Cult Stories
Personal essays by our community of TCKs/in-betweeners.
I Am Part Indonesian, By Blood | Cult Stories
Raised in Canada after her family fled Indonesia's 1998 civil unrest, this contributor spent her childhood quietly assimilating into a culture that felt entirely foreign — and drifting from a...
I Am Part Indonesian, By Blood | Cult Stories
I Am Part Indonesian, By Blood | Cult Stories
Turns Out I'm Only 6% German | Cult Stories
“Where are you from?” A question I have heard more times than I can count. Not because I have an “exotic” look, but more because I immigrated to Bali, Indonesia,...
Turns Out I'm Only 6% German | Cult Stories
Turns Out I'm Only 6% German | Cult Stories
Home Was Never a Country | Cult Stories
Did you know the word "identity" originally meant sameness? One Colombian-born writer noticed that irony and followed it across three continents — from Bogotá to rural Spain to back again...
Home Was Never a Country | Cult Stories
Home Was Never a Country | Cult Stories
Be an Army Kid, or Choose a Place | Cult Stories
Lisa is mixed-race, born in Amsterdam, and has lived everywhere from Romania to Leeds — and nobody seems satisfied with any of those answers. In this essay, she unpacks the...
Be an Army Kid, or Choose a Place | Cult Stories
Be an Army Kid, or Choose a Place | Cult Stories
I Am Not From Anywhere — And That's Okay | Cult Stories
My roots are only the beginning. Ash grew up in Germany, moved to England alone at sixteen, and now calls Indonesia home. In this essay, she reflects on what it...
I Am Not From Anywhere — And That's Okay | Cult Stories
I Am Not From Anywhere — And That's Okay | Cult Stories
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