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White Women Don’t Speak for All of Us: On ‘Safe’ vs. ‘Dangerous’ Travel...
OK, so it’s been forever and a day since I’ve updated this here blog and I’m sorry for the radio silence. If you’ve been following me on social media you’d know I’m still alive and kicking and have...
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Literary Ancestors: On the Significance of Travel Writing by POC
Hey people, Popping in for another random-ass update about a month overdue. Over a year ago I started the POC Travel Book Club to get other nerds to talk to me about travel-ish books not written by...
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NYC: Let’s Talk Tourism in Literature
Hey people. It’s been a minute ’cause I’m trying to keep up with this bitch called Life in 2017. I just wanted to pop in to invite those of y’all in NYC to this dope event on tourism in literature this...
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Unsettling Tourism: On the Colonial and Patriarchal Gaze of Travel Media
Hey people, I’m still settling into my new base in Montréal – the land of pâté, poutine, and other things I’ll never understand. Popping in between the cat emergencies and Facebook pleas for free...
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Living for the Legacy: On Misogynoir and Climate Disasters
[Feature image from the 5th annual Congress of Afro Ecuadorian Women, 2016] Hey people. I’m in the midst of packing to leave Ecuador for EcuaYork, my home-away-from-home-away-from-home in Queens,...
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Pray For [Blank]: Climate Disasters & The Narrative of Place
I can hear the water trickling back up through the pipes. It’s been off all day, probably ‘cause it rained like a motherfucker last night. They don’t call it a rain forest for nothing. We generally...
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Going Beyond the Binary
Hey folks, A few months ago an essay of mine, Beyond Binary, was published in Archer Magazine’s THEY/THEIRS issue dedicated to non-binary gender identities. It’s the first time my travel photography...
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Getting Real About Decolonizing Travel Culture
Hey denizens of everywhere, I wrote an essay on decolonizing travel culture as the introduction to Muchacha Fanzine’s Decolonize Travel issue and just published it on Medium. Give it a read, print it...
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LISTEN: Traveling (and Eating) Better with Bani Amor
Hey people. If you’ve yet to be blessed with the opportunity to hear my mousy voice chase an idea in circles in search of a point to make, then you’re in luck, ’cause the good folks of the Racist...
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Threshold of Revelation: A Queer Disabled Killjoy on National Themes
Hey People, I made it safely to Ecuador just in time for the locura of the presidential elections. I’ve left Quito and am just outside of Puyo, listening to wild birds call out to each other in...
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Tourism Is Not A Positive Response to Unnatural Disasters
In part three of my series on climate change and oppression for Bitch Magazine to accompany my feature Unnatural Disasters: The Human Cost of Human-Caused Disasters in their latest Chaos issue, I...
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The Least Convenient Truth: White Supremacy and Climate Change
If we’re going to protect the sacred and prepare for the worst, we must look at the environmental effects of white supremacy. Real talk: it’s been a fucked up month in a fucked up year and I, like many...
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LISTEN: Unnatural Disasters, Climate Change, Ecuador and Beyoncé
Hey people. So while I was in Ecuador this summer writing about the earthquake in Ecuador this spring, an earthquake hit. I was fine, but it exacerbated the urgency I felt in writing about disasters...
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Minorities
It must be odd to be a minority he was saying. I looked around and didn’t see any. So I said Yeah it must be. Mitsuye Yamada, Looking Out
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Outside the XY Book Release Party!
Sup people. Thanks to everyone who put together and came out to the Women and Gender Nonconforming Writers of Color in Digital Media panel at Comic Con yesterday! ::inhales because that was a...
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Come See Me at NYC Comic Con!
Hey kids, I’ve been in my writing den for a minute but will emerge with more interviews, articles and projects soon. For now, if you’re in the NYC area, you can come see me speak on the We Need Diverse...
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Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity
hey people, I have an essay on traveling through place and gender in bklyn boihood’s long-awaited anthology Outside the XY: Queer Black and Brown Masculinity! Published by Riverdale Ave Books, edited...
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LISTEN: What Does It Mean to Decolonize Travel Culture?
hey people. I hope you’re enjoying your summers as much as possible because #2k16Problems are real as fuck. I especially hope that, if you’re non-Black like me, you’re working on ensuring that...
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WATCH: Teaser for Doc on Decolonizing Travel Media
Directed by Bruno Brothers Media wth the help of Queens Nation Films, this teaser for a mini-doc about my work as a diasporic writer, photographer and activist exploring the decolonization of travel...
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Spend & Save: The Narrative of Fair Trade and White Saviorism
Pick up the latest issue of Bitch Magazine (or just check it out online) to read my feature essay on Gendered Orientalism, Imperial Feminism, White Feminism – whateveryouwannacallit, and the artisan...
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