freedom — Stories

My Greatest Teacher

I was five when I fell in love. That instantaneous, all consuming, hard-to-breathe kind of love…

Cities, Advantages, North America, Moving, TravelBy Kirsty Lennox (From Glasgow, New York, Edinburgh, Auckland & London. Living in Wellington)18 November 2020TCK TOWN, TCK, Tck, love, New York, explore, passport, labels, freedomComment

Finding Belonging When Your Freedom Is Sacred

We have our own 'wildness,' our own ways, and our own abilities to take the good from a culture, and leave out whatever does not resonate…

Prisoner number 1323/69

She, the unbowed; with “vision, resilience” and courage, stood taller, overshadowed not, even by the man whose name she kept alive for twenty seven years!

RacismBy Piyadasa Hettihewa (From Sri Lanka. Living in Thalawathugda. Grandfather of many TCKs)29 August 2018racism, TCK TOWN, tck, third culture kid, Mandela, freedom, woman, woman of colourComment

Cultural R-evolution

You tell me, eyes clouded by the heaviness, of a culture that has long moved away from your history, yet you cling to so stubbornly...

Us, The ArtsBy Farah Beaini (Living in the land of the Kulin nation)8 November 2017tck, TCK TOWN, third culture kid, culture, gender, woman, women, women's rights, Arab, feminism, freedom, beliefs, multicultural, cultural Comments