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What Does AAPI Month Mean to Me? Personal perspectives and reflections—edited from a conversation with Joy Lieberthal Rho, co-founder of IAMAdoptee, social worker and therapist, and Glenn Morey, filmmaker and co-creator of the Side by Side project Recorded on 5-6-2024 Learn More About the Side by Side Project Glenn Morey: It’s AAPI heritage month. I remember this […]
“They may be idols, but they are sentient beings who need the same basic things all humans need.” – Joy Lieberthal Rho IAMAdoptee Co-Founder Joy Lieberthal Rho discusses K-Pop sensation “TWICE,” mental health, and transparency, in Jae-Ha Kim’s recent Today News article “TWICE is determined to keep rising — but they’ll never stop having fun.“ […]
“Do you know BTS?” – Min YoonGi, SUGA Finding Healing One Song at a Time by IAA Co-Founder, Joy Lieberthal Rho My first favorite song of BTS was “Idol”, the sound of Korean traditional instruments in a pop song caught my ears. Yet, when a dear big sister/friend of mine asked […]
“What do you want to be when you grow up my love?,” I ask my little one. He says without hesitation, “I want to be a father.” Too often in adoption, we can be very birthmother centered, and I am guilty of that too. She has been a presence almost all of my adult […]
How do we feed ourselves when we were raised on pasta and pizza? It’s a facetious question, because I have nothing against pasta or pizza, but I distinctly remember that pizza was an acquired taste and I never crave pasta the way I crave rice. I still hold my memory of pizza for the first […]
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What Does AAPI Month Mean to Me? Personal perspectives and reflections—edited from a conversation with Joy Lieberthal Rho, co-founder of IAMAdoptee, social worker and therapist, and Glenn Morey, filmmaker and co-creator of the Side by Side project Recorded on 5-6-2024 Learn More About the Side by Side Project Glenn Morey: It’s AAPI heritage month. I remember this […]
“They may be idols, but they are sentient beings who need the same basic things all humans need.” – Joy Lieberthal Rho IAMAdoptee Co-Founder Joy Lieberthal Rho discusses K-Pop sensation “TWICE,” mental health, and transparency, in Jae-Ha Kim’s recent Today News article “TWICE is determined to keep rising — but they’ll never stop having fun.“ […]
“Do you know BTS?” – Min YoonGi, SUGA Finding Healing One Song at a Time by IAA Co-Founder, Joy Lieberthal Rho My first favorite song of BTS was “Idol”, the sound of Korean traditional instruments in a pop song caught my ears. Yet, when a dear big sister/friend of mine asked […]
“What do you want to be when you grow up my love?,” I ask my little one. He says without hesitation, “I want to be a father.” Too often in adoption, we can be very birthmother centered, and I am guilty of that too. She has been a presence almost all of my adult […]
How do we feed ourselves when we were raised on pasta and pizza? It’s a facetious question, because I have nothing against pasta or pizza, but I distinctly remember that pizza was an acquired taste and I never crave pasta the way I crave rice. I still hold my memory of pizza for the first […]
