It's Golden Girls' Summer

June 21st marked the summer solstice. Where are you all heading and can we come too? If you’re interested in meeting other AWWs abroad, make sure you’re in our Facebook community group and discussing in the community channels.

🇹🇼 Next year in Taipei, Taiwan, we’re going to be meeting up for our AWW Summit from March 28-31, 2024. Stay tuned for more details via our newsletter and social media channels.

RESOURCES & OPPS FOR THE TRAVELING AWW

🛂 Traveling: Interesting in seeing where digital nomads are headed? Check out this list of retreats that people are booking.

🟢 Side Hustles: AWW member Dina Lu shares 15 side hustle ideas for 2023—check out her growing YouTube channel.

📷 Inspired by an AWW: Shotsbykami is an Instagram started by Kami Morris. She’s a park ranger who loves taking photos and is interesting in starting a photography business.

📚 Reading for the daters: In search of romance? Move abroad. NY Times penned a piece on how women, especially American women, are moving abroad after facing countless disappointing dating experiences in the states. “You’re not tied to your history,” said Ms. Sheahan, who now lives in Porto, Portugal. “You’re living more freely.”

🧠 TIL: the Henley passport ranking shares that Singapore, Japan, and Germany are the three strongest passports at the moment. The index includes 199 different passports and 227 different travel destinations.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: travel anxiety as an Asian woman

Chew says Asian women feeling a heightened sense of travel anxiety can be linked back to the negative stereotypes they have been subjected to for decades. Ones that portray them as easy targets because they are “meek”, “obedient”, or “always looking for some type of white saviour.”

According to Chew, another factor is Asians as a whole are often made to feel “perpetually othered” or like the “perpetual foreigner.”

UPCOMING AWW EVENTS

• [Singapore] Saturday, July 15th at 6:30 pm SGT - Drinks + Tarot Card Reading Meetup. This has to be an intimate session, so we are opening this to 15 ladies max. Please register.

• [Paris] Wednesday, July 19th at 6 pm CET - AWW Paris Meetup

  Please make sure you’re in the Facebook group and RSVP to the event!

AWW MEDIA

Ivy and Emily share how they built an organic Facebook group during the pandemic, as well as revisiting the beginning of the construct of the community. We go back way in time when we used to be “Asian Female Nomads” and how we got started creating the first group of AWWs .

🎙️ Find our Asian Wander Women Podcast on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple. Please rate our podcast if you’ve found it helpful!

You can also tune into other AWW workshops and panels:

• Our 9 Income Streams as Digital Nomads

• Traveling on a Budget vs More Money

• How to Travel and Work Abroad