Should I leave it there? Another year won’t hurt. Or venture to lift the lid…
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I didn’t want to accept the change, I didn’t want to let go of family stability, I didn’t know how to build a home somewhere all on my own…
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Life is a tightly budded flower, thorny and gnarled on a bush, wind battered and opened to bloom, not their store bought plastic flower…
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I was bawling. I don’t think my partner had ever seen me cry like that in the three years we’ve been together. I wasn’t such a mess even when my step dad passed away six months earlier…
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My first relationship started in Costa Rica. Running around the city, beach trips, endless sunny days. It was perfect…
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One of the neighbours we connected with was a family from the Netherlands. Their lives mirrored our own as they too had recently relocated with a toddler in tow, exactly the same age as ours...
Each person is more interesting than any one aspect of their identity too, and everyone owes it to themselves to experiment and discover themselves, instead of just assuming the identity placed upon them by their societies…
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I found myself drawn to spirituality, bought a few books to learn more and considered it a sort of experiment, thinking: will this actually work?…
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Chimamanda’s contributions are shaped greatly by her TCK experience, where she champions plurality…
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Announcements in Korean, Chinese, English and Japanese haunt the three-quarter empty passageways that are usually full…
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She starred in ‘Shuga’, an MTV/UNICEF-backed series looking at sexual relationships among youth in Nairobi, promoting HIV awareness…
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Her voice and her work have shown her local community how important it is to embrace cultural diversity, diverse opinions and outlooks…
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It is devastating to think that West Africa lost a highly-regarded member of their community, famous for his literacy in Arabic, to North Carolina, where it was illegal for a slave to even be literate in English…
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We need to be developing global citizens who can engage with ideas and issues, make decisions and enact positive change…
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Our neighbors and my family sat huddled at a table, Bathed in the smoky vapors and light from a kerosene lantern, With the smell of temples, Like mosquito coils from Japan…
My teachers weren’t interested that my life had been uprooted to return to a culture that I had little understanding of…
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This was the daily context in which I grew up: Vietnamese with a splash of Soviet culture at home, coupled with a very French environment at school…
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The warm and humid tropical air hugs me and in the blink of an eye, it opens a box of memories from another life…
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A promise of fading light and cooling mercury…
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When the vaccine comes and lockdowns end, the world will be different. At least, that’s what everyone says…
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