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Yakuza, Spoiled Carpets and Big Cash -- The World of a Gaijin Hostess in Tokyo

Yakuza, Spoiled Carpets and Big Cash — The World of a Gaijin Hostess in Tokyo

October 5, 2020
by Eleanor Wilson
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“I don’t want to do this job for that long. I don’t want to do it now if I’m honest. Who wants to sit around…

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Accepting Diaspora: From The Caucasus to Australia

Accepting Diaspora: From The Caucasus to Australia

September 30, 2020
by Dana Hubraq
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I learned about it the summer after I turned 16. The fan above was blowing hot air onto my head. Miscellaneous birds made their Australiana…

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Chum: Breathing in the Black Lives Matter Movement

Chum: Breathing in the Black Lives Matter Movement

July 15, 2020
by Nahum Gale
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“Too black for the white kids, and too white for the black.” That’s a line from the 2013 single ‘Chum’ by African-American rapper Earl Sweatshirt….

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Fucking My Oppressors

Fucking My Oppressors

June 29, 2020
by Linh
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Here I am, on my knees for a white man. Throwback to 50 years ago, and the context of this statement would have meant I…

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Freelance Travel Writers and Famils Trips: Is Pay for Play Okay?

Freelance Travel Writers and Famils Trips: Is Pay for Play Okay?

June 22, 2020
by Mike Howard
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Ah, the life of a freelance travel writer. Fun, free and fulfilling – maybe not right now, but post-COVID-19? You’ll get to venture out into…

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Humanity’s Great Hope in Times of Pain and Pestilence

Humanity’s Great Hope in Times of Pain and Pestilence

June 9, 2020
by Maya Skidmore
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Where to look when things feel dire When my grandfather was a punky British 14-year-old in 1944, he would stand at his bedroom window watching…

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Prick Prick Boom

Prick Prick Boom

June 5, 2020
by Mike
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I was 12 or 13 years old when I had my left arm intentionally broken by racist, highly privileged white kids at the school I…

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Santa Claus Coffee in Joyful Minowa

Santa Claus Coffee in Joyful Minowa

May 21, 2020
by Bronte Hodge
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The street bustles with a steady stream of visitors. Every now and again, one individual will pause, examining a store’s goods. Amongst this, Papa Noel…

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Colonisation, The Greatest Imposter

Colonisation, The Greatest Imposter

May 14, 2020
by Celine Dam
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Growing up, I always felt small. I’m half-Vietnamese, half-Chinese, and I live in New Zealand – so of course I didn’t feel like I belonged….

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Coronavirus and the Roar of America

Coronavirus and the Roar of America

April 2, 2020
by Alistair Johnston
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I read an article once, by a man whose name I cannot remember, which attributed the differences between occidental and oriental cultures to the incidence…

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Horse Trekking a Country Under a Trump Travel Ban

Horse Trekking a Country Under a Trump Travel Ban

February 16, 2020
by James Devenish
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You might remember in the month after Donald Trump was inaugurated back in January 2017 the thousands of protesters who turned out at airports across…

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An Ode to Woodford Folk Festival

An Ode to Woodford Folk Festival

January 27, 2020
by Gemma Clarke and Grace Burns
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“Reconciliation?” It was barely 11 in the morning, but the tent was crammed with people. Bums were packed onto seats and patches of grass; some…

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