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What defines a TCK? Lynnie Wright was born in Liberia and moved to the United States in 8th grade. The cultures were vastly different. “I don’t even know how to explain it,” said Wright, a Third Culture Kid (TCK) at […]

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 […]

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 […]

Lelia Janah knew something most of us didn’t when it comes to sourcing top tech talent, and she bet on her idea with all her heart. If you had to guess, what are the odds that someone living in Kibera, […]

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.

Immigrant, Third Culture Kid, LGBTQ+ and more, accessories designer Nik Kacy’s journey may just help you discover your own life purpose. Fashion accessory designer Nik Kacy has a message for in-betweeners: Be Unapologetically You. Though these specific words don’t fall […]

As a Mexican immigrant who has spent most of her life in Colorado, Diana Castro is a cross-cultural illustration. FROM A LOVING HOME Born in Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico to a lawyer father and administrator mother, Castro found joy in […]

AN EPIC EVENT Culturs held its global print launch party and Winter Cover unveiling on Oct. 15 at its Global Headquarters in Denver, Colo.  With almost three hundred attendees, guests flew in from all over the United States and around […]