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Two teens take the stage and find their voice. . . A girl learns
about her heritage and begins to find her community. . . A sister
is haunted by the ghosts of loved ones lost. . . There is no
universal adoption experience, and no two adoptees have the same
story. This anthology for teens edited by Shannon Gibney and Nicole
Chung contains a wide range of powerful, poignant, and evocative
stories in a variety of genres. These tales from fifteen
bestselling, acclaimed, and emerging adoptee authors genuinely and
authentically reflect the complexity, breadth, and depth of adoptee
experiences. This groundbreaking collection centers what it’s
like growing up as an adoptee. These are stories by adoptees, for
adoptees, reclaiming their own narratives. With stories by:
Kelley Baker Nicole Chung Shannon Gibney Mark Oshiro MeMe Collier
Susan Harness      Meredith
Ireland Mariama J. Lockington Lisa Nopachai Stefany Valentine
Matthew Salesses Lisa Wool-Rim Sjöblom Eric Smith Jenny Heijun
Wills Sun Yung Shin Foreword by Rebecca Carroll Afterword by JaeRan
Kim, MSW, PhD
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Where We Come from (Hardcover)
John Coy, Shannon Gibney, Sun Yung Shin, Diane Wilson; Illustrated by Dion Mbd
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This book presents the authors' attempts to interrogate the ways
that white institutional, pedagogical, and curricular
heteronormativity affects equity in writing instruction at Two Year
Colleges. Written from a wide range of subject and identity
positions, this volume explores issues that arise among students
inside historically white-dominant classrooms, among faculty as
curriculum and hiring decisions are made, and among colleagues when
they attempt to engage the wider institution in equity work. Aiming
to significantly change how urban Community College writing
instruction is delivered in this country, the book operates on the
principle that equity is essential to successful writing pedagogy,
curricular development, and student success.
Part memoir, part speculative fiction, this novel explores
the often surreal experience of growing up as a mixed-Black
transracial adoptee. Dream Country author Shannon Gibney returns
with a new book woven from her true story of growing up as the
adopted Black daughter of white parents and the fictional story of
Erin Powers, the name Shannon was given at birth by the white woman
who gave her up for adoption. At its core, the novel is a
tale of two girls on two different timelines occasionally bridged
by a mysterious portal and their shared search for a complete
picture of their origins. Gibney surrounds that story with
reproductions of her own adoption documents, letters, family
photographs, interviews, medical records, and brief essays on the
surreal absurdities of the adoptee experience. The end result is a
remarkable portrait of an American experience rarely depicted in
any form.
This book presents the authors' attempts to interrogate the ways
that white institutional, pedagogical, and curricular
heteronormativity affects equity in writing instruction at Two Year
Colleges. Written from a wide range of subject and identity
positions, this volume explores issues that arise among students
inside historically white-dominant classrooms, among faculty as
curriculum and hiring decisions are made, and among colleagues when
they attempt to engage the wider institution in equity work. Aiming
to significantly change how urban Community College writing
instruction is delivered in this country, the book operates on the
principle that equity is essential to successful writing pedagogy,
curricular development, and student success.
Dream Country author Shannon Gibney returns with The Girl I Am,
Was, and Never Will Be, a book woven from her true story of growing
up as a mixed-Black transracial adoptee and fictional story of Erin
Powers, the name Shannon was given at birth, a child raised by a
white, closeted lesbian. At its core, the novel is a tale of two
girls on two different timelines occasionally bridged by a
mysterious portal and their shared search for a complete picture of
their origins. Gibney surrounds that story with reproductions of
her own adoption documents, letters, family photographs,
interviews, medical records, and brief essays on the surreal
absurdities of the adoptee experience. The end result is a
remarkable portrait of an American experience rarely depicted in
any form. A genre-bending exploration of race and the search for
personal identity. Gibney embraces the unknowable gaps in her own
life story and uses her skill as a novelist to fill the holes.
Six-year-old Sam, with his Liberian dad and African American mom,
finds a way to bring everyone in his cross-cultural family together
at the dinner table Rice and okra soup: Sam's auntie from Liberia
made it, and it's Dad's favorite. Mom, homegrown in Minnesota, made
spaghetti and meatballs. And Sam? He's just hungry, but no matter
what he chooses to eat, someone will be disappointed. Caught in the
middle of his family's African and American food fight, Sam gets a
little help from his grumbling stomach-and readers of this
seriously funny book by Shannon Gibney get a peek at cultures
colliding in a family kitchen that work out in a very delicious
way. Charly Palmer's vibrant and captivating illustrations make
this gentle lesson in getting along a bright and colorful visual
feast as well. Cassava leaf torbogee or homemade sausage pizza?
Sam's family recipes bring Sam and the Incredible African and
American Food Fight to an apt and happy ending-and readers can
decide which dinner is best. But, really, why not both?
Native women and women of color poignantly share their pain,
revelations, and hope after experiencing the traumas of miscarriage
and infant loss What God Is Honored Here? is the first book of its
kind-and urgently necessary. This is a literary collection of
voices of Indigenous women and women of color who have undergone
miscarriage and infant loss, experiences that disproportionately
affect women who have often been cast toward the margins in the
United States of America. From the story of dashed cultural
expectations in an interracial marriage to poems that speak of loss
across generations, from harrowing accounts of misdiagnoses,
ectopic pregnancies, and late-term stillbirths to the poignant
chronicles of miscarriages and mysterious infant deaths, What God
Is Honored Here? brings women together to speak to one another
about the traumas and tragedies of womanhood. In its heartbreaking
beauty, this book offers an integral perspective on how culture and
religion, spirit and body, unite in the reproductive lives of women
of color and Indigenous women as they bear witness to loss, search
for what is not there, and claim for themselves and others their
fundamental humanity. Powerfully and with brutal honesty, they
write about what it means to reclaim life in the face of death.
Editors Shannon Gibney and Kao Kalia Yang acknowledge "who we had
been could not have prepared us for who we would become in the wake
of these words," yet the writings collected here offer insight,
comfort, and, finally, hope for all those who, like the women
gathered here, have found grief a lonely place. Contributors:
Jennifer Baker, Michelle Borok, Lucille Clifton, Sidney Clifton,
Taiyon J. Coleman, Arfah Daud, Rona Fernandez, Sarah Agaton Howes,
Honoree Fanonne Jeffers, Soniah Kamal, Diana Le-Cabrera, Janet
Lee-Ortiz, Maria Elena Mahler, Chue Moua, Jami Nakamura Lin, Jen
Palmares Meadows, Dania Rajendra, Marcie Rendon, Seema Reza, Sun
Yung Shin, Kari Smalkoski, Catherine R. Squires, Elsa Valmidiano.
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