Edge of the World: Alden Jones on Queer Travel Writing

The Trump regime built much of its identity–and certainly campaigned around–its hatred of LGBTQ Americans. Unfortunately, the success of that campaign again revealed just how much anti-queer bias there is in the American populace. And while there may be no populated nation in the world that is truly free of anti-queer bias, there are places that are better, are different, or that offer new perspectives. Alden Jones’ work explores queer travel. Alden is an assistant professor at Emerson College and the author of the memoirs The Blind Masseuse and The Wanting Was a Wilderness and the story collection Unaccompanied Minors. Best American Travel Writing and other venues. She edited the new anthology of queer travel writing “Edge of the World” and he is here to discuss that work and the queer travel experience.

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Edge of the World: Alden Jones on Queer Travel Writing is an episode from Alyssa Milano: Sorry Not Sorry by Peace By Peace Productions.

This episode is 00:45:10 long.

This episode was published on May 12, 2025.

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