May 2025 Updates

Happy May! I hope you are all well this month. I have shared my May updates below.

I worked a bit more on the current fictional, adoption-related essay I’m writing. I’m trying to take on a different perspective than I normally do when I write these essays, and it’s been an interesting time.
I’ve been reading more of Adeeb Khalid’s Central Asia, which has been very illuminating, and I have been learning a lot of history that I unfortunately was ignorant of.

Thank you for reading my updates! Feel free to share any adoptee-related writings or history book recommendations in the comments below. This month, if you live in the US, I encourage you to contact your congresspeople to urge action regarding the ongoing forced famine in Gaza here and to advocate against cutting SNAP here. Please also review Saroyah’s Twitter list here for updated information regarding the continuing humanitarian crisis in Sudan. For more resources and organizations to support, please look here.

April 2025 Updates

I hope you are doing well this April! I have shared my updates for this month below.

My friend shared this interesting video on how to go to hell in five of the world’s major religions with another friend and me. I enjoyed learning about the diversity between and within these belief systems.
I started a new fictional essay from the perspective of character Wendy Stoneman. I also created a Neocities site and a Wix blog that you can find on my Carrd.

Thank you for sticking around this month! Feel welcome to share any interesting videos you’ve watched or adoptee-related writing in the comments. This month, I encourage you to support the Basandja Coalition, which lifts the voices of Indigenous and local communities in the Congo Basin, and FiveforFive, a collective fund for trans women in the UK. Also, please check out AILA’s immigration advocacy resources. For more resources and organizations to support, please look here.