Liana Soifer

BIPOC Adoptees voices featured on Conversation Piece with Patrick Armstrong! Liana Soifer shares her story.

Liana and Patrick wrap up this series with a discussion about where our community goes next. 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. She also shares how BIPOC Adoptees got started and why the mission to include all BIPOC adoptee experiences matters.

You can watch this conversation with Liana and Patrick on YouTube here.

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About Conversation Piece with Patrick Armstrong

Conversation Piece with Patrick Armstrong is a podcast about the missing pieces of the conversations we’re already having. Join the titualar Patrick every Tuesday as he explores a wide range of topics with guests from various identities and communities. Each episode is a unique and thought-provoking journey, where Patrick’s genuine curiosity leads him to ask insightful questions and draw out intriguing insights. From educators to authors, entrepreneurs to thought leaders, guests share what they think is missing from their respective conversations and what we can do to address them both inside and outside our communities.

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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.