May Day protest (2025-05-01)

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May Day protest (2025-05-01)

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Being brown is not a crime (2025-02-02)

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Art build In the lead-up to a Texas state-wide protest in support of Palestine (2024-05-15)

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Speaking out against the state takeover of Houston's school district (2024-09-13)

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I spent part of my childhood in a slump in the city of Yogyakarta, Indonesia. I knew that some of my neighbours worked at the train station, but they were not working for the railroad company.
The Yogyakarta Tugu train station area was once famous for its cheap prostitution. There was a slang word for it: "nge-bong", short for "ngenthu mburi gerbong". It's javanese for "having sex behind a train waggon". Usually in a small room or semi-permanent shack, on old mattress, and no safety.

Some years later, as an aspiring journalist for my university's press, I wanted to tell the story of the night life around the train station.
A tranvestite friend allowed me follow her to see where she worked as a sex worker.
Right by the railtrack were many commercial sex workers, in dimly lit "coffee stalls" waiting for customers. Including transvestites there too.
I hung out with her, her colleagues and occasionally I snap some pictures with her guests.
My editor didn't want to publish the story at the end, she deemed the pictures were too vulgar for a university press.

Now the train station has been sterilized by the national railway company, and many of the night life workers have moved to other places.

Photo taken on 13th April, 2006
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Shipping containers at the Port of Seattle recently for a CascadePBS story about how the ongoing tariff war will affect businesses in Washington state.

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