To Pimp An Adopted Butterfly
originally published in Severance Magazine 3.16.2022 As a transracial adoptee raised by a white family in a small racist town in Oregon…
originally published in Severance Magazine 3.16.2022
As a transracial adoptee raised by a white family in a small racist town in Oregon, I’ve always known that being Black meant being different. My Black body was both a cocoon and a womb, working overtime to birth and metamorphosize my self.
I used to long for my father. The one whose seed impregnated the…
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