
Author Alice Stephens on reframing adoption stories
Clip: 12/26/2018 | 2m 41s
Author Alice Stephens on reframing adoption stories
Alice Stephens is a fiction writer. She is also an adoptee, born to a Korean mother but raised by a white American family. Stephens shares her humble opinion on “parent narratives” and how she learned to become the subject of her own adoption story, rather than the object.
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Author Alice Stephens on reframing adoption stories
Clip: 12/26/2018 | 2m 41s
Alice Stephens is a fiction writer. She is also an adoptee, born to a Korean mother but raised by a white American family. Stephens shares her humble opinion on “parent narratives” and how she learned to become the subject of her own adoption story, rather than the object.
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