Born Liminal: The Internal and External Displacement of a Third Culture Kid Experience
An essay I wrote in 2016 about not being able to fly after a TCK lifetime of airplane travel.
Tag: Travel
Skirt Warning Won’t Prevent India Rapes
“For a country in which one of the national dresses for women is the sari — an outfit that, even with all its yards of fabric, features a crop top that exposes a woman’s cleavage, back, and full belly — it was jarring to read that the Indian Minister of Tourism, Mahesh Sharma, issued a travel advisory to foreign women telling them to not wear skirts.” For Wear Your Voice Mag, October 2016.
This is What Happens When You Watch Killer Mermaid Right After Slavoj Žižek’s A Pervert’s Guide to Ideology
“It started out like any average evening, me scrolling through my Netflix queue to see what was expiring soon: Sophie Fiennes’ 2012 documentary A Pervert’s Guide to Ideology featuring Slavoj Žižek, my first introduction to the man and his brilliant mind. For the next 2 hours and 24 minutes I experienced the growing pains of my entire worldview shifting, and when my ideological tectonics stopped quaking I turned to a horror movie for some entertaining release. But no horror movie, or any movie again, would ever be the same after this introductory encounter with Dr. Žižek. And so, alternating between Chills City and Fever Town, I wrote the following.” For The Mary Sue, September 2016.
Roots in the Sand
Elation about living semi-permanently somewhere gives way to depressed resignation since that somewhere is Florida.
Guest Post: 19 more films that depict the horrors of being abroad, or otherwise displaced
Seriously, people. Stay home.