Features Editor Yi Shun Lai provides an inside look at disaster relief over her decade-plus of volunteering for ShelterBox.
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Memoirist Janice MacLeod brings Paris alive with a new collection of her painted letters spanning almost a decade.
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Writer and filmmaker Elizabeth Rynecki searched the globe to the lost art of her great grandfather, Moshe Rynecki, who painted almost 800 scenes of Jewish Polish life before he was sent to the Warsaw Ghetto and was later murdered at the Majdanek concentration camp. She wrote about this journey in Chasing Portraits: A Great-Granddaughter’s Quest for Her Lost Art Legacy and later produced a documentary of this search in the film Chasing Portraits. We recently spoke to Rynecki about her book, her film, and her quest for answers.
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Tegan Aileen Wylie is an international plus-size model and the mastermind behind The Travel Curve, a website that focuses on travel and fashion tips for “full-figured” women. We loved Wylie’s tone and her message, and wanted to get to know her and her mission a little more. Undomesticated talked to her about getting into modeling, being an influencer, and more.
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Pam Logan, author of Compassion Mandala and founder of the Kham Aid Foundation, an NGO bringing resources to Tibet, talks about everything from starting an NGO to international relationships to the opportunities and challenges facing today’s non-profit organizations.
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To access world literature beyond what was translated and censored in the Islamic Republic, I had to improve my English and enter the world of banned books which were smuggled in alongside alcohol, Western film, and music. Limited and expensive, but accessible through the right contacts. Reading books from across the world was a turning point in my life.
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Four years ago, I moved to Brazil from my home in Chicago. And when people asked me what my calling as a Black American journalist in Brazil was, I said: To save Afro-Brazilians. I wanted to help Black Brazilians confront racism, rise out of poverty, and achieve their full potential in life. Two years passed before the first person challenged my aspirations.
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Jessica J. Lee travels to her mother’s birthplace of Taiwan to trace her grandparents’ background, something they rarely spoke of while they were alive. Lee is an environmental historian, and she leans on this expertise to braid the conventional trappings of memoir with a geological understanding of Taiwan’s mountainous regions, rivers, and forests.
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Whether it’s called the farmers’ market, the wet market, or the central market, it’s one of the first destinations on my itinerary, no matter where I land in the world. The reasons can be practical—simply buying some fresh fruit to eat—but they can also extend far beyond that as a means of entry into a culture.
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By designing clothing and accessories that tell the story of their personal experiences, minority and immigrant designers are not only using design to stay connected to their roots, but to also share their cultural pride with others. I’m a fashion anthropologist, and I’m working to highlight these designers’ efforts.
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Need a gift for the traveler in your life? The Undomesticated staff put together a list of gifts ideas that can bring us to all corners of the world, even if it’s just in spirit.
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Julianne Pachico’s second novel is a vivid portrait of a woman and searching for identity in present-day Medellin.
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Angie Cruz, award-winning author of Dominicana, Soledad, and Let it Rain, discusses the most-anticipated books of winter/spring 2021.
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Kennesha Bell lived her entire life in Philadelphia until at the age of 39, she packed up her family and moved to Doha, Qatar to teach first grade, satisfying a longtime yearning for travel and international experience. Four years later, she has no plans to leave.
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Pam Mandel, travel writer and author of The Same River Twice shares her thoughts on the joys of getting lost, how travel helps us become ourselves, and her ongoing quest for the strange, beautiful, and unknown.
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One easy trick to see and remember more of your travels. That trip was the first on which I’d told myself that I’d try and do a watercolor drawing each day. And so, when I looked through my photos, I had an added touchpoint: I could remember trying to draw this waterfall; that platter of kleina pastry; those sorry approximations of the woolly willow and the mountain avens.
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As we celebrate 100 years of national suffrage, it’s easy to underplay the complexities of how it was obtained. At a time when statues are torn down for the immorality of the men they represent, it is tempting to elevate the suffragists to sainthood, because their cause was so obviously just. We shouldn’t forget the internal conflicts of motive and method.
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When Sara and her husband David were both laid off within a week of each other, they picked up and moved from New York to Spain where they opened an intimate bar in Altea’s picturesque old town, high above the Mediterranean.
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If you want a spirited book club discussion, choose forbidden love. Here are some great reads that feature international affairs worth talking about.
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In Peace Adzo Medie’s debut novel, His Only Wife, a young Ghanian woman leaves home for the promise of the metropolis of Accra. But upward mobility comes with a price.
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