What if travel could become an act of collective liberation, memory, and solidarity?

We are two sisters launching Travel for Liberation: a project born from our lived experiences, our struggles, and our deep conviction that travel can become a tool to decolonize ours minds, a tool for resistance, and for collective transformation.

Like many racialized people and/or people from immigrant backgrounds in France, we grew up with the exhaustion of constantly facing racism, the violence of an oppressive system, and an increasingly anxiety-inducing local and global reality. Through travel, we discovered other realities, other ways of living, relationships grounded in mutual respect… we escaped our anxious realities.

Yet two years ago, the genocide in Gaza deeply challenged the way we were traveling and the meaning we attached to it. We no longer recognized ourselves in a form of travel based on consumption, detached from the struggles and lived realities of the communities being visited. That genocide marked a turning point in our awareness: we understood that we carry responsibility, and that the way we travel must change.

By traveling differently, we encountered sites of memory, resilient communities, and histories that — despite their specific contexts — resonate with one another in their causes, their unfolding, and above all in the lessons they carry. These histories also echo our own reality here in France and in the West.

We came to understand that travel is a political act, filled with meaning and consequences.

Which is why today, through Travel for Liberation, we aim to create journeys that allow people to:

• understand history and struggles through the voices of those directly concerned
• learn from their resistance and resilience
• move beyond consumer tourism
• build bridges, courage, and meaning
• reconnect with one’s humanity and cultivate integrity
• rediscover hope and create bonds of solidarity
  

Before launching our first journeys, we need you.

Your perspective, your desires, your needs, your boundaries… all of this will help us design trips that are just, powerful, accessible, and deeply aligned with our values.

This questionnaire takes 7 to 10 minutes, and your responses will remain confidential. By filling it out, you are not simply answering questions, you are helping lay the first stones of a project rooted in liberation, memory, and solidarity.

If you have any questions, write to us at travelforliberation@gmail.com or on Instagram @travelforliberation.

Thank you in advance, from the bottom of our hearts, for helping bring Travel for Liberation to life.

Qods & Takwa