Interviews
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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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#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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“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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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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“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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“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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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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“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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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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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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“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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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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“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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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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Condoms
One of the questions Aline turned to most often in our interviews with her colleagues and friends in Vila Mimosa
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Gabriela
Gabriela talks with Julie and Aline about social misery, her exit plans and the internal conflict of managing two identities.