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On The Move

This newsletter is a way for me to share overlooked history and echoes of migration discovered through my work as a journo over the last decade. Topics will span how passports are made to my own awkward af interactions in a new country.

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  1. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    ‘Think of me as family’: How to build a village (opens the original)

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    Ahead of the summer of 2019, I had just ended things with someone who I definitely should not have been dating and was walking down Queen St. West in Toronto with one of my besties, telling her I was worried that this blip-of-a-man was going to ruin my summer. Nichole interrupted my woe-is-me rant: “If you want to have a good summer, you just have to plan for it.”This seems obvious, but it was life-changing for me. It challenged received wisdom that good times are spontaneous, that either you ha

  2. Issue · Jul 27, 2026

    A Bali Retreat + A London Recommendation (opens the original)

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    Hello from my desk in sunny London!I spent May and June in Berlin on a fellowship with the Berlin Social Science Center — an actual office, a cycling commute, and being a stone’s throw from the big, beautiful Tiergarten was a lovely experience. And I finally got to launch In Exile in the city I wrote it in, which was incredibly special. But I felt homesick for London, like, pathetically so. <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!Up0F!,f_auto,q_

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