Taki Taki

Feeling pain

Broadsides from the pirate captain of the Jet Set

issue 18 November 2006

New York

My love for Ashley Judd has gone the way of Iraq. Remember a couple of years ago, when a friend of mine offered to take me backstage to meet her and I got cold feet? I have just read an interview she gave, and I thank God for my cold tootsies. Here’s the beautiful Ashley on life in general and Indian brothels in particular:

I spend time talking about how women’s reproductive health is the nexus of eradicating a lot of inequality…I’m able to maintain healthy boundaries, to hold space with exploited people with more integrity…I feel pain about poverty. When I go to a brothel, I feel complete and sometimes homicidal rage. And I am frankly going to die if I am not part of the solution. I will take in all those feelings, and they will eat me alive.

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