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“If the media were doing their investigative job properly, the net of deviants would either be widened or abandoned altogether as ludicrous, as more and more of society's members - more and more members of the public - would be implicated in the tracing of this net. To single out sex workers serves a specific function: it removes the "disciplinary gaze" from all others.”
― Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back
― Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back
“This mythology is based on a deep racial and sexual bias against black men: the pimp in North American culture is widely depicted as, and understood to be, a black man. Indeed, the racist undercurrent of the pimp mythology is most likely the root, and not a branch, of the myth. The fear of the black male, and black male sexuality, goes back to the days of slavery and imperialism.”
― Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back
― Sex Workers in the Maritimes Talk Back
“I felt most at peace in a window seat, staring at the clouds rushing beneath me, aloft on mechanical wings and lost in thoughts about what I had left and where I was going. As long as I was going somewhere, I was fine.”
― A Thousand Farewells
― A Thousand Farewells
“[T]hey also taught me contentment with what you have is a treasure that never runs out.”
― A Thousand Farewells
― A Thousand Farewells
“This one year also confirmed my long-held belief in the traditional model of foreign correspondence, in the benefit - the necessity - of living in a place, if only for a year or two, in order to really understand it. You cannot fully comprehend the reasons behind an eruption of violence, an uprising, without having understood its root causes. You must know every one of a country's opposing voices to truly reflect the tension between them. You must know something of the people's daily challenge before you could credibly speak to their frustrations.”
― A Thousand Farewells
― A Thousand Farewells
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