It’s 9pm on a Saturday. Joel and I sit on the couch in the shared common room of a North Queensland hostel. I tilt my…
“Wow, there’s no way I could do that!” “It’s been a whole year since you’ve seen each other?” “Do you really have a boyfriend if…
The paradise island is another smoggy Eden haven away from city pollution. The spiritual island is a hub for “woke” people. The magical island is…
Ten years ago, I lived on an island off the coast of Honduras. It was summer when I was there. It was summer almost all…
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…
“You’d be more attractive if you smoked and were less of a feminist,” he slurs, sloppily, arm slung like a dead weight over my shoulder…
It was approaching midnight on a cold Tuesday. My boyfriend and I were drunkenly trawling the backstreets of Shibuya, leading us to the street of…
Negar and I are inside a Tehran cafe. She says her English isn’t great. But it’s good enough. Her eyes unrealistically blue; not like the…
Like many young women who’ve watched the Abba-inspired Mamma Mia! films, I was recently struck by the urge to relocate to Europe and have unprotected sex…
I was splayed between gravestones, with multiple jackets strewn across the grass. Like most men, Galway Guy was bending my body in ways that it…
Jayden came stomping through the door to our shared hotel room. He was completely oblivious to the fact that it was 2:32AM on a Wednesday…
Around the pool table in a Chengdu hostel, a girl eating a massive dragonfruit introduces herself as Yumiko. The fruit is cheaper here compared to…
