Actress Julianne Moore smiling in a red dress, People in the back take photos of her. Taken at the Toronto International Film Festival

Actress Julianne Moore: Military Brat Turned World Famous Movie Star

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Actress Julianne Moore has been in copious amounts of films since she began acting in 1985. Appearing in more than 80 movies, Moore has made a name for herself globally. Before she made it on the big screen, one of […]

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Hope for All: Inside the Olympic Refugee Community

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About the Refugee Olympic Team Millions of people displaced. Families, training facilities and futures torn apart. Hopes reduced to rubble. This is how the global refugee crisis looks. According to the United Nations (UN), approximately 80 million people were forcibly […]

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Cross Cultural and Colorful Fashion

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Designer Thakoon Panichgul is the head of the fashion brand Thakoon. He is an American fashion designer who was born in Nakhon Phanom, Thailand. Raised in Nebraska, Thakoon is an adult cross cultural kid who has based his brand in […]

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Rupi Kaur: Punjabi-Canadian Immigrant, Bold Poet and Daring Artist

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Rupi Kaur was born in India and raised in Canada. Her poetry and illustrations have engaged people around the world. With so much Westernization, it’s easy to get sucked into a culture and try to “fit” into a society. But […]

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Helen Oyeyemi: A New Light on Old Fairytales

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Helen Oyeyemi — “Edgar Allan Poe’s Weirdest Daughter” Helen Oyeyemi’s writing has been called “haunted,” full of magic, horror and mysticism. She was fittingly described as “Edgar Allan Poe’s Weirdest Daughter” in a “France 24” magazine interview. She is a […]

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Christine Rasmussen kneels in front of her paintings titled The Glow (it wasn’t from a phone), Parts I, II, & III. Oil on canvas over panel. 72 x 144 inches. The paintings are of a corrugated metal fence along a skyline with buildings behind, pink and white clouds, and mountains.

Global Nomad Christine Rasmussen: Painter of the In-between

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Global Nomad artist Christine Rasmussen’s highly mobile upbringing shows in her paintings. She illustrates scenes that feel familiar but foreign all at the same time. Her focus is on the beauty of “the in-between,” or urban areas that are usually […]

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Modern Loss: A Global Perspective

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Grief can slap you in the face with shock, jolt you awake with terror, or knock you into an emotional coma. It can also bore you to tears, make you pee your pants laughing and even awaken your sexual desires. […]

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Paria Hassouri: An Immigrant Mother’s Journey in Radical Acceptance

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As an Iranian-American immigrant, Paria was often ostracized by her peers. At school, taunting children would call her “dark and dirty” and told her to “go back to where you came from.”

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