Whatever Next?: opening up narratives on adoption
Whatever Next?: an online platform aiming to open up adoptive narratives An online platform, created by three Chinese adoptee women, is striving to open up adoptive narratives and explore their identities as Asian adoptees. The three women, Hannah Feben Smith, Josephine Jay and Addie Bara, met via Facebook in 2019 before officially meeting in an Edinburgh cafe in 2020. Hannah Feben Smith, a student at Edinburgh University, said that throughout her childhood she struggled to come to terms with “what being adopted actually meant”. She added: “I felt like I actively sought to repr...