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...
We need to repeat these 5 truths purposefully, intentionally, and repetitively to ensure healthy relationships—both romantic and platonic...
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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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Chimamanda’s contributions are shaped greatly by her TCK experience, where she champions plurality…
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I wanted to claim Tanzania as my home, but how could I? I was not accepted by others as a part of their country…
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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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We need to be developing global citizens who can engage with ideas and issues, make decisions and enact positive change…
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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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My form teacher peered over his spectacles at me like I was an exotic bird and gestured for me to take a seat…
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I have traveled to over 118 countries over the last four years because I could work online and earned a steady income even if I was spending one week in Lebanon and another week in Oman…
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Our version of a corsage was a motia flower and though street vendors would sell these readily, they were not durable enough to hang around the hands of people as they danced…
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As third culture kids, moving around frequently has accustomed us to loss…
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