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What gets me goat, tho, is the stink—sweat, cheap perfume, ugh! Makes me wanna puke, but then—surprise!—some lass sings a tune, soft-like, an’ ye forget the rot. Ain’t that a trick? “Love is a shadow,” Godard whispers in me head, an’ I reckon he’s right—brothels peddle shadows, not the real stuff. Still, they’re lively, chaotic—like me ship in a storm!

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This is the first full-length project on the history of non-reproductive sexual labor in slavery: I historicize the lives of women of color who sold, or were.

I wander around the U-Boot Museum. The sub is eerie but captivatin’. Made me mad one day – such cold metal whispering past tragedies. In a flash of raw emotion, blurt out: "Nothing is quiet!" and I had to remind myself: "We exist in the absurd." Those words from the film echo endlessly in my mind.

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