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What Next? The Adoptee Rights Podcast

All and everything about adoptee rights, with interviews, discussions, and the ongoing complexities of being an adopted person in the world.

Politics Society & Culture History
Update frequency
every 8 days
Average duration
52 minutes
Episodes
23
Years Active
2022 - 2024
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21: Truth and Reconciliation

21: Truth and Reconciliation

Greg talks with Jennifer Kwon Dobbs and Ryan Gustafsson---two Korean-born transnational adoptees, scholars, and advocates---about their cases (and other cases) before the South Korean Truth and Recon…

00:56:35  |   Mon 30 Sep 2024
20: Rescission - A Conversation about Ending Your Own Adoption

20: Rescission - A Conversation about Ending Your Own Adoption

Greg talks with Chelsey, a US-born adult adopted person who for years has been seeking to end her own adoption, and for good reason. They discuss her story and reasons, the various legal issues surro…

00:35:46  |   Thu 02 May 2024
19: Kara Bos - Dual Citizenship

19: Kara Bos - Dual Citizenship

Greg and CS talk with Korean-born and US transnational adoptee Kara Bos about her efforts to reclaim her Korean citizenship, lost to her when she was four years of age and adopted to the United State…

00:38:48  |   Wed 24 Apr 2024
18: Lobbying - With Annette O'Connell and Shawna Hodgson

18: Lobbying - With Annette O'Connell and Shawna Hodgson

Greg speaks with Annette O'Connell and Shawna Hodgson about lobbying in state legislatures, plus other (kinda nutty) issues that pop up. As board members of Adoptees United and as advocates in New Yo…

01:00:58  |   Thu 18 Apr 2024
17: Relinquished - With Gretchen Sisson

17: Relinquished - With Gretchen Sisson

A conversation with scholar, advocate, researcher and writer Gretchen Sisson, author of the recently published Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood. This is…

01:03:36  |   Fri 12 Apr 2024
16: Max Aulbach

16: Max Aulbach

One of two episodes (the first with Ayana Smith-Kooiman) where Greg talks with legislative staffers. This time he sits down with Max Aulbach, the legislative director for Michigan Represetative Krist…

00:45:26  |   Wed 28 Feb 2024
15: Ayana Smith-Kooiman

15: Ayana Smith-Kooiman

We sit down with Ayana Smith-Kooiman, the legislative assistant to Sen. Erin Maye Quade in Minnesota. Ayana was the behind-the-scenes and front-desk staffer directly supporting Sen. Maye Quade's adop…

00:40:59  |   Wed 28 Feb 2024
14: Adoption Mosaic

14: Adoption Mosaic

Part 2 of a two-part interview with Astrid Castro, and we turn to the history of her work with Adoption Mosaic and the complications and joys of providing solid programming and events for adopted peo…

00:27:48  |   Sun 18 Feb 2024
13: Astrid Castro

13: Astrid Castro

Greg talks with Astrid Castro, someone he's long wanted to have on the show. Astrid is a transracial transnational adoptee who was born in Colombia. She is also the longtime leader and current CEO of…

00:55:58  |   Sun 18 Feb 2024
12: @stoweyvik

12: @stoweyvik

More widely known among adopted people as @stoweyvik on Twitter, Vicki is a transracial UK adoptee, army veteran, and host of the weekly Sunday Zoom chats with adoptees and Vicki's special guests.

Gr…

01:05:12  |   Sat 04 Jun 2022
Episode 11: DIB+

Episode 11: DIB+

Erica Babino talks with Greg about Roe v. Wade, diversity, inclusion, and belonging in adoptee rights, plus what an adoptee rights retreat could bring and do for the community. 

Erica Babino is New Y…

01:00:34  |   Thu 19 May 2022
Episode 10: Outside the Fold

Episode 10: Outside the Fold

A conversation with biologist and climate scientist Sandra Steingraber, about adoption, cancer, and queerness. Dr. Sandra Steingraber is a rockstar in her field, related to her research, writing, l…

01:01:09  |   Wed 20 Apr 2022
Episode 9: History

Episode 9: History

Vermont is on the precipice of history as an unrestricted equal rights bill is poised to become law. And Louisiana is on the same track. 

Greg talks with many of the advocates who are making history …

01:03:01  |   Thu 14 Apr 2022
Episode 8: Lynelle

Episode 8: Lynelle

Most adoptees know who you are talking about when you say the name Lynelle. As in Lynelle Long, who has been a quiet and consistent powerhouse in working to secure adoptee rights globally, for all ad…

01:22:34  |   Tue 29 Mar 2022
Episode 7: Switched

Episode 7: Switched

What if you are switched at birth---and then adopted? How do you unravel all the legal threads of adoption to get to the truth, if not reconstruct relationships that may have been created from the wr…
00:54:40  |   Tue 15 Mar 2022
Episode 6: Cleanup

Episode 6: Cleanup

Do bad bills ever go good? Rarely, if ever. But that may change with Vermont this session, as House Bill 629 is being redrafted and is expected to be cleaned up, all through the efforts of local and …

01:03:46  |   Tue 08 Mar 2022
Episode 5: Ireland

Episode 5: Ireland

Greg talks with Claire McGettrick and Mari Steed about Ireland's history of adoption and original birth records---which have always been public records---and the decades-long fight for Irish-born ado…

01:18:52  |   Tue 22 Feb 2022
Episode 4: Omelette

Episode 4: Omelette

Greg travels to Wisconsin for a legislative hearing and meets Diana Higgenbottom Anagnostopoulos and other advocates, legislative staffers, and legislators. Diana's remarkable story is highlighted in…

01:09:31  |   Tue 08 Feb 2022
Episode 3: Bonus Material

Episode 3: Bonus Material

Extended interview session with Shelise Gieseke in which we talk mental health resources, advocacy, Adoption Mosaic programming, and Greg's mom. Enjoy.
00:20:42  |   Wed 02 Feb 2022
Episode 3: Infinite Money

Episode 3: Infinite Money

What could the adoptee rights movement do if it had infinite money? We work to answer this question with Shelise Gieseke of Adoption Mosaic, and we predictably end up discussing all sorts of other is…
00:59:49  |   Tue 01 Feb 2022
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