I WRITE THINGS

European colonialism is one of the most recent examples of imperialism — one in a long line of empires throughout human history. All the...

Justice Counts on All of Us

Today, I went down a Foucaultian rabbit hole. Foucault's work has been mentioned repeatedly in the work of travel writing critics (and...

He sees me, and hovers in front of my face for a moment. Eye contact. Understanding. We’re drunk on our senses, on desire — looking for some

Ideological frameworks are all around us, influencing us, and determining the ways in which we move around in the world. According to...

Not too long ago, I embarked on a 12,000-mile road trip throughout the western United States. The goal — to see as much publicly...

Texts, or discourses, according to cultural critic David Spurr (1993), tell stories that justify and allow colonization to become...

Ten artists from across the country meet for the first time at the Deer Creek trailhead for a weeklong wilderness retreat. It’s important...

As founder and director of Phoenix Mural Project I’m engaged in lots of different kinds of communities within the city: property...

I’ve always loved maps. As a kid, I would spin the globe in our living room as fast as I could. With a jab, I’d poke my finger out to...

The Menu Travel and travel writing are sometimes narrowly defined, especially in the context of bookstore genres. Entire shelves full of...

ABOUT ME: Danielle Foushée is author, designer, public artist, and professor at Arizona State University. She founded and directs Phoenix...

If you want a more authentic experience of Phoenix’s street art culture, you have to visit the grass-roots mural project in Oak Street Alle