NAAM Gala and Auction event recap.
NAAM Gala and Auction event recap.
Recap from 2nd annual BIPOC Adoptees Conference 2025
By César Augusto
By Jill Mann
By Anica Falcone-Juengert
By Anica Falcone-Juengert
Liana shares her how entering into parenthood set her down the path of identity, why we need to de-center adoptive parents and agencies from narratives about adoptee experiences, and the importance of celebrating each other.
Lisa and Patrick discuss her experience as a biracial Black, transracial adoptee, navigating reunion, and the importance of validating adoptees' lived experiences.
AJ and Patrick talk about the impact of Nicole Chung's memoir, All You Can Ever Know, entering and exiting online adoptee community spaces, and why the "gratitude" narrative is the worst narrative.
Lucy joins Patrick from across the pond to talk about being one of 106 Hong Kong foundlings, the importance of adoptees being able to voice their own lived experiences themselves, and why filmmakers and creatives have to do more than just "rely on the experts they know" when telling transracial adoptee stories.
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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