#identity-and-displacement

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3 days ago

There's no flag for people like us': electro-punk duo Chalk on spanning divides in post-Troubles Belfast

Chalk, a Belfast electronic duo, releases debut album Crystalpunk exploring identity crises and cultural displacement through intense, layered soundscapes blending rave, punk, and electronic influences.
fromSilicon Canals
1 week ago

People who moved countries for love and people who moved countries for work carry completely different versions of displacement. One chose a person and lost a place. The other chose a place and discovered that without their people in it, a better country can still feel like a beautiful room with no furniture - Silicon Canals

She said she stood in her new kitchen, which had radiant floor heating and a view of the fjord, and cried because the bread smelled wrong. She'd moved from São Paulo for a man she'd met at a data science conference. The apartment was beautiful. The healthcare was extraordinary. The man was kind. And the bread smelled wrong, and that wrongness cracked open something in her she hadn't known was load-bearing.
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