Attempting to cultivate my mind and solidarity past a US-centric framework, understanding how it all moves depending on many contexts. Yes, travel makes you richer etc etc etc. But at the same time, how can we dismantle the neocolonial ethos of travel, of appropriative yoga, white backpackers with dreadlocks, "living simply," to create spaces that do not mindlessly praise the good intentions of people, but also focus on the impact (a lot of the time actually negative and counterproductive) we have when we enter spaces, especially Black and brown ones. This is especially crucial since VERY few of us actually will be able to travel. Pretentious mentality that assumes everyone can and should travel, and can do so cheaply, is not mindful of all the ways we prevent others from seeing the world, and also assuming that travel is the only way we can reach the highest forms of consciousness. Ultimately, in capitalism and neocolonialism, travel will never cease to exist, so I want to use couchsurfing as a way to meet caring folks, to disrupt the elite space that travel is in order to form sincere energies with people.

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