Upcoming Events

2025 Mar 03
Joint Talk with Susan Ito at SFSU
12:30pm to 01:45pm
Location
San Francisco State University, Building/Room TBA

Susan Ito, author of I Would Meet You Anywhere (2023), and Kit Myers, author of The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States (2025), will do a joint talk about their adoption...

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2025 Mar 19
UC Merced Center for Humanities Brown Bag Talk
12:00pm to 01:30pm
Location
COB 2 - 292

In this talk, Dr. Myers will discuss his new book, The Violence of Love: Race, Family, and Adoption in the United States. The book examines narratives surrounding adoption, and challenges the idea...

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2025 Apr 25
Talk at University of Oregon
12:00pm to 01:30pm
Location
University of Oregon

Book talk with the Department of Indigenous Race, and Ethnic Studies at University of Oregon (my alma mater).

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2025 Apr 26
VOICES, a BIPOC Adoptee Reading Event
06:30pm to 09:00pm
Location
Ellyn Bye Studio at Portland Center Stage

Constellation Reading Series Presents: VOICES, A BIPOC Adoptee Reading.

This is an in-person event featuring BIPOC adoptee authors who will share their unique perspectives through prose, poetry, and...

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2025 May 12
Book Workshop with Asian/American Studies Collective at UC Santa Barbara
03:00pm to 05:00pm
Location
UC Santa Barbara

Book Workshop with Asian/American Studies Collective at UC Santa Barbara

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2025 Jun 20
KAAN Conference Presentation
Friday, Jun 20, 2025 (All day) to Sunday, Jun 22, 2025 (All day)
Location
The Grand Hyatt, Atlanta, GA

Kit Myers will present "The Violence of Love: Rethinking Adoption" at the Korean American Adoptee Adoptive Family Network (KAAN) Conference. This year's conference theme is Growth and Change. 

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2025 Jul 12
Adoption Mosaic - Book Reading Group
06:00pm to 07:30pm
Location
Portland, OR

Join Adoption Mosaic and Kit Myers for an in-person group discussion about The Violence of Love 

Date: July 12, 2025

Time: May change.

Location TBA. 

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