Adoption is often told as a story with a clear happy ending.

A child finds a family. A life is made possible. The story is considered complete.

But for the people living inside that story, the experience can be far more complicated.

In this episode of Matters of Consequence, Michael Hanf speaks with writer, educator, and solo performance artist Liz DeBetta. Through writing, poetry, movement, and performance, Liz has spent years trying to understand what adoption does to identity, belonging, and the body.

Her solo performance Un-M-Othered grew out of that process. Not as a message or solution, but as a way of making visible experiences that are often kept in silence.

In this conversation, Liz reflects on growing up as an adoptee, the long search for language to describe internal experiences, and the difficult conversations that can begin once the story expands beyond the familiar narrative.

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