Comments on: They Speak, But Who Listens to (Migrant) Sex Workers?

By: asehpe

asehpe — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 21:05:35 +0000

Hola Laura. Entiendo perfectamente lo que ud. dijo sobre la importancia de la intimidad. Y estoy de acuerdo también sobre la importancia de la calle, del “campo”, en el direccionamento de la vida intelectual. Me interesa muchísimo la teoria, ya que sin pensar y reflexionar, sin síntesis, no hay ciencia. Pero las experiencias que uno adquiere en la calle, en el campo influyen de tantas maneras en la vida de un investigador… El contacto con la calle hace más dificil la construcción de pseudorealidades basadas en abstracciones o ideologías (p.ej. la “industria del rescate”).

By: Fuller

Fuller — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:50:10 +0000

I don’t have much experience with this, but I found this mind blowing. Thank you. If you find an organization that tinkers with functioning as you described I hope you will post about it.

By: Laura Agustín

Laura Agustín — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:48:12 +0000

hola asehpe. ya, se sabe poco de mi vida personal porque no ha sido mi estilo hablar de eso, valoro mi intimidad demasiado. pero estoy consciente de que he llegado a donde he llegado justamente porque estaba antes en la calle, y creo que ayuda entender mis ideas saberlo.

By: asehpe

asehpe — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:27:40 +0000

I didn’t know you had done “educação popular” à la Paulo Freire. Indirectly I have, too (I was involved with education projects for certain indigenous communities in the Amazon), so I had already encountered some of the work of Paulo Freire, a Brazilian like me. Despite his stress on urban populations, his ideas have a much wider range of application.

Knowing that you were involved in all these activities before entering Academia actually increases my level of respect for you. It’s good to know.

By: Maggie McNeill

Maggie McNeill — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 03:41:13 +0000

“…the problem is not that people are not allowed to speak but that no one listens.”

Truer words were never spoken. Thank you for listening to sex workers, Laura, and for adding your voice to ours.

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