New Vistas for Telling Stories of Adoption

Date

11/08/23 - 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Event Location

Technical Building - T-Plaza

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A Conversation with Angela Tucker and Shannon Gibney

Join us for a conversation with Black women adoptees Angela Tucker, author of the new book You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption, and Shannon Gibney, author of The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption, and co-editor and contributor to When We Become Ours: A YA Adoptee Anthology.

Tucker and Gibney will discuss the new and ever-changing terrain of the literature of adoption, the critical interventions adoptees are making in this area, and how policy and best practices in the fields of adoption and permanency might productively engage with it.

Event Details:

Location: first floor dining area, Technical Building
6 - 6:30 p.m. - Author meet and greet with refreshments
6:30 - 7:30.p.m. - Brief readings and fireside chat
7:30 - 8 p.m. - Book signing

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Angela Tucker

Angela Tucker is a Black woman adopted from foster care to white parents. Her debut book: YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL: Stories of Race Identity, and Transracial Adoption has received wide acclaim. Angela is the Founder and Executive Director of the Adoptee Mentoring Society and is the subject of Closure, a documentary that chronicles her search for her biological parents. As a film producer, author and cultural commentator, Angela has appeared on CNN, Al Jazeera, The Red Table Talk, in The New Yorker and has contributed to renowned fictional work, including Broadway’s Jagged Little Pill and NBC’s hit show, This Is Us.

Angela is married to Bryan Tucker, an Emmy-award winning filmmaker. They live in Seattle, Washington.

Shannon Gibney

Shannon Gibney is a writer, educator, activist, and the author of See No Color (Carolrhoda Lab, 2015), and Dream Country (Dutton, 2018) young adult novels that won Minnesota Book Awards in 2016 and 2019. Gibney is faculty in English at Minneapolis College, where she teaches writing; she was recently selected as one of three Educators of the Year in the entire Minnesota State College and University system. A Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow, her new novel, The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be, explores themes of transracial adoption through speculative memoir (Dutton, 2023).

Gibney’s other recent publications include the picture books Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight (University of Minnesota Press, 2023), and Where We Come From (Lerner, 2022; coauthored), and a YA anthology of stories by adoptees about adoptees, co-edited with Nicole Chung (HarperTeen, 2023).

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