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Illustration by Minority Africa, used with permission. Grace Nyarangi decided to enter the sex work industry when she was just over 18 years old. In her early years, she managed to support her children, put food on the table, and provide for all their necessities solely through her earnings. Despite facing significant backlash and stigma from her family and community when they learned about her choice of profession, Nyarangi remained resolute. “After giving birth and being abandoned by my partner, I struggled to secure employment with no success,” she shares. “That’s when I turned to this line...
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Romani people from Kineshma (Ivanovo Oblast, Central Russia): Ruska Roma or Vlach Romaю Nikolay Omonov, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons According to the Russia's last credible census in 2010, Romani diasporas (among Russian speakers, the word цыгане—gypsies—is still widely used, including in the media and among academics) comprised around 220,000 people. The total population) of Russia, according to the same census, was around 143 million. Representatives of Romani diasporas claimed the number was closer to one million people, but researchers believe the number is somewhere in between. The...
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Ingat, an anthology by domestic workers in Hong Kong. Photo: Kyle Lam/HKFP. Used with permission. This report was written by Hillary Leung and originally published in Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) on March 9, 2024. An edited version is published below as part of a content partnership agreement with HKFP. Maria Editha Garma-Respicio fondly recalls her teenage years writing for her school newspaper, reading in the library and penning poems about love. Growing up in Tuguegarao, a city in the northern Philippines, she sought solace in the written word when all else seemed to be falling apart. “I wro...
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