Category Communities & Culture

A friendly guide to the words that shape how we talk about travel: which to retire, what to say instead, and why a single word can do a lot of unintended work.

The well-meaning visit to an Indigenous community can do more harm than good. What changes that is asking a different set of questions before you book and showing up in a different posture once you arrive.

A practical reading list for travellers who want to widen the bench. Twenty travel and memoir titles, fiction by region, independent bookshops worth visiting, and a few podcasts and films to extend the principle.