Fusion: Multiracial and Transracial Adoptee Student Association

So excited to see you all tomorrow! Here’s what we have planned & the menu 👀

fusion is back with another kahoot night! we’re doing music trivia this time, so come out to enjoy free snacks and win some prizes!

see you Nov. 11th in the Bush Hub!

fusion is back with another workshop! come join us for a discussion about cultural appropriation and cultural appreciation and how they impact us. free food as always!

fusion is excited to be back on campus and ready for the fall semester! we’ve got lots of great stuff coming up so make sure stop by the org fair next tuesday to chat and grab something sweet :)

FUSION is excited to be back with the next installment of our monthly workshop series! This month join us for "Minnesota Not So Nice," where we'll discuss the concept of MN nice, how it pairs with microaggressions, and what it's like the be a minority in MN.

RSVP & Meeting link in our bio!

P.S.) If you RSVP by Feb. 4th, you can get free Pho Pasteur 👀👀

Multiracial folx as well as transracial adoptees often feel the need to choose which identity they belong to. You might be too asian to be white but too white to be asian, never quite being able to be one or the other. How do you manage and live with this feeling?

Code switching is often an integral part of our lives whether we notice it or not. It’s the way we shift our presentations of ourselves to others. It can be in the form of language or behavior and can be a form of coping, survival, and assimilation.

How is your experience with code switching?

FUSION is actively seeking board members for he upcoming 2020-2021 school year. If you are interested in working with a dynamic and passionate group of people, look no further!

FUSION seeks to promote the stories and experiences of multi racial and transracial adoptees but our group is open to everyone. FUSION focuses on collaboration not only within our campus community, but also our local and state one as well.

Officers should serve a combined total of two office hours per week, attend a weekly Multicultural Alliance meeting, and be passionate about learning. The positions will run from September-May and elections are held each spring.

Open positions include:
Vice President
Treasurer
Public Relations

Fill out the interest form here!
https://forms.gle/zoANwBSXfqYGa9957

Role Information
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The role of the Vice President is to assist the President in planning, executing, and organizing evens and meetings. This is a collaborative board so all officers are expected to help innovate ideas. Other duties may include: managing the google drive, working on community partnerships, attending meetings, and leading workshops. In collaboration with the PR Officer, the VP will work alongside other board members in marketing and outreach.

The Treasurer shall manage and track the organization's budget, record fundraising practices, and collaborate on the yearly spring budget proposal. The treasurer will have access to the budget and communicate with the student organizations office to manage the org's credit card. Other duties will include collaborating and working on events, developing workshop ideas, attending meetings, and connecting with outside organizations.

The Public Relations Officer will be in charge of managing the social media accounts of the organization, creating content, communicating events and workshops on social media, and working as a photographer for meetings, events, and workshops. The PR Officer will also have access to a Canva account where they can create posters, posts, and other content for the org. Other duties will include collaborating and working on events, developing workshop ideas, attending meetings, and connecting with outside organizations. FUSION is working hard on creating video and photographic content for the university, so if you're interested in marketing, brand design, or photograph, this is the position for you!

The Advocacy and Outreach Chair is responsible for community outreach and organization. They will maintain and coordinate community partnerships for events, workshops, and fundraising opportunities. Planning, coordinating, organizing and for the National Adoptee Awareness Month in November will also be involved. Their role also includes facilitating the education of FUSION as a group to the community as a whole about transracial-adoptee, bi-racial, multi-racial and multicultural issues facing society throughout history and today.

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TW: Loss

Adoption is a mixed world. There is often a halo around the idea of adopting a child, a notion that one might save an innocent from a terrible circumstance, but that is not always the case.

With adoption comes trauma and invisible pain that we do not always know how to handle. How do you miss something you’ve never had? May often brings Mother’s Day in countries around the world but for adoptees and their parents, all of them, it can represent a day of loss and sacrifice.

We honor the mothers and the fathers, the parents who have never been recognized, who have not had a voice or the chance to say goodbye. International adoptions to the Untied States after the Korean Wa and to this day, can be shrouded in mystery and guilt for something we could never have. Closed adoptions shut the doors for both mother and child and we must recognize the difficulties that both sides face.

From across the sea or land, on Parents Day, Mothers Day, and more, we honor the experiences of mother’s sound the world.

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This excerpt was taken from an anonymous post on adoption.com from 2018. In here are photos from my own adoption journey. I am grateful for the journey I’ve had but I still slide between being at peace, sadness, and loss for a family I’ve never had. I hope that this day brings as much joy as you’d like and that you are in a place that is warm and loving and kind. - Grace

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Photogallery of identity and diversity

TW:
May is Asian Pacific Island American Heritage month (AAPI for short). There are hundreds of thousands of AAPI adoptees around the world but even those numbers don’t accurately represent the whole population. There are many adoptees who came to where they are as a result of human trafficking and other illegal methods. Adoption isn’t glamorous but it IS an integral part of many people’s stories. We are just as apart of the AAPI world as anyone else and our own culture of identity is just as unique! Celebrate the intersectionality of AAPI month by DMing us your own story!