#Morocco | Black Girls Abroad

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The Whole Point was to Get Inspired, Right?

The trip was an arts field study, after all. The whole point of it was to get cozied up with Moroccan art and be inspired to do some art on

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Let's Talk About Art

My Moroccan adventure was technically an “arts field study” hosted by the design departments of VCUarts. As you can imagine, the goal of the

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Extreme Arts & Crafts

As someone with 6 years art history classes stuffed into my brain, when I imagined travelling to experience art I always saw myself in Italy

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OMG I Need a Picture of That!

As an artist, a tourist, and a first time international traveler, I had an aching desire to take photos of everything. People, objects, anim

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Mais Je Ne Parle Qu'Anglais! (Language in Morocco)

Wait . . . what? The languages spoken in Morocco are Arabic and French with some Berber Amazigh scattered here and there. That said, when it

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Men With Guns

Men with guns: One of the first things I saw upon entering Rabat–Salé Airport. No one warned me that security in the country was armed like

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So What We Smoke Weed?

Though cannabis is technically illegal in the country, it is highly tolerated. When I say hashish was around every corner I’m not being sens

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Medicine, Illness, Periods, Bathrooms

I lumped those topics all into one post because if you’re experiencing one of the things listed above, you’re possibly going to be experienc

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Hotels & Riads

The places I stayed in Morocco all surprised me for different reasons. Some of them were incredibly beautiful; seriously, I had never been i

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Moroccan Critters

That said, I was genuinely a little freaked when pondering over what animals I’d encounter in Morocco. Sure, we were visiting big, so in the

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