MEMOIR: Boripat Lebel remembers the nature reserve he and his family used to explore in the hinterland of Perth, Australia.
Category: Thoughts + Stories
Bridging two worlds: Identity crisis of a returned expat
REFLECTION: Teresa Sadkowsky shares her experiences reconciling her Japanese and Australian cultural identities after an extended time spent living overseas.
The language of health
REFLECTION: Vinh Tran shares a touching experience of the intimate space he was brought into by a common language.
SubjectACT interview – Talking migration and belonging with Nathan Gubler
INTERVIEW: Dunja Cvjetićanin and Anita Patel sit down with Nathan Gubler of SubjectACT to have a chat about be:longing.
Belonging or be-longing – for all that is familiar
REFLECTION: Marwa Rida explores the process of finding a sense of home in Canberra, Australia, 15 years after migrating.
Home not home
THOUGHT PIECE: Annabel Boyer brings us a personal reflection on the struggle to belong in the place where you were born.
be:longing – a look back on our first year
YEAR IN REVIEW: Editors-in-Chief of be:longing, Dunja and Jasmine, reflect on the publication’s first year.
Belonging to Australia
REFLECTION: Ella Kurz explores the solace and inspiration found in connections to land, and searches for what it means to her to be Australian.
The apple tree blossoms
REFLECTION: Abbas Khodamoradi Dashtaki shares with us a quiet moment of reverie beneath the memory-laden blossoms of an apple tree.
In step with my own drum beats
MEMOIR: Courtney Neville reflects on her experiences living between two places –
two cultures – and uncovers the impossibility of choosing between the two.
