Red Light Rio – Interviews with women working in Rio de Janeiro's sex industry.

Gabi: Aline, in this interview, I want to start with what’s most important. The questions that matter. What are your

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January 25, 2018 jruv

“I wish for dignity for everyone.”

If a genie granted you three wishes, what would you ask for? It could be for yourself, or for Vila Mimosa.

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January 25, 2018 jruv

“This here is my life.”

If a genie granted you three wishes, what would you ask for? It could be for yourself, or for Vila Mimosa.

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January 25, 2018 jruv

“I wish for a much different future for my children”

If a genie granted you three wishes, what would you ask for? First, I would wish for good health for me

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January 22, 2018 jruv

#3wishes “I wish they had a decent place to work”

If a genie granted you three wishes, what would you ask for? For my personal life… I want to win the

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January 6, 2018 jruv

#3wishes “I wish for health for my son”

If a genie granted you three wishes, what would you ask for? I would wish for health for my son. I

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January 6, 2018 jruv

#3wishes “I wish I had a better job”

If a genie granted you three wishes, what would you ask for? I wish I got a better job. And good

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January 6, 2018 jruv

#3wishes “I would get rid of all the violence here.”

If a genie granted you three wishes, what would you ask for? What would I change here in Vila Mimosa? I

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January 6, 2018 jruv

“It would be difficult to leave this behind.”

If a genie granted you three wishes, what would you ask for? What would I wish for? I wish to maintain

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November 20, 2017 jruv

#3wishes “I wish I could have children”

If a genie granted you three wishes, what would you ask for? It could be for yourself, or for Vila Mimosa.

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November 16, 2017 jruv

#3wishes “A better life for my kids”

Aline asks Vila Mimosa’s resident aesthetician: What do you wish for your future? I wish for a better life for

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October 24, 2017 jruv

#3wishes: “I hope my daughter never finds out”

What would you do if a genie granted you three wishes? You only get three, so make them count. Three

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October 16, 2017 jruv

#3wishes: Plastic surgery

What would you do if a genie granted you three wishes? If a genie granted me three wishes? Maybe I

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October 9, 2017 jruv

#3wishes “I would buy another house”

What would you do if a genie granted you three wishes? Me? I would get out of here immediately. I

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September 11, 2017 jruv

#3wishes “I wish this was a calmer place”

If a genie granted you three wishes, for yourself or for Vila Mimosa, what would you wish for? First, that

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August 21, 2017 jruv

#3wishes

If a genie granted you three wishes, for yourself or for Vila Mimosa, what would you wish for? First, I

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August 11, 2017 jruv

“Make your money and get out of here”

A veteran and a newbie talk about working in Vila Mimosa. The newbie hasn’t told her husband where she’s working.

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July 4, 2017 jruv

“We’re people like anyone else”

Aline quer deixar claro para quem ver esse documentário: “A prostituição não é um bicho de sete cabeças… a gente

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June 26, 2017 jruv

“How many clients have you had?”

Aline adivinha quantos clientes ela já teve em treze anos trabalhando como garota de programa. Video em português. Aline tries

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June 12, 2017 jruv

“Tell me about your boyfriend”

<Mara e Aline conversam sobre o namorado da Mara. Mara pede para ele comprar uma nova portão para a casa que

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May 1, 2017 jruv

“What is your ideal client?”

“Describe your ideal client.” Twelve escorts and one brothel owner agree that the ideal client is one who doesn’t cause any problems.

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April 24, 2017 jruv

“What would you change about this place, if you could?”

<Aline pergunta as colegas como mudariam a Vila Mimosa para melhorar e atrair mais clientes. A maioria dizem, “limpeza.” Video

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April 17, 2017 jruv

“This is a dying profession”

Carla tem um trailer do lado da Vila Mimosa onde servem garotas de programa, clientes, e residentes do bairro. “Eu

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April 10, 2017 jruv

“Tell me about love”

Jaqueline trabalha por varias casas na Vila Mimosa como faxinheira. Nesse video, ela fala das amores que ela ja tive

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April 3, 2017 jruv

Exit Plans

Paulinha, prostituta ha dez anos na Vila Mimosa que sustenta dois filhos e um neto com seu dinheiro de ca,

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March 27, 2017 jruv

“There is nothing shameful about being a whore”

Fatima, uma dona de casa na Vila Mimosa, diz que”Não é vergonha você ser puta.” Video em português. Fatima, a brothel

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March 20, 2017 jruv

“Money rules the world”

Carla e Elaine tem um trailer do lado da Vila Mimosa onde servem garotas de programa, clientes, e residentes do

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March 1, 2017 jruv

Allies

Carla e Elaine tem um trailer do lado da Vila Mimosa onde servem garotas de programa, clientes, e residentes do

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February 21, 2017 jruv

“I love this place”

Carla e Elaine tem um trailer do lado da Vila Mimosa onde servem garotas de programa, clientes, e residentes do

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February 13, 2017 jruv

Friends with Benefits

Nara and Esmeralda talk about their relationship. “She’s someone I can trust,” says Nara. “When I got pregnant, she was

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January 29, 2017 jruv

“There are days I don’t sleep”

A question about Nara’s work schedule turns into a conversation about drugs: “There are days I don’t sleep.” Next:

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January 17, 2017 jruv

“Vila Mimosa is a necessary evil.”

Essa ė quinta parte de uma entrevista rara com a Graça, presidente da AMOCAVIM e ex-prostituta na Vila Mimosa, sobre

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December 5, 2016 jruv

“I don’t need a man anymore. For anything.”

Essa ė quarta parte de uma entrevista rara com a Graça, presidente da AMOCAVIM e ex-prostituta na Vila Mimosa, sobre

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December 2, 2016 jruv

Relatório Preliminar: Efeito de Rio2016 na indústria de sexo no Rio de Janeiro

O Observatório da Prostituição publicou pesquisa preliminar sobre o efeito de Rio2016 na indústria de sexo no Rio de Janeiro.

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December 2, 2016 jruv

Preliminary report: Impact of Rio2016 on Rio de Janeiro’s sex industry

Rio de Janeiro’s Prostitution Policy Watch has released preliminary data on the impact of the 2016 Summer Olympics on the

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December 2, 2016 jruv

Prostitution Policy Watch Looks at Olympics Impact on Rio’s Sex Industry

This summary of research by Rio de Janeiro’s Prostitution Policy Watch on the impact of World Cup on Rio’s sex

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December 2, 2016 jruv

Observatório da Prostituição Analisa Impacto das Olimpíadas Sobre Indústria do Sexo

Este resumo da pesquisa do Observatório da Prostituição sobre o efeito da Rio2016 no mercado de sexo no Rio de Janeiro

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October 30, 2016 jruv

“Figure out how to pay for your autonomy”

Essa ė terceira parte de uma entrevista rara com a Graça, presidente da AMOCAVIM e ex-prostituta na Vila Mimosa. Primeira parte sobre

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October 13, 2016 jruv

Rules

Essa ė segunda parte de uma entrevista rara com a Graça, presidente da AMOCAVIM e ex-prostituta na Vila Mimosa. Primeira

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September 11, 2016 jruv

“Here you can earn your independence.”

“What do you think of prostitution?” “I think it’s a very good thing in life. For people who don’t have

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June 29, 2016 jruv

Rape: “Ou vai ou morre”

Aline e Indira conversam sobre um estupro em grupo com os traficantes do morro que moravam quando tinham começado de

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February 22, 2016 jruv

Indianara: “People say that prostitutes have an expiration date.”

Indianara is a veteran sex worker rights activist in Rio de Janeiro. She spoke at the Observatory of Prostitution‘s extension course, A

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February 16, 2016 jruv

Indianara: “It’s more dangerous, in Brazil, to be a wife than a whore.”

Indianara is a veteran sex worker rights activist in Rio de Janeiro. She spoke at the Observatory of Prostitution‘s extension

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January 22, 2016 jruv

Amara: “What is family, inside the travesti universe? What is family for us?”

Amara and Indianara spoke at the Observatory of Prostitution‘s extension course, A Particular Revolution: The Brazilian Prostitutes Movement, at the Institute of Philosophy and

Amara Moira Anthropology Interviews

January 10, 2016 jruv

Amara Moira is a post-doc trans whore who wants you to hear this

“My name is Amara Moira, I’m 30 years old, I’m a doctoral candidate at Unicamp. I prostitute myself in Jardim

Greg Mitchell

November 30, 2015 jruv

Inside Brazil’s Gay Sex Tourism Industry

Photo: Sauna Meio Mundo in downtown Rio, courtesy of Dr. Gregory Mitchell Brazil has topped the list of top global

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November 18, 2015 jruv

Do you consider yourself an independent woman?

I am. In everything. I don’t depend on anyone for anything. I depend on me and my body. That’s it.

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November 18, 2015 jruv

What do you think of prostitution?

I don’t think it’s an easy life, like people say. It’s not easy to go to bed with all kinds

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November 17, 2015 jruv

How many children do you support?

Aline and Julie ask sex workers, brothel managers and cleaning ladies how many children they support with the money they

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October 15, 2015 jruv

“My life got a little better after I came to the Zona”

Daisy talks about the hardship she endured before she came to Vila Mimosa and started working as a prostitute. “My

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October 12, 2015 jruv

“I think it’s slavery to depend on someone like that”

Aline asks Bruna if she would be in a relationship with a man just for his money. “I think it’s

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October 8, 2015 jruv

Trafficked at 15

Sara talks about how her adopted mom forced her into prostitution at 15 in Vila Mimosa, Rio de Janeiro’s red

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October 7, 2015 jruv

Child Abuse

Ruby tells Aline she left home as a child to get away from her mother’s abusive boyfriend and started doing

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October 6, 2015 jruv

Aging Out

Aline and Indira talk about what it’s like to be aging out of sex work, and the relationships they’ve formed

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September 23, 2015 jruv

“You like women, right?”

“You like women, right?” Karina, a former sex worker in Rio de Janeiro’s red light district, talks about what it

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September 16, 2015 jruv

Lovers

Nara and Esmeralda talk about what it’s like to be in an open relationship in Vila Mimosa, Rio de Janeiro’s

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September 4, 2015 jruv

“I’m the man for everything”

Women in Rio de Janeiro’s low-income red light district talk about how many children they support with their earnings as

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May 28, 2015 jruv

Naomi

Naomi talks about why she quit working as a manicurist to work as an escort in Vila Mimosa (“The money

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April 6, 2015 jruv

Condoms

One of the questions Aline turned to most often in our interviews with her colleagues and friends in Vila Mimosa

Gabriela Leite Laura Murray Soraya Simoes

April 6, 2015 jruv

Prostitutes and AIDS

How Brazil’s sex worker rights movement and its Ministry of Health partnered in creating one of the most well-structured and

Laura Murray

April 6, 2015 jruv

“I’m happy being a prostitute”

POLITICAL PROSTITUTES AND SHAMEFUL POLITICIANS Laura Murray is a filmmaker, activist and PhD student studying sex worker activism and politics in

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January 23, 2015 jruv

32 Days of Sex – World Cup through the eyes of a prostitute in Rio (WEEK ONE)

Rio de Janeiro welcomed over 886,000 tourists to town for the 32 days of World Cup this summer. Half a

Thaddeus Blanchette

November 20, 2014 jruv

Police as pimps

Rio anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette breaks down one of the unspoken facts of prostitution in Rio: the police work as pimps,

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November 20, 2014 jruv

Too dangerous to protect

It’s been almost five months since sex worker Joyce was assaulted, robbed, raped, and – after she testified – kidnapped

Thaddeus Blanchette

November 11, 2014 jruv

The Orgy that Wasn’t

Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette at the Federal University Rio de Janeiro of Macaé presents the Observatory of Prostitution’s preliminary findings of research on the World

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September 23, 2014 jruv

Ruby: “World Cup was not good for us.”

Ruby and Aline, colleagues for almost a decade in Vila Mimosa, talk about what it was like to work over

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September 13, 2014 jruv

Charter of Principles of the Brazilian Network of Prostitutes

(feature image: Censored by the Ministry of Health: “My biggest wish is for society to see us as citizens.”)

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September 9, 2014 jruv

On sex workers and the respect we all deserve

This story by Gabriella Feola was published in Papo de Homem on June 21, 2014 (link) and has been translated into

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September 5, 2014 jruv

World Cup was bad business for the vast majority of sex workers in Rio

Observatory of Prostitution – World Cup Preliminary Report The Observatory of Prostitution is pleased to announce the publication of our

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August 7, 2014 jruv

I want to know about your safety.

Three weeks into World Cup, on the day of the Argentina vs Belgium quarterfinal, I met Ani, Aline’s colleague in

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July 24, 2014 jruv

Brazil’s Most Wanted Prostitute

Isabel was one of four hundred prostitutes working in Niteroi’s Caixa Economica building across the bay from Rio de Janeiro

Ana Paula da Silva Anthropology Greg Mitchell Laura Murray Soraya Simoes Thaddeus Blanchette

June 30, 2014 jruv

Observatory of Prostitution report on World Cup sex tourism in Rio

I am honored to be working as a research collaboration with Rio’s Observatory of Prostitution, an extension project of the

Anthropology Soraya Simoes

May 25, 2014 jruv

100 sex workers illegally arrested, robbed and raped near Rio

Niterói, May 23, 2014 Published in the Observatório da Prostituição (link) I am a research collaborator with the Observatório da Prostituição (Observatory

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May 18, 2014 jruv

Rest in peace Natalha

I have never met a woman who has been through such hell and emerged with such resilience. Natalha worked for

Laura Murray Soraya Simoes

April 21, 2014 jruv

Prostitutes protest in Rio’s sister city

In preparation for this summer’s World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, Rio has been undergoing the biggest prostitution crackdown in

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March 26, 2014 jruv

Eviction Rumors

“Have you heard the rumors we have to move?” Aline asks her colleagues the question that scares her the most

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March 10, 2014 jruv

Trafficked in Portugal

Patricia, a sex worker in Rio’s red light district, has traveled abroad multiple times over the last 16 years to

Ana Paula da Silva Thaddeus Blanchette

March 10, 2014 jruv

The Myth of Maria

What is the profile of a Brazilian sex trafficking victim? Brazilian anthropologists Ana Paula da Silva, Thaddeus Blanchette and Andressa Raylane Bento explain

Ana Paula da Silva Thaddeus Blanchette

March 10, 2014 jruv

Brazilian Sex Trafficking

Is sex trafficking a problem in Brazil? Do Brazilian women get trafficked abroad? Brazilian anthropologists Ana Paula da Silva, Thaddeus

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February 27, 2014 jruv

My First Time

22 women in Rio’s working class red light district talk about the first time they did sex work, what it

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February 22, 2014 jruv

Milena

Milena is one of the first women I met in Vila Mimosa in January of 2012. She was working as

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February 17, 2014 jruv

Breadwinners

22 women in Rio’s red light district talk about why they work in the sex industry. All of them support

Cristiana Schettini Thaddeus Blanchette

January 26, 2014 jruv

World Cup Sex Panic

Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette and historian Cristiana Schettini provide a history of Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: “More than

Cristiana Schettini Thaddeus Blanchette

January 26, 2014 jruv

Prostitution Today in Rio

Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette and historian Cristiana Schettini provide a history of Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: “More than

Cristiana Schettini Thaddeus Blanchette

January 26, 2014 jruv

Police as Madams

Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette and historian Cristiana Schettini provide a history of Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: “More than

Cristiana Schettini Thaddeus Blanchette

January 26, 2014 jruv

Prostitution Markets and Sanitation Campaigns

Anthropologists Thaddeus Blanchette and Cristiana Schettini provide a history of Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro: “More

Cristiana Schettini Thaddeus Blanchette

January 25, 2014 jruv

Prostitution in Rio: “Not Illegal”

Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette and historian Cristiana Schettini provide a history of Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro:

Cristiana Schettini Thaddeus Blanchette

January 25, 2014 jruv

A History of Rio Sex

Anthropologist Thaddeus Blanchette and historian Cristiana Schettini provide a history of Rio sex in their 2013 paper, Sex Work in Rio de Janeiro:

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January 25, 2014 jruv

Gabriela

Gabriela talks with Julie and Aline about social misery, her exit plans and the internal conflict of managing two identities.

Soraya Simoes Thaddeus Blanchette

January 23, 2014 jruv

Vila Mimosa: An Eviction Timeline

Rio has a history of warring with its prostitutes when tourists come to town that stretches back 100 years. When

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December 30, 2013 jruv

Rio’s Prostitution Crackdown

AS RIO DE JANEIRO PREPARES FOR ITS TURN ON THE GLOBAL STAGE– as the host of the World Cup in