Kristina Marusic

CNN Travel • April 15 2019

Anatomy of a Pride parade

Glitter, rainbows, costumes and corporate logos: At first glance, Pride parades may appear to just be one big party. But peek beneath the surface, and you'll discover that Pride is celebrated by a diverse network of groups, each with their own rich history.

LOGO News • July 18 2017

A Queer Traveler's Guide To Phoenix

Fly in a hot air balloon, enjoy Mexican cuisine by a famed lesbian chef, and dance the night away with gay cowboys in the Sonoran Desert.

Phoenix gets more than 330 days of sunshine per year. I live in Pittsburgh, which is officially one of the most overcast cities in America. So when I was presented with an opportunity to spend six days in Phoenix at the start of spring, I jumped at the chance.

Extra Crispy • January 11 2017

Around the World in 21 Savory Pancakes

In my opinion, breakfast is a meal best served savory. And that includes pancakes. While savory varieties of American pancakes aren’t super common, almost every other cuisine in the world has at least one variety of pancake or crepe rich with savory, unctuous accoutrements that give the ol’ fruit and maple syrup a serious run for their money.

Extra Crispy • January 4 2017

The Steamwich Is Your New Breakfast Obsession

Between fillings, condiments, toppings, and bread choices, there’s a nearly endless array of possible combinations when it comes to breakfast sandwiches. There’s even a variety of ways to heat them. You can get a breakfast sandwich panini-pressed, toasted, griddled, or oven-baked. But there is another tragically underrated, underutilized option for warming the perfect breakfast sandwich: steam.

Extra Crispy • November 10 2016

Oatmeal Congee Is the Savory Breakfast That Will Save Your Winter

I fell in love with congee while living just north of Taipei in 2011. As a vegetarian, I was delighted to discover that Taiwan is a leading producer of fake meat products: I sampled vegetarian, imitation versions of everything from ham and squid to pig’s blood, fish balls, “chicken butt,” and pork floss, along with the requisite stinky tofu, which left me impressed (and slightly disturbed) by the distinctive funk that seemed to linger in my throat and sinus cavities for hours afterwards.

AfterEllen • June 3 2016

A Queer Woman's Guide To Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

When I moved to Pittsburgh in 2012 after spending a year in Taiwan, five years in San Francisco, and four years in New York, a lot of people—older, native Pittsburghers, in particular—asked me the same question: Why? Why would I leave such cool, exciting cities for a landlocked place with notoriously harsh winters and a reputation as a polluted, aging steel town?

AfterEllen • May 12 2016

A Queer Woman's Guide To Taipei, Taiwan

When I decided I was going to spend a year teaching English abroad in 2012, I had two minimum requirements for where I’d consider going: I needed a city that was both vegetarian-friendly and queer-friendly. After a bit of research, I packed my bags and headed to Taipei, despite the fact that I’d never been, didn’t speak Mandarin, and didn’t know a soul there.

MTV News • December 4 2015

9 Things I Learned About America By Leaving It

My grandma says wanderlust is in my blood. She guesses it must have skipped a few generations, because I have the same burning need to wander that my distant relatives had when they left their homes in Croatia — with no money to their names, no plans and no jobs — in the hopes of building new lives in bright, unknown potential of America.