Tag: travel thoughts
How to Travel in the Trump Era
Street art in Mexico City While I was recently living in Mexico City, I was at party with a bunch of locals. I started talking to one of them in Spanish. They heard my accent and ask where I’m from. Ugh, I don’t want to get into it. “New York,” I reply , trying to…
“Where’s Your Boyfriend?” and other Microagressions Solo-Female Travelers Face
New Year, new Dame Traveler post! This time I dissect all of the unintentionally rude microaggressions solo female travelers face. Here is a snippet and here is the link to the full article! Micro-aggressions are “brief and commonplace daily verbal, behavioral, or environmental indignities, whether intentional or unintentional, that communicate hostile, derogatory, or negative prejudicial…
In Defense of Strangers
The word “strange” originally meant “being beyond the usual bounds or boundaries,” and evolved to mean foreign only later. The notion of foreignness eventually became personified in the word “stranger”—a new or unknown person. A person beyond the usual bounds or boundaries. Outsider, newcomer, a person who is, whatever else they may be, assuredly not…