Public Write-Ups
Features
Recognitions
University of Sussex Athlete Scholar 2023-
Adoptees On: Kae Wangare Leonard
Today we welcome Kae Wangare Leonard to the show. Kae is a writer, athlete and artist, born and adopted in Kenya by white Americans. She shares some of her story with us, including what does home mean when you’ve lived in multiple countries. We discuss what it means to be an adoption abolitionist, and we have a little disagreement whether Kae’s art, poetry and prose is therapeutic or not!
Uplifting Black Voices in the Adoption Space
This week, we're spotlighting Adoptees that are delving into identity, displacement, the adoption industry's complexities and finding paths to healing.
What I love the most about this book is the way the form mirrors the message. This book is explicitly about the experience of being a person displaced through adoption.
Going Unarmed Into the Wail is an intense, intimate chapbook that wrestles with what it is to be a product of the adoption-industrial complex.
It was so great to have Kae train with us while on her vacation in the country.
We wish her the best of the future. You're welcome at GASPO WOMEN football CLUB.
First Friday Artist: Karen Wangare Leonard
On Friday, July 7th from 5:00pm-7:00pm (2023), we are thrilled to host a First Fridays Gallery Opening at The Depot featuring artist Karen Wangare Leonard! Karen is a talented artist who specializes in mixed media, poetry, and writing.
Harrisonburg Friendly City Safe Space Adoption Talk
(January 2023)
Brave Dialogues on Adoption
Storytelling from micro to macro impact vs. intention in marginalized spaces.
Liberated Together Writers Grant Recipient
I’m excited to introduce you to Karen “Kae” Wangare Leonard. Her poetry is thought provoking and moving.
Adoptee Reclamation Roundtable (2021)
What does reclamation look like when viewed through an adoptee’s perspective?
Something In Me Says I Was Supposed To Die.
“Our Powerful People” Inaugural Sponsorship Series - Part 3
Our Powerful People x Gabbyplainandsmall.
“As wild and incomprehensible life is and can be, I refuse to believe what we must sit and wait for our futures to sneak up on us and that we have no sway in becoming.”
“Writing to Uncover Identity”
ACTIVIST CAUGHT HANGING OFF TRAFFIC LIGHT
A 21-year-old woman was seen hanging off a traffic light near the US Capitol Building on the night President Biden and Vice president Kamala Harris were sworn in.