cross cultural
Music for Healing: TCK Artist Mawule Gives Voice To Social Issues
Music has magnetizing allure. Songs unearth emotion. From raindrops tapping a window to a soft bone-chilling melody, sound connects us to our most powerful memories and feelings. Mawule (pronounced “MAH-OOH-LEY”), a Denver-based singer and songwriter, believes music serves as a coping mechanism. […]
Ruth Van Reken: The Power of Passion
Global diversity and all its surrounding divisions, classifications, misconceptions, struggles, ideas and linking factors have never been more complicated to define. However, Ruth Van Reken, co-founder of Families in Global Transition (FIGT) and co-author of “Third Culture Kids: Growing Up […]
The 5 Worst Questions to Ask a TCK: Featuring Saja Kamal
Saja Kamal is an insta-famous activist and feminist engaged in many global platforms. Apart from her public life, Kamal grew up with a twist. She is from a Saudi Arabian father, Rami Kamal, and a Palestinian mother, Fatin Lababidi. […]
Omo and Eulanda bring the world (and a bit of themselves) to the blogosphere
Omo and Eulanda Osagiede take readers on intimate adventures through countries around the world with their travel blog Hey! Dip Your Toes In. Through the art of storytelling, the couple introduces readers to delectable foreign cuisine, interesting national histories, incredible […]
VIDEO: Beyond Color – Fauna Hodel’s Story – “So over the race card”
Fauna Hodel has dedicated her life to overcoming color. Her mission is to share “the color of love,” as she says, she’s “so over the race card.” A caucasian-American who was raised by a black family in segregation era Reno […]
VIDEO SERIES – Part II of III: Donald Trump’s Immigration Rhetoric Helps Foster Self Hate
We continue with part two of the three-part series on Sydney Shalz’s intercultural modern family. Shalz’s mother is Caucasian American, while her stepfather was born in Mexico and speaks fluent Spanish and English. Her older stepbrother (whom she considers her […]
WATCH: The American Family that Debunks Donald Trump’s ideas about immigration Part 1
Sydney Shalz’s family is like many of today – it truly is a modern blended family made of hers, his and ours. The blonde-haired, green-eyed beauty and her family also have a cultural twist that makes Shalz and her siblings […]
VIDEO: Hidden Diversity – Growing up Multi-cutural May Not Look Like You Expect Part 3
We continue with the final of a three-part series on Sydney Shalz’s intercultural modern family and how growing up in that family has affected her world view. “It was much different for me because I grew up in white America […]
