Horror Vacui

[Image description: photograph of a Hong Kong high-rise building with a dark glass façade and balconies of different colours at seemingly random intervals. There is a smaller, pale high-rise building to the right of the larger one. Late evening sun washes the sky above.]

They get one day off at work, usually Sundays (although I saw them every day) and since they don’t have money to spend it in restaurants and cafes and they obviously do not want to be (or can’t be) inside their bosses’ houses, they spend their days outside, in makeshift public living rooms.

Personal EssayAnonymousJuly 12, 2019travel, culture, labour, capitalism, women

Cities In Motion

PhotographyMatea GrgurinovicMay 21, 2018Japan, Osaka, work, labour, travel, Asia

Call Girl

The woman on the telephone gave me a 9pm appointment for an interview — I guessed that meant to see if I was pretty enough. I found the hour strange, but then again, many call girls probably worked at night.

Personal EssayMary McBethApril 30, 2018sex work, sex workers, USA, labour, labor, sexual abuse, abuse, capitalism, poverty, money, work

Kill The Lights And Look Right At Me

And what does fake vs real even mean in a world of drag anyway? What the fuck does it matter?