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Academic Books & Book Chapters Relinquished Gretchen Sisson 2024 Dr Gretchen Sisson is a sociologist whose qualitative research interests focus on abortion and adoption in the United States. Her book Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood draws from interviews she has conducted with women who have relinquished their babies to adoption. From the publisher’s site: “Adoption has always been viewed as a beloved institution for building families, as well as a mutually agreeable common ground in the abortion debate, but little attention has been paid to the lives of mothers who relinquish infants for private adoption. Relinquished reveals adoption to be a path of constrained choice for those for whom abortion is inaccessible, or for whom parenthood is untenable. The stories of relinquishing mothers are stories about our country's refusal to care for families at the most basic level, and to instead embrace External Website

Authors G Carol Grace ➝ Cary Grant ➝ Back to Top

Authors B Floella Benjamin (writer) ➝ Shannon Burns ➝ Anthony Burgess ➝ Leslie Baruch Brent ➝ Andi Brierley ➝ Sally Bayley ➝ Rita Mae Brown ➝ Leigh Bardugo ➝ Elizabeth Bowen ➝ Louise Beech ➝ Annie Besant ➝ Martin Buber ➝ Augusten Burroughs ➝ Nina Bawden ➝ J.M. Barrie ➝ Back to Top

Authors P Hegel's Owl. The Life of Bernard Smith ➝ Martha Matilda Harper and the American Dream ➝ Back to Top

Television Shows Superkids: Breaking Away from Care 2018 Lemn Sissay meets seven young people who are in the care of their council and sets out to help them express their experiences through words and perform them to a packed theatre of decision-makers. External Website

Authors Q Vivaldi's Virgins ➝ Back to Top

Authors O One Another (Podcast) ➝ BBC Radio 4 - Books and Authors, Joyce Carol Oates, Wind in the Willows and Orphans in literature ➝ How Superman Defeated the KKK (in Real Life): Hear the World Changing 1946 Radio Drama ➝ The Horror Writer: Edgar Allan Poe ➝ Why my birth parents tried to keep me a secret ➝ Back to Top

Children's Fiction Homecoming: Volume 1 Cynthia Voight 2012 “It’s still true.” That’s the first thing James Tillerman says to his older sister, Dicey, every morning. It’s still true that their mother has abandoned the four Tillermans in a mall parking lot somewhere in the middle of Connecticut. It’s still true that they have to find their own way to Great-aunt Cilla’s house in Bridgeport. It’s still true that they need to spend as little as possible on food and seek shelter anywhere that is out of view of the authorities. It’s still true that the only way they can hope to all stay together is to just keep moving forward. Deep down, Dicey hopes they can find someone to trust, someone who will take them in and love them. But she’s afraid it’s just too much to hope for.... Originally published 1973 External Website

Television Shows Goliath 2016 Legal drama series. Main character is lawyer Billy McBride (Billy Bob Thornton). His new 2IC is Patty Solis-Papagian (Nina Arianda), who was in foster care. She is a lawyer and a real estate agent. There are other Care Experienced characters in the series, all playing the roles of villians. In the 4th season of legal drama, Patty Solis-Pagian is now a swanky corporate lawyer. There's a kinship care character too. Kate Zax (Clara Wong) is the niece of George Zax and was in his care from a young age. She's a chemist at Zax Pharma and concerned about the addictive properties of the drug the corporation promotes as non-addictive. External Website

Poets Phillis Wheatley Phillis Wheatley African American poet, Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784), was trafficked on a slave ship called The Phillis from West Africa when she was about 7 years of age She was “purchased” in August 1761 by Susanna Wheatley, the wife of a successful Boston, Massachusetts tailor, John Wheatley. Phillis worked as a domestic for the Wheatleys, but they also taught her to read and write. By the time she was 18, Phillis Wheatley had a collection of poems which were, eventually, published as Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral (1773). She was the first African American woman to have a book published. The poem for which Phillis Wheatley is best known today is “On Being Brought from Africa to America (1768). A statue of Phillis Wheatley forms part of the Boston Women’s Memorial on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. Image from here: https://friendsofthepublicgarden.org/2023/03/01/womenshistory-phillis-wheatley-march-1-2023/ External Website

Biography of Care Experienced People The Mystery of Charles Dickens A.N.Wilson 2020 In this pychological analysis of the great Victorian writer, A.N.Wilson explores how Charles Dickens drew on his own experiences as a child to create his popular novels. Wilson uses the idea of the 'false self' to suggest that Dickens protected his inner child from public scrutiny yet told the story of his childhood through his books. External Website

Authors O Ordeal by Innocence (Novel) ➝ I was born for this ➝ Girl ➝ Where the Crawdads Sing (novel) ➝ Evidence of V ➝ Back to Top

Authors G Delinquent Angel ➝ Daddy, we hardly knew you ➝ One Life: My Mother's Story ➝ Back to Top

Films/Videos Orphan 2009 Orphan is a 2009 psychological horror film directed by Jaume Collet-Serra and written by David Leslie Johnson from a story by Alex Mace. The film stars Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman, C. C. H. Pounder and Jimmy Bennett. The plot centers on a couple who, after the death of their unborn child, adopt a mysterious nine-year-old Russian orphan. External Website

Radio & Podcast The Imprint Weekly Podcast The Imprint Weekly Podcast The Imprint is an independent, nonprofit daily news publication dedicated to covering child welfare, juvenile justice, mental health and educational issues faced by vulnerable children and families. External Website

Radio & Podcast Simon Woolley Desert Island Discs (Simon Woolley) 2023 Simon Woolley (b. 1961) became the first Black Principal of Homerton College, Cambridge. Simon Woolley was born to a Windrush generation nurse who sent him to an orphanage when he was two years old. From the orphanage he was foster by Phillis and Dan Fox, who later adopted Simon. Simon Woolley began his working life as an academic before moving into advertising. He then decided to go university. He later became involved with British politics and served as a Commissioner for the Equality and Human Rights Commission. Simon Woolley became Baron Woolley of Woodford on 14 October 2019. External Website

Films/Videos One Good Turn starring Norman Wisdom 1955 This British comedy is set in an English children's home. Norman grew up there and stays on after he grows up as a carer. For Norman, the children and staff at the home are his family. When his home is threatened, he sets out to help save it. External Website

Performing Arts Rap Artist, motion graphic designer Ric Flo 2021 Care Leaders Record Label There is a lack of representation of care experienced artists within the music industry and we are focused on supporting the talent of today's generation to make sure their voices get heard! This label is here to boost the future aspirations of care-experienced people regardless of past circumstances. How? Music industry mentorship and £1000 advance to 5 selected artists to empower their independent music-making. Output A professionally produced compilation album to champion 5 talented care leavers and supporting promo content for their music campaign - music videos, artwork, press shots and epk. The legacy of Mantra Music is to exist beyond the album release. It's here to be an inspiring representation of what care leavers can achieve when giving the right support! External Website

Activists Volunteers Future Project Catherine Burland 2024 An activist since 2012, Catherine “Catt” Burland has expressed support and ideas to parents, carers, and fellow care experienced individuals of all generations. She has, as well as working in a residential children's home and being a Child Protection Advocate, managed an Independent Visitors project, later becoming an 'IV' herself. External Website

Authors R Mr Einstein's Secretary ➝ The White Crow ➝ Good Girl, Bad Girl ➝ Island ➝ A Whole Life ➝ Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children ➝ Storm Child ➝ The Suspect ➝ Separate Tracks ➝ The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart (Novel) ➝ When She Was Good ➝ The Other Wife ➝ Shadow in the Empire of Light ➝ Back to Top