Click to Follow and See More When the pandemic started to wreak havoc on the world a couple of years ago I, like many people, took up a new hobby. I found myself sitting home alone an awful lot with oodles of time on my hands and not much to do with it outside of…
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The Broke Bitches Gourmet Cookbook
The Broke Bitches Gourmet Cookbook Tasty recipes from a perpetually broke bitch When my little sister asked me for access to all of my recipes for her Christmas gift last year, I don’t think either of us expected this cookbook to be the outcome. But once I got started transferring some of my recipes from…
The Free Press
Paige Mueller for The Free Press I was laying beneath my mosquito net after a particularly emotionally draining day in Nigeria, when I logged on to check my emails and my jaw fell open in surprise. I had one new email. One that I wasn’t expecting even a little bit. The subject line read, “A…
Where is home?
This article was originally featured in Feminist Space Camp magazine in November 2019. You can read the story below. By: Paige Mueller Sometimes home is a place I’ve been thousands of times before. A place I know so well I can tell you what time the sun hits the couch at the perfect angle or…
Confronting my White Saviour Complex
This is something I’ve wanted to write for a long time now. Reading it might make you feel uncomfortable. I sure as hell felt uncomfortable while writing it. And that’s a good thing. That’s the whole point actually. If I was doing what I do (working in development as a white woman in countries with…
Seeing past the statistics
Approximately 35 white plastic chairs huddled under a tin-roofed awning extending from an empty concrete building into the red mud of the village road. Rain dripped off the ends of the tin sheets and created a thunderous racket for those of us sitting underneath its shelter. I was there with six colleagues from GPI, our…
Remember why you’re here?
Sweat dripped between my shoulder blades and pooled in the fabric of my jumpsuit as I walked up the steps to a small, one-storey concrete building at the far end of the courtyard. I followed Endy, my “manager” at Girls Power Initiative, blinded in a delightful way by the sun reflecting off her rainbow-sequined high…
What to say a week before I go away
Over the last few days I’ve sat down to write this blog post no fewer than four times. The first time, I spouted some nonsensical metaphor about the unfamiliar, the unknown and a deep, dark body of water. I was trying wayyyyy too hard. The next two times, I felt like I wasn’t writing for…
Moving to Nigeria
Hey blog followers… it’s been awhile! I have some super exciting news to share and that’s why I’m jumping back on the blog wagon. As you can probably guess from the extremely straightforward and non-creative title of this post, I’m moving to Nigeria (and no, I have not fallen victim to a 419 scam)! I’m…
Williams Lake Tribune
Paige Mueller for the Williams Lake Tribune On October 12th, 2017 I drove along a winding highway that delivered me into Williams Lake, a small town in the Cariboo-Chilcotin region of British Columbia. I’d just been hired on for a six-week contract with the local newspaper, the Williams Lake Tribune. Strangely enough, I’d read about…
Moving for Farming: An Agricultural Cooperative Making a Difference
As part of a collaboration with the Nepal Agricultural Co-operative Federation Ltd., I travelled to the town of Chitlang in central Nepal to meet with farmers and tell the story of their wildly successful co-operative! Learn all about the inspiring entrepreneurs in this short video documentary, Moving for Farming: An Agricultural Cooperative Making a Difference.
Hidden Culture: The Bankariya People of Nepal
During my time in Nepal, I had the great good fortune to spend some time with the once-nomadic Bankariya ethnic group deep in the forests of southern Nepal. I created this short documentary in order to introduce the group to a world that is mostly unaware of their existence, triumphs, and struggles.
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