Today on Color Shift, I’m honored to be joined by Dewi—a powerful voice in the adoptee community whose story spans continents, generations, and identities.

Dewi was born in Indonesia in 1978 and adopted as an infant by white American parents. Renamed "Amy" and raised in white suburbia, she spent years navigating life in silence—until reclaiming her birth name and reconnecting with both birth parents as an adult. She now identifies as a displaced Indigenous person.

Dewi is a mother, a birth mother, and a vocal advocate for adoptee healing. She uplifts spaces like Adoption Mosaic and is the creator of MY NAME IS NOT AMY—a documentary about her boldly reclaiming her identity.

In this conversation, we talk about names, reunion, and what it means to mother yourself while mothering others. Dewi speaks through adoption with truth, depth, and dignity.

Links:

https://www.eight16creative.com/

https://www.mynameisnotamy.com/

Adoption Mosaic: https://adoptionmosaic.com/

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Merch: Color Shift 1.0 by Nathan Choi – Adoptive Threads

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In this episode, I talk with Marcela, a Chilean adoptee who was adopted at one month old and raised in Massachusetts by a white American family. Without connection to her culture or heritage growing up, Marcela always felt something was missing. That changed in 2019 when she found and reunited with her birth mother in Chile. We talk about what reunion has meant to her, how it's shaped her understanding of identity, and how it's influenced the way she thinks about becoming a mother one day.

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Merch: Color Shift 1.0 by Nathan Choi – Adoptive Threads

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Kellan's Journey Through Adoption and Queer Identity

In this episode of Color Shift, Kellan shares their story of being adopted from China to the UK and raised in a white family and community. They reflect on the complexities of identity, silence, and survival that shaped their early years—and the deep healing work they’ve done since. Kellan speaks openly about what it means to reclaim space as a queer, transracial adoptee, and how building community with other adoptees and queer folks has been essential to their growth. This conversation is honest, grounding, and a powerful reminder of the importance of telling our own stories.

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Website: https://KaiMingHolistics.as.me/

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Merch: Color Shift 1.0 by Nathan Choi – Adoptive Threads

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If you are a transracial adoptee and want to share your story email me at: transracialadoptionstories@gmail.com