To encourage readers to join sooner than later (and to reduce our anxiety levels) we’ve adding some bonus incentive s. Even though our 500 Member goal is way less than 1% of the people who read the magazine every day, there’s a lot of chaotic energy out there and maybe some of you are even on vacation (a future we’d like to imagine)?! that narrative was a third parent-guiding me, shaping me, informing me.Īs I type this, we’re at 149 Rumpus Members, which puts us not-quite a third of the way (29%) toward our June goal of 500.īy now (a little more than halfway through June), we were hoping to be a bit past the mid-point of 250 members. The dominant adoption narrative that my parents had spared me from a terrible fate, that my birth mother had relinquished me out of love, that I had been saved. Relatives, friends, and strangers assured me the life I led in New York was better than anything my biological parents could have given me. Raised on Long Island by Irish Catholics, I grew up being reminded how blessed and how lucky I was to have been adopted. We boarded a plane bound for the United States and my new parents.

When I was three-months-old, I was placed in the arms of an American soldier returning from the parallel that divides Korea. Sharkey will be curating this series, and she’s elaborated on the types of stories (and whom) she is hoping to feature below. Rumpus Essays Editor (and Book Club coordinator extraordinaire) Lauren J. We’re accepting essays (750-4,000 words) by adoptees from 11/1 through 12/31 via Submittable. Call for Submissions: November ’23 Themed Month

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