I wanted to kind of give it that you're seeing a dimensionality where you're seeing it from different points of view. I put myself through an intense kind of sensitivity, critique with people who were oftentimes writers, journals, researchers, and transnational adoptees. So I went through this two hour critique session talking through these different elements. This was hard.
Erika Hayasaki has written for The New York Times Magazine, Wired, and The Atlantic. Her new book is Somewhere Sisters: A Story of Adoption, Identity, and the Meaning of Family.
“I don’t subscribe to the belief that it’s our story because we’re the journalist that wrote it — especially when people are sharing these really intimate, deep, painful moments. That is not my story. That’s their story that they've collaborated in a way with me to share through these interviews.”
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