Geopolitics of Travel

Every map ever drawn is a biased description of what matters. Every place name a choice. Every border a political act dressed as geography. This essay traces how cartography, religion, colonialism and language have shaped the world we think we know –and asks what it would mean to finally read the map critically, as a traveler who knows it was drawn by someone with an agenda.

Traveling as a woman is a genuine act of defiance in a world built by men, for men. But feminist travel goes beyond the narrative of empowerment and asks harder questions: safe for whom? Freedom for which women? Whose story are you telling –and did she ask you to? This essay moves from teahouses in Iran to wrestling rings in Bolivia, from Cairo’s Garbage City to the savannas of Tanzania, to explore what feminist travel actually looks like –and why most of us are still getting it wrong.

It took us a century and many crises to get to this point, but in these 20’s the millennials are taking steps into a life of purpose, centered on communities and the environment, slowly traveling the globe to live a happier life and understand how to make the world better in the process

In a world where we decided to put unnatural borders that created 193 countries, that’s inhabited by more than 7 billion people, being born in one place or another is completely random. It’s only natural that we’re drawn to moving around. The only thing that’s stopping us is fear. Fear of the ‘others’, fear of change, fear of losing our privilege. But the world is full of kindness, we just need to go out to adjust our perspective

Can you safely travel? Then go for it. Let’s stop the travel shaming! The responsible thing to do is to help rebuild the sector that has been affected the most by the pandemic: the travel industry