refugees

(Trigger/Content Warning: This series talks about the effects of Nazism in Germany and war.) When looking back in history, one of the hardest times the human race has faced so far is both world wars, especially the atrocities committed during […]

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 […]

Reasons why the border crisis has escalated to a mass exodus from the Northern Triangle/ Central America, and ways the U.S. is part of the problem and the solution.

While Trump maintains a tougher immigration policy is necessary for economic and security reasons, his critics argue these policies are in direct violation of domestic laws and international humanitarian standards.

The result of living a life that straddles borders, cultures and identities can be unresolved grief and emotion that’s trapped within the body. Through a series of poses, yoga can help release such emotion and free a person of past trauma physically and spiritually. A routine yoga practice can also strengthen the mind-body-spirit connection.

This summer’s Olympics in Rio de Janeiro has broken tradition, and blurred borders by creating a team that will represent no country in particular. But instead, the unique, ten member team will be representing a large, and still growing, population […]

“These Turks in Germany, they’re not interested in getting integrated. They have their own shops and their own districts and they don’t even know German”- my German father-in-law says sometimes. I don’t want to argue with him. After a while, […]