Sep 16, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
I’m still shocked to this day when anyone compliments me on how I look because I’ve been brought up, programmed even, to not to like myself as I am. The colour of my skin is not something I can change. I grew up mostly here in Australia and...
Sep 14, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
“The connections that my husband and I have are connections we’ve discovered together.” We used to live in England and when we were looking about for places to live in Australia again, my husband said he didn’t want to live where I had lived in Australia...
Sep 14, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
In an age of uber-connectivity, I find a unique enjoyment in being disconnected.
Sep 14, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
“I only remembered the tribal women when I was getting better in the last 12 months and realized what a beautiful connection I’d experienced as a child and what an extreme lack of connection I’d experienced when I left that community and came to...
Sep 14, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
“My mum used to tell me that she got bullied because she was British. My parent’s were both bullied because they had British accents and I never understood that because everyone was British in my eyes. I just didn’t realize that Australia had a longer history...
Aug 19, 2016 | Belonging, Your Stories
Friends Adam and David discuss how drinking goat’s blood in Tanzania, racism, and Aboriginal culture triggered a sense belonging Adam: Connection and belonging are absolutely essential. Many of the people who experience some kind of marginalization in society and even...
