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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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