About The Otherhood

A global collective for women and kindred spirits living between cultures.

The Founders

Two friends who met at a Chicago meetup, built lives across borders, and decided the in-between needed its own home

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Continents in our roots and homes

Years living and working between cultures

We’re Janice and Trice. We met in Chicago when a simple question at the door of a Black professionals meetup turned into years of friendship, city hopping, and “do you ever feel like you’re from everywhere and nowhere at once?” conversations. One of us left New York for Chicago, then Europe. The other left Chicago for love overseas.

The Otherhood is our shared project: a space for women and kindred spirits who live between cultures to be seen, heard, and at home together.

Our Story

I was moving from New York to Chicago for work, living out of a hotel while I figured out my next chapter. One evening, I went downstairs to the hotel restaurant, opened the door, and walked straight into a meetup I hadn’t planned on joining. Trice was hosting. She walked up to me and said,
“This is a Black professionals meetup. Are you a Black professional?” I’m Dominican, Latina, and very fair-skinned. I smiled and said, “I’m Dominican. My great-grandmother was Black.” She paused for a beat, then grinned and said, “Welcome to the meetup.”

That was the beginning.

We stayed connected around Chicago, sharing work, life, and all the small culture shocks that come with moving cities. When I moved away and eventually overseas, we stayed in touch. Later, Trice moved overseas for love: different countries, different languages, same feeling of living between worlds. We kept comparing notes. Mixed cultures. Mixed families. Mixed traditions. The experience of starting over in places where you’re never fully from “here” or “there.”

The Otherhood is our way of opening that conversation and that friendship circle to everyone who knows that feeling.

Meet the Founders

Together, we are two women who met by chance in a hotel restaurant and decided that the in between life deserves its own room, its own language, and its own community.

Trice Turner

Chicago raised, global at heart, and the one who is not afraid to ask direct questions at the door. Trice moved overseas for love and built a life that crosses cultures, communities, and continents. She brings her gift for gathering people, holding space, and naming what others are afraid to say.

Janice Diaz

Dominican and Salvadoran decent, first generation American, born and raised in Queens, New York, now a long-term expat. Builder of businesses, collector of cities, always asking how people create real lives across borders. Janice brings strategy, storytelling, and a lifetime of starting over in new places to The Otherhood.

What We Believe

The Otherhood is for people who

Carry more than one culture in their body and in their family stories
Have moved for love, work, safety, or curiosity
Are always translating something, a language, a custom, themselves
Want more than highlight reel travel and surface level connection

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At the core of this community

Home is not a single point on a map, it is a pattern you build over time
Identity can be layered and complicated and still beautiful
Community is something you choose, tend to, and grow together
Our stories, especially from women and other marginalized voices, deserve to be told in our own words

What You’ll Find Inside The Otherhood

The Otherhood is not just an idea; it is a set of spaces you can step into at your own pace. Some are quiet and reflective, some are loud and full of laughter, and all of them are built for women and kindred spirits living between cultures.

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Expat-ish Podcast

Conversations and stories from the in-between: moving, staying, returning, and rebuilding. For anyone who has ever felt not quite from here, not quite from there.

Journal

Essays, reflections, and real stories about identity, love, work, and life between cultures. Less “how to” and more “this is what it really feels like.”