June 2009

A thousand voices built the memory map

Map Testimony of Sex Work
No to violence against prostitutes!

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Hast to l or s 80 there was enough work for the main road. Because there were few places where it spreads j couples had a hostel right in the 5 ½ mile. We worked on the back of the hostel, in another location. Life was scrubbed because I had masters pull the customer in the road and the police raid was chasing down the runway and land breeze. In the best of times we become about 60 girls.

s The raid was very violent, some preferred to stand and be deterred and still liked him stick. Others, which ran- if we were not fast enough we fished and dragged by the hair and kicked. We stopped for 24 hours and had to pay for our arrest quota. When you were ripped off and did not have the 50 soles to touch you stayed out until the next day, if you were 20 or 10 soles you went out at dawn. The misias or did not want to please the coimeros we let go after one day out of work, penniless and hungry.

Plaza Manco Capac

I do not know what impact the news of the death of Miluska. She was beheaded by a customer in a hostel operated in Iquitos Avenue 300, near the Plaza Manco Capac. Was a whole roll because girls were talking that we could go at any time. When I leave my house I leave with regret because I do not know if I will return. There are cool customers but others are cut by their crazy and think that because we pay for sex have the right to mistreat. They hate the world and dumped on us. The Miluska was only 18 years and that was not his name. He was three months pregnant.

We do not use our real name because people do not accept that we give our body, we do sexual service. Although not make prostitution illegal we should hide from selling pleasure.

As if the violence of some customers and operators were not enough there are authorities who persecute us. Now do not let us negotiate on the Plaza Manco Capac and we should be in the vicinity of the square, slots and corners. You may think why do you get to work on it if you so upset? I do not mind the work I do, I was upset and angry that suppose to offer sexual services, all think they can mistreat us psychologically and physically.

Anti-Venereal The Chirimoyo
When it was beaten and picked us up took us to the police station and then to Chirimoyo. So we called venereal center where we injected one million units of penicillin because they assumed that we disinfected. This large amount of penicillin left us 'rag' it is only for those who have syphilis and not all had the venereal disease. The police and health did not care that our defenses go down, they said they had to clean the city from the threat of AIDS and STDs. So we said 'there go the millions. "

Huanta currently working on the street downtown Salug "Raul Patrucco 'that serves all who work in the Cercado de Lima. Attention is not warm. I feel better addressed in the Health Center Alberto Barton 'and as work throughout Lima and until I go out of town Barton prefer taking my health record.

Plaza San Martín
in the Plaza San Martín working freight, are young boys who are prostitutes. The police gets stick at every turn. Former Columbus film was long a meeting place for transvestites sex. When the lattice University Park was not too focused on guys with the same office. Work alone. Trans girls work in the Uruguay avenues, Washington, Columbus, Wilson and Alfonso Ugarte

Intolerance in the streets
my blood boil when I read that campaigns are municipalities against prostitution. Now walk signs that say 'Do not pick up: you're watching. " The roll is not only against us, it is also the customers. It will now check whether you take pleasure in exchange for money does such hypocrisy! I remember some time filming the car that picked us up and showed the plates, a client told me that his family saw him on TV and that he dropped the world. I've seen signs on the stretch between Miraflores and Lince.

past few months we are campaigning against the avenues Bertello Tomas Valle and in Callao, make plants with signs for us to withdraw from there. And you know what they accuse us? That we are mussels, stoner and drug dealers. They say "where prostitution is crime." The height of all was a recent entrant, was beaten and detained girls and while all this was the mussels, arms folded, looking from the corner do you believe that something happened to them? Do you think they also arrested and taken to the police? Nothing! They totally tranqui, walking down the street and we placed side by side the truck, frightened and out of work ethics of what we speak!

The boat, the Wild and the Trocadero
There are girls working in brothels and have schedules entry and exit. The owners of the local charge for entry and sex worker pay for the room and maintenance. A few years ago the owners were abusive to local collections and local authorities had in the petty cash brothels and involved constant and caring owners and harassing girls. They told me they wanted to close the premises of Callao, but the companions were organized and even testified at trial. Sued the city for abuse of authority. Thanks to this, the Trocadero was not closed and the girls continue to work with greater stability.

Before we were more submissive because we were ashamed to complain, but we learned that we have rights and we have to earn respect. We learned a lot and we know we should be together and if at first only with much commotion started now we are aware not only of our care, we also care to the client.

My older friends tell me that in the 70's were assembled in a spectacular moves prostis. If administrators raised the price of tickets out to touch the girls outside the room in protest, making commotion, wrapped in towels or underwear and touch down again the ticket. What good times. Now, new generations, we love together and listen to what they tell us the most.

But do not think that everything is pink inside brothels, of course there is more security and that the girls work smoothly, however, have also been cases of violence.

Special Licenses
Now only enough that you have your regular medical care (AMP) per day for you to work, however, years ago had to carry a Health Card for prostitution. It was an abuse because we were paid in excess, we stopped at police stations. They made us feel we were the scourge of society and not: perform a social function that cucufato not want to acknowledge!

Barton Health Centre Health Care
quality and efficiency
Barton is addressed in the resort where friends checked not only our health, we also attend to talk with visitors. Chichas not discriminate between working in brothels or on the streets. Normal prostitutes serve no more, no avocado, no recriminations.

Misunderstanding the identity trans

When I walk produce many reactions. Some watch me with hate, others with lust, some with derision, whatever the case does not cease to be perceived Why Why? Let me explain this situation because until a time I became a man, now I'm a girl. I'm trans. I always explain the differences between the trans us: some are transvestites, transgenders others are transsexuals and transvestites. Another confusion that exists is to believe that all prostitutes are false! Make no mistake stubbornness. In my case, yes, I prostitute trans.

is very difficult for ordinary people to understand gender identity. One aspect corresponds to the inner experience, my individuality, as each person feels deeply their gender. Usually in the case of the trans does not match the birth sex. Another facet, another feature is the personal experience of the body that involves the voluntary modification of bodily appearance or function by means medical, surgical or otherwise. At the same time, we incorporate other expressions of gender that includes clothing, manner of speech and manners. And do not be confused with our sexual orientation is defined by the subject of attraction and not by the desire to build a different genre.

RENIEC: the right to identity
Do you know our drama to formalize our identity? The Constitutional Court held that this right is linked to how it looks and feels a person, rather than your bilogía, which should be reflected in the National Identity Document (DNI), because it guarantees access to other fundamental rights.

remember the case of Karen Quiroz Manuc Cabanillas, a transsexual citizen filed a constitutional tort against the Judgement of the Criminal Division of Emergency Superior Process to Free Prisoners of the Superior Court of Lima, which was declared inadmissible its application for habeas corpus against the head of the National Registry of Identification and Civil Status (RENIEC). She was injured on his right to identity. The Constitutional Court ruled, noting that links exist between the principle of dignity, the right the identity and role of the DNI.

This ruling established that the DNI has two functions: first is the realization of the right to identity, allowing the precise identification of the owner and on the other hand, is a prerequisite for the exercise of civil rights and political rights enshrined in the Constitution. If you believe that this great legal victory decided to formalize our identity is wrong. This achievement in the jurisprudence has not found a corresponding development in administrative processes. I know that there are currently underway in more than five cases.

is very difficult to live with an identity that feels itself and with a name that identifies me.

Violence against
job transvestite in the fence of Lima and in North Lima. I'm in the streets and attend to my clients in hotels. I'm always in fear because transphobic found anywhere. Some people do not understand why I have decided I am a transvestite. We attack and often very violent with us. I remember half a year ago and Zoraida Yanina the scoundrels cornered, made fun of them, stole their cell phones and money and forced to have sex with each other. It was very humiliating

Serenazgo The National Police and we commit against abuse of authority, not pleasing and compromise our personal integrity. I know there are 24 cases reported in 2008. Where if they hit hard was the intervention of December 13 last year. I was in downtown Lima with my friends, would be more or less the 9 pm, pucha not imagine the panic I had. A lot of guards and closed Serenazgo streets, some businesses began to close their doors, with the girls we went down the street and went to Paruro Capon and there as we caught pericote: I was beaten, kicked and robbed the cellulose. Just before Christmas the rep.

I have friends who go to other cities to work but I prefer to Lima. Yet the mindset of people is for the of a large city. I learned about a transvestite Tarapoto in January this year was brutally beaten by neighborhood rounds. She is a transvestite and was with his client when the neighbors dropped. Verbally abused, stripped, she cut off his whiskers and two plates were made to insults and public humiliation and was broadcast on television in America News! What horror! We

brave colleagues have dared to report abuse. Edgar Peña Jefry Tuanama was brutally tortured, this happened in Lima, 2007. His case remains unsolved, despite the seriousness of the facts. The petition was filed in October 2007, and surprisingly, the January 17, 2008, took his statement at the insistence of the victim before the Mayor Arturo Morales PNP Police Station of Ate Vitarte. During this process, she received death threats by telephone, which intensified after she was interviewed on "D Day." Then, the case was investigated by the 3 rd Criminal Attorney for the district of Ate Vitarte, and denounced by the prosecutor as a crime of abuse of authority in the form of omission or unwarranted delays Police Support. During these proceedings, Carlos Fernandez, Commissioner of the Office of Advocacy of Lima Este, was commissioned to conduct relevant actions, to monitor the case until it was referred to another court. Currently, the process remains under investigation, and is carried out by public officials very slowly, to the extent that as recently as March 19, 2009, it has taken its manifestation, the Second Criminal Court of Lurigancho Chosica after almost a year and a half committed the crime against Jefry. All the girls hope that justice is done. Bars

risks
A brave work is that of the bars. Bacán if you pull only people to take and then you come to an arrangement for sex work. The case was bedeviled because you must take care everywhere: the customer who is sick, the outlaws out of the bars, the leg that you care. Working in a bar is not easy, you should take with the client and sometimes take the next day while just want to stay at home resting. I do not work in bars because I saw that the situation was very difficult, I'm a licensed brothel, however, when I worked in the bars of Callao had to make the client to make beer or whiskey, the prices are different. Then I realized we had an advantage over girls transvestites them are forced to take the client. Chavela My friend told me "want a drink and if I do not alter, neck and grab you when you are taking hit you. " Sure they pay you but that's not the point.

Our work is not only done in brothels, we are also in bars, hotels where we are customers, there are brothels. There are several ways of how we make our sex work. And like any workers want good working conditions, however, our situation is unstable and often violent.

Our 'happy life' as they say ignorance is transformed into a hell because we are exposed to violence. It's a hard life and I chose it because I understand what I do, what to do and I know you all recognize my right to work.

Our partnerships are now aware of our right to work and health. We also realize that our job is risky because many people hypocritical double standard does not understand our work. Finally everyone is free to think as you want but do not accept that strike us or put us down. Now in Lima there are six associations of sex workers, three in three in Lima and Callao: Callao Woman, Force Chalaca, Saint Ludmila, Miluska Life and Dignity, and Hope Puraq Warmi. There are also support networks working girls trans sexual. Intervention

Bochinche

NO TO VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN PROSTITUTES

NO TO VIOLENCE AGAINST PROSTITUTES TRAVESTI

For nearly six months representatives of organizations of women and trans sex workers, artists and researchers work together to create an urban to make a public issue that affects us tod @ s: violence. Serenazgo of the municipality, that of neighboring water to check us get out of your street, in newspapers with headlines chicha treat us like criminals, some of the customers who assume they have the right to mistreat. Boards also marched-on June 2, 2009 - celebrating for the first time in Peru International Day of Sex Workers.
UNION IS STRENGTH.

A thousand voices
built the memory map. June 2009