Season 2 kicks off with Melissa Guida-Richards, author & late-discovery transracial adoptee
Melissa Guida-Richards is the first guest for season 2 of DNA Clarity and Support podcast.
Here's what the author describes you can expect to learn:
What parents wish they'd known before they adopted - and what kids wish their adoptive parents had done differently
What White privilege, White saviorism, and toxic positivity are...and how they show up, even when you don't mean it
How your child might feel and experience the world differently than you
All about microaggressions, labeling, and implicit bias
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In today's episode, we'll meet Melissa Guida-Richards, an author, adoptee, and advocate based in Pennsylvania. She was adopted in 1993 from Colombia to a family in the USA. Her viral essay, “My Adoptive Parents Hid My Racial Identity From Me for 19 Years,” was published in Huffington Post in April 2019.
Brianne, the host of DNA Clarity and Support, interviews Melissa about the highlights of her search which are detailed in her book, What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption: An Adoptee's Perspective on Its History, Nuances, and Practices. Melissa helps elevate adoptee voices and educate adoptive parents on the nuances and complexity of adoption.
Guida-Richard’s latest book aims to educate and guide White parents who are raising an adopted child with a differing genetic ethnicity. Among the topics host Brianne and the guest discuss is how Melissa developed a sense of being LatinX, her identification of biological relatives via DNA testing, and the growth and changes that took place in the relationship with each of her parents.
Find What White Parents Should Know about Transracial Adoption at the following sites:
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