Race and Transracial Adoption Workshop with Lisa Marie Rollins October 13, 2007

CD Forum Presents:
Race and Transracial Adoption Workshop
with Lisa Marie Rollins
1pm-3pm at Seattle University
Pigott Building, Room 106
Broadway and E. Madison Street, Seattle, WA

RSVP at deneem@cdforum.org or call 206-323-4032.

Open to the public: For youth (13 and up), adult adoptees and any member of the triad.

This workshop attends to the myriad of issues that emerge when we place adult adoptees at the center of a discussion about transracial adoption. What happens when we stop arguing that “love is enough” and that “race doesn’t matter” and move to the more complicated issues of how white privilege factors into the rising numbers of adoptions both domestically and internationally. Additionally, this workshop focuses on racial identity and adoption and how thinking about oneself as black, Asian or Latin American has its own particular struggles when adoption is our starting point. Lisa Marie Rollins is a performance artist, writer and the founder of Adopted and Fostered Adults of the African Diaspora (AFAAD) and will be a panelist at Which Way Seattle? Transracial Adoption of Black Children, Thurs. Oct. 11, 2007 at 7pm, Ethnic Cultural Theatre - UW. More info visit www.cdforum.org .

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