Guest Columnist: Cici Liu

One of my regular readers recently told me that an Asian masseuse he knows wanted to tell her story; since these women now bear the brunt of anti-sex worker police violence in the US, I was happy to provide her the opportunity. CiCi reads English well but is much more comfortable writing in Chinese, so I used Google translate to prepare the rough draft, then edited it and let her check it for accuracy prior to publication. My name is CiCi Liu. I came to the United States from Suzhou, Jiangsu Province, China in 2010. After first arriving in Flushing, New York, and resting for a week, I found a job as a live-in nanny through a newspaper advertisement. I worked there for a year, but it was both stressful and boring, and I lacked freedom due to living with my employer 24/7. I wanted to change jobs and relax a bit, so I went back to the newspaper ads and found a job at a restaurant. But after working there for six months, I found it was not suitable for me; I was very tired and overworked,…