TY  - SER
AU  - Blake, Denise
AU  - Ahuriri-Driscoll, Annabel
AU  - Sumner, Barbara
TI  - Adoptee activism : : I am not your 'child for all purposes'
PY  - 2023///
CY  -  
PB  - Counterfutures
KW  - ADOPTION
KW  - Adoption Act 1955
KW  - COLONISATION
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - KŌRERO NEHE
KW  - MĀORI
KW  - RACISM
KW  - RANGAHAU MĀORI
KW  - TAIPŪWHENUATANGA
KW  - TE AO MĀORI
KW  - WHAKAHĀWEA IWI
KW  - WHAKAPAPA
KW  - WHĀNGAI
KW  - NEW ZEALAND
N1  - Counterfutures, 2023, 14: 83-111
N2  - In this article, we, three adoptee scholars, share collectively 
our experiences of adoption while engaging in activism that 
contests adoption practices. We apply autoethnographic 
and re!exive strategies to unpack our shared conversation 
in order to foreground the plight of adoptees and o"er 
insight into adoption and the importance of the current law 
reform in Aotearoa New Zealand. We draw on a model of 
adoptee consciousness to frame the complexity of our ‘lived 
experience’ and activism. In doing this we outline some of 
the challenges we face as adoptees because adoption, as a 
human-rights injustice, is largely misunderstood, overlooked, 
or ignored. To begin, however, it is necessary to outline the 
history of closed stranger adoption in Aotearoa New Zealand 
with the purpose of providing context. (Authors' abstract). Record #8588
UR  - https://counterfutures.nz/14/Blake%20Sumner%20Ahuriri%20Driscoll.pdf
ER  -