This blog post was written for Development Counsellors International, view the original post here. With a robust social following of nearly 280,000 followers across her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and blog, 27-year-old Stephanie Buelna has taken the world by storm by visiting more than 200 destinations for her award-winning blog, TravelBreak. As a digital nomad who is always on [...]
You CAN afford to travel – you just don’t want to – and it’s time to come face to face with the reality that the same money that is going to eating out every night, to expensive handbags, to makeup or clothes can be budgeted to an adventure that has the potential to make you a more well rounded, cultured individual.
*This article was originally featured in River City Fashion Uprising, a local Richmond Fashion Magazine* Written by Hannah Khan Photographed by Abigail Gorden and Chase Davis Within merely days of living in Richmond, appropriately dubbed the art capitol of Virginia, I took notice of Richmond’s eclectic sense of style and fashion. In the heart of [...]
But while praising the collection, it’s easy to forget that Muslim women have for years been told by Western media that modesty is not fashionable.
When a woman travels, particularly alone -- she is making a statement, one that says that she refuses to be associated with the stereotype of women as fragile and insecure. She is opening herself up to new experiences and opportunities -- she doesn’t travel to escape life, she travels so life doesn’t escape her.
