Transracial Adoption and Memoir Reading and Panel

Thu. Feb. 2, 2023

University of Winnipeg; Transracial Adoption & Memoir – reading and panel. Free and open to the public. Feb. 6, 2023, 19:00, Leatherdale.

Author Bios: Amandine GAY divides her time between creation and advocacy. She is a filmmaker-producer (Speak Up – 2017; A Story of One’s Own – 2021), writer-scholar (A Chocolate Doll – 2021) and afrofeminist activist (Founder of Adoptee Awareness Month in the francophone world).

Susan Devan Harness is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes, a transracial adoptee, and author of Mixing Cultural Identities Through Transracial Adoption as well as the multiple award-winning Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption.

Jenny Heijun Wills is the author of the multi-award-winning Older Sister. Not Necessarily Related (2019). She is also co-editor and of Adoption and Multiculturalism (2020) and Teaching Asian North American Texts (2022). She teaches in the Department of English at the University of Winnipeg.

Moderated By: Lindsay Wong, author of the award-winning memoir, The Woo-Woo; My Summer of Love and Misfortune, and Tell Me Pleasant Things About Immortality.

The event is sponsored by The Department of English, The Critical Race Network, and the Chancellor’s Research Chair. It is also sponsored by Dimensions: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Canada.