Category: Thoughts + Stories

A Memory of a Quiet Burial

MEMOIR: Jess Liao recalls the passing of her Ye Ye.

REFLECTION: Prudence Hubert-Lajournade tells of the shocks, joys and contradictions of growing up – and having grown up – between the US and France.

REFLECTION: Intercultural communication blogger Marta Zielińska describes her emotional journey of moving from Poland to the UK.

SHORT STORY: Yahya wakes up to another day wrestling with the internal griefs of his translocation.

SHORT STORY: Lien Hoang brings us a story of new landscapes and stark contrasts, set in the Snowy Mountains of NSW.

MEMOIR: Ngọc Nguyễn and New Degree Press bring us an extract from Ngọc’s upcoming memoir – Weird Culture Kids.

REFLECTION: Krystian Sadkowsky recounts his family’s complex migration history to where they are all settled today.

THOUGHT PIECE: Anna Koestenbauer considers the contradictions inherent to ‘being’ a migrant Australian.

REFLECTION: Mirella Sadkowsky narrates her migration story, exploring the impact of distance on her sense of cultural identity.

BORROWED MEMOIR: Dunja Kaczmarek recalls two moments of surprise connection with fellow cross-cultural migrants across two countries.