Tourism
Hiking Through the Colonial History of America’s National Parks
There’s a religious ring to the language of appreciating public lands in America. But, as a South Asian woman and a first-generation immigrant, I am not a welcome pilgrim.
What It’s Like to Travel When You Have a “Bad” Passport
I am a Kenyan, an African, someone from the ‘global south.’ It is my job to prove I deserve to travel. It doesn’t matter how talented or smart or wealthy I or others like me are; we need a good passport.
The Medi-morphosis: Being Treated Like a Human Under Socialized Health Care
In France, universal (or socialized) health care is half-NASA, half-MacGyver. And it works. I have to suspect the main objection to adopting the best healthcare system on the planet is just that it’s French.
Between la Rauxa and el Seny
The Castells are an insightful view into Catalan culture
Mountain of Truth: A Utopian Colony in Switzerland
The history of a counterculture colony that welcomed anarchists, nudists, exiled poets, and unconventional loners.
Adjusting to My Live of Privilege.
I could see it on some of the faces I met. It was that look of bewilderment or maybe even a mild disgust. The look conveyed an inability to understand my life of extravagance. It was a look that I knew all too well. . . . not from seeing it . . it was […]
The Space Between Us and the Ground Below Us, or: Why I Traveled to Japan
“I was a gay boy, a black gay boy, in a place and time that seemingly eschewed everything I stood for.”
No One Moved Until the Song Was Over
“To be ten feet from someone on a beach like that is to be a mile from them. It is like a tundra.”
Things you can enjoy on holidays
Holiday time is a fun time, and it becomes easy for us to decide what we should do and what should be avoided because it is a holiday. I do different things every time I get an opportunity to be free and get rid of the routine I am into. If you want to take […]
Entering Jerusalem: Scenes from the March of Flags
Notes from 2016’s Jerusalem Day, an Israeli national holiday.