{"id":55997,"date":"2018-03-22T02:51:05","date_gmt":"2018-03-22T02:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55997"},"modified":"2018-03-22T03:24:43","modified_gmt":"2018-03-22T03:24:43","slug":"my-transracial-testimony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55997","title":{"rendered":"My Transracial Testimony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\/portrait-of-an-adoption\/2017\/11\/my-transracial-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>My Transracial Testimony<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chicago Now<\/a><br \/>\n2017-11-05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/doriana-markovitz-a93129115\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Doriana Markovitz<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\/portrait-of-an-adoption\/2017\/11\/my-transracial-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\/portrait-of-an-adoption\/files\/2017\/10\/Doriana-1.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Bio: I am a biracial woman, but I identify as Black. My birthmother is what Puerto Ricans call Spanish. I was adopted by two white women when I was a week old. They later divorced. My Jewish mama, who gave me my last name Markovitz, remarried and adopted 2 more baby girls, later on, giving me siblings and ending my own unique child experience at 14. During that time, I swallowed a white liberal education for 9 years, until I was forced to puke it back up in the later years of my high school experience. This is my testimony, my hymnal, my stories, my life as a transracial adoptee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I have been raised by many mothers; many women have poured themselves into me. I am the product of the multi-dimensionality of womanhood. I have only ever known that experience, the struggle, and hardship, while also the joy and the power that women can offer to one another and their children.<\/p>\n<p>Three women have raised me &#8212; the mothers who adopted me, but also the woman who took me in when those two women fell out of love.<\/p>\n<p>Motherhood lives inside my skin, but I am also motherless because there is a woman out there who I do not know, but whose body was my first home. I knew this from the time I could understand that the women who chose me did not look like me.<\/p>\n<p>Their skin did not look like mine, their hair did not feel like mine, and their bodies were not shaped like mine. Even though I knew this, I felt safe inside that truth. I felt loved inside that truth until I couldn\u2019t any longer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagonow.com\/portrait-of-an-adoption\/2017\/11\/my-transracial-testimony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been raised by many mothers; many women have poured themselves into me. I am the product of the multi-dimensionality of womanhood. I have only ever known that experience, the struggle, and hardship, while also the joy and the power that women can offer to one another and their children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,395,8,20],"tags":[687,28230,28231],"class_list":["post-55997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-autobiography","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-adoption","tag-chicago-now","tag-doriana-markovitz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56000,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55997\/revisions\/56000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}