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Adapted Podcast

Adapted Podcast

Written by: Kaomi Goetz
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 Adapted Podcast is one of the first-ever podcasts on intercountry adoption. Kaomi Lee is a Korean adoptee who started this podcast in 2016. It explores the lived experiences of intercountry adopted Koreans. More than 130 people have shared their stories and dozens have been translated into Korean. It continues to set the bar for podcasts of its kind, with more than 100,000 downloads worldwide.TM Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Season 7, Episode 26: Alicia Soon Hershey - I am Not My Trauma

    Season 7, Episode 26: Alicia Soon Hershey - I am Not My Trauma
    Aug 28 2024

    I sit down with Alicia Soon Hershey, 41, a Korean transnational adoptee now living in Barcelona. Soon Hershey was the very first adoptee interviewed on the podcast back in 2016 and our conversation book-ends the podcast in the 165th episode (!). We get a chance to hear how she has evolved in the past eight years and her outlook for life now that she is a mother herself.
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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • Season 7 Episode 25: Eleana Kim and the Politics of Belonging for Korean Adoptees

    Season 7 Episode 25: Eleana Kim and the Politics of Belonging for Korean Adoptees
    Aug 16 2024

    Korean-American cultural anthropologist Eleana Kim talks about her research that went into the seminal imprint "Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging," Duke University Press, 2010.

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    1 hr and 30 mins
  • Season 7, Episode 24: Geoffrey Winder - Fluidity in Identity

    Season 7, Episode 24: Geoffrey Winder - Fluidity in Identity
    Aug 3 2024

    Geoffrey Winder (born Jong Ke-Bin) (he/him), 42, of Oakland, CA, shares some of his story as a queer Black Korean transnational and transracial adopted man and about his activism in queer advocacy, adoptee community, and leadership spaces.
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    1 hr and 11 mins
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