Daughter Mother Grandmother And Whore – Gabriela Leite

If I didn’t agree, I should dis- appear from the building or my mother would end up crying at my grave. After dinner, I didn’t go home. I hid and watched my executioner walk calmly toward Avenida São João. When he was far away, I went to the brothel and started screaming for Cecília from the middle of the street. She appeared on the balcony, then came down and invited me in. She explained everything. She said that she couldn’t say anything to me at the time because if she did, she would lose her apartment.

She explained that The Português was a fa- mous pimp in the Boca do Lixo, and that he pimped out about ten women on that block alone. I was destroyed, thinking that the only thing left to do was to leave and forget that I had ever wanted to be a prostitute. The learning curve was too steep. I don’t know what came over Cecília then; either she felt some inkling of sympathy for me or she didn’t want to lose a good tenant. She asked me if I wanted to keep working, and I said that I did.

Under the condition that I would keep her assistance a secret, she offered to help me figure out a scheme to stay permanently at the brothel. She asked if I was woman enough to take on the challenge, and I told her that I was. I slept in Cecília’s apartment that night and spent the entire following day locked in her room, without being seen by anyone, not even by the women of the house. At night, The Português dropped by to collect my money and Ce- cília told him that I hadn’t showed up to work.

“She’ll be back,” he commented. A Solution Named Velvet That same night, a Black man appeared at the building, dressed in the typical elegance of a São Paulo gangster: a silk shirt, tailored pants, kid-­skin shoes, and a giant gold watch engraved with a single word: Veludo (Velvet). A civil police officer from the vice squad, he was a friend of the madams in the Boca do Lixo and did favors for them from time to time. His nickname was Velvet because he spoke gently and was extremely polite.

But he had the reputation of being a tough cop. With the doors locked, Cecília called me into the living room and asked me to tell him the story of my troubles with The Português, without omitting any details. Velvet listened to me attentively. When I finished, he asked me one question: “Are you, like the rest of these silly girls, in love with him?” I said no, not at all.

Durham and London 2024 A book in the series Latin America in Translation / En Traducción / Em Tradução Sponsored by the Duke–University of North Carolina Program in Latin American Studies daughter, mother, grandmother, and whore Translated by Meg Weeks Foreword by Carol Leigh Introduction by Laura REBECCA Murray, Esther Teixeira, and Meg Weeks Gabriela Leite The Story of a Woman Who Decided to be a Puta © 2024 Duke University Press All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America on acid-­free paper ∞ Project Editor: Lisa Lawley Cover design by Aimee Harrison Text design by Courtney Leigh Richardson Typeset in Untitled Serif and Fira Sans by Copperline Book Services Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Leite, Gabriela Silva, author.

| Weeks, Meg, [date] translator, writer of introduction. | Leigh, Carol (Sex worker), writer of foreword. | Murray, Laura (Laura Rebecca), writer of introduction. | Teixera, Esther, writer of introduction. Title: Daughter, mother, grandmother, and whore : the story of a woman who decided to be a puta / by Gabriela Leite ; translated by Meg Weeks ; foreword by Carol Leigh ; introduction by Laura Murray, Esther Teixera, and Meg Weeks. Other titles: Filha, mãe, avó e puta. English | Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.

Description: Durham : Duke University Press, 2024. | Series: Latin America in translation | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2023048053 (print) lccn 2023048054 (ebook) isbn 9781478030508 (paperback) isbn 9781478026273 (hardcover) isbn 9781478059516 (ebook) Subjects: lcsh: Leite, Gabriela Silva. | Prostitutes—Brazil—Biography. | Sex workers—Brazil—Biography. | Sex workers—Civil rights—Brazil. | Sex workers—Political activity—Brazil. | bisac: social science / Ethnic Studies / Caribbean & Latin American Studies | social science / Human Sexuality (see also psychology / Human Sexuality) Classification: lcc hq126.2.l45 a3 2024 (print) | lcc hq126.2.l45 (ebook) | ddc 306.74092 a b—dc23/eng/20240402 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023048053 lc ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2023048054 Cover art: Photograph of Gabriela Leite by Paulo Santos.

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