“Maybe we mistakenly think we want ‘happiness’, which we tend to picture in very vague, soft-focus terms, when what we really crave is the harder-edged intensity of experience.” I read this in a New York Times article two days before leaving the States for my yearlong stint in Cusco. Nine mo[...]
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Challenging Gender Norms
Last week I wrote about the personal decisions we all have to make when it comes to challenging cultural norms. Here I elaborate on my experience challenging one of the most deeply-rooted cultural norms of Nicaragua: the role of the muchacha. I’m an unofficial athlete and one of the things I obser[...]
