Kites Know No Boundaries

My name is Tahera. I am fifteen years old.Right now, I live in Pakistan. But my story began in Kabul.Kabul was never peaceful, but it was alive. We measured the distance between joy and danger by the sound of explosions we often heard. Snow, cold days, our coal...

Goodbye 2025

What a year. We have had a real competition to be the most terrible years over the past decade, but this one really took its toll. Perhaps as a culmination of them all. How many of us feel better at the end of this year? I cannot say I have felt much worse. But we...

I Hate Men

Image from @ikeahostage_ on Pinterest A phrase I’ve heard all my life. Most commonly at the drawn-out end of a long club night. When the dregs of us make one final stumbling trip to the toilet and find another heartbroken girl, swallowed up by misery upon the...

Meet the Interns: Courtney Cardini

Hello, I’m Courtney Cardini — a dyslexic, ADHD-fueled traveler with a passion for art, history, and adventure. I’m an artist, independent curator, and travel blogger of www.courttheworld.com, blending creativity and curiosity wherever I go.I...

A Vast Sky

It started, with small things as many other things, both writing and publishing them, at least for me it was the case. And like many good stories do, it started with a picture. I was halfway through a cup of chai, scrolling, reading and doing nothing maybe, that I saw...

A Visit to Vardzia

Outside Vardzia, Georgia. Photo: Hannah Spencer In my journal, the first sentence I wrote about my trip to the cave-city monastery Vardzia, Georgia, was ‘It was SO hot today.’ This was true in Georgia nearly the whole summer. Even after insistence from my...

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