Trigger warning: This post contains descriptions of child sex trafficking in Cambodia, animal abuse, and genocide. Cambodia still haunts me, and my feelings toward it are convoluted. I find that I…
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It was a lonely, cold evening back in the winter of 2014 when I switched on the telly and caught an ad for the Rann of Kutch Festival. The Rann of…
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“Cultural Appropriation” It’s a term that has been thrown around a lot lately. The Cambridge Dictionary defines “cultural appropriation” as “the act of taking or using things from a culture that is…
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I grew up just outside the city in New Jersey, have worked/interned there, and spent many a weekend there in my life. Now, I’m living just across the Hudson in Hoboken.…
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A lot of people, myself included, like to base their holidays and places of interests around wildlife. Animal tourism can be fantastic and you can have once in a lifetime opportunities,…
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Remember movies where women who interact with men without a chaperone risk their reputation and virtue? Thankfully, most places are free of this chauvinistic concept of women being helpless, dainty creatures…
