Screams from the Pink Collar Ghetto: Sunk low by Mexico

Sunday, July 09, 2006

Sunk low by Mexico

While all the other kids are out crusing the streets and singing songs in Guanajuato, yours truly is home with an infected toe thanks to the sadistic pedicurist in Mexico City. I have had to rush out to buy peniciellin and bandaids because like a dumbass, I left my medical kit at home since I wasn´t on mission. Dumb Dumb Dumb...

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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.