2011年9月15日 星期四

《Chocolate in a Blue-Tent Village: Letters to Kikuchi from the Park》

http://kyototto.com/chocolate.pdf


selected:
** "Tea Party for Women"
While living in the park, Misako Ichimura has had to deal with
some uncomfortable situations. Wondering what others were
going through, she went around the park and asked the
women living here and there, and then she started having a tea
party once a month on top of the main hill.
This turned into a way of creating community, and also made
the existence of women more visible in the social structure of
the tent village.
More and more, women's laughter could be heard, and they
learned to support each other when dealing with violence and
such. This was also something Ichimura had needed herself to
continue living in the park.
A story of homeless women in Tokyo.
Tokyo is estimated to have approximately 5,000 homeless people,
of which as much as ten percent are women.
*** Kogyaru (or kogal), literally "little girl", is a subculture
popular among teenage girls and young women.

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