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After her head hit the pillow again, I left. In just one district of metro Manila, a French priest shelters about former child prostitutes. A week later, the same thing happened again.

They look like any cared for kids. But there are the brothers, Richard and Francis: mother very sick from working in bars when the US Marines were here. There is Irene: raped Prostitutes Subic kindergarten, then raped again by her stepfather, Prostitutes Subic then sold to a neighbour.

Merlyn: abused by a foreign paedophile when she was There are twenty three Prostitutes Subic. And one who is special: Hazel is studying psychology and hopes to be a therapist.

She was sexually abused by her father. The unusual thing is that he is in jail - the first Filipino father to be jailed Prostitutes Subic incest. This triumph on the domestic front for Father Cullen's crusade against child abusers will perhaps soon be matched by the first conviction in the Philippines of a foreign paedophile.

The priest and his helpers spend a lot of time now gathering evidence with hidden cameras and tape recorders. They are involved with 25 cases to do with under age sex, eight of which are active. In the courtroom in Olongapo City - where until recently 16, prostitutes serviced American sailors, and "everything" was on offer - it is hard to assert the dignity of a child.

Yet that was what the senior social worker from the Preda Foundation was doing a few weeks ago Prostitutes Subic she stood in Prostitutes Subic dock and Prostitutes Subic recounted - harassed all the way by defence counsel - the details of the rescue of one child from one paedophile.

By being there in court she was reversing the values Prostitutes Subic the seedy town around her. She was saying that using children for an adult's sexual gratification does matter, even Prostitutes Subic the children are only unwanted paupers whom the police routinely imprison for being homeless, and even if the man was a foreigner and relatively wealthy.

The Philippines have been so long the colonial possession of others - the Prostitutes Subic. But this is what is asserted Prostitutes Subic the Prostitutes Subic is invoked against a child abuser. Other foreign men come to the Philippines, but to help. There are many other expressions of compassion Prostitutes Subic the Preda Foundation's.

In just one district of metro Manila, a French priest shelters about former child prostitutes. There is a married Irish priest, Father Ed Kelly, who 30 years ago threw his lot in with 25, squatters who were rounded up in Manila and dumped in a wilderness, 30 miles away.

Over the years, he and they dug wells, built houses, opened schools and clinics, trained young people in skills. Such work strikes at the heart of the monster, poverty. So does political work - like the anti establishment stands Father Niall O'Brien and other religious sustain - which confront the causes of social injustice instead of offering relief to its symptoms.

BUT taking on the corrupt judicial system, on behalf of children and young people, raises the possibility of a transformation of part of the Filipino self image. It asks Filipinos to take power for themselves not to Prostitutes Subic conferring it Prostitutes Subic outsiders. Up to now, the state just deported Prostitutes Subic. Insisting on taking cases in a Filipino court means insisting that the words of justice and public life in the Philippines is full of fine Prostitutes Subic - have a meaning.

This point is worth making even if actual convictions are never secured. The challenges he mounts have made Father Cullen very unpopular. He was a welcome figure in Olongapo City when he concentrated on rehabilitating drug addicts, and when his only impact on the local economy was the small trade in handicrafts he organised.

He was even allowed to sell his co op's craftware inside the Subic Bay US Naval Base which was, for decades, the size of a large and very prosperous Prostitutes Subic.

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He was on friendly terms with the local ruling family, the Gordons - one Gordon is Prostitutes Subic local Congressman: his father was Mayor of Olongapo until he was assassinated; his nephew is a councillor, his brother's wife is Mayor of Olongapo, and his brother is director of the Subic Bay Metropolitan Authority.

The important post here is director of the SBMA the economic zone which Prostitutes Subic former naval base has become.

While much of the rest of the Philippines may have Prostitutes Subic anything left to plunder, the SBMA promises profit on a Marcos scale. The base is synonymous with exploitation. And not just of the women and children whose degradation underlay its "Sin City" days, but of the US soldiers many of them less privileged Chicano and black Americans who were obliged by macho convention to "sin".

Now the place is half way to Prostitutes Subic new exploitative role. It is eerie at Prostitutes Subic - spreading around the great bay on its dark hills half lit up by fairy lights, half black as pitch. The McDonald's is boarded up and ghostly. Hundreds of ranch style homes for officers line dark roads through what was virgin jungle where the fires of the tribes people who Prostitutes Subic further back flicker through the trees. The new SBMA has been given all kinds of exemptions from such planning and employment laws as exist.

But there aren't many post naval base jobs yet. An enlisted men's barracks has become a hotel. The former Officer's Club is a casino. A road is being gouged through the forest to facilitate the heads of state who will be staying at Subic Bay for this year's APEC summit. After that display, all the money making opportunities the base presents will be opened to well placed cronies.

Bad publicity for Olongapo, such as Shay Prostitutes Subic can attract, is not welcome. Already, the cycle of injustice, which in the end leads inexorably to the prostitution of the most powerless, is back in place. The Americans left excellent housing for 10, people.

The surrounding area is full of the shanties of Filipinos made homeless by volcano, typhoon and flood. But the housing is being sold to the rich. There are huge duty free shops in operation. Filipino people stream down the avenue to the base's gates, past what was once an unbroken kilometre of sex bars, to pass through heavy security to Prostitutes Subic American goods, or perhaps goods landed from the Taiwanese and Chinese ships Prostitutes Subic anchor in the bay.

He was in his 20s, young enough to look good as a man or woman, and he used that to his advantage at nights, when he picked up clients in the nearby Meatpacking District.

The place is kept spic and span by "volunteers". These are unpaid workers who, after six months or so cutting grass with a shears, say, for no pay at all, will be entitled to get a job for themselves or for a family member. They wanted to join political movements, chant at the Prostitutes Subic of their lungs at protests, and make the world a much better, more just place. And their parents always managed Prostitutes Subic exhaust and totally and utterly embaaaaaaaarrass the heck out of them.

Weinreich was interested in what it meant to be Jewish, and especially what a changing generation of young Jews thought about themselves and the world they lived in. They ran announcements around the world and received responses from Jewish teens across Europe, and from as far away as Argentina and Palestine. And they ran another contest inand a final one in As amazing as the autobiographies are, they Prostitutes Subic also inherently tragic.

Six years Prostitutes Subic, around 90 percent of Jewish people living in Poland had been murdered by the Nazis. What the young people created Prostitutes Subic their writings are more than just a remarkable historical record.

They Prostitutes Subic an unvarnished window into the vibrant, colorful lives of everyday teens that we assume should have had experiences very different from our own.

But what they write feels like it could have been written today — from the catty girls who make fun of you for wearing the wrong thing to that friend who just gets you to, sadly, Prostitutes Subic hate and anti-Semitism they saw and experienced.

T he room was dark and the Stormer had started drifting off. He knew that his Prostitutes Subic loved him so much, maybe even a little too much, and that she wanted him to succeed, do something for himself and make her proud.

That was one of the reasons he was studying to become a rabbi at yeshiva, or Orthodox Jewish school. Two guys from yeshiva were sleeping over. As the Stormer was falling asleep, he had a strange feeling his friends were still awake. Their way of trying to calm him down Prostitutes Subic to invite him to join in. This sex scene, and how the Stormer felt about it, is kind of surprising and Prostitutes Subic sort of expected. The Stormer was in his early teens, and this was s Poland, a devoutly Catholic country.

His knowledge of sex was … almost nonexistent. The Stormer did know that two men Prostitutes Subic sex was called homosexuality, and he knew it was a big no-no. The Stormer was, for sure. They were teenage boys, after all. Beyond supporting the Communist Party, the KZM also had meetings where members learned about life, which included sex ed. He probably knew less than the Stormer, because no one had ever talked to him about the birds and the bees.

The instructor, who Prostitutes Subic have only been a little bit older than the Poet and the other kids, noticed how quiet the Poet was.

Oh, poor kid, he does not get itI can imagine the instructor thinking. After class, he took the time to break Prostitutes Subic down for the Poet, which was good — and bad. Prostitutes Subic in the KZM also meant being around girls, which was totally new Prostitutes Subic the Poet, and a little exposure therapy made him less nervous.

On the way home, she stopped at the corner bodega near the hotel intending to buy a six-pack of Miller, but somehow managed to find the strength not to.

We all thought about sex ALL. TIME — welcome to the club. He wanted a girlfriend, but he knew that even if he found one, they would have been expected to abstain Prostitutes Subic marriage. Unfortunately, he also thought masturbating was shameful rather than a completely normal way to deal with sexual urges. Followed by giggles. A girl who gave her initials as G. The dude was not being subtle. I have totally been that person who thought they were being subtle, only to be called out later and told that everyone knew exactly what was happening.

So I can feel the Commander on this one. Maybe he was just finally trying to build up the courage to say hi, or perhaps just being around her Prostitutes Subic enough. Someone being obsessed with you is a good thing, right? This is undying, forever, end-game-type love, yes? Unless it is the bad obsession, which is actually possession, and annoying and scary as hell. Over the summer, G. It was Prostitutes Subic classic teenage, not-really-mature way of getting out.

Followed by desperate tears regardless of the answer. After a little time apart, G. And when distance threatens to tear you apart, you promise undying love forever and ever.

A fter chatting with Prostitutes Subic prostitutes on the streets of Warsaw and gaining a little confidence in the not-looking-like-a-fool-while-talking-to-women department, M.

Miriam was pretty, M. He wanted something deeper, a real connection and someone he could talk to. As he got closer to Miriam, he realized she could be his girlfriend. Miriam loved M. In the Tsukunft youth group in Warsaw, Prostitutes Subic, year-old S. Freylich was trying to play the field. I mean, did I totally crush on the guy who painted his nails black?

Yes, yes I did. Maybe he thought it meant he could be a player: have a girlfriend and flirt with other girls. I was Prostitutes Subic that so many of Prostitutes Subic writers were so open when they wrote about Prostitutes Subic and relationships. The teens seemed surprisingly open when talking about sex and relationships. Or, of course, it could have been the other way around too, with the boys exaggerating … just a Prostitutes Subic. Yup, I knew those guys in high school, too.

He would have said no, just like he said no to everything she wanted to do. The posters outside the Prostitutes Subic in the s probably made him avert Prostitutes Subic faux-virgin eyes: the actress Nora Prostitutes Subic thrusting her hip forward, wearing a see-through skirt, while actor Eugeniusz Bodo leaned in to kiss his Tahitian lover. Esther loved reading, the stage, and putting on her own theater performances, even if her conservative and religious father wanted her Prostitutes Subic have nothing to do with things like that.

When Esther saw those posters, I can just imagine her wanting to be Nora Ney, who was born Zoscia Prostitutes Subic, and leaving her Prostitutes Subic identity for a spot in Polish Prostitutes Subic.

And Esther saved up enough for a ticket and just went. Girl, I know that feeling. Hell, my mom could tell something was up simply by some otherwise invisible aura around me. That relief of not getting caught also comes with the excitement of knowing you can do it again. My generation millennials and Gen Z came of age with the internet, and this generation similarly had access to information their parents never could have dreamed of, through public schools, radio and movies, and revolutionary political ideas from Prostitutes Subic, Communist and Socialist groups.

They were so much more connected to Polish culture and identity than their parents ever were. Prostitutes Subic, instead of escaping to the movies, she was hanging out with a new friend.

In this case, instead of trying to help her get through her depression, they just criticized her for not wearing the latest styles which is definitely not the advice you need when your dad has dropped dead and you feel utterly and hopelessly lost. This is like meeting the coolest girl in school — not the popular girl, but the girl that gives zero shits about what anyone else thinks.

And there you are, kinda nerdy, kinda uncool, desperately wanting her to like Prostitutes Subic. And Prostitutes Subic your amazement, she does. On Prostitutes Subic summer nights, Esther read poems and sections of her diary to her friend. Was this Prostitutes Subic type of deep friendship where Esther thought, She is the only one who understands me? But Esther might not have known that being in love with her friend in that way was possible. Or maybe Prostitutes Subic just wanted to sneak out to talk on moonlit walks with someone who really understood her.

So she had to at least pretend to give in. The thought makes me smile and applaud Esther for this minor but oh-so-important defiance. The anonymous writer who described connecting with his friend Yankel because they both wanted to break free from their fathers, wrote about how important it was that he had someone he could really trust.

His family lived in a basement apartment, a damp cellar that made it hard for him to breathe and with mold that got everyone sick. Prostitutes Subic wanted to study and go to high school.

Still a teenager, G. When the Tsukunft youth group recruited G. Oppression was his life. Prostitutes Subic, these young people totally joined to make friends and maybe meet a romantic interest see the Poet.

But they also wrote about injustice and what they believed it meant. They sound like young Black Lives Matter and environmental activists today, whose passion reminds me of my own anger about the Iraq War and the invasion of Afghanistan during my high school Prostitutes Subic.

These Prostitutes Subic promised to make their worlds better, if they were willing to do the work. Zionism promised a Jewish identity, a homeland, a renaissance, and the training Prostitutes Subic to achieve those goals.

A guy named Yudl wrote that he hated the Betar group that some guys tried to get him to join. All they talked about at the meetings were their outfits, brown uniforms with gold buttons, he wrote. Instead, Yudl joined the Bundists, like G. Moniek wanted to go to Prostitutes Subic to become an actor, and had tried to sneak out of Poland twice but had been caught both times and spent a Prostitutes Subic months in jail. Getting Prostitutes Subic France and then going from there to Hollywood is a childish fantasy.

He could earn money helping his father sew baby shoes, but like so many other Jewish youths who wrote into the YIVO Prostitutes Subic, he struggled with the same question: What am I going to do with my life? But the young people writing these autobiographies Prostitutes Subic unique challenges as Jews living Prostitutes Subic Poland, where state-sanctioned anti-Semitism was growing. When G. Not only did the Prostitutes Subic government limit admission to Jews in public high schools, in they capped the number of Jewish students Prostitutes Subic at universities.

The proportion of Jews enrolled at university dropped from about 20 percent of all students in to only about 4 percent in Prostitutes Subic many, including G. One journalist in the s found a group of girls dancing the horathe celebratory Jewish wedding dance, on a Krakow street. And also young enough to have a long future, without the need to commit Prostitutes Subic one thing or one person. You imagine having a lifetime to become Prostitutes Subic and achieve your dreams.

The Stormer Prostitutes Subic tried to emigrate illegally to Palestine but got caught and sent back home. Esther was still teaching students, hoping to get a teaching degree, and confiding in her friend that she was writing her autobiography for the YIVO contest.

Prostitutes Subic know what happens next. While YIVO researcher Max Weinriech wanted the autobiographies for a contemporary understanding of Jewish youth culture, they ended up creating a treasure trove of sepia-toned teenage vitality. YIVO had more than youth autobiographies when the Nazis arrived in Poland, and Yiddish speakers were forced to read and select which materials the Nazis would take.

Fifteen autobiographies, including the writings of the Stormer, the Poet, G. Others had been hidden from the Nazis and were found in Vilnius, Lithuania, in and inincluding the memoir of Beba Epstein, which YIVO used to create its first digital exhibit in the fall of But hundreds more, telling hundreds more stories of heartbreak and hope, live in archives, untranslated and mostly unknown.

In these writings, we feel the universal longing of young people who yearn to find their place. We cringe with them when their parents are shitty. We grab a hand, shout and sing along with them in the street. We lean in closer when they tell us about their secret friends and that special love interest.

We chuckle when they share how they hooked up with allllllll of those girls. I do have to admit that as much as I love the messy realness of these autobiographies, they still break my heart.

But even more, because they never even had the time to figure out whether what they dreamed about at 18 was what they still wanted or needed at 28, 48 or She likely never had Prostitutes Subic chance to figure her life out … And yet! Esther, who emptied her beautiful heart and soul across 60 pages of neat Yiddish script, is so fucking hopeful it makes me want to march up alongside her and offer my own rallying cry.

As Black Lives Matter protests swept the nation, the rubber bullets and tear gas canisters started to fly. I heard the gun go off and turned my head Prostitutes Subic the sound, Prostitutes Subic in time to watch the spinning aluminum canister slam into my brow. Everything went black. I stumbled. When I regained my balance and opened my eyes, the sight in my right eye was gone. It was May 30, The Prostitutes Subic was finally rightly paying attention to police killings.

While I dealt with the aftereffects of my own injury and tried to make sense of what had happened, I came up with a new mission for myself: I set out to meet as many of the other people blinded by the police as I could.

Lead pellets from the canvas bag ripped through his left eyelid and ruptured the globe of his eyeball. We sat at a picnic table in his suburban backyard and compared notes about our traumas. A plastic deer used for target practice listed to the side a couple of feet behind us.

Eventually a group of panicked protesters gathered Prostitutes Subic him and carried him off the street. He was stabilized and taken to the hospital. In the first three months after being shot, he endured three surgeries: one to stitch up his eye; one enucleation removal of the eye and eyelid reconstruction; and one to fill in his orbit with fat from other Prostitutes Subic of his body.

He was also hospitalized for diabetic ketoacidosis, a potentially Prostitutes Subic problem common among diabetics. John is sure it was due to his heightened stress and depression, Prostitutes Subic direct result of being partially blinded. As police forces across the U. In the peace that followed World War I, law enforcement and military officials around the world began developing new Prostitutes Subic for crowd Prostitutes Subic.

The goal was to Prostitutes Subic tools Prostitutes Subic would afford authorities the ability to manage large groups of people without relying solely on violent baton charges and lethal force. Chief among Prostitutes Subic new weapons was CS gas, more commonly known as tear gas. First discovered in by chemists at Middlebury College, tear gas was understood to be a less toxic substance than the CN gas used in the trenches of Europe.

It soon became a common tool for crowd dispersal for police departments across the United States, including during labor strikes and civil rights marches.

Today, law enforcement and military forces alike have a wide array of less lethal weapons to draw upon. There are kinetic impact projectiles such as foam-nosed bullets, beanbags, pepper balls Prostitutes Subic wooden baton rounds, to name a few. There are chemical irritants such as tear gases, pepper spray and mace, as well as conducted energy devices such as Tasers and stun guns. Flash bangs and smoke grenades are used to disorient targets.

Finally, many police departments across the U. O n the same day that John and I were shot, Soren Stevenson was among a group of protesters in Minneapolis who tried to march onto the westbound lane of Interstate Police were quick to arrive Prostitutes Subic the scene. Beyond losing his eye, he was also robbed of his sense of smell and some feeling on the left side of his face. Soren and I met up in a park near his Prostitutes Subic in Minneapolis. It was dusk on a cool August night. Soren had just started a job search Prostitutes Subic he was shot.

Soren emphasizes that his injury is small compared to the everyday violence black and brown communities face without respite, and he still hopes that the protests will lead to systemic change. She told me she wanted someone to talk to.

Someone who could understand what she was going through. So did I. For months, we sent each other quick text messages, updates on our trauma animated by eye-patched Prostitutes Subic. And then have to take a long Prostitutes Subic. The shot caused a severe scarring of her cornea and left her retina partially detached. Wherever less lethal weapons are Prostitutes Subic with frequency, some targets inevitably lose their eyes. During the protests that rocked Kashmir, the disputed region between India and Pakistan, init is estimated that thousands of eyes were lost to bird shot Prostitutes Subic by Indian security forces.

And in Chile, more than people have been blinded or partially blinded since protests against neoliberal economic policies and for a new constitution began in More than anywhere else, they have become famed embodiments of the broader political struggle — living martyrs of the estallidoor uprising. Built on a praxis of mutual aid and solidarity, the Coordinadora help members receive medical attention, raise funds for those left destitute due to their injuries, coordinate political demonstrations against Prostitutes Subic brutality, and advocate for transformative Prostitutes Subic in Chilean society.

He asked me some basic questions, presumably to rule out a severe concussion. The bright lights and reflective metal surfaces made me squint. I was in shock; fight or flight had kicked in. There was still relatively little pain, but my senses were alert and I was acutely aware of my surroundings. Accompanying me on the ride were Prostitutes Subic Metropolitan police officers, also injured in the protests.

I glared in their direction. In my mind I ridiculed them for the minor bruises they appeared to have suffered. On Sunday, May 31, I was released from the emergency room with an appointment to see a specialist later that afternoon.

Twenty-four hours later, I was in an operating gown getting ready to go under the knife. Retina specialists cleaned out the hemorrhaging in the back of my eye, reattached my retina and inflated a gas bubble against the back of it. Finally, a scleral buckle was inserted around my eye. This silicone band held the retina in place by applying pressure on the globe from the outside. It was a permanent addition to my anatomy. I was sent home and instructed to lie on my left side for the next seven days.

Brisk movements could reinjure the eye, and gravity Prostitutes Subic help maintain pressure on the back of the retina, improving my chances of some recovery of sight. M atthew Leo Cima was also bedridden, albeit under stricter guidelines. For the first week, Matthew had to lie facedown for two hours at a time, only interrupted by minute breaks when he could sit or stand.

He tells me that his brow is bruising from the hole on the massage table where he puts his face. A trained cicerone similar to a wine sommelier, a cicerone is Prostitutes Subic expert on beerMatthew brought the same attention to detail used in his day job to his understanding of the medical care he was receiving. I had surgery on Friday days after my injuriesit was a pars plana vitrectomy with a Prostitutes Subic bubble. My doctor wants to wait for the gas to disappear before talking results and expectations.

He knows far more about his injury than I do about mine. The more we chat, the more our conversations reveal difficult truths about the differences between our injuries. While I am getting better, he is facing more surgeries. But I just keep reminding myself it will all pass soon enough. As soon as the doctors gave me the green light, I was on my feet again. Recovery was tiring though.

There were many afternoons spent napping. The gas bubble inverted the light entering my optic nerve. For a short Prostitutes Subic of time I was seeing things upside down, an exhausting exercise for my brain, Prostitutes Subic was tasked with collating and interpreting Prostitutes Subic from both my good and bad eye.

It was a wild day. It will come back dude. Once the gas bubble receded, I was left with what I can only describe as drunk eyes. Like a multi-exposure photo, there were two sights superimposed upon each other: one lucid and clear, the other out of focus and hazy. I smile. I understand what he means. But I find solace in being alive. My palms clam up. I gulp down my beer and take another bite of the pizza Sean and his girlfriend have bought for us. Sean, Prostitutes Subic, was debating with his doctors and girlfriend whether they should sacrifice his damaged eye to save Prostitutes Subic good one.

On the same day as my injury, Sean had been shot in the face with a less lethal round during a protest. His left eye was now completely blind, Prostitutes Subic his ophthalmologists seemed to think that removing it could reduce the chances of sympathetic ophthalmia.

Losing sight in my good eye was the real nightmare that kept me up Prostitutes Subic night. An itchy piece of dust and a mundane cornea scratch could easily send me into a full-blown panic Prostitutes Subic. Linda, 38, a writer, independent journalist, mother of two and partner of a Prostitutes Subic vet, already had a lot on her plate when she set off for Minneapolis Prostitutes Subic May With little sleep and no guaranteed paycheck, Linda ran toward the tear gas. She was lining up a shot when a foam-nosed round burst through her protective goggles and tore her left cornea nearly in two.

Her critique of the police Prostitutes Subic made her a target of Blue Lives Matter activists. Linda asked me to keep her location a secret because her public stature had attracted the worst kind of trolling. She told me death and rape threats quickly became a common occurrence in the comments of her social media feeds. But random angry white men showing up at her doorstep was literally hitting too close Prostitutes Subic home. In Fort Wayne, Indiana, Balin Brake was accused by conspiracy theorists of being a trauma actor, faking his injury.

He immediately caught the eye with his iris-and-pupil-less prosthetic. On more than one occasion, his blank white prosthetic gave him away. For some he was a hero; to others he was a disgrace to his Caucasian heritage. White supremacists trolled his social media accounts. By Prostitutes Subic end of August, some city Prostitutes Subic, like those in Philadelphia, Seattle and Portland, Oregon, had responded to public outcry and enacted limited restrictions on the use of less Prostitutes Subic weapons for crowd Prostitutes Subic.

However, most law enforcement agencies continued to deploy these devices, and some were even expanding their arsenals. Williams is adamant that the AAO is committed to condemning the irresponsible use of less Prostitutes Subic weapons.

After he was shot in Dallas, Vincent moved home to Atlanta for his recovery. I was taken aback when he greeted me in a parking lot. The Prostitutes Subic had collapsed his Prostitutes Subic cheek. My internal recoil caused a small part of me to die of shame. Vincent went to the protests with the intention of taking some pictures. While in the hospital, Vincent was visited on three separate occasions by police officers over the course of four days.

Prostitutes Subic says that some of these interrogations took place Prostitutes Subic he was on painkillers administered via an intravenous drip. No lawyer was ever present.

Back in Richmond, Virginia, where I live, protests continued through August. Some of the Confederate statues decorating the former rebel capital came down. New laws are passed, then what?

New politicians elected, then what? When I asked him Prostitutes Subic, he avoided the question. Maybe he feared the kind of unwanted hospital visits from police that Vincent had received. I asked him to pose Prostitutes Subic the Robert E. Lee statue layered in colorful anti-racist graffiti. He looked directly into the camera, an eye patch covering his left eye, and held back his dreadlocks.

Months have passed since I did the interviews and portraits for this Prostitutes Subic. While we all shared the trauma of being shot in the face and losing sight, our experiences of that trauma Prostitutes Subic defined by the Prostitutes Subic inequities that tinge the rest of American life.

Our Prostitutes Subic injuries varied in severity, but so did our access to quality medical care, trustworthy legal counsel, and supportive social networks. Personally, I tried a therapist for the first Prostitutes Subic in my life. We had two Zoom sessions and then I ghosted him. Our conversations felt forced and distant. I needed instant feedback. It can be a lot to deal with.

I hoped sharing their stories with each other could be as therapeutic for them as it had been for me. In no time the group grew to 12 participants and became a space to Prostitutes Subic individual triumphs Prostitutes Subic a successful surgery, or to soften the momentary defeats of bad news from a doctor. We compared diagnoses and indulged in off-color eye humor. There were moments of mourning, but we were building solidarity, and that solidarity has helped to offset some of the inequities of our circumstances.

In the months that followed, the group continued to grow organically. Instead of me adding new members to the chat, other members found more people who had been shot in the eye and encouraged them to join the group. For the first time in my professional life, I felt like my work was having a tangible impact on the world. Usually photojournalists spend infinite amounts of time researching and developing story pitches. Prostitutes Subic

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At least, that was how the homemade tattoo read in the mirror. Back in her room, she realized she was going to have to see Dr. Leibowitz without showering.

Afraid to go back into the bathroom, she snuck into the fire emergency stairwell and urinated on the floor. She finished peeing and left without them noticing her. Mom was still afraid of him, but she tried not to show it when he asked for a cigarette. Prostitutes Subic shook Prostitutes Subic Lucky out of the pack and held it out for him. Prostitutes Subic thanked her and lit a match with his thumbnail.

He added that if Mom had any problems with anyone, here at the hotel or anywhere else, she should come to him and he would take care of it. His name was Carter, Mom would soon learn. He was 28 and had Prostitutes Subic more than Prostitutes Subic his life in the juvenile or prison systems. His specialty Prostitutes Subic robbing drug dealers because they always carried lots of cash. Peggy graduated high school with an A average, then took secretarial and Prostitutes Subic courses at community college while waitressing in a theater district diner on weekends.

I think that was the beginning of her troubles. Soon she was hanging out backstage with her actor friends after shows. This was Prostitutes Subic first introduction to social drinking, which I guess should have set off warning lights for her.

But like her mother, she was attracted to the glamour. Inat Prostitutes Subic age of 19, Mom found out she was pregnant. No longer able to afford the apartment, she moved us all back in with Prostitutes Subic mother.

Grandpa Jack was gone Prostitutes Subic, having left one evening to buy cigarettes and never returning. With her mother and sister as built-in babysitters, Mom partied with her friends more and more, spending less and less time at home with me. In she met Joe, a bond trader and rising star at the firm where she worked. They dated for about a year, married in a civil Prostitutes Subic, and we moved to a pricey apartment in Brooklyn. Mom quit her job at the brokerage house, but Prostitutes Subic of staying home playing house, she kept going into the city to meet friends, eat, drink and smoke weed.

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Eventually, I packed up my few belongings Prostitutes Subic moved back in with my grandmother in Manhattan. One night in February ofwhile Mom was out God knows where, Kevin got together with a few of his buddies and moved all his belongings out of the apartment. Then a sheriff and his crew came and evicted her, leaving her alone on the street with only a garbage bag of belongings.

Even so, in the middle of the night another woman stole them right off her feet. The next morning, Mom picked up her single garbage bag of belongings and walked out of the shelter barefoot, then Prostitutes Subic the first subway entrance she came upon.

For the next year she lived in the subways, watching people go to and from work, imagining their lives then curling up in the recesses of a station for a peaceful sleep. She began to explore the bowels of the system, unused tunnels that were occupied by a community of cast-aside characters. One day she walked by a teenage girl wearing Mickey Mouse ears, lying back, shooting heroin; Prostitutes Subic older man masturbating, holding a tattered Playboy magazine; a screaming woman who thought Mom was attempting to pick up her boyfriend because she had innocently stepped over the sleeping man.

She rode the trains for hours at a time, going back and forth and nowhere, daydreaming about how to get back to a decent life. She always carried an aluminum thermos of water under her coat, tied to a rope, filling it from leaky fire hydrants and also using it as a weapon Prostitutes Subic several occasions.

She spoke Prostitutes Subic with Prostitutes Subic field worker from the New York City Department of Homeless Services, who offered her a decent meal, medical services, even a roof over her head. Thanks, she told them, but uh-uh, no thanks. Then one frightening encounter changed everything.

It happened on a rainy night in Upper Manhattan. Mom was in an exceptionally filthy subway bathroom Prostitutes Subic an elevated station, using a trickling faucet to wash Prostitutes Subic her underwear. All of a sudden, a man ran into the bathroom, his eyes wide and crazy. When he saw Mom, he pulled a large steak knife from his inside coat pocket.

When he was exposed, he approached Mom, who Prostitutes Subic her coat tight around herself as a shield. At the last minute, when she could see the yellows of his spotted eyes, she swung her thermos, knocking the knife out of his hand, followed by a swift kick to his groin. Prostitutes Subic grabbed her hair and pulled her down to the cold tile floor. Mom screamed at the top of her lungs as he positioned himself out on top of her. Suddenly, he jerked up and screamed, swearing in Spanish.

Mom could see blood everywhere as he rolled off of her, She had no idea what, or whom, had saved her, until she saw the Prostitutes Subic from the other stall standing over him, her pants still around her ankles, a long Japanese sword in one hand, tinted the color of dark blood. To be honest, I was initially somewhat skeptical about this part of her story myself.

But years later, as a cop, I ran into a homeless woman in the Staten Island Ferry terminal who also had a sword in a shopping cart. This encounter convinced me that Mom was on the level with her own sword story. Needless to say, I tossed the weapon in the river. Not knowing or caring if the guy was dead, Mom grabbed her wet underwear and Prostitutes Subic out of the restroom.

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She knew it was time to reconsider letting the city help her find safe housing. As soon Prostitutes Subic she spotted the omnipresent outreach van, she went Prostitutes Subic to the window and asked if there was anywhere she could stay. The social worker had one voucher left, for an S. Mom knew that this was a last-stop flophouse.

But it was a roof over her head, one that was free, private and relatively safe. Prostitutes Subic thanked the fellow as she entered the van for the quick ride to the Village, about to pass through the gates of her next adventure.

T he six-story, red-brick building that housed the Jane West Hotel, at the corner of Jane and West streets, seemed Prostitutes Subic be in good structural shape Prostitutes Subic its age, faded and grimy as it Prostitutes Subic, like a warrior after a battle, worn down but still standing.

A majestic cupola sat atop it like a crown, and a three-foot black wrought-iron fence surrounded the building, giving the hotel Prostitutes Subic feel more like a fortress than a flophouse. The social worker escorted Mom up the front steps and into the huge lobby area, which had the heft and feel of a small arena.

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A faded lobby plaque told her that the surviving passengers of the Titanic Prostitutes Subic stayed there in The social worker gave mom a list of phone numbers for benefits and a couple Prostitutes Subic subway tokens so she could report to the nearest social services office as soon as she was settled in.

Mom blushed, then nodded her head quickly. Got it, sweetie? The residents knew him as Clifford, but they sometimes called him Bigfoot because of his girth. Standing at an imposing 6 feet Prostitutes Subic inches, he always wore suspenders and had a dime-store Prostitutes Subic badge pinned to one of the straps.

He introduced himself to Mom, carried her garbage bag of belongings over to the elevator like it was a designer handbag, and instructed Richie, the uniformed elevator operator, to take them up to Room When she opened the door to her room, she saw a metal bedframe and a mattress, a small dresser, and two tilted shelves hanging precariously on the wall.

The recessed window looked out into a shaftway. For a window curtain, the previous Prostitutes Subic had hung a sheet. The warm water invigorated her, and as she toweled off, she began to think, How the hell did I get Prostitutes Subic this place in my life? She decided to give me a call from the lobby payphone when she was Prostitutes Subic, to let me know she was OK. I was still living with Beatrice, my grandmother, who handed me the receiver after a few words with her Prostitutes Subic.

I wanted to tell her about passing the high Prostitutes Subic equivalency diploma test, about working in an auto body shop Prostitutes Subic the day, and evenings stocking shelves at a supermarket. But the whole call lasted just three minutes. Mom said she would call back in a day or two, then hung up.

M om managed to get a job answering phones at a nearby Chinese restaurant, Prostitutes Subic she used the small amount of extra cash she made to decorate her room. The final touch was mounting a crucifix on the inside of her door. She began calling me from the lobby payphone once a week, and she also started to hang around the S. Emilio had short, dark hair and always wore a dark Prostitutes Subic suit — except when he went Prostitutes Subic the common bathroom and changed into a skintight red miniskirt Prostitutes Subic matching wig.

He was in his 20s, young enough to look good as a man or woman, and he used that to his Prostitutes Subic at nights, when he picked up clients in the nearby Meatpacking District.

He and Mom clicked. She found him interesting, creative, perhaps even artistic, like her old theater friends. Prostitutes Subic invited her up to his room to show her his wardrobe. While there, he offered her a beer. After her Prostitutes Subic one, she was laughing and talking to Emilio like they were old friends. He rolled a joint and soon they were both high, giggling like two teenage girls.

From a very young age, Mom had always liked the world of fashion, and there was a time, another life ago, when she thought she might become a clothing designer. Now she started helping Emilio create his working outfits, which he modeled for her in full drag. The Prostitutes Subic friendship reinvigorated her, but it was also dangerous. One day, after assisting Emilio with his wardrobe planning, Mom stumbled back to her room and passed out drunk on the bed.

She, Emilio and two of his friends, Gordon and Gary, put up the tree decorations, which consisted of colorful socks, cut-up beer cans, condoms and rolling papers.

Gordon and Gary, a. They looked, dressed and acted alike. Clean-shaven with neatly combed hair, they could have passed for a couple of college seniors. They spent a lot of their time in the hallways, belting through the entire soundtrack of Saturday Night Fever and the hot new Broadway musical Cats. That title went to a young Black man by the name of RuPaul. Mom could see immediately that he had the voice, charisma and presence to be a big performer one day.

They were quite the trio, often the center of social activities. The S. Some notable shows even made their debut there years later, most notably Hedwig and the Angry Incha musical centered around a genderqueer rock singer, Prostitutes Subic It was a dump. The only place you can smell that now is in the subway. Another resident, Wanda, was a short, heavyset year-old woman with a flair for the dramatic.

That Christmas, she got drunk and high and wandered the hotel wearing nothing but a Santa hat and a garland wrapped around her. She banged on every door until the occupant opened, then belted out Christmas carols.

There was always something going on at the S. One winter night Mom stopped onto the third floor, which had a reputation for being the partying floor, mostly because of its younger tenants. They would leave their doors wide open and go from room to room like they were in a college dorm, drinking beer and dreaming up merriment.

As Mom Prostitutes Subic her head in the third-floor stairwell door this evening, she saw two lengths of fire hose running parallel to one another along the floor. At one end of the hose were a dozen beer bottles, set up like bowling pins. Diamond was crouching while holding a large, bowling ball—sized wad of aluminum foil, Prostitutes Subic a Prostitutes Subic lined the makeshift bowling lane, cheering her on.

But really, I think they just want to see my boobs flop out my bathrobe. From our conversations, I could sense she was bonding with several of the other residents, probably because many of their plights were similar to hers. They shared food and drink and hung out all the time. I guess they leaned on each other for support. Prostitutes Subic while Mom was spreading holiday cheer around the hotel, she was still hurting on the inside.

But we Prostitutes Subic long talks and she went into details about the people she lived with.

Standing at an imposing 6 feet 5 inches, he always wore suspenders and had a dime-store police badge pinned to one of the straps.

I knew in my heart that she was partying again. M om spent much of the winter hanging with her new friends at the hotel, getting drunk or high, wasting her time and her life away, getting fired from her job at the restaurant.

Instead, she became the S. She hung out in the lounge, where her favorite seat was an elaborate, faux Louis XV chair where she would perch and fawn over her Prostitutes Subic.

She exuded relative class and charm, and dispensed interesting commentary to anyone who would listen: gay, straight, young, old, Black, white — the S. The residents soon sought her advice on everything from family matters to fashion she especially loved helping all of the cross-dressing residents with their outfitseducation, Prostitutes Subic Emilio asked her advice on whether he could write off breast implants as a business expense and job-hunting skills she was a fantastic typist and volunteered to help other Prostitutes Subic type up Prostitutes Subic resumes.

There was even a young woman, Terri, no more than 20, whom Mom helped learn to read and write after she saw Prostitutes Subic in the lounge one day, struggling to sound out words in the newspaper.

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Mom had certainly fallen far, but she Prostitutes Subic more of an education than most at the S. She was good at this, helping. If only she could do the same for herself, she told herself, over and over. The extra money meant she could get a phone in her room and would no longer Prostitutes Subic to use the Prostitutes Subic in the lobby. As soon as word got out she was working at the diner, Emilio and Bigfoot came around, looking for freebies. She did what she could, under the watchful eye of the owner, Spiro.

She quickly developed her own steady regulars, mostly businessmen who liked her so much they often made passes in the form of job offers.

During the weeks when no U.S. ships anchor at Subic Bay Naval Base a child prostitute, a gold ring-then come here when the ships are out. Olongapo is next to Subic Bay military base, the largest American of the s there were some brothels and 15, prostitutes in Olongapo to meet.

She always wrote down their numbers or took their cards — said she would think about it. Not really though. She was now somewhat Prostitutes Subic with the rung of the ladder she had managed to climb to. Prostitutes Subic was scared that if she tried to skip too many steps, she was likely to fall flat on her pretty face again. W hile serving a stack of pancakes to Prostitutes Subic in one of the booths, Mom got a creepy feeling that she was being watched.

Not by Spiro, who was Prostitutes Subic making sure she put all the cash into the register, but someone else. Mom walked over, slowly at first, afraid to believe it was true. It Prostitutes Subic been nearly two years. I was 17 now. Finally, she smiled and asked how I found her.

On her break, we walked over to the Hudson River. With the slow-moving boat traffic as background to our conversation, I explained that one of the messengers Prostitutes Subic the Wall Street firm where I was working was a childhood friend of mine who remembered her. Bigfoot, who directed me to the diner. Mom smiled. On the train back uptown, I felt a hard sadness. I wanted to rescue her, to take her out of that Prostitutes Subic, but she actually seemed to like being there.

Back in her room, her own waterfall of emotions cascaded down. She was thrilled to see Prostitutes Subic and was glad I was all right, yet somehow she felt I had pierced the delicate world she had created for herself.

Her survival mechanism Prostitutes Subic been exposed, and she was embarrassed I had seen her this way. F or the next several months, I would stop by the S. Our visits often ended in loud arguments. She denied Prostitutes Subic drugs; I knew she was lying. She had, in fact, begun experimenting with pills, and I demanded to know where she was getting them. It took me a while to find out who the pusher was.

Wearing that stupid dime-store police badge on his suspenders, he sidled right up with an I have to talk to you look on his face. I was surprised when he said he respected me for trying to talk some sense into my mother.

I went to Room and knocked aggressively. I stood in the doorway, measuring Prostitutes Subic words, calmly telling him to stop supplying my mother with drugs because they were hurting her rehabilitation. He instantly did Prostitutes Subic That was enough for me. I thrust a clenched fist into his jaw with such force that he stumbled backward and collapsed on the bed.

After a Prostitutes Subic seconds, he got up slowly, Prostitutes Subic, and tried to Prostitutes Subic his knife out. Before he could, I delivered Prostitutes Subic flurry of punches and he flopped to the floor, his face covered in blood. I leaned over and told him if he ever supplied my mother with drugs again, I would put him in the hospital for a very long time. As I closed the door behind me, I saw Mom standing in front of her Prostitutes Subic.

She cowered slightly as I walked past. I turned to her and smiled. I just saved your life, so toughen up. Someone had heard the commotion and called I Prostitutes Subic that after being treated Prostitutes Subic the hospital, he was released into custody and eventually sent back to prison for violating the terms of his parole. I never saw him again.

As far as I know, neither did Mom. M om was always bouncing between jobs, and like most everyone at the hotel, never sure where her next dollar was going to come from. One day, James, a fellow resident, asked her for a favor.

People paid him to walk their dogs twice a day. He said he would pay her to cover him for Prostitutes Subic afternoon. It should take no more than an hour. The dogs were well behaved.

It was a simple job and a fast payday. Until, that is, she got back Prostitutes Subic the building and ran into an unexpected problem. She could not remember which apartment was associated with which dog. In her panic, she took her best guess and returned Prostitutes Subic dogs to what she thought were the correct apartments.

The next morning, an angry James came to her room to pick up Prostitutes Subic keys, Prostitutes Subic Mom knew what he was going to say; she had put all six dogs in the wrong apartments.

James said one lady nearly fainted when she got home to discover her cairn terrier had become an English sheepdog. O ne Saturday morning, Mom was up early to go grocery shopping. When she returned to the hotel, Bigfoot helped carry her groceries up the stairs and to her room, then back down as he said he had something to show her.

She had a funny feeling he Prostitutes Subic up to something. Emilio, too, was acting strange. The artistic value of the banner was like something seen in grade school, but it was the thought that counted — Prostitutes Subic the fact that no one actually knew when her birthday was. Mom giggled as they brought out a small sheet cake, a couple of six-packs of Miller High Life, and one-gallon jugs of Hawaiian Punch fruit drink.

Mom spent the rest of the afternoon in the lounge, drinking. She was in her favorite setting: friends and booze. The party had a deleterious effect on Mom. She started drinking more heavily in the days after, into the night, and would wake with a hangover that ruined her mornings, and often Prostitutes Subic too. One minute she was calm, Prostitutes Subic the next, belligerent and vulgar. I think it was a combination of fear for my safety and disdain for authority figures. In Prostitutes Subic head, I thought I was doing it for just one reason: to help people.

But now I know there was another, more subconscious motivation for my career choice — my failure to save my mother, to save her from her most dangerous enemy, herself. M om continued to serve as both unofficial mentor and life of the party Prostitutes Subic the S.

When she was relatively sober, she continued to tutor Prostitutes Subic, whose Prostitutes Subic skills were becoming markedly better. It was not unusual for Mom to spend most of the day with her — until the drinking started, anyway. She hid two beers in her Prostitutes Subic, taking swigs when the cops were not facing her. She left before the parade ended.

Back on top of the S. Prostitutes Subic kept Prostitutes Subic after everyone else left, sitting and staring at the twinkling skyscraper lights. It was after 2 a. She began to weep loudly, not realizing her wails could be heard from residents in neighboring buildings.

One of those residents called the S. Chicky went up to see who it was, discovering Mom pacing, ranting, with a wild look in her eyes. Fearing she might harm herself, he went back down to the lobby to call Luckily, I had been at a party Prostitutes Subic, on Bleecker Street.

Already called the nut job squad. In a Prostitutes Subic, I ran up the six flights to the roof. She was crouched near the edge of the roof, sobbing. When she realized I was there, only a few feet away, she quickly turned to look over the edge.

The parapet could not have been more than three feet high, so if she decided to jump, it would have only required simply leaning over. I lunged, grabbing her arm, and pulled her tightly into me. We sat on the tarred surface of the roof, and I would not let go while she and Prostitutes Subic cried together. Thirty seconds later, Prostitutes Subic police officers Prostitutes Subic, quickly followed by two paramedics. She paused her sobbing long enough to tell us she was all right and just needed a good cry.

After class, he took the time to break things down for the Poet, which was good — and bad.

One of the paramedics said it was the protocol to take her to Bellevue Hospital for a Prostitutes Subic examination. I felt it was best to just let her vent. Hopefully, this would all pass.

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