TCKid: A Home for Third Culture Kids

Join Myra Dumapias with TCKidNOW this weekend for this panel on What Diversity Needs to Look Like!

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"TCKs often experience deeper and extreme levels of empathy as a result of living in different countries during our developmental years and develop a global sense of 'patriotism' or a 'nationalism' that claims belonging with many different countries.

The commonly experiences of rootlessness, frequent goodbyes and multiple losses (traumatic for many in ways that sometimes are not recognized until later adult years) during our childhood has led many of us to have a deep well of empathy. (https://www.psypost.org/2018/11/people-who-experience-traumatic-events-as-children-are-more-empathetic-as-adults-52640?)

Further, not only do TCKs often consider "home", cities, towns or countries we lived in and its residents years after moving away; Especially for those who grew up exposed to human suffering in different countries, we can also usually relate to strangers in places we never lived in because we were all once initially strangers in a land that we later called "home" and understand the impact of human suffering".

Myra Dumapias, MSW at TCKidNOW

So excited! Can't wait to hear these speakers at this years FIGT Forum event.

During this holiday season, while celebrating with loved ones, please take time to honor the Palestinian lives that have been lost in the ongoing genocide and read the whole transcript or listen to the whole message about Christ in the Rubble through our page.

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As a TCK community, we've been talking about home and how we've been rootless, grappling with belonging and on some level, displacement. We talk about being home for the holidays and homesickness for everywhere we've established roots while growing up.

If there's any crisis we should all be able to relate to, it's the genocide Israel has been implementing on Gaza.

Even if you have called Israel home, you can still also demand Israel to stop and listen to Palestinians. Even if you think you don't know enough, you can still demand cease fire because more than 20,000 Palestinian lives have been lost. Israel bombed Palestinian hospitals and have killed civilians. It's not a war: this is genocide. While so much has been happening since 1948 and before, it has been 80 days of nonstop genocide.

Are there TCKs involved with any efforts to help Palestinians?

About the art:
partnered with artist Kelly Latimore of to create this new icon, "Christ in the Rubble," which illustrates the prophetic message that if Jesus was born today, he would be born "under the rubble."

Kelly wants his art to be a ‘holy pondering’ - a process that potentially brings about a new way of seeing.

Our hope is that this icon, "Christ in the Rubble" will create more dialogue among Christians in the United States during this holy season about the ways our beliefs and actions - or lack thereof - contribute to the violence we're currently witnessing in Gaza. How can we shape a culture of Christianity where love truly has no boundaries? How do we create a world where our poor, homeless, refugee, Palestinian Savior - born to a teenage mother and later condemned to death - would be cherished had he been born today.

Celebrating Remembrance Day, in commemoration of the day of the Armistice of November 11, 1918, ending World War I at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month. On this day, we honor the lives of armed forces members who have died in the line of duty. In the US, on this Veterans Day we also salute military service members who have served the country.

"If you are citizen of the world, it doesn’t mean that you don’t care about anywhere. Sometimes your attachments are even stronger, because you’re not guided by any kind of nationalistic fervor or any jingoistic rhetoric." Elif Shafak, in an interview with Channel 4 British public broadcast service, Dec 26, 2018

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFe1JNo4J1g&ab_channel=Channel4News

Our hearts to all who are impacted by the earthquake in Morocco!

So much has happened in all of our lives since our 9/11 tribute two years ago. Today, we take time to honor the lives lost on 9/11, the lives forever changed by being there, and the impact of fear-based and hateful racial profiling exacerbated by 9/11.

At the end of each day, may we all know more kindness and grace as we understand one anothers’ losses and may love overcome hate for one another.

After almost two years of the trauma from not only the global pandemic, but so much else that has happened around the world, it is challenging to process the significance of Sept. 11, 20 years ago.

So many of us remember where we were and what we were doing. However, beyond that, the world and social relations have changed significantly. Twenty years later, this anniversary, arriving in the context of a world significantly changed by a global pandemic and other historically significant events can be beyond what many of us can bear.

We honor not only the lives lost that day, but the lives forever impacted, as people have proceeded on with their lives for 20 years with the memory of 9/11 still heavy on their heart.
We recognize that certain communities have been targeted as scapegoats for what happened on 9/11 and understand the generational impact on the community and individual level.

Since 9/11, our national borders and procedures for travel and baggage have changed dramatically. Within pockets of communities, we know of cases of hate and discrimination against certain individuals and communities for simply being Middle Eastern, North African, Arab, South Asian, Muslim or other identities/ perceived identities often targeted.

The trauma many of us are experiencing from a prolonged global pandemic, involving highly contagious variants, is not dissimilar from the trauma from discrimination and scapegoating that has come out since 9/11.

Thank you to those who practice self-reflection, self-awareness and self-criticism with accountability for issues that matter to cross-cultural communities.

Much love and grace to all who are deeply impacted by what this day may be bringing out.

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