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Tuesday, June 24 2025

International Marriage Equality Part III

Kenady Kay 76 0

Crossing borders is difficult. TCK’s cross borders all the time, cultural, national and political borders. But there are also boarders for rights and equality. It’s hard to be a TCK and to have that travel itch, but it can also […]

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Code Switch or Chameleon? Communication Collides

Kenady Kay 135 0

Code switching is most often used in language and multilingual conversations. But I have found that while I do code switch in conversations with different accents and speech tactics, I also use code switching as a key communication tool between […]

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International Marriage Equality Part II

Kenady Kay 69 0

In the first part of this three part series I discussed the general state of marriage equality around the world. For this article I have interviewed Elsa Bourdon, an ATCK living in Australia whose passport country is France. Elsa has […]

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Culture Shock: The Land of Plenty, or The Land of Grossly Too Much?

Kenady Kay 61 0

Culture shock sucks, especially because you never see it coming. There are things that you expect, like not knowing the latest music fad or who’s dating whom in Hollywood. But culture shock isn’t about petty ignorance of pop culture; it’s […]

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International Marriage Equality

Kenady Kay 43 0

Marriage equality is becoming more widespread around the world. There are now eighteen countries where same sex marriage has become legalized, starting in 2001 with the ever-liberal Netherlands. Two other countries have regional freedom for same sex marriages.   In […]

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Expatriates and Pioneers: We aren’t so different

Kenady Kay 28 0

I remember when my family first moved overseas, I was six years old and we had been posted in Malaysia. We were posted to the small town of Miri on the Borneo Island in the Shell Oil camp. I remember […]

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Pets are TCKs Too

Kenady Kay 29 0

I never realized it before, but last week when my family dog Ringgit died, I realized that she was as much of a TCK as I am. She was born in Australia and shipped to us in Malaysia. She moved […]

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The Expat Diaries Part III: Repatriation in Texas

Kenady Kay 46 0

In my last articles I talked about my mothers experience as a new expat in Malaysia and her struggles with social expectations, and her defiance for independence in Egypt. After seven years of living overseas, my mom was determined to […]

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