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Life Changing Transformative

In this audio, a Black woman shares how she has begun to identify and own her identity as a Black woman. As a transracial adoptee who advises white parents about their adopted Black children, she has leaned on her identity as an adoptee to give her an ethos. After being in Interrupting Privilege, she is owning her Blackness and her identity as a Black woman to engage in conversations rather than seeing herself as distanced from Blackness.

My identity has always been more as a transracial adoptee versus a Black woman. And so with identifying as a transracial adoptee it’s almost like I have a little asterisk by my name it’s like… I get to pass because I didn’t grow up in Black culture. But now… I have found myself identifying as a Black woman first