Unraveling Bloodlines: How "Relative Strangers" Redefines Family and Belonging
Darcy Ballantyne writes about her “lifelong struggle with identity.” Everyone in her family was fair-skinned, but her skin was brown, making her the odd one out. Her parents lived in a state of denial, claiming to be colorblind. This negative space defined who she was.“Being a Black adoptee was the defining feature of my childhood,” Ballantyne writes. To complicate matters further, she learns the people she believed to be her mother and father were, in actuality, her grandparents. Over time, she began “mirroring the silence, secrecy, and shame about race and adoption” that had been modelled throughout her childhood.
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