a Lima transportation guide
Official buses: These buses run fairly routinely and stop regularly at all paraderos. Dependable, legit, and safe. They also look like...
ethnicity and identity, pt 1
Traveling as a non-Latina brown American from Lima to Quito to Bogotá over the past few days has made me think a lot about ethnicity and...
from the airport
I am sitting at the entrance to security checkpoint drinking my coffee and waiting for time to pass before walking to the gate. The drive...
the use of the N-word in Peru and Latin America
Recently, I had a conversation with someone about English words and phrases that have been normalized in conversation here in Peru....
maternity, domestic work, other thoughts
A few evenings ago I had a conversation about maternity with a woman who is currently employed as a domestic worker. As some background,...
wealthy guilt, white guilt, gringo guilt: trying to acknowledge that i am classist
I wasn't raised to give money to people on the streets. I have many memories of being rushed past homeless people by my mother and father...
making friends while abroad is not easy but i wish it was
"So, do you have any Peruvian friends?" We all laughed the nervous laughter of people who do not, in fact, have any Peruvian friends....
public space as male space
Today I noticed that in Lima I don't say hi to people as I walk down the street. This is partly because I am embarrassed by my accent....
me equivoqué
The entire point of my Engaged Learning proposal was to determine "What does feminism in Peru look like?" But the longer I'm here the...
One month!!!
Last week marked our one-month anniversary in Lima!!! As of right now we have been here for 5ish weeks but last Monday was the group...
