The Adoption Justice Project

society, culture, relationships, health, fitness, mental · EN

The Adoption Justice Project is an adoptee-led, adoptee-centered podcast that brings adoption research, clinical practice, policy, and community into a single honest conversation. Hosted by Ashley M. Toland, DSW, LCSW and Macy Oosthuizen, LCSW — both clinicians and adoptees — the show refuses the fairytale version of adoption and takes seriously what the evidence, the therapy room, and adoptees' own lives actually reveal. In adoption, the "constellation" describes everyone touched by it: adoptees, birth and first families, and adoptive families. This show doesn't erase those perspectives, but it does center the one most often spoken about rather than spoken with — the adoptee's. Each episode moves between rigorous research and lived experience: what the data says, how adoption shows up across a lifespan, what clinicians get wrong, and what needs to change in policy and practice. Expect conversations with researchers, clinicians, advocates, and adoptees about trauma and r