Screams from the Pink Collar Ghetto: 2017 in photos (with cheesy epic music)

Tuesday, January 09, 2018

2017 in photos (with cheesy epic music)

Here was my crazy 50th year - 2017 in photos.

Countries traveled to in 2017: Oman, Lebanon, Switzerland, Germany, UK, Turkey, France, Bosnia, Italy, Russia, Mongolia, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Myanmar, Greece, Iceland

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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.