Storytelling in translation.

Some stories take longer to tell properly.

The stories about what it actually costs to recreate home elsewhere, about what it does to your sense of self, time, place language, home. What you learn about the place you left, and the place you arrived, that people who stayed in either will never quite see.

Alternarratives brings you stories from between places. It consists of a podcast, a newsletter and projects drawing on experience. It questions what it means to straddle two or more worlds, and what thriving at crossroads looks like and requires.

What you’ll find here

The most recent series, Thoughts From Between Places, explores belonging, global mobility and reinvention in an unstable century.

Bloom: extending the portraits into voice Conversations with women of African descent who participated in the Bloom portrait series by Dutch artist Dagmar van Weeghel; extending a four-year visual into voice. Coming in2027.

Alternarratives

A strategic storytelling agency bringing better stories about the “in between”. Coming soon.

About Lys

Strategic storyteller. Host of Thoughts From Between Places. French Béninoise, based in the Netherlands. Over a decade in international communications, two masters degrees, four languages, four continents, and a conviction that the stories told in the West about the “rest of world” need better translators.