Global Culture
VISUAL: The Skinny on Getting Skinny: Global Prevalence of Eating Disorders
Eating disorders are gaining attention worldwide. Books, TV shows, and countless blogs have been created to address the issue and offer support and resources. People often don’t recognize the extent of a particular disease, and eating disorders are no […]
International Marriage Equality Part II
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 […]
Culture Shock: The Land of Plenty, or The Land of Grossly Too Much?
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 […]
International Marriage Equality
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 […]
Expatriates and Pioneers: We aren’t so different
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 […]
Part 1: Be In The Know – Marriage Equality in America
The discrimination against marriage equality for identities that don’t fit the heteronormative script was rampant in the U.S many years ago. It wasn’t until the early 60s when activist groups started challenging these prejudice ideologies and policy changes became a […]
Pets are TCKs Too
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 […]
The Benefits of Boarding School Abroad: The Road Home
Most would agree that getting to experience life in India while having the Himalayas as your backyard sounds like something off a travelers bucket list. While that might be true, for Pico, the main character in The Road Home, this […]

















