by Marissa | Apr 17, 2021 | Awareness, Healing
Healing from trauma is a lifelong process that is not linear. Healing may come in different shapes and forms and affects the survivor and potentially those around them. Adding parenthood to this healing process may make it more difficult as parents are responsible for...
by Esther Vivian Kay | Apr 23, 2019 | Awareness
Last week, student organizers at the College of William and Mary organized Tribe Against Trafficking, a week-long series of events devoted to ending sex trafficking. With panel discussions, the event is raising awareness and helping students not only to see that, it...
by Esther Vivian Kay | Apr 23, 2019 | Awareness
The Derby is a big event in Kentucky, and it is also a busy time for human traffickers. As Louisville is preparing for the sports event, victim advocates try to raise awareness. They point out the major warning signs of sex trafficking victims so that the public can...
by Esther Vivian Kay | Apr 13, 2019 | Awareness
About two months back President Trump declared his government would use “every resource we have to confront” the threat of human trafficking and support victims and survivors. Quite the opposite happened though. In the past victims of trafficking, who were not born in...
by Esther Vivian Kay | Apr 13, 2019 | Awareness
Farmers brand their cattle. Traffickers brand their property. Common tattoos are barcodes or the initials of the trafficker or pimp. Of course, not all women who have a barcode tattooed are victims of human trafficking. There is a lot more it needs to identity a women...
by Esther Vivian Kay | Apr 13, 2019 | Awareness
Women are not property, but some are marked as such. Victims of human trafficking carry these markings, scars, tattoos, long after they regained their freedom. Seeing these markings every day when looking at oneself, is a psychological trap, a chain that binds to the...
