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When we are moved around as kids by our parents and authority figures, we are #displaced. We had no choice in the matter. It's not good or bad, it's just what we’re working with. Our 3rd issue, DISPLACED, is coming soon! #nonfiction #movement #change #Truth #polyculturalism

Displacement can be in response to either an immediate or protracted force, but the result regardless is quick and profound personal change. Our third issue, DISPLACED, is dropping soon! #displaced #nonfiction #embracepolyculturalism #movementandchange

Only 4 days left to submit to DISPLACED! We've been somewhat humbled by the vulnerable and courageous stories we've received thus far. Submit @ thewaifproject.org/call-for-… #callforsubmissions #nonfiction #displacement #migration #writing #learningtobepolycultural @theWAiFproject

You missed the mark, @NYTopinion and @fmanjoo. #thegreatreplacement is countered by learning to embrace #polyculturalism, not by assuring white people they are still at the top. White dominance IS being replaced, slowly, and we're all going to be ok. buff.ly/2CBAT0N

Head's up we are no longer supporting our FB page. Will keep it up as a jumping off point for those who happen upon it, but have not found FB particularly effective for nuanced conversations about movement, change, and identity. But we do have a new instagram (@thewaifproject)!

"[T]his party signaled a transition in all of our friendships...Time together would become more difficult to come by, and the friendships that we once took for granted would now require intentionality and effort to sustain" @jimlandwehr61 in LEAVING: buff.ly/2QvfcUh

"The blinking green cross of the pharmacy tells me to 'vas, vas, vas.' I can, do. You will stay. When does the trip, relationship cease...at the end or when the end is in sight?" The beautiful sadness when #leaving is mutual. #READ the story in LEAVING: buff.ly/2C9poMK

#CallForSubmissions! WAiF is now accepting submissions for its 3rd issue, DISPLACED. Eviction, violence, fire, flood -- when leaving is not the choice you'd have made for yourself. Submissions due March 31: buff.ly/2smdevP #displaced #Writers #nonfiction

"You sell plasma, often, in many cities and think about how there are these parts of yourself...spread out all over, and you like that you are everywhere but sometimes you feel empty and you want it all back." #Wanderlust @casimo7 @jackansteyphoto READ: buff.ly/2RUg9XD

"'Oh yeah. Who cares. They’re all weird.' This was my only response to anyone or anything outside of what I had known in Adelaide." #nonfiction #writer @frances_guerin on how leaving home reveals our unconscious biases. Read the full story in #WAiF at buff.ly/2DLEHi7

"To add insult to their injury, they viewed me as a white girl even though I am of mixed race, and wasn’t it just like the United States to send a bunch of young, ignorant, white people to tell black people how to do their jobs?" thewaifproject.org/nicole-st… #nonfiction #expat #WAiF

"Of course, I didn’t lose my name, The depth of my skin, twist of my hair, My small pox vaccination or my claim To High Church infant rebirth, whatever God and government had stamped and filed." Yvonne's lyrics r a must read: thewaifproject.org/yvonne-bo… #poetry #displacement #WAiF

"Bisbee was exactly the sort of town that inspired wild herb theft, since nobody thought much about consequences." Read indie #writer @leahsnapdragon blur the lines btw leaving, exploiting, and rejecting in "Leaving Bisbee" #nonfiction #moving #WAiF thewaifproject.org/mueller-l…

Issue 2, LEAVING, is now available on WAiF! Featuring 7 infinitely talented established and emerging #writers and #migrants, LEAVING lays bare the vulnerability of following through with the decision to move. Get vulnerable with us, read the full issue at: thewaifproject.org/leaving

“Comfortable shoes and the freedom to leave are the two most important things in life.” ― Shel Silverstein

Issue #2, LEAVING, drops in exactly one week! The moment you leave, change is inevitable.

Check it out! Our friends over at @GreenOliveArts are accepting applications for UPROOTED: Convergence 2019 Artist Residency in Tetouan, Morocco, calling global creatives to explore migration and displacement in the human narrative. Very cool opportunity: greenolivearts.com/art-resid…

#Writers, #Migrants, #PeopleOfTheWorld, it's the last week to submit for Issue 2: LEAVING! What does it mean to leave someplace? How do you let it go? Why do you let it go? #NonFiction #Submissions due this Friday, Aug 3. Check how to submit here: thewaifproject.org/call-for-…

#Writers, we're calling for #Nonfiction #submissions for Issue 2: LEAVING. What does it look like, feel like, to walk away from a place? How long did it take to fully let it go? Tell us about it. Deadline Aug 3. Learn more here: thewaifproject.org/call-for-…

"Also ironic was how my exterior, instead of manifesting the repression of my personality, flourished and thrived." Incredibly talented #teenager Kim Young Jin recounts a choice that was not his in "Harmless Exfoliation" #migration #nonfiction #SouthKorea thewaifproject.org/jin-harml…