Video Coverage
CBC News: The National. "China quietly ends international adoptions." Aired on September 10, 2024
CBC News Lunar New Year Coverage of Asian Adoptees of Canada Meetup on January 22, 2023.
Threads 2023: Cultural Conversations conference video, "This Could Happen to Me."
Threads 2022: Cultural Conversations conference video, "My Journey to Becoming: An International Chinese Adoptee’s Story."
Articles
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offcultured - Connecting the Pieces: Asian Adoptees Boldly Speak Their Truth by Tess Xiayu
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The Straits Times - 'I want to visit China': Adopted children seek to find their roots as they come of age by Cheng Wei
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Pamela A. Karanova - 100 Heartfelt Transracial Adoptee Quotes that Honor the Truth of Adoption by Pamela Karanova
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CBC News - She was adopted by Ontario family as 13-month-old. Now, she's connecting to her Chinese heritage
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Radio Canada International - [Report] Adopted children grow up: Interview with Asian Adoptees of Canada (AAC)
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Intercountry Adoptee Voices (ICAV) Perspective Paper - Searching in Intercountry Adoption: Lived Experience Perspectives by Lynelle Long
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CBC Radio The Current - China ended its international adoption program. Prospective parents want Canada to intervene by Padraig Moran
Podcast & Radio Episodes
Shelley has had the pleasure of being a guest on the following podcasts. In each episode, she shares her thoughts, feelings, and/or experiences as an international and transracial adoptee. If you'd like to listen to any of them, click on the photo or hyperlinked episode title and it will take you to the podcast episode!
Want to listen to them all in a row? Here's her Spotify playlist with all the episodes she's been featured in!
This episode we speak with Shelley, a Canadian Chinese adoptee who just finished her Masters. Shelley shares her experience about being Canadian, resources she used to connect with adoption, and more about religion.
In our second episode, we have a very exciting guest joining us, McMaster alumnus Shelley Rottenberg. Amy and Shelley converse about her experience as a transracial Chinese adoptee as well as individual cultural identity.
In today's episode, we are joined by fellow transracial and international adoptee Shelley Rottenberg.
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We touch on the following:
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Shelley's background and adoption
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The identity confusion she experienced
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The journey of trying to fit in
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The power of community
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Creativity as a therapeutic pathway to healing
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Shelley's role in the adoptee community
In this episode, we share our thoughts and reactions to the documentary, One Child Nation (available on Amazon Prime Video). We are joined by Chinese adoptee and CCI 2020 Intern, Shelley Rottenberg. You can find out more about her project here.
In this episode, we look at Impostor Syndrome through the lens of personal identity. Shelley Rottenberg shares her powerful story as a transracial adoptee. Born in China and raised by a single Jewish mother in Canada, Shelley talks about not feeling “Asian enough” or “Jewish enough” and how she continues to find peace.
On Episode 10 of the Adoptee Thoughts Podcast, Shelley, and host, Melissa Guida-Richards discuss the intricacies of being an international adoptee, the benefits of having an adopted sibling, and the experience of being raised by a single mom.
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In this episode, Aimee and Alia are rejoined by Chinese adoptee, Shelley, to discuss their thoughts on the documentary, Found , available on Netflix. Along with the emotions this documentary provoked, they share how Found has impacted their views on DNA testing and the possibilities of them attempting their own birthparent search.
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How can you get a stronger sense of your own identity? Whether it's a full blown identity crisis or a vague lack of clarity on who we are, most of us struggle to see who we are at some stage of our lives. Transracial adoptees are, unsurprisingly, particularly conflicted. Listen in as Shelley shares how she's developed a stronger sense of self. Let her insights guide you to clarity.
Shelley and her mom share their perspectives on China ending its international adoption program, as well as their lived experiences as it relates to adoption, with Matt Galloway in a live radio interview on CBC's The Current.
Shelley shares her reaction to the news of China ending international adoptions and also reads a couple of lines from a poem she wrote to her birth mother. This segment was aired on CBC's Your World Tonight, but was originally recorded and filmed for CBC's The National.
Shelley reads her poem, The Search, which describes her experiences of searching for birth family as an international adoptee, as part of the October Howl Open Mic on CIUT 89.5 FM.