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Join KAAN from June 21 – 23 for three days of keynotes, films, presentations, roundtables, performers, exhibits, support forums, and life-changing community. KAAN offers an Adoptee-Only track, as well as sessions for a general audience that are open to all. There are programs for adults aged 18+ and youth aged 8-17. Everyone is welcome, including adoptees, birth families, family members (adoptive parents, spouses/partners, siblings, and children of adoptees), service providers, and Korean Americans. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us at tech@wearekaan.org.

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Saturday, June 22 • 10:30am - 11:45am
Reimagining Intimacy in Adoptee Centered Relationships

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Relationships play a major role in shaping our realities and sense of self throughout life. For adoptees who were relinquished during childhood, attachment-related trauma can influence many adult relationships. When we layer on options for non-monogamous relationships with friends, family, and partners, it can raise conflicts in self worth, identity values, and question how we embody belonging. Intersectionality provides a framework to better understand our needs as adoptees when navigating all types of relationships. In this adoptee-led and adoptee-only session, speakers will share personal experiences in non-monogamous relationships and invite attendees to engage with their own reflections on relationship identity.
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avatar for Eugene Rush

Eugene Rush

Gene is a transracial Chinese adoptee, and in the past year or two has experienced an interwoven journey involving coming into his adoptee consciousness, beginning his adoptee healing journey, and deconstructing the mono-centric paradigm he was raised with. He enjoys rock climbing... Read More →
avatar for Anna Inazu

Anna Inazu

Anna (she/they) is a Korean adoptee who grew up on the east coast in a racially mixed family, and currently resides in Denver, CO. Anna’s navigation of adoption hasn’t followed a particular trajectory, but gaining clarity of this experience and identity, is currently in the foreground... Read More →
avatar for Laura X. Williams

Laura X. Williams

Laura X. Williams is a transracial Chinese American Adoptee who grew up in Northern NJ and currently practices psychotherapy in Denver, CO. Ask her about her 3 cats! Relationship counseling, sex therapy, addiction counseling, and cultural sustainability are Laura’s main topics of... Read More →
avatar for Mikaela Smith

Mikaela Smith

Mikaela Smith (they/them) is a transracial Chinese American Adoptee who grew up In Missouri. After moving across the country and graduating twice in a pandemic, Mikaela has used past challenges and individual experiences to navigate adoption topics through one-on-one conversations... Read More →
avatar for Mai Li O'Keefe

Mai Li O'Keefe

Mai Li O’Keefe (they/them) is a transracial Korean adoptee. They are currently based in Portland, OR where they balance their time between their work-for-a-living job, community organizing, and playing outside with their pals. They actively organize for VOICES, a BIPOC Adoptee Community... Read More →

Saturday June 22, 2024 10:30am - 11:45am CDT
Rosemont 4: 3rd Floor
  Adoptee-Only Session
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