REFLECTION: Božana Pašić describes the personal tapestry she has been weaving in her life, and touches on the journeys that have contributed new threads to it over the years.
Category: Thoughts + Stories
A Memory of a Quiet Burial
MEMOIR: Jess Liao recalls the passing of her Ye Ye.
PEANUT BUTTER
REFLECTION: Prudence Hubert-Lajournade tells of the shocks, joys and contradictions of growing up – and having grown up – between the US and France.
Do I need to change to feel like I belong?
REFLECTION: Intercultural communication blogger Marta Zielińska describes her emotional journey of moving from Poland to the UK.
Yahya
SHORT STORY: Yahya wakes up to another day wrestling with the internal griefs of his translocation.
Matter out of place
SHORT STORY: Lien Hoang brings us a story of new landscapes and stark contrasts, set in the Snowy Mountains of NSW.
Extract: Weird Culture Kids (Ngọc Nguyễn)
MEMOIR: Ngọc Nguyễn and New Degree Press bring us an extract from Ngọc’s upcoming memoir – Weird Culture Kids.
From Continental Europe to Cosmopolitan Canberra
REFLECTION: Krystian Sadkowsky recounts his family’s complex migration history to where they are all settled today.
To be or to be
THOUGHT PIECE: Anna Koestenbauer considers the contradictions inherent to ‘being’ a migrant Australian.
I am Piedmontese
REFLECTION: Mirella Sadkowsky narrates her migration story, exploring the impact of distance on her sense of cultural identity.
