Adopting Privilege

A Memoir of Reinventing My Adoptee Narrative

De: Abigail K. Hasberry PhD

Narrado por: Adenrele Ojo

Adopting Privilege is Dr. Hasberry’s attempt at not only reckoning with her past, but offering unfiltered guidance to other transracial adoptees, and the larger adoption community, navigating what it means to exist in a familial limbo while also discovering what it means to simply exist.

Abigail Hasberry is no stranger to adoption. As both a Black adoptee to a white family, and a birth mother, her intimate understanding of this experience has shaped her career as both a therapist and transracial adoption scholar. However, the intricacies of transracial adoption narratives leave much to be discovered, and with stories often shared from the perspective of the adoptive family, the most affected group—the adoptees—are often left to fend for themselves in their own self discoveries.

As the voices of transracial adoptees gain prominence in academic, literary, and creative works, Adopting Privilege emerges as both a timely and vital contribution to the discourse. Through the lens of an adoptee, Dr. Hasberry’s debut memoir explores the triumphs, challenges, and complexities of transracial adoption, the nuances that make it difficult to hold space for oneself, and the experience that comes with adopting outside of race.

©2025 Abigail K. Hasberry, PhD (P)2025 Dreamscape Media

Adoption is a loss driven existence.

This book is a riveting cry for justice and self reclamation. A powerful indictment of an industry and a narrative developed to sell children and the parenting experience to the most vulnerable . Cold bloodedly raw recollections served up complicated and real. A must read for all of us living in the shadow of having ever been relinquished.

Expert witness in so many areas

I have listened to this twice and will probably listen again and again, as she touches on so many areas: First as being adopted, suffering physical abuse, relationships, being a birth mom, experiencing reunions, on and on. She also is a therapist, and I can highly recommend Dr. Abby’s book and her to so many and will be sharing her book with my adoption peer support groups locally and online.