REFLECTION AND POEM: Abeir Soukieh reflects on names, and on how much it can mean when people make an effort to pronounce them correctly.
Author: belongingmag
Parenting the parents
POEM: Jolly Bhattacharjee shares a poem that explores the changing roles in the parent-child relationship in places ‘in-between’.
To my daughter
POEM: Akka Ballenger Constantin brings us an English-Romanian poem in which she describes to her daughter the things she has never told her.
INTERVIEW with Jasmine Soukieh – Cross-cultural health communication
CROSS-CULTURAL HEALTH: Jasmine Soukieh discusses some of her experiences of conducting health research in a cross-cultural setting.
Lost in translation
VIDEO: Ezara Ortiz shares her short artistic documentary film about her Filipino/Australian family’s experiences of speaking and learning multiple languages
Unpicking a silencing thread
REFLECTION: Scheherazade describes the profound harm that internalised inferiority can do to non-white women living in white-majority societies.
Incomplete New Year
REFLECTION: Sanjaya Fernando describes the disconnect he feels celebrating New Year away from the natural signs that used to mark it for him.
INTERVIEW: Talking music and belonging with Lepomir Miladinović
INTERVIEW: Vesna Cvjetićanin talks to Lepomir Miladinović, a Serbian tailor living in Australia, who finds a sense of peace and belonging through playing the frula.
A Tarantella story – from Liguria to Melbourne
FOLK DANCING: Barbara Amalberti tells us about her folk dancing journey from Liguria, Italy, to a Tarantella school in Melbourne, Australia.
INTERVIEW – Talking health in cross-cultural spaces with Vinh Tran
CROSS-CULTURAL HEALTH: Vinh Tran discusses his experiences of communicating in cross-cultural settings as a doctor.
