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.
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.
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.
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.
The history of a counterculture colony that welcomed anarchists, nudists, exiled poets, and unconventional loners.
“I was a gay boy, a black gay boy, in a place and time that seemingly eschewed everything I stood for.”
“To be ten feet from someone on a beach like that is to be a mile from them. It is like a tundra.”
Notes from 2016’s Jerusalem Day, an Israeli national holiday.
“This is doing time. This is giving away a piece of your life. If I did get fixed, it wasn’t jail that did the fixing.”
“Tourists accumulate photos and mementos; travelers collect memories and friends.”
Then, a Robbery and a House on Fire: My Travels in North Siberia
“One man kisses another, they fool around, and it’s all downhill from there.”
“I was a product of this beautiful country in spirit, if not in fact.”