Coming to Medellin was always supposed to be the final push on mySpanish skill levels. I would live and work in the Colombian city for four months, emerging with not just a introduction to journalism under my belt, but also with an easy fluency in the Spanish language and a legacy of Co...
“Being trans is very hard. Being a woman is very hard. Being a woman of colour is very hard. The hardest thing is to be a trans woman of colour,” Hana told me over the call from Poblado, an upscale expat neighbourhood in Medellin, Colombia, one of her regular ports of call in t...
Still, she loves Melbourne and would like to stay here longer if it wasn’t for the fact her scholarship requires her to return to Ecuador immediately after graduation and remain in the country for eight years. But the experience hasn’t always been easy. “I think we maybe h...