Last Interview // Quais são seus planos para seu futuro?
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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“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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“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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“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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#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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#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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#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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#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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“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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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#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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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“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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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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“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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“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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“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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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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“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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“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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“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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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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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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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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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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“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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“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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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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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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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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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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“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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“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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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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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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“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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“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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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
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“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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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
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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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Too dangerous to protect
It’s been almost five months since sex worker Joyce was assaulted, robbed, raped, and – after she testified – kidnapped
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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
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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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Rest in peace Natalha
I have never met a woman who has been through such hell and emerged with such resilience. Natalha worked for
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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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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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Trafficked in Portugal
Patricia, a sex worker in Rio’s red light district, has traveled abroad multiple times over the last 16 years to
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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
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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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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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Breadwinners
22 women in Rio’s red light district talk about why they work in the sex industry. All of them support
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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:
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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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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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Rio’s Prostitution Crackdown
AS RIO DE JANEIRO PREPARES FOR ITS TURN ON THE GLOBAL STAGE– as the host of the World Cup in
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