthew reads his poem Psalm of the Aware Adoptee


Resource / Reference list:
JS LEE: (adoptees as displaced) https://jiasunlee.com/how-to-support-the-person-you-adopted/
Howard Thurman- Jesus & the Disinherited
Reclaiming My Theology: Christianity & Patriarchy: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reclaiming-my-theology/id1516576461?i=1000543492771
Rebecca Carrol- Surviving the White Gaze
Danté Stewart- Shoutin’ in the Fire
Journeying Home: Advent Readings for Adoptees Deconstructing their Faith (won't be sold again until Advent season 2022)

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