Articles
How GlobalMindEd is Creating a Diverse Talent Pipeline for the 21st Century
GlobalMindED improves access and equity for promising first-gen college students seeking educational and professional opportunities.
Annie Leibovitz: Remarkable Photographer and Domestic TCK
Bridging the gap between commercial and fine art photography is a challenging task, but military brat and domestic TCK Annie Leibovitz does it with ease.
Abstract Expressionism & How Early TCKs Changed Art History
France and Italy have been known to be influential in the art world for centuries — the former birthing avante-garde and works by Rodin, Monet and others, and the latter blessing us with pieces, such as the Mona Lisa and the David sculpture. American art didn’t gain traction or credibility until the late 1930s with the rise of the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Shang-Chi: Multiracial Mixed Martial Artist Saves the World One Punch at a Time
Although it’s up to you to decide if superhero movies are “not cinema,” there is certainly something to be said about their rapid integration into popular culture. With up to 17 films in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) until the […]
Is This TV Military Brat’s Packing Style the Way to Go?
Played by Damon Wayans, Jr., Coach shared an important piece of information about his life growing up with the audience: He was a military brat. And because of this, he’d developed a packing style he referred to as a “clean break.”
What Happens When Two TCKs Fall in Love – part 3 of 3
Cassidy Grant and Dylan Hickcox are a nomadic couple who have been traveling the world together since they were 17-years-old. I got a chance to FaceTime in and talk to Grant and Hickcox while they relaxed at home in Bakersfield, […]
How This Translator Uses Language to Connect with Different Cultures
My name is Andrea Bazoin, and I am a translator. In high school, I used my then-limited Spanish to translate for the Central American immigrants who came to my checkout line at the grocery store in our small Nebraska town. Interpreting their “Cuanto cuesta?” was helpful, but I knew what I was really translating was a message of welcome.
Ana Mendieta: A Champion for CCKs
Born in Havana, Cuba in November 1948, Ana Mendieta was a well-known performance artist throughout the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s. At age 12, she and her sister were forced to flee Cuba after her father joined an anti-Castro counter-revolutionary force, and the two siblings spent their first few weeks in the United States at a refugee camp in Florida until they were sent to an orphanage in Dubuque, Iowa — a location with a culture very different from the life Ana knew back in Cuba. She wouldn’t reunite with her mother and brother for five years and her father for another 18.
