Browsing Tag breadwinners
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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 construiu, e diz que um homem tem que ...
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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 owner in Vila Mimosa, says, “There is nothing shameful ...
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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 bairro. “Eu amo esse lugar,” diz Carla. Nenhuma ...
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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 a job, who need to support their children.” ...
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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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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 make working in Rio’s red light district. Every ...
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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 life got a little better after I came ...
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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 slavery to depend on someone like that,” Bruna ...
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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 sex workers, brothel managers and cleaning ladies. “I ...
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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 and the freedom”), what it’s like to work ...
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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 thirteen years in Vila and knew Aline from ...
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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 – Have they heard the rumors the red ...
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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 their families with their income. ...
