Adoptees Crossing Lines

Mila's Truth: Navigating Adoption, Liberation, and Community

Lia Season 3 Episode 5

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Mila's Truth: Navigating Adoption, Liberation, and Community


The Church does an excellent job of silencing you if you oppose them. They’d even hire a marketing company to rebrand adoption so that their business as adoption middlemen can continue to thrive. But, it’s not just the Church. The dominant culture is to silence anyone who speaks up against adoption. To make them feel shame. To gaslight them. That was Mila Konomos’ experience once she realized how adoption has wounded her. 


Mila tells her story of how she was forcibly removed from her family in 1975 to the realization in 2009 that everything she thought she knew about adoption was a lie. She discusses how reuniting with her biological parents changed everything, how similar she realized she was hto her bio parents, grappling with her identity, the power of speaking up,  and the cultural resistance against accepting the truth about adoption. 


Mila is the host of the podcast called Everything You Think You Know About Adoption Is A Lie.


“If you don't change the narrative, then you can't change the policies.”


What we discussed 


(00:22) Who is Mila Kanomos? 

(01:39) Being a (clueless) grateful adoptee 

(04:25) Realizing I’m actually wounded 

(06:00) “You had this information all of my life?!”

(08:24) The Last Unicorn 

(12:55) Terrified of opposing adoption publicly 

(15:50) The Church is complicit 

(18:23) Propaganda around adoption 

(19:38) Surviving reunion 

(22:04) How do I become Korean?

(25:39) Biological traits & connections

(30:55) Everything you know about adoption is a lie

(36:43) Church PAID to rebrand adoption 

(41:03) Centering adoptee narratives  

(44:47) Adoption IS oppression 

(49:03) What can you do about this?

(55:51) You already know who you are




Links


Everything You Think You Know About Adoption Is A Lie Podcast


Child Catchers by Catherine Joyce 


Connect with Mila: Instagram | Podcast Instagram 


Follow us on social media: Twitter | Instagram | Tiktok


Credits


Special thanks to Samuel Oyedele for editing our podcast, support his work on
Instagram or e-mail him at Drumaboyiglobal@gmail.com