Arts
How To Help Outdoor Recreation Adapt to Climate Change
The outdoors can play a significant role in the life of a Third Culture Kid (TCK), Cross-Cultural Kid (CCK) or anyone living a cross-cultural lifestyle. Being outside can provide an escape from the turmoil of everyday life and the community […]
Understanding Contextual Happiness Comes Down to the Individual
Interpersonal connection, spiritual fulfillment and the feeling of being at home: Happiness comes in many forms and is translated differently across cultures. Understanding contextual happiness, however, comes down to you as an individual and your own unique life experiences. FORMS […]
Check Out ‘The Official Wakanda Cookbook’ For ‘Black Panther’-Inspired Recipes!
To round out your holiday menu, consider “The Official Wakanda Cookbook” by Malawian-American chef Nyanyika Banda. While at the University of Wisconsin Superior, Banda designed her history and writing majors around African Foodways and has been a life-long scholar of […]
Roy Wol, His Growth as a Filmmaker and How Being a TCK Helps His Art
Whether gazing the moon and stars at Lac d’Annecy in France, waiting on Argentinian maté to steep in the U.K., sipping on Turkish coffee in Germany, or arriving in Austin for yet another speaking engagement at South by Southwest (SXSW) […]
Destinations With Doni: Wringing Out the Powerful, Cross-Cultural Perspectives Of ‘Wakanda Forever’ — Part 3 (AUDIO)
In the last of our three-part series on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” we talk about the two feather serpent gods of Mexico — Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan — and close out by having our panelists provide their cross-cultural perspectives on the […]
Destinations With Doni: Wringing Out the Powerful, Cross-Cultural Perspectives Of ‘Wakanda Forever’ — Part 3 (VIDEO)
In the last of our three-part series on “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” we talk about the two feather serpent gods of Mexico — Quetzalcoatl and Kukulkan — and close out by having our panelists provide their cross-cultural perspectives on the […]
Explosión Negra: Advancing the Sound of Afro-Colombian Music
The three members of Explosión Negra combine native Colombian sounds like cumbia and buyerengue with modern elements like hip hop, dancehall, reggae, raggamurfy, etc. Nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best Tropical Fusion Album category in 2016, band members […]
Learning How To Be A Blended U.S.-Chinese Family: Mia and LaRon Kampka
For Mia and LaRon Kampka, blending their Chinese and U.S. cultures has been a labor of love. The couple met three years ago in Rome, Italy. “She was actually a friend of my mom’s,” LaRon, a videographer, says. “They had […]