Author, Larissa MacFarquhar discusses the ways adoptees reckon with corruption in orphanages, hidden birth certificates, and the urge to search for their birth parents.

The New Yorker by Larissa MacFarquhar

“Every time the abortion debate comes up, I get tons of messages from people who say things like what Candace Owens has tweeted before, which is that “it must have been hard for you to hear all these people talk about how worthless your life is and how you should have been murdered. How does this make you feel?” I get inundated with these messages.”

The Washington Post by Irin Carmen

Rachel Dolezal incorrectly uses the term “transracial.”

Angela is interviewed by Anderson Cooper

A Seattle Agency Digs Deep into Unanswered Questions About Past Adoption Practices, and its Obligations to Families.

Written by Michael Fitzgerald at The Imprint

Sometimes the best intentions to bolster identity and culture contribute to gentrification and displacement of the Black community.

Written by Angela Tucker for YES! Magazine

Angela shares the Red Table with her biological mother, her adoptive parents and the Pinkett-Smith family to articulate the complexities of transracial adoption.

Fueled by the brilliant work of Lori Holden, Dr. JaeRan Kim and Angela published our Inclusive Family Support Model in the Journal of Child & Family Social Work.

Angela created and teaches the transracial adoption module during the Permanence & Adoption Competency Certificate program at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work.

“You are my worst fear realized,” a black woman—and complete stranger—said to me after I concluded my keynote speech. She continued, “I came to hear you speak, and you have confirmed my worst fears. You aren’t a true black person.”

Written by Angela Tucker in The Root.

This is a story about Oterious and Isell, our Black fathers who wanted us, and the system that prohibited them.

Written By Angela Tucker and Lisa Marie Simmons for the Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law Review

Don’t wait for a tragedy to take a stand against racism. Tucker has spoken to several transracial adoptees whose parents only began attending protests after George Floyd’s death in 2020.

TODAY Parenting By Rachel Paula Abrahamson

Different types of families have long been a source of misplaced humor, from teasing kids about being adopted to the “evil stepmother” trope. How can parents help their children learn how to handle intrusive questions?

Written by Meg St-Esprit

Angela Tucker’s new memoir disrupts common narratives about transracial adoption.

By Misty Shock Rule

Maria Browning interviews Angela Tucker about the complexities of feeling both gratitude & loss at the same time.

-Chapter 12, Humanities Tennessee

I’ve seen other books culminate in a manifesto — bringing together the arguments that have preceded it. I’d love to hear about making this manifesto the very first thing that readers encounter (and how that connects to adoptee centrism) and how you thought of writing the manifesto itself. Did it emerge, as is?

Anne Helen Petersen