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03/28/2018
A Precarious Visa Situation Makes You Vulnerable at Work
I tolerated bullying at my first journalism job.
07/06/2018
Checking My Passport Privilege
My EU passport gives me an enormous privilege—a privilege I didn't work for.
07/16/2018
Dream Big, Unless You Have a Shitty Passport
You’re not entitled to global career dreams and wanderlust if you belong to the underclass of shitty passport holders.
01/30/2019
Shame and Self-Loathing in Brussels
My biggest humiliation happened in the EU bubble.
01/14/2020
Foreign, Poor and in the Ivy League
When you simultaneously inhabit the worlds of poverty and privilege.
09/23/2023
Becoming Canadian
Studying for the Canadian citizenship test exposed me to a misleading story about how Canada came to be.
04/26/2025
Breaking Up With New York, Once and For All
And with journalism.
06/29/2026
Goodbye, Canada
Packing up my life and leaving a place is a skill I’ve perfected.