These People Would Hate Me Online, But They Let Me Stay in Their Homes

Here’s what happens when we put down our phones and start knocking on doors

Kerala Taylor
Human Parts
Published in
8 min readNov 16, 2023

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There is a strange intimacy to the overnight stay in someone else’s home. In the hours that elapse between dinner and breakfast, you get a peek into your hosts’ rhythms, routines, bathroom products. Do they wash dishes…

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Kerala Taylor
Human Parts

Award-winning writer. Interrupting notions of what it means to be a mother, woman, worker, and wife. Subscribe: https://keralataylor.substack.com