At the end of 2017, Australia celebrated a resounding yes vote for marriage equality. And as many of us were dusting off our hangovers, the…
Photo by Senghak Lee I sit in a rustic wooden house adorned with ornaments from South Asia in the middle of the wilderness in Bulgaria. It…
“Loved your profile:) I would like to offer you an allowance of 4000 per month. We would meet for a few hours each time, have…
Cover by Takahiro Taguchi Dotombori, 10 pm. The street was neon-drenched and the soundtrack was synthetic saccharine J-pop. I stepped into a bar. “Irashaimase!”, shouted…
Did you know that Spaniards have their own term of disendearment for us? Well they do, it’s guiri (pronounced giddy), and it basically means sunburnt foreigner…
I walk into a hostel in Italy and the common room is filled with people for the free dinner. I scan the room quickly. There…
I’m camping in Europe at the moment. Pitching my tent at rest stops, in the mountains and inconspicuously behind bushes on private land. I’m camping…
When countries outside of Japan started to realise that Lolita fashion was a thing, I was still a kid, busy tottering around the house in…
I will be bold enough to identify as an expert dater, although I will probably receive a stream of hate messages from exes upon publication….
I watch my mum’s mouth drop open in disgust. “Oh my god.” We’re dining at a fancy restaurant and I’m dolled up to the nines,…
It doesn’t seem like the beautiful chaos that is Burning Man – blooming annually in a desert metropolis entrapped by shifting sandy hills and black…
At the crisp hour of seven on a winter’s morning, I arrived in Venice. The city was eerily empty and quiet in its waking hours….
