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The Grand Canyon On Acid
The lead to one of my newer stories… As the last light of day rolled over the canyon in waves of dim, it’s cadence was disrupted by the fire I’d set in my kitchen: a beer can stove I’d fueled with the...
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Mindo, Ecuador
Went on a ‘work vacation’ to the cloud forest to clear my head and get a ton of writing done. Instead, the village was flooded by perpetual storms with almost 100 people evacuated and rolling power...
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Brooklyn Zan Boko
Originally published on WordRiot.org. Click Boom For Real below to watch a video! SAMO Is Dead I was born at home in a Brooklyn ghetto. After arriving late, our Taína midwife passed this Nigerian...
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A Confluence
Hey folks! Things have been quiet around here ’cause I’m busy fighting the Disabled Industrial Complex in Ecuador and I’m working on some new exciting writing projects. Have no fear – #Dispatches:...
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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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The Real Housewives of Ecuador: On class, labor abuse & passport privilege
yo, people. so by some strange turn of events my latest piece, about class and passport privilege in Ecuador, ended up on Jezebel’s Flygirl section today (excuse the Jezebel-y title). click on the...
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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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April POC Travel Book Club
hey peeples, Our first virtual book club meeting was ten kinds of awesome. We discussed Shailja Patel’s Migritude which led us to talk about migrating as queer/women of color, our family/ancestor’s...
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WATCH: Teaser for Doc on Decolonizing Travel Media
Directed by Bruno Brothers Media wth the help of Queens Nation Films, this teaser for a mini-doc about my work as a diasporic writer, photographer and activist exploring the decolonization of travel...
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Come See Me at NYC Comic Con!
Hey kids, I’ve been in my writing den for a minute but will emerge with more interviews, articles and projects soon. For now, if you’re in the NYC area, you can come see me speak on the We Need Diverse...
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Bringing the POC Travel Book Club Back
hey kids, remember when we started a monthly, online book club to read travel literature by people of color earlier this year? Well I got caught up with Lifing so we had to cut it for a few months but...
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Come See Me Read in NYC December 15th
Hey people, shit’s been quiet around here because I’ve been writing like a motherfucker. I’m excited to have a wealth of new pieces get published over the next few weeks and will share them all right...
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New Year, Who Dis? Updates, Round-Up & POC Travel Book Club!
People, I’m glad we could all put our differences aside for a moment to collectively say FUCK YOU to 2016. If only we had that kind of consensus on actual shit and not a 12-month span of time, but I...
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