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Emily Manthei

Macao: a feast for the eyes (and stomach)

Recently, I traveled to Macao, a tiny peninsula and island where three estuaries meet the South China Sea. An hour by ferry from Hong Kong…

Oct 11

Macao: a feast for the eyes (and stomach)

Oct 11

Emily Manthei

5 Lessons Learned from My Experiment #JustReadingWomen

Shortly after the Black Lives Matter protests started at the end of May, I picked up Why I am No Longer Talking to White People About Race…

Nov 24, 2020

5 Lessons Learned from My Experiment #JustReadingWomen

Nov 24, 2020

Emily Manthei

Don’t think you’ve benefitted from white privilege?

First, I want to say: I am a white person and I’m not writing this for the benefit of informing anyone with lived experience as a person…

Jun 16, 2020

Don’t think you’ve benefitted from white privilege?

Jun 16, 2020

Emily Manthei

More Art, Less Money?

The advertisers are gone. The sponsored-content-influencers are gone. The money is gone. All gone.

May 21, 2020

More Art, Less Money?

May 21, 2020

Emily Manthei

Re-evaluating travel, as an industry and a lifestyle.

I love airports. The familiarity of strangeness. The soothing call of a flight attendant. The secret peek into the weird habits of…

May 13, 2020

Re-evaluating travel, as an industry and a lifestyle.

May 13, 2020

Emily Manthei

I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore

Anger is not one of my primary responses to tragedy, loss, and injustice. In the current pandemic, I’ve cycled through my normal states of…

Apr 6, 2020

I’m Mad as Hell and I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore

Apr 6, 2020

Emily Manthei

The Way We Fight

People:

Nov 1, 2018

The Way We Fight

Nov 1, 2018

Emily Manthei

On Communion

“Let’s spend a few minutes in silence to set an intention.” A prayer, sent out in faith, a spiritual communique.

Jun 10, 2018

On Communion

Jun 10, 2018

Emily Manthei

House Sharing is the New Normal: Addressing the Skyrocketing Cost of Renting in American Cities

In 2006, I moved to a property with two large houses, built in the 1930s and last renovated in the 70s, at the bottom of a hillside in East…

May 14, 2018

House Sharing is the New Normal: Addressing the Skyrocketing Cost of Renting in American Cities

May 14, 2018

Emily Manthei

Apocalypse Later

My latest piece to be rejected from a literary journal, so I’ll publish it here.

Feb 14, 2018

Feb 14, 2018

Emily Manthei

Emily Manthei

Wordy and worldly. Filmmaker and freelance writer covering culture, philosophy, travel, urbanization and theology. Based in Berlin.

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