The Travel Issue

Our summer theme is about all of the bizarre, beautiful, and life-changing things that can only happen because of travel.

Are You My Home?

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Are You My Home?

Ashley-Devon W.

Asbury Park’s Queer Community, Post Ruins

When I do hear Springsteen’s “4th of July, Asbury Park,” I won’t long for something…

Natalie

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Sep 23, 2019
Fear & Freedom: Traveling While Trans

Considering the discomfort my friends and loved ones experience when we travel together, or when…

Abbie Jones

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Sep 19, 2019
Rolling My Way Through Europe

The entire time I was waiting for Tanja I was trying not to panic, but…

Sara

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Sep 18, 2019
Finding My Innate Rage, Inner Peace and Worship in Osun

Somewhere at the back of my mind, I’d convinced myself that attempting to pull my…

Itenoria

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Sep 17, 2019
Salvadorans Under The Moonlight

I didn’t expect us to create a Blood Moon Healing Circle Ceremony. It wasn’t on…

María José

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Sep 16, 2019
Cracked Apart

In the middle of a winter night in 1973, while the residents of a small…

Chandra

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Sep 11, 2019
Please Don’t Touch: A Trans Lesbian Does India

In the span of a few hours, in two different Indian airports I experienced a…

d.r. baker

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Sep 9, 2019
The Bus to Bantayan

There’s nothing like a beach date to the Northernmost tip of your home island of…

Cara Cecilia F

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Sep 5, 2019
Lady Madonna: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Kitsch

Being in places that took pride in their weirdness made it feel natural to take…

Sam Wall

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Sep 4, 2019
When I Was 16 I Won a Drag Show in Florence

I spent my adolescence trying to be a boy. I wasn’t very good at it,…

Drew Burnett Gregory

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Sep 3, 2019
WEBCOMICS

Romantic Getaway Anxiety

Romantic getaways help form bonds, memories, and connections. The regular stress of traveling as a…

Ren Strapp

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Aug 29, 2019
Six Tips for Navigating Chicago as a (Baby) Black Queer

Tip #2 – “Don’t Trust the Internet.”

Tiara Dee

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Aug 27, 2019
Looking for Love in the Wrong Place

“We were talking about all the places we wanted to visit, all the people we…

A

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Aug 26, 2019
Tourist in the Homeland

I traveled to West and North Africa to find myself, my family, my people. Gender…

Lazarus

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Aug 22, 2019
Militantly Optimistic on the 5

A road trip with my introverted wife and extroverted baby through the reddest part of…

Kelsey McConnell

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Aug 21, 2019
Who Do You Meet On the Greyhound?

A teen dyke wanders around the country in the early 2000’s, armed with an Ameripass…

Ocean Capewell

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Aug 20, 2019
Like a House on Fire

Everything looks better when you’re in love, and Nevada City was no exception.

Betsy

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Aug 19, 2019
An Invisible Stranger in My Home

You’ve probably seen billboards advertising an exotic trip to the country where I was born.…

Erin Rhys

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Aug 15, 2019
Where Road Trips Meet Rituals

Once the itinerary is printed and your bag is packed, travel forces us out of…

Sarah Alexander

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Aug 14, 2019

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Our summer theme is about all of the bizarre, beautiful, and life-changing things that can only happen because of travel.

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