What does it feel like to be raised in a white family in a white country for Black, brown and Indigenous people? How does having little to no racial mirroring impact your sense of self? And how do you construct an embodied, affirming and humanizing self-perception without a shared language for the specific experiences of transracial upbringings?

In this conversation we explore questions about kinship, racialization, and developing a sense of self. Our questions arise from an observation that transracial experiences of racialization are often absent from critical discourses on racism. Furthermore, they are often constructed as separate, divided between regionally or racially specific fields of study. What could we learn if we shared vocabulary and resources across experiences of (surviving) transracial adoption and interracial, white family constellations? What insights can emerge from the intersection of Critical Adoption Studies, Black Studies, and Transnational Feminisms?

Speakers: Amandine Gay and Seungmi Laura Cho
Moderator: Elizabeth Löwe Hunter

The webinar is part of the research project Transracial Intimacies: Exploring Racialization from within the Nordic Family. The project is a collaboration between Prof. Paola Bacchetta (Gender and Women’s Studies, UC Berkeley), Prof. Lene Myong (Centre for Gender Studies, University of Stavanger), and Dr. Elizabeth Löwe Hunter (independent researcher) and it is funded by a Peder Sather Grant.

MAY 20TH 2026
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