Bangladesh
It’s difficult to believe that it’s that time again. Looking around my hotel room, all my stuff strewn about, and knowing that somehow, someway, it will all fit back into my little suitcase. Early tomorrow morning I will head back to the one place that has...
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A Californian woman named Bernann McKinney paid a South Korean scientist nearly $50,000 to clone her deceased pit bull, Booger. How much would I pay to clone my very own Booger? That’s right, $51,000. Though I’d make her miniature and stuff her in my...An Update from Nari Jibon
Every two weeks we highlight some of the latest and greatest from newly trained Rising Voices bloggers. Usually these posts take us all over the world, but this week we are going to focus specifically on Dhaka, Bangladesh where a group of ambitious young women are...
Bodies Wrapped in Silk, Distance and Proximity in Friendships, the Island of the Sun, and Dedicated Teachers
At this year’s Global Voices Summit held in Budapest many attendees asked the Rising Voices participants how they could help support their projects. One of the best way to encourage new bloggers to keep sharing stories about their lives and communities is to...[Rising Voices] Landslides, Poetry, Life, Death, and Paramilitarists
Every two weeks we feature four to five posts by Rising Voices participants as a way of showcasing some of the finest content from new voices that are typically ignored by both traditional and new media. In order to make new voices heard, however, we must be willing...Latest Photos
