Grafting Rooting Growing

Grafting, Rooting, Growing is an autoethnographic solo performance that explores Chinese transnational adoption and Chinese-American identity. In this piece, I interweave family stories, music, and personal reflection as I work through understanding how my daughterhood was performed into being and how this affects my sense of self. I then place my own narrative in conversation with other Chinese adoptees to demonstrate the communal relationship between our experiences and how this contributes to the larger Asian American diaspora. 

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This piece has been performed at Teatro Potlatch F.L.I.P.T. Festival in Fara in Sabina, Italy, UNC Chapel Hill as part of the Process Series, Decolonizing Adoption Conference, and Trinity University.