“The voices of transracial adoptees have been silenced, our experiences have been overshadowed and overruled by the glossy public image created by adoption agencies and sometimes even our own families. Our overall goal has been to provide a counter-narrative to the dominant story, which has been about us but not authored by us. We are not objects but rather subjects in our own histories. Our lives are impacted by the larger forces of colonization, racism, sexism, and globalized capitalism, as well as the intimate conditions of grief, rage, lonliness, and longing. But we are survivors – not victims.” — from the Introduction to “Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial adoption”