Refugees
The Life of TCK Freddie Mercury
Most people heard of the songs “We Are the Champions” and “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Freddie Mercury. But not everyone knows […]
Hispanic Heritage Month — OPINION: Why it’s Significant to the U.S.A.
Hispanic Heritage Month 2020 is celebrated in the United States from Sept. 15th through to Oct. 15th. It commemorates the independence of many Latin American countries from Spain. This year more than ever, however, I can’t help but reflect on what it means to be Latinx/Hispanic in these times.
WHAT IS BLACK?
IN TERMS OF PEOPLE, BLACKNESS IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH HOMOGENEITY. 3 MINUTE READ Around the globe, no matter where you […]
ASIAN ALLIES: The Activism We Need Today
The Asian American experience of racism in the U.S. and the need for alliances with African Americans and POC.
TCK Cultural Identity Discovered through Art – Part 1 of 3
Third culture kids (TCKs) are people that have spent a significant part of their developmental years outside of their parents’ […]
Is the U.S. Flouting the Law regarding Central America’s Exodus?
Reasons why the border crisis has escalated to a mass exodus from the Northern Triangle/ Central America, and ways the U.S. is part of the problem and the solution.
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.
Heritage and its Connection to Past, Present and Future
“Go back to where you started, or as far back as you can,
examine all of it, travel your road again and tell the truth about it.
Sing or shout or testify or keep it to yourself: but know whence you came.”