Dangers of traveling while female
I wanted to be a fearless adventurer like my male heroes, but a voice kept warning me: Don't get yourself raped
Tuesday, Aug 27, 2013 11:15 PM UTC 544Life Life stories, Feminism
Tara Isabella Burton
Life Life stories, Feminism
Tara Isabella Burton's travel writing and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Conde Nast Traveller, Guernica, Los Angeles Review of Books, The Rumpus, The New Statesman and more. In 2012 she received The Spectator's Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for travel writing. She is represented by the Philip G. Spitzer Literary Agency; her first novel is currently on submission.
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