by guest contributor Tami Winfrey Harris
“Maybe Aunt Tami can be the clown at my birthday party.”
So my five-year-old niece told my sister. It’s not that I can juggle or do magic. I don’t own a pair of big, floppy shoes or a red, rubber nose. It’s the hair.
My hair is nappy. It is coarse and […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Brooke Janssen writes: “My daughter Miriam is anxiously awaiting the adoption of her new brother or sister. I’m thankful for the varying viewpoints represented on antiracist parent.”
If you’d like to submit a pic to us, please email us at team@antiracistparent.com. Please include […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Cloudscome
When I was a child we always put out the Creche a few weeks before Christmas. Part of the anticipation of the coming day was looking forward to nestling the tiny little baby Jesus in his spot in the manger. We read the stories of Elizabeth and Mary hearing news of […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’m taking a couple weeks off to visit my family in Hong Kong (for the first time in at least five years!) so postings will slow down quite a bit.
For the next two weeks, we’ll have a couple posts each week, but when I get back in early January we should […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent KC writes: “Here’s a picture of my daughter at the Indiana State Fair. It’s not often that a suburban kid from Phoenix gets to collect eggs, milk cows, or ride a tractor, so she was enchanted by the fair.”
If you’d like […]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Jae Ran Kim, originally published at Harlow’s Monkey
People all over the world are talking about the return of an adopted Korean child by a Dutch diplomat and his wife. I’ve written about disruptions and dissolutions before, namely here and here. I think one of the aspects of this case that is […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Dawn Friedman
We are a transracial family. My husband, my son and myself are white. Our daughter is African-American and joined our family through an open, domestic adoption three years ago. Both my kids are being raised in my Jewish faith in that their formal religious education is happening at our synagogue. […]

by columnist Deesha Philyaw
The question Jan, a local poet, asked me should not have caught me off guard, but it did. She wanted to know if I would be reading later that evening at an open mic she was hosting as part of a 4-day conference on adoption and culture being held here at […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Shelley writes: “Several years ago my parents traveled to South Africa, the first people in my (white) family ever to do so. They brought back with them a book to add to our son’s growing library. The book, entitled Nabulela: […]

by columnist Deesha Philyaw
I like to talk about race. I joke that, as a black woman, particularly as a daughter of the American South, I was born to do it.
I was born and raised in Florida by my mother who remembered drinking from “colored” water fountains, and by my grandmother, one of many women […]