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With/out borders

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

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September 1st, 2010 | Tags: astrocartography, boundaries, boundary, civil war, colonial power, Czech Republic, expat+HAREM series, Frida Kahlo, friendship, genocide, hybrid/MONSTER, India, Kashmir, Lady Gaga, locational astrology, mapping, maps, Pakistan, physical boundary, portrait, Prague, psychic boundary, separatist, Sezin Koehler, Sri Lanka, Tamil, Tamil Tigers | Category: borderlands, community, friendship, history, identity, psychic limbo, self-image | View Comments

Buff culture

When an expat from America’s conservative “Bible Belt” moves to Europe she faces a liberal culture of nakedness. [...]

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June 23rd, 2010 | Tags: advertising, BIble Belt, Christian, clothing optional, conservative, Czech Republic, European, liberating, medical care, midwest, midwestern, Minnesota, modesty, naked, naturism, New Mexico, nude, nudist, nudity, Oklahoma, parks, primitivism, recreation, Sherry Vacik, social mores, Texas, tolerance | Category: American culture, community, culture, identity, origin, self-image, society, taboo, women | View Comments

Past is present

The neo-Nazi movement is strong in Prague and as a mixed breed Asian woman, my hugely tattooed shoulders give me some street cred. [...]

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April 28th, 2010 | Tags: Asian, bindi, Communism, Czech, Czech Republic, discrimination, dissident, expat+HAREM series, ghosts of the past, Gypsy, minority, neo-Nazi, physical presentation, post-Communist, Prague, racism, Roma, Romani, secret service, Sezin Koehler, skinhead, Slovak, street cred, street credibility, tattoo, tram, Velvet Revolution, white supremacy, xenophobia | Category: community, identity, multicultural, origin | View Comments

Ring my bell

What comes first, the hybrid self or the hybrid life? Are our most resonant peers made or born? [...]

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March 2nd, 2010 | Tags: Art is Dialogue, Asia, California, Catherine Salter Bayar, Catherine Yigit, China, citizen of the world, creative expression, Czech Republic, Dialogue2010, discussion series, dual citizenship, Dutchwoman, Elmira Bayraslı, Europe, expat+HAREM, expat+HAREM founder, expat+HAREM founder series, global citizen, global nomad, Holland, hybrid life, hybrid self, Italy, Jocelyn Eikenburg, Judith van Praag, Karen Armstrong Quartarone, kindred spirit, location-independent, mapping, Netherlands, New York, Pacific Northwest, Rose Deniz, Sezin Koehler, Tara Lutman Ağaçayak, Third Culture Kid, Turkey, United Nations, Washington, writing | Category: American culture, culture, friendship, harem, identity, society, women | View Comments

Inside outsider

When a longtime expat in Prague takes a photo course she cannot pretend to be Czech — and gains respect for the tourists which throng her city’s streets. [...]

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February 25th, 2010 | Tags: camera, Canon Powershot, Czech, Czech Republic, foreign visitor, ministry of tourism, outsider, permanent resident, photo-a-day, photograph, photographer, photography, Prague, Sezin Koehler, snapshot, Sri Lanka, Sri Lankan, tourism, tourist, tourist destination, tram, xenophobia | Category: community, identity, self-image | View Comments

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