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Remembering Sanmao, the Taiwanese travel writer who lived in the desert
She was born some eighty years ago today.
Emily Ding
14 hr ago
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Mabel Ho: “I still flirt with the idea of leaving. But that dream plays to a different tune now.”
Guest essay: After years imagining what her exit plan would look like, A Malaysian finally comes to terms with her choice to remain.
Emily Ding
Mar 20
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January 2023
Meeting the year ahead
No real resolutions, as usual, but I'm hoping to reframe my perspective with a little help from writers and artists who have echoed my desires.
Emily Ding
Jan 8
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November 2022
Landmarkings, vol. 15
A round-up of essays, journalism, and fiction about how we make sense of a rapidly changing world and our place in it, and how we tell its stories.
Emily Ding
Nov 22, 2022
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Let’s chat ❤️
Introducing Movable Worlds Chat, a new community feature for subscribers (free or paid) only.
Emily Ding
Nov 8, 2022
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Writing about the vivid “waving” frog that vanished suddenly
An ode to the Chiriqui harlequin frog, and how to think and tell stories about species extinctions.
Emily Ding
Nov 8, 2022
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Out on my own again
It's been a while since, and it took me just a bit of time to feel like my old self.
Emily Ding
Nov 1, 2022
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October 2022
Back from a short absence
What I have been working on, what I am working on, and what I've been struggling with.
Emily Ding
Oct 9, 2022
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Landmarkings, vol. 14
A round-up of essays, journalism, and fiction about how we make sense of a rapidly changing world and our place in it, and how we tell its stories.
Emily Ding
Oct 5, 2022
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July 2022
Welcome to Movable Worlds
From Kuala Lumpur, Berlin, and places in between: a newsletter about how we seek and tell stories to make sense of a changing world & our personal and…
Emily Ding
Jul 16, 2022
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Wael Qarssifi: "Everyone saying what they think, out of love, is an act of activism"
Q&A: A Syrian refugee journalist in Malaysia on piecing together a life for himself in exile in Kuala Lumpur, and reconciling his feelings for his…
Emily Ding
Jul 15, 2022
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Ways of Writing
Can travel writing be redeemed? An essay based on a reading of Tim Hannigan's Travel Writing Tribe: Journeys in Search of a Genre.
Emily Ding
Jul 5, 2022
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