The collective is planning a conference in June for Chinese adoptees.
The 900 block of Cherry Street In Philadelphia’s Chinatown Aug. 27, 2024. The new Chinese Adoptee Collective is planning a convention in Chinatown for adoptees to connect with each other.“It‘s a bittersweet feeling. It won‘t happen to anyone else, but then I have to think about my community and what the truth means to them,” V.B. said. “It just makes us an even more siloed community within an already siloed community.”To help bring their community together, V.B.
V.B. said that it felt lonely to grow up this way. They didn’t have anyone in their life to teach them about what it meant to be Chinese, or how to navigate life as a person of color in America. “I really imagine a precious opportunity to socialize with other people with similar fundamental experiences.”
The collective is planning a conference for Chinese adoptees in June 2025, which will be held at the Asian Arts Initiative in“I really imagine a precious opportunity to socialize with other people with similar fundamental experiences,” V.B. said. “Part of the reason why I‘m doing this conference is to do something that I know my younger self would have benefitted from. And hopefully just help the community in a way that we’ve never had the opportunity before.
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