Outdoor/Travel/Adventure
The Guardian: Wanderlust on Stolen Land – How to mindfully explore the U.S. outdoors
Outside: Why are adventure hubs so white?
Vox: The strangeness of being a Latina who loves hiking
The Atlantic: How millennials are changing travel
The Atlantic: Traveling teaches students in a way schools can’t
REI Co-op Journal: What POC Backpacking Culture Looks Like
REI Co-op Journal: Rediscovering Latino Culture Outside
Bay Nature: Experiencing “awe” in nature can bring healing
Sierra Magazine: Why people of color often feel unsafe in the outdoors
Sierra Magazine: The people of color who keep outdoorsy towns running
Nature Conservancy: A More Open Outdoors— A Conversation with Marcela Maldonado Medina
Roadtrippers Magazine: Women of color are reshaping the outdoors travel industry
Teens of Color Abroad Blog: Dear Young Explorer
The Outbound: “Reclaiming the Land Series”
- Introduction: Living with Two Feet on the Shore
- Part 1: A Conversation with Brandi Mack
- Part 2: Keya Meggett’s Story
- Part 3: A conversation with the founders of Shelterwood Collective
- What the Land has Held
- Recognizing Land Trauma
Ancestry and the Latin American Diaspora
Guernica: A lineage of nonconsent
NBC News: In the United States, I learned that Spanish was shameful
The Atlantic: Traveling while Latino
The Atlantic: Why many Latinos dread going to the doctor
Vox: My immigrant family achieved the American Dream. Then I started to question it.
Bitterroot Magazine: Latinx artists fight to stay in the Mission
Matador Network: Meet the Latinx chef cooking “liberation cuisine” to create social change.
Sexuality and Queerness
Typehouse Magazine: “She is one intended for public use.”
Slate: What does queerness look like? On coming out and the immigrant experience
Harper’s Bazaar: The cultural confusion of being sexually assaulted abroad
The Atlantic: The plight of being a gay teacher
The Body: Rebirth of Queer – Carol Queen on past, present, and future queer life in San Francisco
Power and privilege
The Week: The privilege of an American passport
The Atlantic: Why teachers of color quit
The Atlantic: Is it possible to teach children to be less prejudiced?
The Atlantic: Should schools teach kids to meditate?
Innovate Public Schools: Why we need to close the “belief gap”
Matador Network: 7 things “developing” countries do better than the United States
Matador Network: Being joyful is its own form of protest
Matador Network: 4 things study abroad programs get wrong (and what we can do about it)
Matador Network: 7 assumptions we need to stop making when traveling to developing countries
Matador Network: 6 uncomfortable truths about traveling in Southeast Asia
Matador Network: 17 responsible travelers habits to pick up in 2017
Amanda E. Machado 