Reacting to taboo: how avoidance can make us complicit

ANASTASIA ASHMAN
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Taboo’s unintended cloaking effect: we banish from our thoughts the most unimaginable human acts, making us blind to them in our midst.

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Authority abroad: what it takes to become your own expat icon

ANASTASIA ASHMAN
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Larger-than-life expat personalities seem in tune with far-flung surroundings, and able to produce their best work out of foreign atmospheres.

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Spirit of the season(ing): counterculture recipe for family harmony

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Around our holiday table in 1979, my fractious family were gifted with a sudden ability to perceive each other as the loveable characters we truly are. The secret ingredient: an unseen substance in the stuffing.

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What you leave behind to live more fully: attachment, impatience, expectations

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I had to leave behind a feeling of security, of what I should have, the house and the husband and the car and the 2.5 kids.

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Expat Harem editors on The Crossroads TV with Martin Anthony

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Anastasia Ashman and Jennifer Gokmen interviewed by Istanbul’s TV 6 News about foreign women in modern Turkey, making Tales from the Expat Harem, and other cultural crossroads.

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The expat divide: digital world citizens bridge an opportunity gap

American culture

Expatriatism is often a life apart. So how does a writer abroad get up to speed and compete in her home market?

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Nostalgic baggage: taking love with you

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If each tiny, agile step forward is a step away from something else — guaranteed not to be there forever, trustily waiting for our return– we need to consider with extra care where we’re headed and when we choose to go.

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Rolling stone: how are you shaped by the places you’ve been?

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If nowhere in the world is home, all the world is home. Happy syllogism or rootless predicament?

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Disposable liaisons of the traveling class: the questionable cultural exports of sexpats and sex pilgrims

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Hot-and-bothered globetrotters….which cultural product are sex tourists exporting?

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Flaming East: how do you share uncensored awe about a place?

ANASTASIA ASHMAN
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Inspired by history but not tethered to it, my Flaming East concept embraced the wonder of the region’s watery crossroads, from the Renaissance’s Age of Discovery to the steamer trunks-and-servants Golden Age of Travel. But does exploring the past mean flaming the east?

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