A list to support your creative process and aid in sparking ideas, thoughts, and curiosities for creating work.

• Where is home?

• Where do you find joy?

• What does the term ‘adoptee environmentalism’ bring to mind for you?

• What is your environmental identity?

• ‘Coming out of the fog’ is a commonly used phrase within the adoptee community. Adoptees often use it to describe the realization that the ‘adoption fantasy,’ as a story immersed in perpetual gratefulness, does not accurately describe, or speak to, many transracial adoptees’ experiences in life.

• • How did you come out of the fog? Did you always notice its presence? Who helped you along the way?

• • How would you describe this fog? Was it: dense, thick, opaque, sticky, feather-light, immersive? Something other?

• What comes to mind when you think of yourself as art?

• How do you situate yourself and your contribution amongst the legacy of other creative works, activism, and frameworks by transracial adoptees and Black, Indigenous, and people of color communities?

• How has your adoptee experience prepared you to advocate for just environmental futures?

• What would you include if you were to make a ‘recipe’ out of your experiences, practices, and activism surrounding transracial adoption?

• What kinds of ghosts and hauntings are present in your life?

• In relation to adoption, what kinds of silences have you experienced in your own life? How do you negotiate these silences in relation to uncertain climate futurities?

• How do you negotiate the everyday entanglements between memory, environment, and race?

• How does your experience as a transracial and/or transnational adoptee shape how you think about the environment? How are your lived experiences, thoughts, and relationships surrounding the environment different from those around you, and why do you think this is the case?

• As a transracial adoptee, you may have experienced the loss of identity, culture, and land. Do you currently experience or relate to climate grief as it connects to dispossession, displacement, and loss of life (human and multispecies)?

• What do you think about climate change from an adoptee perspective?