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LGTBilisi
“Georgia?” My mom’s voice came in tinny and thin over the slow wi-fi. “Where’s Georgia?” “Northeast of Turkey, north of Armenia,” I said. But I knew that probably wouldn’t help. “Where’s Armenia?” she asked, laughing. Our conversation continued for a while like that. I was far away from the typical backpacker routes through Western Europe…
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China, Pt. 2: Politics, Racism, and Being Gay
To understand anything about China, you have to know a little bit about its history. China occupies one of the longest continuously inhabited spaces on the planet, and currently has a population of nearly 1.4 billion. China was governed under dynastic systems until the turn of the 20th century, and it was only in 1949…