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Traveling My Roots

Lisette Austin

One adoptee's experience at the intersection of travel, family history, place and identity.

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Arkansas Reflections: Part 3

This is the final installment in a series. I recommend reading Part 1 and Part 2 first.


Columbus

After we left Macedonia cemetery Sunday afternoon, we drove a short distance to the heart of Columbus. This was where my biologica...

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Arkansas Reflections: Part 2

If you haven’t already, I recommend reading Part 1 before continuing below. When finished with this one, be sure to also read the final post.


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After a day of haunting the past, it was time to enter the present, to inter...

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Arkansas Reflections: Part I

Lately I’ve been focused on writing poetry, reading and research. But I’m still doing DNA travel when I can. Over the next few days I’ll be sharing some thoughts and reflections from my ancestral trip to Arkansas last month (and there’s an...

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Greetings from Senegal!

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  • Lisette Austin

    Poet, writer, podcaster, traveler. Reclaiming ancestral lineages, unearthing truths, connecting history, place & identity. A Black biracial adoptee, I am currently traveling to the places my biological ancestors were from.

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