Episode 114
Unpacking Intersectional Travel with Journalist Imani Bashir
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A Global Citizen
Imani Bashir is a world-traveling storyteller, mother, and advocate who's lived in five countries across four continents, including Egypt, Poland, and Malaysia.
Imani’s work focuses on culturally immersive social media content highlighting various atrocities and initiatives to support marginalized communities worldwide. She asks: how do we travel in a way that is generative (to use the term on everyone’s minds right now), and not destructive?
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What you’ll learn in this episode:
Imani's experience of being a Black digital nomad
How living abroad shaped Imani’s global citizenship
Traveling with kids & mom culture in the US and abroad
Travel as a way to gain empathy for immigrants
Travel media industry’s handling of Gaza
The ethics of press trips
The history of Black Islam in America
Misconceptions about Islam
Did anything change since the murder of George Floyd?
“The destination is not about the destination. The destination is about people. And if we forget about the people in the process of talking about these destinations, what are we even doing?”
— Imani Bashir
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Read Imani's story, A Reflection on What It Means to Be a Black American Muslim
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