Sarah Stillman

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394 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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The Critic and Her Publics · Sarah Stillman · 28 Jul 2026 podcast

So I went to the beauty salon and I thought, OK, I'll just get a manicure and then like quietly ask some questions.

And did you get a manicure?

And then they were like, oh, I love our job.

It's so great.

We're so lucky to be here.

So I quickly realized, OK, like probably not the best idea to do this in the vicinity of these people's employers.

And there was a bus that was circulating around the base that was driven by a Sri Lankan guy.

And so I started chatting with him.

He also was like, oh, everything is great.

Like, no problem, madam.

We're very happy here.

And then I came back and I saw him again and I saw him again.

And then I finally came back onto the bus late at night when no one else was on the bus.

And then he just broke down in tears and said, like, this is a horrific situation where we were all lied to about why we're here.

There's loan sharks coming after my family and the families of many of the people around us.

who are chasing down this money we had to pay just to get the jobs.

And they took our passports and the whole litany of horrors.

So you asked about these Fijian women, and it turned out the Fijian women

had in some ways a really horrific experience.

But once I learned the right way to do it, I'd spoken to more than 100 people, almost all of whom had an incredible and often horrific story of their recruitment and of what they'd faced on the base.

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