Join us for a powerful evening with five BIPOC adoptee authors sharing their work and engaging in conversation. More than a reading, this event creates space for storytelling, connection, and empowerment—reclaiming narratives often overlooked or overshadowed. Through spoken word and discussion, we’ll elevate adoptee voices, challenge dominant narratives, and build community.
Featuring:
Leah Altman, KE Garland, Matan Gold, Dani Janae, and Kailee Pedersen
📖 Book signing & sales after the event with Bishop & Wilde Books
⏰ Doors open: 6:30 PM
📍 In person at Alberta Abbey (not livestreamed)
This event is open to the public and made possible by our sponsors: Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), Alberta Abbey, the City of Portland, Bishop & Wilde Books, and the Arts Access Fund.
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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