Auteur: Valerie Andrews

Valerie Andrews is a PhD student in Gender, Feminist, and Women”s Studies at York University in Toronto. Valerie is an adoption activist and executive director of Origins Canada: Supporting those Separated by Adoption. Her main interest of research is critical adoption studies with an emphasis on adoption culture and the surrendering mother. Some of Valerie”s works include The Language of Adoption, Crimes Against the Unmarried Mother, Sales and Marketing in Modern Domestic Adoption, #Flip the Script on Teen Mothers, Motherhood Denied: Canada”s Maternity Homes, and Scripting/Disrupting “Birthmother” Identities.