Join us for an afternoon of storytelling, connection, and community in New York City.
BIPOC Adoptees VOICES Storytelling is a space where racially marginalized adoptees and others impacted by the family policing system can reclaim narratives, build connection, and witness one another’s stories. Registration is required and space is limited.
This year’s storytelling theme, Erased Narratives: Reclaiming Story, Identity, and Belonging, explores how erasure spans generations, borders, identities, and lived experiences.
The response to our New York City storytelling event was incredible. We are deeply grateful to everyone who shared their interest, ideas, and stories with us. Our team is currently reviewing submissions. All applicants can expect to hear from us by August 23, 2026.
Storyteller Proposals Closed: August 16, 2026
Storytellers Notified: By August 23, 2026
Event Date: September 20, 2026
We can’t wait to gather with you in NYC!
BIPOC adoptees have suffered from family separation and ethnic displacement. Many of us are immigrants who have also been separated from our homelands from injustices stemming from imperialism and colonialism. Many of us are Native adoptees who experience an acute kind of loss from the history of violent settler colonialism on Turtle Island that has resulted in familial and cultural loss, the degradation of the Earth, and the continued oppression Native peoples. We stand in solidarity with our Native siblings. Our organization occupies the unceded ancestral lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Cowlitz, Chinook, Tualatin, Kalapuya, Molalla, and other tribes whose homes ran along the Columbia and Willamette Rivers. We offer our deep respect and solidarity to these communities.
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