The Geography of Belonging: Living Between Worlds

"Where are you from?" It should be a simple question. But for those of us living in diaspora, away from ancestral homelands, it's anything but simple. Do they mean where I was born? Where I live now? Where my parents came from? Where I look like I'm from?

And the real question underneath: Where do I actually belong?

In this episode, we explore the unique experience of living between worlds—the split identity of diaspora, the exhaustion of constant translation, and the search for home when home isn't a fixed point on a map.

Topics covered:

• Split identity across continents and cultures
• Home as concept vs. place: when belonging is portable
• The exhaustion of constant cultural translation
• Code-switching and the emotional labor of representation
• Belonging to yourself when you don't belong anywhere completely

You exist in the between. The gap. The hyphen. And that's not a deficit—it's a particular kind of wholeness.

🎧 Episode 7 of 15