Horror Vacui

[Image description: photograph of a Hong Kong high-rise building with a dark glass façade and balconies of different colours at seemingly random intervals. There is a smaller, pale high-rise building to the right of the larger one. Late evening sun washes the sky above.]

They get one day off at work, usually Sundays (although I saw them every day) and since they don’t have money to spend it in restaurants and cafes and they obviously do not want to be (or can’t be) inside their bosses’ houses, they spend their days outside, in makeshift public living rooms.

Personal EssayAnonymousJuly 12, 2019travel, culture, labour, capitalism, women

Cities In Motion

PhotographyMatea GrgurinovicMay 21, 2018Japan, Osaka, work, labour, travel, Asia

Life In Transit

I came to China to work, but so much of me stayed in Croatia – my family, my partner, my friends, my professional and personal interests. My everyday life in Beijing is mediated between here and there, in the span of the seven-hour time difference, in the Beijing hutongs and the streets of Zagreb.

Personal EssayAnonymousMarch 30, 2018travel, immigration, foreign, Croatia, Europe, Asia, China, long distance, family, loneliness, isolation

Reminiscing On Travel

Traveling never fails to remind me of where I come from and where my place is.

Personal EssayMatea GrgurinovicFebruary 26, 2018travel, Russia, Asia, solitude, loneliness, train, distance

Atopos

It puzzles me - the concept of belonging has always filled me with some combination of dread and hope. The ghost of this thought follows me everywhere with her bloody feet, persistent and quiet, save for one word:

where?

FictionZayn ThiamJanuary 17, 2018photography, love, relationships, loneliness, travel, queer, home

Cross Country Crutching

How traveling and living in a van helped me come to terms with my disability.

Personal EssayEliana CarmonaJune 28, 2017disability, travel, body image, Eliana Carmona