Escape from sexual harassment meant becoming unemployed

“I looking fuh a new job because I had to just leave the job in the market because I didn’t able with what you have to go through there. You imagine you trying to do you work and people just touching you, you know, feeling you up,” the young woman was speaking to an older woman over the counter of the café as I entered.

“Man, that is just sad. I wish we had a work here to give you. Women must not have to go through them things,” the older woman answered; the young woman nodded her head slowly in agreement.

“Well I couldn’t work deh because me and them woulda catch wrong because no man ain’t feeling me up and I teking it just so,” chimed in another young woman who was listening to the conversation.