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Comment on Reclaiming November as National Adoptee Awareness Month by Lab Note 23 – Harlow's Monkey

Lab Note 23 – Harlow's Monkey — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 17:23:38 +0000

[…] in the United States. For several years now many in the adoptee community have countered with National Adoptee Awareness Month, kicked off by Adoptee Remembrance Day, the Oct. 30th recognition of the adoptees who have […]

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Comment on I was Not Touched by Adoption and Other Final NAAM Thoughts by Reclaiming November as National Adoptee Awareness Month | Red Thread Broken

Reclaiming November as National Adoptee Awareness Month | Red Thread Broken — Sun, 02 Nov 2025 05:12:40 +0000

[…] prioritized differently with this slight change in wordage for NAAM from adoption to adoptee. [See NAAM blog post I wrote that […]

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Comment on About The Author by Grace Newton

Grace Newton — Wed, 08 Oct 2025 15:20:34 +0000

In reply to cathydouglas.

Hi Cathy~ Thanks for the comment and for sharing these memories of my mother from your time working together. What a small world!

If you take a peak at the “About this site” page, you’ll see that my blog’s name is a critique of the popular red thread proverb and how it’s been used with regard to Chinese adoptions. Thank you for reading! And I’m looking forward to reading Demick’s book myself!

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Comment on About The Author by cathydouglas

cathydouglas — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 02:02:45 +0000

Hi Grace! I came to your blog because I was reading Daughters of the Bamboo Grove, in which you were quoted. It’s a heartbreaking book, really the worst possible way an international adoption could come to be. But it gave me a little bit of joy to recognize your name.

You see, I actually used to work for your mom, right before the adoption. I was the community liaison on her Joining Forces for Families team. She was great at her job, and everyone loved her and was sad when she left.

One thing I remember about that time was how much work she put into overcoming her fear of flying. She went through a whole program designed to keep her from freaking out on that long flight across the ocean. I was worried about her and your dad because of their age, but I’d seen her smack down cockroaches in our office enough times to know that nobody or nothing had better get in her way.

The proverb you’ve chosen as a theme is apt. Another which I’ve heard often is that a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Your mom’s journey has been much longer than that, but I was around to see how hard she worked for even that very first step.

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Comment on Reflections from the First National Chinese Adoptee Conference by Lara/Trace

Lara/Trace — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 19:15:03 +0000

Great news!

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Comment on Out of the Fog and Into Consciousness: A Model of Adoptee Awareness by Reflections from the First National Chinese Adoptee Conference | Red Thread Broken

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:23:11 +0000

[…] the same stage, just fifteen minutes later, I presented on the Adoptee Consciousness Model, a project that Dr. JaeRan Kim, Dr. Susan Branco, and I have been working on for over three years […]

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Comment on KAAN 2015: Intersections by Reflections from the First National Chinese Adoptee Conference | Red Thread Broken

Sun, 06 Jul 2025 20:23:08 +0000

[…] ever since I became involved in Korean adoptee conference spaces. (I wrote about this desire in this blog post from 2015). Heavily inspired by last year’s KAAN and BIPOC Adoptees conferences, I am so […]

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Comment on What’s Wrong with Nihao by Grace Newton

Grace Newton — Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:47:53 +0000

In reply to Christopher Bennett.

This is, by far, not the worst thing adoptees face. Need I remind you that adoptees lose their entire birth family, including siblings, grandparents, extended family members? We lose access to family stories, ancestry, our family medical health information. On top of that, international adoptees their original languages and cultures.

While being greeted with “nihao” may seem trivial to you, these remarks are a constant reminder that we are seen as other, as perpetual foreigners, and un-American, which is quite literally dangerous in these current times where legal permanent residents face the threat of deportation.

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Comment on What’s Wrong with Nihao by Christopher Bennett

Christopher Bennett — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 21:09:41 +0000

Such a privileged whiney attitude. If a non-Asian goes to an Asian country, we are bullied.

If that was really racism, why not go to HR? Oh, because it wasn’t racist?

Such a sad and lucky life to live. I wish this was the worst things I deal with in my life.

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Comment on Reclaiming November as National Adoptee Awareness Month by National Adoptee Awareness Month (Formerly National Adoption Month) | Light of Day Stories

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:20:51 +0000

[…] has been recast as National Adoptee Awareness Month, by Grace Newton (a Chinese adoptee) writing here in Red Thread Broken, by Shane Bouel, an adoptee writing on Medium “Taking Back National Adoptee Awareness Month, […]

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