Essays

"Transnational adoption is typically framed as a beautiful interaction that provides a child with innumerable opportunities and benefits they otherwise would not have been able to access in their birth country. "

Labor has been embedded in my existence long before I even took my first breath. It is ancestral; every woman who came before me in generations was forced to grasp the concept of working to survive. Working at the expense of their livelihood, working for little to nothing. “Forced to labor for the 'satisfaction of the immediate needs' of their owners and overseers, however, those needs were defined, the captive female body was subjected to innumerable uses. It could be conver