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From Kuala Lumpur, Berlin, and places in between: a newsletter about how we seek and tell stories to make sense of a rapidly changing world & our personal and collective place in it. Click to read Movable Worlds, by Emily Ding, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

One of these links is a new letter I wrote recently about a recent trip to Bali—the impetus was a wedding, but we stayed to travel for a bit.

The letter is behind a paywall as it’s quite exploratory, and I’m still trying to refine my thoughts on the current state of mass travel/overtourism, which I may expand on further down the line. If you have a paid subscription or have otherwise been comped, read it here: https://movableworlds.co/p/nusapenida

Recapturing memories in a place I loved before: a fool's quest?

On revisiting Nusa Penida, now that it's become a popular destination for crowds of daytrippers from mainland Bali.

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So, here it is: https://movableworlds.co/p/findings2

Let me know what you think!

I would also really appreciate it if you would hit the “❤️” button on any letter you enjoy. It’s just nice to know you’re reading!

Findings, vol. 2

Stories old and new & some of life's good things.

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Over the past two months, I’ve been posting my newsletters online but not sending them out. I’ve been thinking of experimenting with a different way of sending emails: as a digest made up of links to individually published letters, recently published work elsewhere, writing from my archive, other people’s work, and things that have nothing to do with work (though I’ll still dispatch some letters individually sometimes). Hopefully, you’ll find it all a delightfully mixed bag...

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Emily Ding Aug 12, 2023

Also, I had to dig into my hard drives recently for some old photos and thought I might as well gather up in a letter some that I've taken of my city, Kuala Lumpur (which we here just call KL), over the years.

Take a look: https://movableworlds.co/p/photodrop-kl1

Photo drop: Glimpses of KL, 2015-

Some of these places you won't ever see this way again.

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Emily Ding Aug 12, 2023

While I continue to work on putting the finishing touches to a few newsletter drafts, I’ve shared an essay I wrote a few years back about “Chinatowns” around the world, the different meanings they hold in different places, and the aspirations they represent for different people. It's followed by a link to an old letter and a personal essay I really enjoyed reading. Here it is: https://movableworlds.co/p/homing-pigeon

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Homing pigeon

A personal journey through the Chinatowns of Kolkata, London, and Guatemala City.

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Emily Ding Jul 31, 2023

& Here's a piece I published on my newsletter in May that I had neglected to share: https://movableworlds.co/p/eating-with-other-families

Eating with other people's families

Thinking about everyday feasts and reunions, surprising human connections, and the lives that happened before us.

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