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Tuesday, March 25 2025
Jane Goodall holds her baby and goes in to kiss his cheek. She is younger here and has her hair tied back, her run is in a crocheted outfit. (Image credit: Jane Goodall Institute/Hugo van Lawick)

Jane Goodall: Raising a TCK During Her Influential Animal Research in Tanzania

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Jane Goodall spent decades researching in Gombe, Tanzania not only leaving her mark in the scientific community, but also raising her son. Goodall is an English scientist whose primary work has been in studying the social structure of primates, specifically […]

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Mean Girls (2004) (Image credit- Paramount Pictures)

How a TCK Became a Centerpiece of Teen Comedy in ‘Mean Girls’

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Prior to the release of the movie “Mean Girls,” which features a Third Culture Kid (TCK) child of researchers, such characters weren’t represented as ordinary characters in pop culture, and their internal struggles remained unrepresented in coming of age films. […]

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Failure, Madea, and the significance of Tyler Perry’s Governors Award

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Tyler Perry’s quilt is made up of great struggles and great triumphs. His quilt tells the story of a man who fought great adversity in order to not only empower himself, but to empower other Black and African-American creatives. How […]

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Shira Haas in the Netflix series 'Unorthodox'

‘Unorthodox’ and How One Culture Can Have Different Realities

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In the Netflix series “Unorthodox,” as the main character abandons her life in New York’s Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community for Berlin, her most immediate discoveries are not just about herself, but also about how her single experience of (Eastern European) Judaism […]

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Kinesthetic Empathy: How Vulnerability in Dance Can Generate Strong Multicultural Connections

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Madeline and Matthew Harvey explore emotional vulnerability and bias through dance and body language.

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A black truck carrying medical supplies is driving. The road is mostly made of dirt and the weather is dry and sunny, there are two men in orange vests in the photo.

Recovering from the Unethical Past of European and U.S. Research Abroad – Part 3 of 3

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Despite its current glory internationally, Pfizer and other pharmaceutical organizations allowed for unethical practices to shape the global understanding of international research. International research done by United States’ or European researchers in the global South has historically attracted globally mobile […]

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Regina Spektor performing at the O2 Academy in Leeds, U.K. in 2019

Regina Spektor: Language as a Means of Love

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Singer-songwriter Regina Spektor has defined her career through lingual mobility similar to how her childhood was defined by cultural mobility. Spektor was born in the Soviet Union to Russian-Jewish artists Ilya and Bella Spektor in 1980. According to All Music, […]

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Suzanne Collins, TCK Author of The Hunger Games

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Critically acclaimed dystopian author Suzanne Collins spent her childhood moving homes and reading works from George Orwell and Kurt Vonnegut. Collins was born in Conn., U.S.A. in 1962 and raised by her parents Jane and Michael Collins. Her father was […]

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