Cecilia Airaldi and Luisa Scioli
Recorded
April 29, 2022
Archived
April 29, 2022
39:51 minutes
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Id:
ddc002575
Description
Friends Cecilia Airaldi (56) and Luisa "Ellie" Scioli (73) reflect on their friendship and time living in the YWCA Brooklyn. They discuss their stories that brought them there, their families, gender roles, and being survivors.Subject Log / Time Code
Cecilia (C) discusses coming to the YWCA and meeting Luisa (L).
L shares that she came to the YWCA after running away from domestic violence. C shares that she moved in after her breast cancer diagnosis.
L says she has learned to be brave and not let anyone hurt her. L and C discuss their friendship, and learning to accept compliments.
L talks about being a waitress in downtown Las Vegas. C says that's where L learned to love games (Cards, dominos, etc)
L speaks to other women who may be in similar abusive situations, she says you can start a new life and be brave. She discusses growing up in Manhattan.
C talks about her breast cancer diagnosis at 39, and how the cancer has come back multiple times since then. She shares that it is scary, but she is hopeful.
C discusses working with men while she was in the Electrical Industry.
L discusses growing up believing that 'man was king.' She discusses being beaten by her father and ultimately moving in with her Grandmother, Rufina. L says at 73 all the bad stuff is behind her, and that living at the YWCA has changed her.
C and L discuss being survivors.
C discuses immigrating from Peru and her family who she is now living with. She says it was bittersweet leaving the YWCA.
L asks C if she ever met her grandparents. C talk about her grandfather and grandmothers and her family's migration from Italy to Peru to the US.
L talks about her extended family in Puerto Rico.
L and C discuss changes in men. L says she never used to see men pushing baby carriages and how women will now stand up for themselves.
C discusses her parents, how her father was the softer one and her Mother was tough. She also talks about how the men she used to work with were different one on one versus in a group.
C paints a verbal portrait of her father.
L remembers her Grandmother, Rufina Ruiz.
L and C are glad they got to do this.
Participants
- Cecilia Airaldi
- Luisa Scioli