Adoption, Identity, and Belonging: Brittany Penner’s Powerful Story in Children Like Us
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Brittany Penner shares her powerful story of adoption and the search for belonging amidst cultural erasure.
How do you discover your sense of belonging when your culture and background have been erased? In this episode of About Your Mother, I’m joined by Brittany Penner, author of Children Like Us: A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home. She shares her story of being adopted as an infant, the history of indigenous children being taken from their families in the Sixties Scoop, and her struggle with finding where she belongs. Brittany also shares about her writing process...
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