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Life In Slow Motion: Lessons From A TCK’s First Pet On Moments And Memories (Part 2 of 2)
In Part 1, Myra Dumapias wrote about how she fell in love with her first pet dog, Papi, and her memories of him growing up as a member of her family. In Part 2 below, she talks about the lessons […]
Finding the ‘Joyride’ in Journeys of Change: An Interview with TCK Filmmaker Sebastien Tobler — Part 1 of 2
If there was ever a perfect way to portray the universal experiences of attachment and letting go, a Third Culture filmmaker would know how to do it. By inviting his audience to step into brief moments around moving day, filmmaker Sebastien […]
‘In-Between Club’ Podcast: Yasuha Miura and Tomoka Mori — Part 1 of 3
(In part 1, we find out about the ‘In-Between Club‘ podcast and how it came to be from its co-hosts, Yasuha Miura and Tomoka Mori.) Identity and roots of the ‘In-between Club‘ Growing up as TCKs/CCKs, many of us struggle […]
Kumail Nanjiani’s Quick Rise to Fame Through Culture-Based Comedy
Kumail Nanjiani is a Pakistani-American comedian, actor, and screenwriter from Karachi, Pakistan. Nanjiani was raised, along with his brother, by his parents Shabana and Aijaz Nanjiani. At the age of 18, Nanjiani immigrated to the United States to study computer […]
Shakira: Greatest Female Latin Artist of All Time
Shakira Isabel Mebarak Ripoll is a multitalented Colombian pop artist, singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. She was born in Barranquilla, Colombia, to a Spanish mother and an American father with Lebanese lineage. Shakira started dancing at an early […]
Helen Oyeyemi: A New Light on Old Fairytales
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 […]
The Powleys’ Unique Multicultural Experience —Part 2 of 3; Bruce
This is the second story in the three-part series of the multicultural Powley family, including my mother from Japan, Noriko, my father from the U.S. Bruce, and my Third Culture Kid (TCK) brother, Brendon. In part one, we viewed the […]
WHAT IS BLACK?
IN TERMS OF PEOPLE, BLACKNESS IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH HOMOGENEITY. 3 MINUTE READ Around the globe, no matter where you find the shade of skin that ranges from milky to mocha, deep chocolate to charcoal, as varied as the skin […]







