Travel 
by Faith Adiele
Voices of Our Nations Arts (VONA)—at the time the largest and preeminent multi-genre summer workshop for writers of color—asked me to start a travel writing workshop. My heart thrummed. If any literary genre were in need of desegregation and decolonization, it was travel writing.
Travel 
by Tarryn Tomlinson
Bolts of lightning flashed across the night sky, the only lights besides those flickering in the distance more than 3,000 meters below at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, glimmering evidence of refuge I would do just about anything for.
TRAVEL
by Undomesticated Editors
For many women, being “undomesticated” is not a choice. Every day as we dream of traveling, other women and children are being forced from their homes and countries due to abuse, war, or other disasters.
RESPONSIBLE TRAVEL WRITINGVoices of Our Nations Arts (VONA)—at the time the largest and preeminent multi-genre summer workshop for writers of color—asked me to start a travel writing workshop. My heart thrummed. If any literary genre were in need of desegregation and decolonization, it was travel writing.
Thank you to the Arizona Commission on the Arts for helping fund this project.
TravelOnly nine months after being laid off from our jobs in New York, my husband and I were about to open the doors to our brand-new bar and art gallery in Altea, Spain. We’d invested our life savings and the renovations had just been completed.
BOOKSWe’re in the first month of the Year of the Tiger—a sign known for strength, courage, and independence—so let’s celebrate with “tiger” stories by some bold, undomesticated women.
Travel 
by Xu Xi
Travelers invaded my childhood. They were always there—well-heeled Westerners who stayed at the Peninsula Hotel; less affluent tourists from other hotels at the tip of the Kowloon peninsula jutting into the Hong Kong harbor; American sailors who poured out of battleships for their R&R, especially during the Vietnam war years; British and other expatriate hires relocating to their well-paid jobs as civil servants, university professors, medical, legal and other professionals, teachers in the foreign schools, diplomats and foreign correspondents.
Travel 
by Anu Taranath
As part of our series on responsible travel writing, Dr. Anu Taranath explores the politics of writing by contributing a series of TIPS Letters, an exercise that has become a cornerstone of her teaching on culture, diversity, and social justice. You can use the exercise to engage more deeply with Things, Ideas, People, and even yourself.
TRAVEL
by Tiffany Hawk
When Bex Band decided to embark her first outdoor adventure, a 52-day, 631-mile trek along the Israel National Trail, she had almost no experience, and, by her own admission, was totally out of shape. It’s already a compelling story, but Band’s adventure didn’t stop there: based on her experience, she went on to found an international group of women who are interested in experiencing adventure.
BOOKS
by Susan Blumberg-Kason
Anjanette Delgado is the editor of a new anthology, Home in Florida: Latinx Writers and the Literature of Uprootedness, out November 16th from the University Press of Florida. Undomesticated recently spoke to Delgado and discussed the complexity of Florida and how Americans see and experience it in different ways.
BOOKS
by Susan Blumberg-Kason
Gina Frangello’s latest book, Blow Your House Down, tells the story of how she left her marriage in explosive fashion, and it is a testament to a woman’s power to make choices for herself, even if they’re deeply unpopular. This is something we can’t get enough of at Undomesticated, and although Frangello’s book mostly takes place in her hometown of Chicago, it includes poignant moments from her trips abroad that speak to urgent social issues from sexual assault to ethical travel.
Travel 
by Rachel Wyley
My hair elicits a global response. Its reception shifts like dialects do, as slight reinterpretations on a theme. In Rodez, France, I wore it as a lion does its mane. The stares were unrelenting, as though we were on safari.
Travel 
by Vanessa Garcia
All my life, I’ve belonged to the water. To the space between two countries—Cuba and the United States. That place, which, on some maps, is referred to as Miami, though the place I am referring to is more fluid still.
Books 
by Susan Blumberg-Kason
Natalia Sylvester is the author of three critically acclaimed novels. Her debut, Chasing the Sun was followed by Everyone You Know Goes Home. Her latest, Running, is a young adult novel that came out last year just in time for the election. Sylvester immigrated to the United States from Peru at the age of four and is based in Texas now.
Books 
by Nancy Middleton
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.
TRAVEL
by Kiratiana Freelon
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. Two years passed before the first person challenged my aspirations.
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by Ava Homa
I was an unwanted child of a country that perceived me as a living crime. To the theocratic fundamentalists ruling Iran, women and minorities were threats to be subjugated. But on top of being a Kurdish woman, I was also a secular writer whose characters employed agency in the face of oppression, a journalist who believed in gender and ethnic equality, an avid reader with a burning curiosity to explore everything life had to offer. Such transgressions were punishable by imprisonment and execution.
by Susan Blumberg-Kason
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.
Books 
by Tiffany Hawk
Maggie Downs spent a year backpacking solo through seventeen countries―completing the bucket list her dying mother could not. We spoke about outlasting fear, seeing the world on a person level, and what to do when the thing that makes you who you are is suddenly off-limits.
