Global Culture

In “The Time is Always Now: Artists Reframe the Black Figure,” Adult Third Culture Kid curator Ekow Eshun assembled a collective of contemporary Black artists whose works assert presence, identity and sovereignty.

In this powerful episode of the Destinations Podcast, we sit down with Eugene Tapahe, a Navajo (Diné) artist, photographer and cultural storyteller whose work bridges healing, identity and the sacred connection to the land.

In 1976, young Australian journalist and Third Culture Adult Keith Dalton packed a typewriter and a cassette recorder into his backpack and set off on an 18-month, six-country journey through Southeast Asia.

For writer and activist Ilya Ganpantsura who advocates for linguistic and religious rights in Ukraine, the answer becomes clear if one looks at poor countries without democracy — for they lack the very tradition of democracy.

When Pauline Yeghnzazar Peck was growing up in both Iran and the United States, the language spoken at home would switch from Farsi to English to Armenian

Even though Iranian Armenian American Pauline Yeghnazar Peck’s parents both spoke English when they emigrated with her from Iran to the United States, she still had to act as a form of “social translator” while growing up.

A documentary that originally was just supposed to be a short film about Afghan skiers turned into a much longer piece after those skiers were forced to leave the country as refugees when the Taliban returned to power.

In a world where identity is often misunderstood or minimized, culturally fluid leaders bring clarity, connection and transformation. They are the alchemists of belonging — turning lives lived across borders, cultures and identities into innovation and impact.