192. Ryan Jafar Artes: "The Adoptee Open Mic"

Ryan Jafar Artes (he/she/they) is an activist, memoirist, and poet. Ryan’s work calls for a re-imagination of culture via cultural renaissance from their lived experience and perspective as a transracial transnational South Asian Indian American adoptee. Ryan is the host of The Adoptee Open Mic, and hosts virtual letter writing classes to support their activism and creative work.

Links: https://linktr.ee/ryanartes

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Music by Corey Quinn