Join us this November for a two-part virtual workshop, Blogging with Vulnerability: Honoring Your Boundaries and Creating Connection, with Dr. Katherin (K E) Garland—award-winning writer, adoptee, and co-founder of the Black Adoptees Meetup. Through guided prompts, Dr. Garland will share how storytelling can be a powerful tool for healing, connection, and claiming your voice. You will leave the workshop ready to publish your own blog, submit to an organization’s blog, and use your story to create connections with your fellow adoptees.
This workshop will take place in two 90-minute sessions on Sunday, November 2 and Sunday, November 9.
This event is open to BIPOC adoptees only (ages 18+), including BIPOC former and current foster youth, those living with a legal guardian, and descendants of adoptees (where one parent identifies as a BIPOC adoptee).
Registration will be required and will open in late September. Please check back for details, or sign up for our newsletter to be notified when registration launches.
About Dr. Katherin (K E) Garland
Dr. Katherin (K E) Garland is a same-race, domestic adoptee and co-founder of Black Adoptees Meetup. She is also an award-winning creative nonfiction writer and blogger, whose debut memoir, In Search of a Salve, was long listed for the 2023 Santa Fe Writers Project. As a freelance writer, she maintains two personal blogs and has written for Adoption Knowledge Affiliates, midnight & indigo, and Raising Mothers. As a freelance editor, she shows writers how to effectively tell their nonfiction stories, while maintaining their unique voice.
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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