Foreign, Or

If a festival could be personified, Sofia Ballon Hamann would be it. Escaping the gravity of home, Shifei has a hard landing back into the land of academia and finds herself working at a Dutch McDonald's. The struggle is real in this completely inconclusive conversation about a Foreign-Or life in medias res.

If a festival could be personified, Sofia Ballon Hamann would be it. Following the Peruvian globetrotter we go from backpacking in SE Asia to the first Shifeistival in Beijing to a longer-than-expected landing back home.

If a festival could be personified, Sofia Ballon Hamann would be it. This first episode digs into her American schooling in Peru, life as an international student in Indiana, and the ups and downs of internships abroad.

Former reporter in China turned life coach in Germany Andrea Hunt talks expat exes, freedom versus stability while abroad, and the paradox of "the plan".

Thoughts on leaving one's adopted home during the pandemic. 

 

Read Katie (Dolly) Deighton's original post "On Leaving" here: https://medium.com/the-privileged-immigrant/on-leaving-7f334d8aed50

 

Say hellooooooo Dolly to the author on Twitter @dollydeighton

1st generation Dominican-American Felmar Dean explores the complexities of Afro-Latinos from his lively Harlem studio. From journeying to the DR to find his father to caring for and commiserating with his aging immigrant mother, Felmar fights to stay connected through blood, sweat, and art. 

Hailing from South Africa, Debbie-Lee Van Ginkel spent 17 years in Beijing. Now she is starting all over again in Siem Reap, living her best life as a NIA instructor and cat butler.

Akua Naru is a riddler, a rhymer, and a foreign-or who lives here and there and everywhere. This emcee’s complexity is reflected in the black music she shares all around the world.

Robbie Worth is a real life ninja. The American is a 10th degree black belt and teaches budo taijitsu in Chengdu. In his spare time he cycles, works with leather, and throws knives.

Zovi, the French founder of comic 'zine Shaving in the Dark told me about missions, music, and her transformation to become the Foreign, Or in Shanghai who 画画s.