Apr 21 2022 47 mins 2
Shannon Gibney is a mother of three, prolific author, activist, educator, runner, and Buddhist transracial adoptee. In this episode, she blesses us with profound reflections. We dive straight into the “structures of feeling”, a place beyond words, where loss and other body wisdom lives, a kinship among adoptees and to loss itself. Shannon connects the losses of adoption to experiences of infant loss and miscarriage, to create a space for recognition and honoring of the, ultimately, impermanent nature of all things. She also gives a first sneak peak into her new book, Botched: A Speculative Memoir on Transracial Adoption, out in early 2023, among many other publications.
Please be on the look out for numerous publications coming out in 2022 and beyond:
Where We Come From, a co-authored picture book with John Coy, Sun Yung Shin and Diane Wilson, Lerner, October 2022
Botched: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption, Dutton, early 2023
Sam and the Incredible African and American Food Fight, University of MN Press, Spring 2023
Adoptee to Adoptee, co-edited with Nicole Chung, Harper Teen, Fall 2023
Middle grade trilogy about tweens taking on Big Oil, 2024?
Shannon Gibney Bio:
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. A Bush Artist and McKnight Writing Fellow, her new book, Botched, explores themes of transracial adoption through speculative memoir (Dutton, 2022). In October 2019, University of Minnesota Press released What God is Honored Here?: Writings on Miscarriage and Infant Loss By and For Native Women and Women of Color, which she co-edited with writer Kao Kalia Yang.
www.shannongibney.com
Twitter: @GibneyShannon
IG: @shannonelainegibney
Co-Hosts: Nari Baker & Robyn Park
Music: Mike Marlatt & Paul Gulledge
Editing: Federico aka mixinghacks
Artwork: Dalhe Kim
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