When the line next to you is completely free… Image by Vmenkov via Wikimedia Commons. My partner and I got stuck with a 14-hour layover on our way back from…
Guilt-Free Luxury Travel: 6 Ways to Indulge Without Regretting It Later
Seek out the locals. Image by Delia Harrington. For someone who prefers bucket showers to claw-foot bathtubs, I’ve managed to spend a surprising amount of time in posh restaurants and…
What Viral Videos About Sexism Don’t Tell You: How to Be an Ally
The camera doesn’t catch it all. Image by Flickr user Gabriel Garcia Marengo. There’s been a lot of buzz in the U.S. recently about male threats of women in public…
Faces of Domestic Violence
I’ve talked about intimate partner/domestic violence in this column before: It’s not simply a beating every now and then, but a pernicious pattern of brutal emotional and psychological assaults capable…
Travel and perspective
I first started writing for Go Girl while interning for a conflict resolution NGO in Côte d’Ivoire. I was coming out of a semester abroad in Cameroon. My writing from…