Entitlement is in our blood. We feel entitled to choose, to speak, to know, to listen when need be. This city has continually reminded me that these most basic forms of freedom are hardly possessed by everyone. This very day I was entitled to my opinion in regards to a woman that I had met [...]
Last week I came upon a large billboard advertising vacant flats in a new housing complex called Eden Gardens. Anywhere else, I wouldn’t have given the compound’s name a second glance, but this city has a way of conjuring up thoughts of the many faces it shows you from day to day. One’s eyes can [...]
By Kyle.
I continue learning what life might look like for me here, freedom for the ladies, transformation for the red-light areas. Days spent at the business leave me hopeful, and conversations with women and young girls struggling to find release from their brothels, the opposite. But I recently talked with someone who lived in this [...]