BSA Auto/biography Study Group Summer Conference 2022: Past, Present and Future: Celebrating 30 Years of the Auto/Biography Study Group: My counter narrative, observed

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‘Past, Present and Future: Celebrating 30 Years of the Auto/Biography Study Group’ My counter narrative, observed. What does narrative inheritance mean for an adoptee who grew up in one life and found another at the age of 47. What I inherited narratively from my adoptive kin provided me with a framework for my identity, through theirs. All was fine, all serene, I travelled my path, parallel to theirs. Yet I was born with curiosity. Or was I. Did my adoptive family narrative inheritance embed curiosity in my life, permanently? I also inherit a counter narrative, an incomplete birth family story, one which I am compelled to observe. The incompleteness of my birth family narrative is an irritation in my mind, a prickly bramble entwining my body, a question without an answer, an immovable act. How can I explore the intersubjective nature of a life not lived, with kin I did not know. How do I see and imagine my future connection to this life? In this paper I seek to make meaning and empathetically create connections that, for me were disconnected. I do this by storying my emotions and interpretations of adoptive and birth kin in photographs. I introspectively explore insights into my incomplete affections about birth kin and my connections with adoptive kin. I hope the actions and connections made in this paper will reverberate in their worldmaking for me and others like me.

Period	13 Jul 2022 → 15 Jul 2022
Event title	BSA Auto/biography Study Group Summer Conference 2022: Past, Present and Future: Celebrating 30 Years of the Auto/Biography Study Group
Event type	Conference
Location	Oxford , United KingdomShow on map