Too Good To Be True; Streetwalkers of San Francisco I just came across this video essay by Kol Marshall, depicting mugshots of women who were arrested for prostitution in the forties. Several of the women have black eyes, all of them look like they have suffered from frequent physical abuse. What really struck me was [...]
After watching a video from 1993 about the HIV/AIDS epidemic today, I brought up the differences in risks between anal and vaginal sex in the US, and how it was different than in Africa. Upon my citing the low incidence of penile vaginal transmission my teacher said- “Shhhh… if you say that people wont use [...]
I felt like the chosen one at the Good Friday service this evening. My flower came with a ladybug. St. Gregory’s handed out flowers to lay on the alter and as I took mine a ladybug walked onto my hand. It seemed like a miracle. The incense and chanting makes one prone to delusions, but [...]
Yesterday I was waiting to meet up with my outreach compatriots, sitting in my car and watching all the humans walking, driving, running, biking along Mission Street. I spend a lot of time thinking about humans, being annoyed, baffled and loving them. I was talking to my dad the other day who said, “Humans, they [...]
While I was at the VA Hospital this week I spent some of my spare time looking through patient education handouts for some that I could use to hand out to the ladies I see during street/SRO outreach. I’m hoping to set up a mini hypertension screening service for the women we see regularly, and [...]
Last night at outreach I had a wonderful surprise, a new woman joined our team. I met her several months ago as a resident of one of the SROs we go into. She was living there with her husband and two year old daughter. We don’t see a lot of kids in the hotels so [...]
I did crack tonight. Well, I think it was crack, it also could have been meth. I’m really not sure; all I know is that while doing outreach I walked by a gentleman smoking on the stairs and there was a bitter alkaloid burning along with the pot in his joint. The girls I was [...]