Stories — TCK TOWN

My first relationship started in Costa Rica. Running around the city, beach trips, endless sunny days. It was perfect…

In Love, Adulthood, Better Late Than Never, Bouncing Back, Moving, Relationships, Resilience, WomanBy Molly Kaitlin (From Peru, Costa Rica, Minnesota & Florida. Living in Tennessee)24 March 2021TCK, TCK TOWN, Third Culture Adult, third culture adult, culture, story, identityComment

Khadija Gbla's FGM Story Is Changing Africa & Australia

Her voice and her work have shown her local community how important it is to embrace cultural diversity, diverse opinions and outlooks…

Black Lives Matter, Africa, North America, Racism, Resilience, Woman, HeroesBy Ava Senaratne (From Sri Lanka, Dubai & Melbourne. Living in Sydney)13 January 2021TCK, TCK TOWN, third culture adult, black lives matter, Arab, Africa, USA, AmericaComment

Learning To Be a Diplomatic Mum

Imagine the chaos of the first few years: Romanian, German and English mixed together in a way that it took us sometimes minutes to realize what exactly it was that our own children were trying to tell us…

Hope and Healing in Flores de Villa

As a child who grew up in a suburban bubble in Minnesota, coming to Flores de Villa was shocking. I was unaware of the poverty that existed, and to see it first-hand changed me forever...

Dear Chook-Chook (A Letter To My Daughter)

You once said to your father: “Papa, you are brown.” He gently took you to mirror, “Yes Chook-Chook, so are you”…

Women’s Crisis Care: Bahrain Story #53

Bahrain became one of the first countries in the Middle East to outlaw domestic violence. It is important to recognise that achievement, but also realise that there is more that communities can do. Ultimately, this is not a men’s issue or a women’s issue. It’s a community issue…

The Women of Flores De Villa

Scattered houses of veneer boards and rusty tin sheets pressed against each other along streets full of dust, are filled with abuse, heartbreak and pain…

WomanBy Piyadasa Hettihewa. (Father and Grandfather of TCKs. From Sri Lanka. Living in Thalawathugoda)26 May 2018TCK, tck, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, cultures, culture, women, woman, woman of colour, women's rights, violence against women, Peru, Peruvian, bravery, poem, poetryComment

When the Chameleon Grew Pale

When the little chameleon girl was born, she was completely green, just like her parents. On her first day in kindergarten she was shocked to find out that no one else was green, the other kids were mostly purple...

WomanBy Wiebke Homborg (From Belgium, USA, Spain, Germany, Chile & Mexico. Living in Hanover)24 March 2018TCK TOWN, TCK, tck, ATCK, chameleon, switching colours, moving countries, international, international festivals, rainbow, passport, travel, nomad, nomadic life, family, routine Comment

Female Tenacity

I have been travelling through Pakistan, which on its own, is a country of many paradoxes. It is regularly featured near the bottom end of the gender equality indexes in many white papers yet many have forgotten it gave rise to the first female prime minister of a Muslim majority country.

WomanBy Danish Khan (From Melbourne, Perth, Karachi & Islamabad. Living in Karachi)21 March 2018TCK, TCK TOWN, Tck, cultures, woman, women, women's rightsComment

How To Dream with Open Eyes

When we’re young, our dreams are sky high — endless wish lists filled with enormous expectations of ourselves and that of the world around us...

Careers, WomanBy Wafaa Beaini (From Lebanon, Australia and Saudi Arabia. Living in Melbourne)18 March 2018TCK, TCK TOWN, tck, dreams, determination, education, Lebanon, Lebanese, marriage, community, achievementComment

Superhero Mom vs Antiquated Aunt

Every time we moved and in each new country we lived, my mom openly embraced everything. I don’t know too many people who would have gone to a funeral of a neighbor just a few short months after moving in, but she was one of them...