Screams from the Pink Collar Ghetto: last nights in Lebanon

Friday, August 25, 2006

last nights in Lebanon

It's my last few nights in Lebanon. After a knock down drag out fight with the DC office, I was pissed - Kristele was super upset, and we just couldn't take it anymore. She went out with an ex and I went to Gemayzeh - famous nightclub land. There I met a guy named Khalid. He was flirting with me (even winked at me!) and we ended up going to a bar called Bubbles - an "Open air" bar that overlooks the Mediteranean... we could watch the Israeli gunships twinkling in the darkness. We've been out twice now and of course, I'm headed to Europe on Sunday... why oh why oh why do I never meet anyone in DC? I'm ditching that town when I return.

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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.