Grinding Up Stones: the Asian Adoptee ‘Zine is a biannual publication
for adoptees by adoptees. Although it is targeted at teenage and
adolescent Asian adoptees, it is intended to be a resource for all
transracial adoptees – including adults.
Grinding Up Stones is a
lyric from a Blue Scholars song entitled “No Rest for the Weary”. This
is relevant to the experiences of transracial adoptees in that there is
a great fiction we are taught as adoptees about where we came from, who
we are, how we feel and what we can become. As transracial adoptees, we
must grind these stones “until they turn into dust” in order to develop
our own consciousness and write our own story.
I hope that this publication and web resource will foster community
within the adoptee community, as well as provide adoptees with a
language and framework to describe their own experiences and feelings.
There are too few spaces for adoptees to have a voice about their own
lives and share their experiences - this, I hope, will become one of
those rare spaces.
