Multiracial Family Man

Ep. 55: Liana Maneese was born in 1984 in Goiânia, Goiás Brazil.  She was adopted when she was 1 and aised in a Black community in Pittsburgh PA by two White Parents.  Growing up, she saw herself only as adopted and not as an orphan. She finally had to face the reality that in order to be found, you have to first be lost. Without any Afro-Latino community to latch onto, her voice and identity were lost in translation in a world that did not look like her, talk like her, or think like her. This is when the quest for true liberation started, when she began to acknowledge who she was and to begin the slow but crucial process of loving herself.  She knew that she needed to redirect her efforts to telling her own story and recovering her own voice. To Liana, being Afro-Brazilian testifies to the enormous resistance of the African slaves that had to endure and overcome a cultural force that meant to strip them of their identity, heritage, and humanity. She seeks to use her work as an act of her own resistance by re