Call me Auntie
Anne Harrison SpeakerNet Sponsor
- Region:
- West Midlands
- Notice Period:
- Regular (more than one month's notice)
- Type:
- Hobby
- Fee:
- Paid: £50 - £60
- Category:
- History
- Updated:
- 20th November 2023
- Tagged:
My life in care and my search for my mother beginning with the Windrush generation, transracial fostering, the care system, confusion over my identity and concluding with mystery and survival.
Views: 251 | Enquiries: 4About Anne Harrison
My biography is divided into five themes
- Abandonment - I was abandoned as a baby by my mother who came from Barbados as part of the Windrush generation.
- Transracial foster child. I was fostered for nine years by a white family but they emigrated to Australia.
- Children's home life. I was placed in a horrible children’s home until I was 17 years old.
- Confusion. I had a lot of confusion about my identity.
- Mystery. There was a lot of mystery about the whereabouts of my mother and father.
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