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These actors are standing up for representation in their work and are using their platforms to discuss the issues that TCKs face every day.

Native American populations often fly under the public eye, and issues on reservations rarely make it into mainstream U.S. news coverage. U.S. culture is always described as a melting pot, a blend and mash of the culture of immigrants and […]

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.

Aziz Ansari’s “Master of None” follows a young Indian American man, Dev, who is the first generation in his family to live in the United States. Dev is modeled after Ansari himself whose parents immigrated from India. The show tackles […]

While Rachell Hofstetter, better known as Valkyrae, may have over 14 million followers watching her stream online, when she was growing up as a Cross Cultural Kid in a small town in Washington State, U.S.A., like many CCKs she spent her youth trying to figure out exactly who she was.

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.

If you’re interested in the current state of research on Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Cross-Cultural Kids (CCKs), expat families and international life in general, you’ll want to check out the TCK Research Podcast.

In Part 1 of this series, we explored the concept of True Education. Part 2 explores the E.D.U.C.A.T.E. framework — a guide to true education that goes beyond classrooms, degrees and borders.