Sasha Star

Solo travel for women is not about escape. It’s about arrival. Arrival into your own rhythm. Your own decisions. Your own silence. In a world that constantly asks women to be accommodating, agreeable, and accompanied, choosing to travel alone is a radical act of self-trust. This isn’t a guide to “finding yourself.” You were never lost. This is about remembering who you are when no one is watching. “Solo travel isn’t lonely. It’s the first time many women hear themselves clearly.” Why...

She Made the Company Permanent. Anita Gandhi did not inherit confidence. She inherited scrutiny. When her father passed the reins of a Dubai-based maritime company into her hands—a fleet of ageing oil tankers trading regionally—the industry didn’t see a successor. It saw a placeholder. A daughter. A name on paper until a “real” leader arrived. “They didn’t question whether I owned the company. They questioned whether I belonged in the room.” Maritime is not gentle with women. It is...

Mariana Luz does not owe the world a softened version of her story. She was born into the margins of Recife, Brazil, where girls learn early that safety is conditional and opportunity is rationed. By her early twenties, she was trapped in a sex trade governed not by chaos, but by control—organised, strategic, and deeply violent in its silence. This was not choice. This was coercion dressed up as consent. “They told us we were free. But freedom doesn’t come with surveillance.” Women were...