little did u know

Season 2 we here. matthew shares a song he wrote and recorded in 2017. Produced by Owen Ragland. companion essay otw, keep your eyes peeled for that. Click here to read and subscribe to my substack (where I publish my essays) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/matthew-anthony00/message

You can support the show for as little as $5 on Patreon.com/CreativeKindred This is the end of Season 1. Thanks for tuning in y'all! We'll be back with Season 2 after i'm less in crisis mode. Mixed Media Credit: Alice Walker, Danez Smith, James Baldwin --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/matthew-anthony00/message

little did u know is a listener supported show. If you've found our conversations meaningful please consider joining our patreon, here you can support our work for as little as $5 per month. Today, Daniel Drennan ElAwar and I are continuing our conversation on The Adoptee Voice.  We talk about what it means to be a bridge as an adoptee, Daniel redefines adoption as “a candy coated band-aide”, we talk about the breakdown of kinship care as a tactic of colonial violence, movement histories that can teach us something today, and at the end Daniel answers Abby's question about “rematriation”, finding our way back to our mother(land), and what it means to him. Resource List:  https://danielibnzayd.wordpress.com/2022/06/25/little-did-u-know-part-2/ Reddit thread : https://teddit.net/r/Adoption/comments/vgqdgk/adoption_focused_media/ Daniel's writings on Adoption and his blog: https://ecuad.academia.edu/DanielDrennanElAwar danielibnzayd.wordpress.com/ Ideas of grounding and place: On Extirpation, Rerooting, and Creative Liberation https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40087/On-Extirpation,-Rerooting,-and-Creative-Liberation Abby asked if I could ask Daniel about "rematriation". I do, in part 2 of this episode. Term coined by Steven Newcomb, Executive Director, Indigenous Law Institute. http://ili.nativeweb.org/perspect.html Daniel's recommended reading list Dorothy Roberts- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Dorothy Roberts- Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare Dorothy Roberts- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century Kali Akuno- Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi Lisa Marie Cacho- Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (Nation of Nations) Orlando Patterson- Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study treat the show like your Uber Driver and give us 5 stars, and leave us a review! tell us what is most meaningful to you- that helps matthew know how he is impacting you, and inspires him in this work. (as well as helps us get into algorithms) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/matthew-anthony00/message

little did u know is a listener supported show. If you've found our conversations meaningful please consider joining our patreon, here you can support our work for as little as $5 per month. Guest Bio: Daniel Drennan ElAwar was adopted via Lebanon to the United States at the age of two months. In 2004 he returned sight unseen, and taught graphic design and illustration at various Beirut universities. He continues to work as a special advisor to the Beirut-based children's rights organization Badael/Alternatives on issues of adoption and adoptee return. From January to June, 2016, he was a research fellow at the Asfari Institute of Civil Society and Citizenship, focusing on adoption and citizenship in terms of displacement, dispossession, and disinheritance. As of June 2016, he is in reunion with his family in Greater Syria. He currently works as an associate professor teaching Illustration and Printmaking at Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver, Canada. Resource List: Daniel's writings on Adoption and his blog: https://ecuad.academia.edu/DanielDrennanElAwar danielibnzayd.wordpress.com/ Abby you asked if I could ask Daniel about "rematriation". I do, in part 2 of this episode. Term coined by Steven Newcomb, Executive Director, Indigenous Law Institute. http://ili.nativeweb.org/perspect.html An open letter to Lebanon, and naming himself for his mother: [In Arab culture, one is known as "son of" and one's father's name; here I state I am my mother's son.] https://www.academia.edu/39679794/Daniel_Ibn_Bahija_An_Open_Letter_to_Lebanon Ideas of grounding and place: On Extirpation, Rerooting, and Creative Liberation https://www.jadaliyya.com/Details/40087/On-Extirpation,-Rerooting,-and-Creative-Liberation Daniel's recommended reading list Dorothy Roberts- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty Dorothy Roberts- Shattered Bonds: The Color Of Child Welfare Dorothy Roberts- Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-first Century Kali Akuno- Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi Lisa Marie Cacho- Social Death: Racialized Rightlessness and the Criminalization of the Unprotected (Nation of Nations) Orlando Patterson- Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study treat the show like your Uber Driver and give us 5 stars, and leave us a review! tell us what is most meaningful to you- that helps matthew know how he is impacting you, and inspires him in this work. (as well as helps us get into algorithms) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/matthew-anthony00/message

On this episode our guest is Tiffany Henness. Our convo is described in the timestamps below. Please, treat the show like your Uber driver and rate us 5 stars timestamps: 00:00 - 3:57 Intro 3:37 - 14:00 Greetings / adoptee influencer group 14:01 - 32:06 spectrum of adoption politic perspectives held by adopted persons 32:07 - 42:36 growing up racially marooned in Oregon 42:37 - 51:15 danger of coming “out of the fog” without support 51:16 - 1:18:12 popular narratives of adoption and how we situate ourselves 1:18:13 - 1:24:40 Transracial Adoption Paradox: White Shield / White Veil 1:24:41 - 1:44:20 Adoption, Christianity, and the fogs of both 1:44:21 - 2:00:56 Advent & what is a Christ? 2:00:57 - 2:18:48 What is home for displaced/transracially adopted persons in a racist nation? 2:18:49 - 2:28:28 Journeying Home: Advent Readings for Adoptees Deconstructing their Faith 2:28:29 - end Matthew reads his poem Psalm of the Aware Adoptee Resource / Reference list: JS LEE: (adoptees as displaced) https://jiasunlee.com/how-to-support-the-person-you-adopted/ Howard Thurman- Jesus & the Disinherited Reclaiming My Theology: Christianity & Patriarchy: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/reclaiming-my-theology/id1516576461?i=1000543492771 Rebecca Carrol- Surviving the White Gaze Danté Stewart- Shoutin' in the Fire Journeying Home: Advent Readings for Adoptees Deconstructing their Faith (won't be sold again until Advent season 2022) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/matthew-anthony00/message

Hannah and Matthew talk about racial identity formation as transracial adoptees, what it means that Hannah is an Identity Reclamation Coach, the liberating impact of college on Hannah's identities as Black and Woman, as well as our participations in and exits from white supremacist orgs. Matthew also shares a poem with us! To see a list of the services Hannah provides click here (including adoptee mentorship, Identity Reclamation Coaching, and consultations for adoptive and foster families) You can follow Hannah on ig @hannahjacksonmatthews Support the Show by joining my patreon Please treat us like your uber driver: rate us 5 stars and leave a review follow Matthew on instagram @matthewcharlespoet Don't forget! you can send the show voice messages and Matthew will respond to some of them --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/matthew-anthony00/message

Welcome to little did u know, a podcast hosted by Matthew Charles, a transracial Adoptee, mystic, poet, actor, and educator. little did u know centers the lived experiences, learned, and inherited wisdom of transracial Adoptees. Please subscribe, join my Patreon for unedited episodes + other bonuses, and lets get liberated, together. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/matthew-anthony00/message