Taking the Stigma out of Adoption

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S2, Ep. 15: Jeff

In this episode, Sarah and Louise discuss Chapter Fifteen of  “Journey of The Adopted Self” by Betty Jean Lifton and then they speak to Jeff Forney.

Jeff Forney was born in San Francisco and raised in the East Bay town of Moraga, CA. A photographer based in Los Angeles, he has been working on a documentary filming interviews of adoptees in reunion.

As Jeff says, ‘Finding your birth parents is the base camp of Mt. Everest, now you have to climb the bitch’.

His goal is to take the stigma out of adoption, help adoptees identify with others' stories, and through that, restore power that had been buried and forgotten.

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