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[Meredith] The club
was a frequent hangout for sex workers known
as Pocahontases, a riff on pok-pok, a
Tagalog term for slut, which also alludes to
the former colonizers who often patronize them
was a frequent hangout for sex workers known
as Pocahontases, a riff on pok-pok, a
Tagalog term for slut, which also alludes to
the former colonizers who often patronize them
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[Meredith] The club
was a frequent hangout
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for sex workers known
as Pocahontases,
00:00:05.211 --> 00:00:08.421
a riff on pok-pok, a
Tagalog term for slut,
00:00:08.456 --> 00:00:11.039
which also alludes to
the former colonizers
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who often patronize them.
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