Tag: Returning

When the plane touched down in Tokyo, it was a surreal moment. This wasn’t just any city; it was home for six transformative years of my life. Yet, as I stepped out, I was no longer a resident but a visitor, in the rabble of other visitors and first-time JETs talking about burgers and Roppongi...

There is no lost and found in Miami. There are the wealthy and the scavengers. Anyone can become a scavenger, given the state of the economy. If you are a treasure hunter in Miami, you need not rent a fishing boat or scuba equipment or hire divers. Your treasure is concealed inside the sand havin...

My partner and I caught a red-eye with intentions of sleeping from the Minneapolis-St. Paul airport to Amsterdam via Delta. I’m no longer adapted to sleeping on planes, I slept a whopping total of nada. Then, we caught our connecting flight via KLM to Madrid. Allegedly, it was King’s Day...

BOSTON, MA — February 21, 2022 — Hack.Diversity enters its seventh program cycle in Boston with 110 Fellows, 20 Host Companies, and 2 REDI (racial equity, diversity, and inclusion) Partners. Since its inaugural program cycle in 2017, Hack.Diversity has connected almos...

I spent six days on Kindred on the Rock in Point Hill Jamaica, a part of the first cohort of artist / Jamaican kin / queer / community to experience the experiment that Staceyann Chin cultivated during her return back to Jamaica. As I came back home to Philadelphia, PA and my body started ...