Conjuring Wellness and Renewal

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Conjuring Wellness and Renewal

• A Transnational Feminist Approach To Global
  Travel

Presented by Skye Ward
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Workshop Guidelines

• Honor time allocations for workshop
  segments/topics.
• Pay attention and listen analytically,
  respectfully and empathetically. (Active
  listening)
• Speak for yourself. Use I statements.
• Address the group when speaking, not just the
  facilitator.
• Be gentle and compassionate with yourself and
  other participants.

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Goals and Objectives

• Presentation Discussion
• Disseminate international travel resources
• Exchange anecdotal tips
• Discuss cultural and societal barriers to
  international travel for women of color
• Create a preliminary plan for traveling to a new
  destination.

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Travel Research Sources

• Print
• On-line
• Colleagues
• Affinity Groups
• Friends and Family

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Preparation

• Visualization
• Fear is a doorway, not a wall.
• Stephanie Austin
• Logistics
• Flight, lodging, health and safety, and packing.
• Cross-cultural issues
• Gender, ethnicity, class, economic, and
  religious

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Money Issues

• Plan in advance.
• Obtain hotel/air package deals.
• Pay monthly bills prior departure!
• Use ATM. Hotel safe. Bring small amount of local
  currency
• Maintain expense list for U.S. Customs
  declaration.

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Health Safety

• Center for Disease Control (CDC)
• Immunizations months in advance.
• Review medical insurance.
• Prepare mini-first aid kit-include
• extra prescriptions. (pills glasses).
• Drink sealed bottled water.
• Exercise, Exercise, Exercise!

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Security Issues

• Duplicate passport, drivers license,
• birth certificate, itinerary pay stub.
• Beware of racial profile. (e.g. drug mule,
• sex worker, economically poor.)
• Dont document lesbian identity or activity.
• Beware proliferation of closed circuit cameras.
  (e.g. public/private, in/outdoors)
• Leave confidential voice mail or paper trail
• of your whereabouts.

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Inhibitors

• What notions of self-worth, accessibility and
  scarcity act as barriers to travel?
• Indoctrination?
• Paucity of role models?
• Self-imposed limitations?
• Modest income leisure time?

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Conjuring

• Develop tools and gather information to dismantle
• inhibitions and barriers.
• Advance planning and research.
• Be flexible and patient.
• Participant in organized trips and
• use alternative lodging.
• KNOW that you are worthy and deserving of global
  travel experiences.

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Transnational Feminism

• As a feminist approach, it can be said that
  transnational feminism is generally attentive to
  intersections among
• nationhood,
• race,
• gender,
• sexuality and
• economic exploitation
• on a world scale, in the context of emergent
  global capitalism.

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Feminist Traveler

• Develop an awareness of the unequal distribution
  of economic and natural resources that results
  from global capitalism.
• Inquire into social, political and economic
  conditions of local communities where you plan to
  visit.
• Be mindful of contributing to economic and
  cultural exploitation on a world scale.