Screams from the Pink Collar Ghetto: On the hunt for Mexican food in Amsterdam

Thursday, June 10, 2010

I reviewed a Tex-Mex restaurant on my "food blog", Bleu Cheese and Red Wine.....

On the Hunt for Mexican Food in Amsterdam

What is a Pink-Collar Ghetto?

Pink Collar Ghetto describes women stuck in certain jobs, mostly low-paying and usually because of their sex. “Pink Collar” denotes historically female jobs like maids, secretaries, waitresses, and nurses. "Ghetto" is where marginalized people are forced to live.

I chose this title for my blog from a book I started to write when I was 22 and working in South Carolina as a bartender (barmaid according to my mother) and a receptionist/ temp. As a feminist, I was worried that I would never break out of the pink-collar ghetto. I read Barbara Kingsolver's book "The Bean Trees" and it inspired me to leave SC and go back to school.

Now I am a feminist humanitarian working on gender-based violence in humanitarian settings. It's been a long way from that pink collar ghetto in South Carolina but I never forget my roots.

Screams from the Pink Collar Ghetto

Thursday, June 10, 2010

On the hunt for Mexican food in Amsterdam

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