Blog 3: Sexual Orientation or Gender Roles
When I think back on our days in Morocco, I struggle to pick a picture for this blog post because oddly enough, I keep searching for someone who was often difficult for me to find. Women. Not because they were absent, but because I realized I had started noticing what appeared to be their absence in many of the spaces we moved through. Walking through the Medina, visiting markets, eating in cafés and restaurants, and riding buses from city to city, I suddenly found myself looking around and noticing that most of the visible faces working around us were men. Men preparing food, men selling goods, men negotiating prices, men leading conversations. The moments I most frequently encountered women were often in quieter places such as the restroom, where women sat or worked cleaning facilities, accepting small tips from visitors as part of their income. And suddenly, I found myself paying attention not just to who was there, but to who I was looking for. For this reflection, I found ...