Kaur’s poetry is akin to comfort food, Advil, cough syrup and an emotional AED in one.
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What Generation Y Doesn’t Understand About Sexual Harassment
What those who tell us that “boys will be boys” fail to realize about this gender essentialism is that we reinforce their behavior with such a permission-granting platitude.
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Illuminating Loss, Hope, and the ‘American Dream’ in Jhumpa Lahiri’s “The Namesake”
Lahiri’s prose is straightforward, unencumbered, and honest.
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My Top 7 Travel Apps
Take it from someone who’s missed enough flights, gotten hopelessly lost at unspeakable hours of morning, and accidentally told a TSA Agent he was “a cutie” in Spanish… I’ve made all of those harsh mistakes for you, so you can go forth and live your truth with hopefully a few less logistical blunders. Having spent […]
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Athens, Greece: A Bleak Awakening
Athens was cold and unwelcoming. If history was what I expected to experience, it was burrowed beneath piles of clothing, oil lamps, half-colored children’s books on the sidewalk, and a sour smell that hung in the air. Perhaps this is my jet lag talking, but the trains did not run, the lockers at the station […]
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Rome, Italy
From spending Halloween wandering side-streets of Florence with a gelato larger than my face, my next destination was Rome. Jill and I had planned to meet up but we hardly knew what this city had in store for us. After a rendezvous at our AirBnB we caught the bus to the Altare della Patria: We kicked off our “what […]
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Porto, Portugal: A Candid Confrontation of Old and New
The façades of Porto’s red-roofed buildings are gilded with blue-white ceramic tiles, azulejos: part decorative, part tradition, and part insulation.
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Florence, Italy
The biggest favor you can do for yourself when exploring the world is to interact with other travelers. And the easiest way to do this, I can say from experience, is to stay in hostels. It’s no secret that budget traveling often means less than luxurious accommodation, and certainly that’s something other travelers enjoy complaining about–hence a great way […]
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36 Hours in Madrid (Millennial Edition)
Prepare to dance the night away like a true Spaniard and you’ll never find a reason to stop smiling.
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Venice, Italy
Spending the night in sketchy discount hostels is a large part of the student travel experience. Some offer a luxurious “free breakfast,” which usually ranges from white bread to cellophane-wrapped, chocolate-filled croissants, and an assortment of jams and butters, if you’re lucky. My Venice experience was in one of these less-than-three-star accommodations and as a solo female […]
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Feminist Millennial 