With/out borders: the shape of your world

borderlands
Thumbnail image for With/out borders: the shape of your world

Border disputes never made sense to me. Living all over the world gave me a free floating perception of the world.

17 comments Check it… →

About this site: making the psychic limbo of global citizens a productive state

about us
Thumbnail image for About this site: making the psychic limbo of global citizens a productive state

Why do you need our help? Because liminal life is a bittersweet limbo — coming, going, never quite arriving. expat+HAREM embraces the unmoored and central reality of our globetrotting, multicultural, hybrid times.

Check it… →

Creatives surviving & thriving abroad: lowering barriers and raising your game

American culture
Thumbnail image for Creatives surviving & thriving abroad: lowering barriers and raising your game

Technology and the times both lower the barrier for writers abroad, and raise our game. Now we’re producers, directors, engineers of content.

16 comments Check it… →

Food communion: finding lost rituals

American culture
Thumbnail image for Food communion: finding lost rituals

A global nomad now back in the USA misses the special status of food.

12 comments Check it… →

Being grounded is overrated: getting distance from the inner you

American culture
Thumbnail image for Being grounded is overrated: getting distance from the inner you

By putting some distance between me and my center of gravity, I have room to be in a wider orbit around the inner me.

10 comments Check it… →

Awkward greetings: the intercultural social dance

American culture
Thumbnail image for Awkward greetings: the intercultural social dance

Trying to assimilate to the greeting norms of another culture leaves us bumping heads and stepping on toes.

23 comments Check it… →

Great (avatar) expectations: who decides our best look?

American culture
Thumbnail image for Great (avatar) expectations: who decides our best look?

What do portraits (and self-portraits) demand of us? Which version of yourself do you want to show the world today, and why?

19 comments Check it… →

No 40 years of friendship: the mass market distorts traditional hospitality

American culture
Thumbnail image for No 40 years of friendship: the mass market distorts traditional hospitality

Tourists in Istanbul’s shopping Mecca have been so traumatized they can no longer distinguish an invitation from an inquisition.

14 comments Check it… →

Most affecting: 1 year later

career
Thumbnail image for Most affecting: 1 year later

We’re celebrating a full year of camaraderie among cultural creatives, globally mobile progressives, and explorers of identity.

25 comments Check it… →

Next Entries →