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Water is life 🌊🐚✨ . . . . . . #waterislife #yemayá #yemaya #pisces #aquarius #vitaminsea #oceantherapy #mniwaconi #aguaesvida #beach #ocean #nature #travelphotography #picoftheday #potd #travelgram #writersofinstagram #travelbloggersofinstagram #criptravel #qtpoc #travelingwhiledisabled #instadaily #beautiful #love #travel #sunshinetherapy #diaspora #homeland #latinx #writersofcolor (at Palmar, Manabi, Ecuador)

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"I witnessed tons of tourists who just wanted to get high on the brew for the cheapest price, or at times, who would shame me for taking medication and seeing “Western” practitioners, when they’d assure me that ayahuasca would cure me overnight. It’s these “esoteric settlers,” as cultural anthropologist Gijs Cremers puts it, who fetishize Indigenous cultures as wise and ancient in a process of dehumanizing mystification." The complexity of la pachamama or what is deemed 'nature' by industrialzed society can be foreign to those whose relationship to the earth is a story of domination. Same with the settler gaze, something I'm indefinitely working on divesting from. This excerpt is from an upcoming essay on colonization and ayahuasca tourism 🍃🙏🏽🌿🌍✨ . . . . . . #decolonizetravel #criptravel #travelingwhiledisabled #qtpoc #decolonize #pachamama #lapachamamaheals #ayahuasca #tourism #ableism #paternalism #healing #decolonization #sovereignty #writersofinstagram #travelwriter #travelwriting #spiritual #liberation #disabledandcute #idlenomore #settler #colonialism #whitesupremacy #selfie #nature #potd #picoftheday #travelphotography #travel @preview.app (at Ballenita, Guayas, Ecuador)

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::beyoncé voice:: god is real 🙏🏽🌊✨ . . . . . . #homeland #motherland #yemaya #pachamama #lapachamamaheals #costa #atardecer #sunset #beach #travel #writersofinstagram #criptravel #travelingwhiletrans #qtpoc #potd #beautiful #picoftheday #photooftheday #instadaily #instamood #whereiwork #vitaminsea #oceantherapy #latinx #diaspora #migrant #returnee #travelwriter #nature #ocean #love #blessed #decolonizetravel (at Ballenita, Guayas, Ecuador)

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Feeling Shitty in Beautiful Places: A Retrospective 🌊🔹✨ #criptravel #queersinnature #lapachamamaheals #piscesseason #waterislife #travelingwhiledisabled (at Playa Rosada)

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Pachamama makin' miracles happen on the daily #blessed #bdaybish #waterislife #piscesseason #lapachamamaheals #queersinnature #criptravel (at Puerto Cayo, Manabi, Ecuador)

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#CripTravel is for the hardcore, but it has its rewards 🏞🌴🍃#travelingwhiledisabled (at Puerto Cayo, Manabi, Ecuador)

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Morning view #birthdayweek #saturnsreturn #lapachamamaheals #criptravel #queersinnature #piscesseason (at Puerto López)

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I'll be in NYC a week from today, with pieces of the homeland in my pockets and notebooks, in my hair and on my skin. With a plastic bag of seashells, and a fucking megalist of to-dos I'll have no excuse not to get through. And yes, that's a chancla tan on my feet. Forward 👉🏽🌊🐚✨ . . . . . . #homeland #migrant #motherland #immigrant #seawitch #travel #qtpoc #criptravel #writersofinstagram #diaspora #yemaya #pachamama #lapachamamaheals #nyc #ecuayork #travelphotography #potd #picoftheday #seashells #pisces #photooftheday #love #beautiful #instadaily #travelgram #nature #photography #mermaid #beach #travelwriter @preview.app (at Ballenita, Guayas, Ecuador)

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Arrived at my hostel last night after another painful day of #criptravel and was warmly greeted by the owners, a family I know from my last time here, who immediately sat me down at the bar with a drink (though of course I stood bc of my sitting disability), next to an Ecua chick and this old gringo expat who, after ten years of living (and I expect, undocumented) in Ecuador, could only speak the worst most basic pidgin Spanish. I also remember him from my last time here and y'all, he's Trump-obsessed. Plus he was getting drunk and yelling, so peak white USian dude. I wonder why white people who hate Ecuador's (semi-)socialism and love 'em some Trump don't just go back to where they came from, and I told him as much, before going to my room to talk shit about him with the Ecua chick. But (many) white people really have nowhere to go back to. I see whiteness as home and culture-less, roaming pilgrims that colonize everywhere they go. This is most evident in travel culture. Then this dude came by selling roses, and the gringo got us both two. But the way I see it, he owes me more than that. 🌹✊🏽✨ . . . . . . #decolonizetravel #decolonize #travel #tourism #expat #immigrant #migrant #travelmedia #travelwriting #whitesupremacy #imperialism #capitalism #whiteness #amerikkka #resist #settlers #colonizers #colonialism #travelwriting #selfie #potd #picoftheday #socialism #instalike #cute #qtpoc #race #criptravel #blackandwhite (at Salinas, Ecuador)

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The last 36 hours have been pretty awful. There were beautiful moments (shout out to la pachamama) but it's been tough, overall, dealing with inaccessibility while traveling, and that, coupled with other things that have accumulated over my time on this visit, all kind of washed over me at once. I might address the accessibility part through a video or blog post, but tonight I just have to rest after this last adventure. Also, hey new followers! I legit have never asked this but I will now if you've made it this far - pls like this damn post so that IG's new algorithm can stop burying my posts. 💜🍃🌊✨ #criptravel #travelingwhiledisabled #decolonizetravel (at Puerto Cayo, Manabi, Ecuador)

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A nice $17/a night find (tho I can only afford one night) and the vino keeping me company #birthmonth #piscesseason♓️ #anythingforsalinas #criptravel #blessupbuttercup (at Salinas, Ecuador)

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Literally couldn't open my eyes w all this sun up in my face. I was enjoying a granizado de rosas and listening to the salsa playing on the malecón on a quick trip to La Libertad today, abuelita's hometown. Depression who? #blueofdistance #motherland #criptravel #queersinnature #saturnsreturn #piscesseason (at La Libertad, Guayas, Ecuador)