My Experience as a Solo Female Wanderer (repost!)
My Experience as a Solo Female Wanderer January 2017 update: Recent political chatter about rape culture, women's rights, misogyny, and other cultural issues reminded me of this article I wrote about 3 years ago. I decided to repost it as maybe my timing of writing it 3 years ago was not as timely as it is today. Originally published on January 2014. (Disclaimer: Graphic language. These are my personal experiences and opinions and do not reflect the experiences of anyone else) The recent news of the gang rapes of female tourists and local women in India is appalling. Today this was a strong headline in the New York Times: NEW DELHI — A young woman in West Bengal was gang-raped this week on the order of a village council, to punish her for planning to marry a man from outside the village, according to Indian police . Click here to read the entire article in the New York Times . This news reminded me of my e...