
“Fucked for it, too.” Despite her profession, she identified as a lesbian for years. “She's danced for money,” a 1999 article about Jade in the Webzine reads. “For the most part, I usually ended up being with guys that really loved me and wanted to be around me.” Her pride in her work may explain why she's always been open about how she made a living. For her, it was a way to offer men deep healing and love. For Jade, sex work was about more than just sex. “It's amazing to be able to share something profound and sacred with people,” she said in a recent e-mail. Jade didn't keep track of how much money she made doing “all kinds of sex work,” but she says she loved her work. She says it was the only job that would pay her enough money to get by and she could do it without proper identification. “In Japan, it's even worse.”īy the time she was 16 years old, Jade had settled into San Francisco and joined the city's sex work industry.

“I was such a weird kid to begin with,” she said. She used to think she was a cat, and she'd collect dead animals trying to bring them back to life. It wasn't easy, but Jade thinks Japan would have been a hard place for her to grow up, too, because she always struggled to fit into the mainstream. She played violin on the street and drifted around the Bay Area, staying with women she'd befriended. After five years of waiting, with no green card in sight, her mom decided to move back to Japan. Jade's brother had a lot of health problems and the family never seemed to have enough money. But the aunt did nothing to help the family gain legal status. Her mom started working in her sister's beauty salon, with the promise that the aunt would help her get a green card. She was only 8 years old when her mother brought her and her brother from Nagasaki to San Jose. Most people know her as Jade-Blue Eclipse, Jadeblue Lotos, or simply Jade. Her first name is not Jade-Blue, but Takako. “I have better things to do with my time.” “So I felt compelled to not engage in this game anymore,” Jade wrote in a Jan. The nimble contortionist slipped out of the country and set off for a spiritual journey to the Amazon. Jade has no interest in spending time in prison, so last month she broke the law again. That question may never be answered in court. Pupils should plan their writing by identifying the audience for and purpose for writing, selecting the appropriate form and using other similar writing as models for their own.But is this former sex worker and well-known San Francisco performance artist really a serious threat to national security? Pupils will use and punctuate direct speech Pupils should plan their writing by discussing writing that is similar to that which they are planning to write in order to understand and learn from its structure, vocabulary and grammar.

National Curriculum English programme of study links:
A TWISTED TALE IN ORDER PDF
Writing Paper: a PDF sheet that pupils could use to present their work Twisted Tale planning sheet: a worksheet to support pupils to plan and structure their writing Twisted Tales writing sheet - two versions of the sheet show success criteria to support pupils when writing and includes examples of inverted commas and fronted adverbials for years 3 and 4 and adverbials and relative clauses for years 5 and 6įairy tale image cards - a set of cards that can be used to help pupils orally retell the story and plan their own retelling with a twist Model Text - Sleeping Beauty: a retelling of this famous fairy tale with a twist!Ī fairy tale is a type of traditional tale that usually includes characters that are good and evil, royalty and magic.

They will use the model text to identify features of a fairy tale and specific grammar and punctuation skills that they can apply in their own stories. Pupils will write read the model text ‘Sleeping Beauty’ identifying how the author has changed the story from the original tale. Explore fairy tales with a twist using this text types resource pack for KS2.
