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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · May 14

🌍 You stopped thinking of countries as headlines
when someone you loved missed a wedding because their visa didn’t come through.

Global citizenship isn’t a passport.
It’s proximity to pain you used to scroll past.

#globalcitizen #lifeabroad #migrant #immigrationstories #diaspora #cultureexplorer

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · May 13

🌏 The first time you really see a place,
you’re also seeing yourself—
smaller, softer, stranger.
That’s the shift.
Not a border crossed,
but a gaze widened.

#cultureexplorer #globalcitizen #crosscultural #nomadstories #lifeabroad #expatliving #digitalnomad #immigrationstories

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · May 12

🔹 The map keeps shrinking. But your world? It widens.
A song in a language you don’t speak.
A poem you don’t understand—but feel.
You don’t have to belong everywhere.
Just be open enough to listen.

#globalcitizen #cultureexplorer #lifeabroad #diaspora #expatlife #crosscultural #nomadstories

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · May 11

The way your mother reheated jollof on low.

The broth you chased through Bangkok alleys.

The cheap pastry that tasted like survival in Berlin.

You eat to remember.
You eat to stay.

#expatliving #cultureexplorer #diaspora #migrant #lifeabroad #globalcitizen #nomadstories #immigrationstories

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · May 10

The stories slip through static and border noise—

a radio show in Accra, a zine from Oaxaca, grandma’s proverb passed through WhatsApp voice notes.

The world isn’t louder now, but maybe you’re tuned to a different frequency.

#immigrantstories #globalcitizen #lifeabroad #expatlifestyle #migrant

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · May 9

Somewhere between visas and vernaculars, you stop trying to translate yourself. You just start collecting versions.

Not a mosaic. Not a mask.
Something blurrier. Softer. Still becoming.

#diaspora #crosscultural #globalcitizen #lifeabroad #nomadstories #digitalnomadlife #expatlifestyle #identity

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · May 8

🧠 She was sharper in French. Softer in Spanish. Chaotic in English.

Language didn’t change her — it only gave her permission
to arrive differently.

#identityandlanguage #expatliving #blackexpat #migrant #crosscultural #digitalnomad

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · May 7

You never called yourself an immigrant—not until someone asked, “Where’s home?” and you didn’t know where to begin.

Some words arrive late—not because they’re wrong, but because they ask something of you.

#immigrantstories #diaspora #lifeabroad #expatliving #migrant #blackexpat #culturalidentity

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Apr 24

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Apr 24

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Apr 24

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Apr 24

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Apr 24

There's more to travel than passport stamps

This one's for the global citizens building belonging in unfamiliar places & figuring out what home means

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#globalcitizen #expatlife #expatlifestyle #digitalnomad #digitalnomadlife #livingabroad #worldtraveler #findinghome #WillielnTheWild

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Apr 5

Amadou Bagayoko was a legend ✊🏿🇲🇱 #amadouandmariam www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/4/...

Iconic Malian musician Amadou Bagayoko dies at 70

Bagayoko part of blind duo Amadou and Mariam, was among Africa’s best-selling and beloved music industry performers.

www.aljazeera.com

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Apr 1

jacobin.com/2025/04/andr...
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Andrée Blouin Was Africa’s Forgotten Power Broker

The memoirs of the Central African revolutionary Andrée Blouin tell the story of a woman who witnessed firsthand the ecstatic highs and tragic lows of Africa’s struggle for independence.

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Feb 20

You stop thinking about it after a while—the small shifts, the softened edges. The way your voice changes when you talk to someone new. The way you take up just a little more or less space, depending on where you are.

#Belonging #ExpatLife #CulturalIdentity

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Feb 19

At some point, you stop hesitating. You know the rhythm, the way things work. You start moving through a space like it’s always been yours—until one small moment reminds you, and you remember the steps again.

#ExpatLife #FindingHome #Belonging

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Feb 19

The same words land differently, depending on who says them. Some voices get taken at face value. Others have to prove themselves first.

#WhoGetsToBelong #FindingHome #CulturalIdentity

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Feb 19

Some names roll off tongues easy. Others make people pause, try, stumble. After a while, you start saying it the way they expect to hear it, just to keep things moving.

#ExpatLife #WhoGetsToBelong #CulturalIdentity

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Feb 19

Funny how the same question—'Where are you from?'—can feel warm in one place, like a test in another, and like a door quietly closing somewhere else.

#ImmigrationStories #CulturalIdentity #FindingHome

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Feb 19

Some places make you feel bigger, while some make you feel smaller.

And then there are others that change you so much, you wouldn’t recognize yourself if you saw who you were before 🍃 🍁 🍂

#FindingHome #Belonging #WhoGetsToBelong

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Feb 19

You don’t just pick up a language, you pick up the rhythm—when to talk, when to hold back, when to laugh so it lands right. You start moving like the place around you, even before you realize it.

#CulturalIdentity #Belonging #ExpatLife

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Feb 19

You start to notice the way people hesitate before your name, the way their smile doesn’t quite reach their eyes, the way a handshake lingers just a second too long—small signals that tell you exactly where you stand.

#ExpatLife #WhoGetsToBelong #FindingHome

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Feb 19

🗣️ It’s not just the words. It’s the pauses, the way your voice lands in a room, the way some accents make people lean in, and others make them look twice.

#Belonging #CulturalIdentity #FindingHome

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Willie | The World, No Visa Required @joinwillie.bsky.social · Feb 19

🧳 🌍 Some people show their passport. Others prove their worth.

#CulturalIdentity #WhoGetsToBelong #ImmigrationStories

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