Black Adoptees Identities - Episode 36 - Sequoijior Bateman-Wilkes

In this episode, Christelle Pellecuer is in conversation with Sequoijior Bateman-Wilkes. 

  Sequoijior talked about his adoption and how it has affected his childhood and his teenagehood when he spent time in juvenile hall and joined a gang to find a sense of belonging, a sense of family and trying to find himself.   He shared his reunion with his biological family and how writing, poetry and music saved his life.   He also talked about his current relationships with adoptive mother and birth family  as well as changing his name back to his birth family name.    Content warning: mention of molestation from 19min30 to 20min25; talk of abuse from 20min40 to 21min40 and discussion of prostitution, rape and incest 33min00 to 35min00   @my_name_is_sequoijior