Term: Decolonising Travel
A former “Eastern European” charts Tirana’s makeover for Western travellers—until an untouched bar reveals what Albania may have given up to join the club.
In Mumbai, when family burdens weigh heavy, two taxi drivers offer unexpected kinship.
A Black woman navigating Shanghai’s gaze—admired husband, photographed curiosity, invisible self—finds unexpected dignity in a noodle shop owner’s simple gesture of care.
Two trans travellers witness a corpse at Niagara Falls but aren’t believed—an erasure mirroring colonial borders, exploited land, and bodies deemed unworthy of dignity.
An American woman accompanies two younger male friends to Shanghai’s sex worker marketplace, confronting complicity, loneliness, and the barriers dividing women.
She fell first in her own story and then into mine nine stories down onto a net that caught her enough to save her