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Global Issues

Being globally-minded means learning about the wide diversity of cultures, experiences, and opportunities for women around the world. This platform is for all women to share their unique stories and experiences as we each navigate the world at home and abroad.

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Please Stop Telling Me My Country Does Not Exist

  • Posted byby Suzanne Bhagan
  • November 10, 2016
  • 5 minute read
  • 19 Comments

In 2006, I went on a group overland trip across Egypt and Jordan. After two weeks in Egypt, we were getting ready to board a ferry from the Sinai Peninsula…

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Post-Travel Depression? Here’s What You Can Do

  • Posted byby Jazzmine Lawton Raine
  • November 1, 2016
  • 5 minute read
  • 6 Comments

“Home Alone Syndrome” is what I like to call it. You arrive home after a lengthy trip — maybe you’ve been living abroad for a year or two — and…

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“Vacation Cutting” — A Terrible Misnomer for Female Genital Mutilation

  • Posted byby Mariya Taher
  • October 20, 2016
  • 5 minute read
  • 0 Comments

“Vacation cutting.” I hate that term. Placing the words next to one another is a contradiction. When I think of a “vacation,” my mind wanders into the direction of glistening…

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    • Global Lifestyle

Why You Should Travel with Your Parents

  • Posted byby Stephanie Vermillion
  • October 17, 2016
  • 4 minute read
  • 2 Comments

As we rolled into an abandoned desert gas station at 1am, I knew we were done for. To my left, a shirtless trucker filled up while simultaneously puffin’ his cig. To…

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    • South America

That Time I Was Cast as “Some Kind of Asian” in a Bolivian TV Commercial

  • Posted byby Hsu-Ann Lee
  • October 4, 2016
  • 5 minute read
  • 1 Comment

I’m wearing a polyester chong sam, sitting at the entrance to a dingy Chinese restaurant in La Paz, with cameras and crew nearby and a stylist furiously brushing my hair….

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    • Global Issues

That Time I Got Covered in Human Shit (and Other Travel Scams)

  • Posted byby Roberta Mancuso
  • September 29, 2016
  • 5 minute read
  • 17 Comments

There’s really no words to adequately describe how it feels to be doused in human shit. Disgusting? Yes. Appalling? Of course. Horrifying. Humiliating. (Those last two get closer to nailing…

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    • Global Issues

7 Subversive Women Street Artists You Haven’t Heard of (But Need To)

  • Posted byby Jessica Devenyns
  • September 6, 2016
  • 7 minute read
  • 0 Comments

Why do you travel? Is it to see new things? To experience a new culture? It’s no secret that culture isn’t always housed in a museum. Culture is mixed into…

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    • Global Issues

Vulnerable in Vietnam: Inside An Expat’s Diary

  • Posted byby Sarah Aldrich
  • September 1, 2016
  • 7 minute read
  • 8 Comments

I realized that I’d become accustomed to driving a motorbike in Vietnam once I started daydreaming. As an expat, there’s a certain amount of diligence required to get used to…

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    • Global Issues

How My Blind Father Made Me Truly See the Hagia Sophia

  • Posted byby Nikol Dekazos
  • August 30, 2016
  • 4 minute read
  • 2 Comments

Standing in the gardens outside Hagia Sophia, surrounded by tulips and hundreds of heads beading sweat, my father and I eat fresh roasted chestnuts from a bag. My father is…

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Here’s What Happened When I Went from Petting Elephants to Working at a Startup

  • Posted byby Lissa Morales
  • August 17, 2016
  • 6 minute read
  • 0 Comments

Expats, foreign exchange students, and long-term travelers know that living abroad can be hard. We often hear about culture shock, how confounding it can be, and how to prepare for…

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Going to the Olympics Was My Dream. Here’s Why I Gave It Up.

  • Posted byby Megan MacNee
  • August 15, 2016
  • 6 minute read
  • 17 Comments

Over ten years ago, I decided that I would be at the 2016 Olympics. At the time, I knew that I wouldn’t be able to make it there as an…

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    • Global Issues

Blue Hair, Don’t Care: You’ll Never Guess What These Rebellious Grannies are Doing in Portugal

  • Posted byby Silvia Romao
  • August 12, 2016
  • 4 minute read
  • 4 Comments

One afternoon, I was walking with a friend from out of town in Alcântara, an old Lisbon neighborhood right beside the river that was once a port for cargo ships….

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I Was Shunned in the Country of My Ancestors (or, When Travel Can’t Heal Diaspora)

  • Posted byby Su Jit Lin
  • August 9, 2016
  • 5 minute read
  • 1 Comment

“Wǒ shì zhōngguó rén,” is what we were taught to recite in costly Saturday Mandarin lessons. But more specifically, “Wǒ shì HǍIWÀI de zhōngguó rén.” This simple phrase was one…

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    • Global Issues

How Moving to Japan Taught Me to Travel Humbly

  • Posted byby Erin Marie
  • July 28, 2016
  • 4 minute read
  • 1 Comment

Most Wanderful women would agree that we should all travel humbly. But what does the word humble actually mean, and what does traveling humbly look like in practice? The word…

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    • Global Issues

I Survived a Panic Attack in a Foreign City; Here’s What to Do if It Happens to You

  • Posted byby Kimi Sugiyama
  • July 26, 2016
  • 7 minute read
  • 3 Comments

Raise your hand if you’ve ever experienced anxiety. Me too. December of 2015 was a difficult month for me. At the time, I was living in Tokyo, studying Japanese at…

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