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Ten Travel Bloggers of Color You Should Follow
hola people, my article on travel bloggers of color (ok, it’s technically a listicle) went up on Paste Magazine the other day and I urge y’all to check out every single blog on the list. subscribe to...
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Disrupting the Dominant Voice of Travel Writing #Dispatch: Brian Kamanzi
Dispatches: Conversations with Writers of Color on Race, Place & Adventure is a series of interviews with travelers and travel writers of color where we discuss writing, identity and travel...
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We Are Everywhere – Imagining Diverse Travel Communities #Dispatch: Nomadness
Dispatches: Conversations with Writers of Color on Race, Place & Adventure is a series of interviews with travel writers and personalities of color where we discuss navigating the writing industry...
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Your Body Is a Foreign Country #Dispatch: Paula Young Lee
Dispatches: Conversations with Writers of Color on Race, Place & Adventure is a series of interviews with travel writers and personalities of color where we discuss writing, identity and travel...
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I, Too, Am B-CC
hey people, i’ve been in reverse culture shock for the past two weeks that i’ve been back in nyc from ecuador and time just flies here. i’ve been eating everything i could get my hands on and partying...
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Writing Outside the Mainstream #Dispatch: Elaine Lee
Dispatches: Conversations with Writers of Color on Race, Place & Adventure is a series of interviews with travel writers and personalities of color where we discuss navigating the writing industry...
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Racial Segregation and Assimilation in Travel Blogging: #Dispatch: Navdeep...
Dispatches: Conversations with Writers of Color on Race, Place & Adventure is a series of interviews with travel writers and personalities of color where we discuss travel, writing and identity....
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Queer and Trans Artists of Color Represent!
hola folks, check out this dope interview i did with Nia King for Abernathy Magazine. click on the image to read the article in full.
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The Fine Line Between Writing in Solidarity & Appropriating Struggles (That...
Hola, folks. So I had a lot of thoughts today about speaking OVER communities we’re not apart of in the process of trying to write in solidarity with them. I’ve been thinking about this a lot in...
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The Link Between Tourism & Settler Colonialism in Hawai’i #Dispatch: Maile Arvin
Dispatches: Conversations with Writers of Color on Race, Place & Adventure is a series of interviews with travel writers and personalities of color where we discuss travel, writing and identity....
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Dreaming, Planning, Mobilizing
hey people, thanks for being patient during this lapse in posts. I left nueva york and am back in ecuador but instead of living in Quito like before I’m just traveling around for the next two months. I...
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“Don’t Step Foot There” #Dispatch: AfroLatino Travel
I’ve been chatting with travel writers and personalities of color about their experiences navigating the media industry and the globe with an intersectional lens while exploring themes like power,...
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The Revolution Will Go Viral
Hey people, so I injured my knee either swimming, hiking or running alongside vehicles hoping to jump on them in Ecuador last month – on acid – and now I’m watching Fall go by from my bed in Queens,...
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People of Color with Western Privilege #Dispatch: Pooja Makhijani
Pooja Makhijani writes children’s books, essays, and articles, and also develops educational media and curricula. Her bylines have appeared in The New York Times, the Village Voice, The Rumpus, Serious...
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The Exile Narratives of Trans Women of Color #Dispatch: Gabrielle Bellot
I’VE BEEN CHATTING with travel writers, activists and personalities of color about their experiences navigating the media industry and the globe with an intersectional lens, while exploring themes like...
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When the Sex Tourists are White Women
Hey folks, I Storified some thoughts I tweeted about white women who exploit and fetishize men (and boys) of color when they travel, and how flawed reportage on this usually frames the situation as a...
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Healing, Walking, Writing, Talking
happy holigays folks, it’s my last post of the year, woohoo! if y’all remember, I fucked up my leg in ecua over the summer and have been on bedrest for the past three months, but on baby jesus eve took...
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The Brother from Another Planet
happy 2016 folx! I’m honored to have a narrative photo essay featured as the lead story in AWAY: Experiments in Travel & Telling’s latest issue dedicated entirely to travel writing by people of...
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POC Travel Book Club
hey kids, so I was chillin the other morning and thought, a casual online monthly book club focusing on travel books by people of color would be awesome! to gauge interest in such a club, fill out this...
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Inedible Roots: Our Cultures Are Not Commodities
hey kids, today I wanna share an essay from Esther Choi of Inedible Roots, a person who has contributed significantly to my understanding of how imperialism functions in travel culture by introducing...
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