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in ANASTASIA ASHMAN,community,culture,global niche,history,home,hybrid ambassadors,identity,multicultural,origin,psychic limbo,self-image,society,taboo,women

Global thinkers must navigate and find a way to bridge worlds that might make only a sinister kind of sense.

Talking about the creation of the Expat Harem anthology and meeting readers during our marathon 49-day 10-state American book tour.

Life abroad can test our sense of self. Realizing we’re part of an adventuress continuum can restore it.

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

Where we come from counts, and by bringing what we uniquely have to offer, we cross-pollinate the culture.

After four generations of immigration, a New World woman finds the mysteries of extended lineage often crop up as synchronicity, quirks of taste, wanderlust.
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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.

In a live-recorded talk, I map a 15 year journey from cultural disenfranchisement to a new expat+HAREM initiative: a private, educational community for global citizens, putting theory into practice.

city+TREASURES: hunting troves of art, a nostalgic taste in food, the purifying and ecstatic rituals of ancient health and faith, and this hilltown’s springtime beauty.

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