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"Backpacking Like... Totally, Changed my Life"
My favourite piece from the Berlin Wall - Shows the human division and lack of freedom the wall brought upon society. Behind every border and conflict, people on both sides suffer the same. Last year for Halloween I went as a backpacker, dressed in flowy linen elephant pants, hiking shoes, a bar-crawl t-shirt from Thailand, and some cheap sunglasses, complete with blush caked on to resemble a sunburn, my big Osprey backpack, and of course, a sign saying "Backpacking like... t
Katherine Jetleb
Apr 145 min read


Gymnastics didn't break me -- Losing it did.
When I first sat down with my therapist, I told her my deepest, darkest secret: I have a raging eating disorder, and it's taking over my life. Just minutes earlier, I had been telling her about my past as a competitive gymnast — how it had been my entire world until COVID hit and I left for university. Almost immediately, I could see all her assumptions forming. To her, the connection probably seemed obvious, textbook even. Gymnastics is notoriously associated with eating dis
Katherine Jetleb
Apr 88 min read
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