A Day in the Life…Growing up in Calcutta Red Light Area JUST FOR A MOMENT, IMAGINE AN HOUR IN THE LIFE OF ANI, A GIRL GROWING UP IN A RED LIGHT DISTRICT OF CALCUTTA… It’s late on a winter’s afternoon and dusk is settling in. You are ten years old, and at the time when … Read more
Otherizing It troubles me that so many posters and campaigns about sex trafficking in the US depict a slender white girl with long, straight, blonde hair. The reality is that 77% of victims in human trafficking incidents reported in the U.S. are people of color. (Bureau of Justice Statistics Report). Of course, people of each and … Read more
Learning to Trust Fifteen of us sat in a circle on the cool marble floor, drawing birds and flowers. The girls ranged in age from Jasminda, a tiny seven-year-old with uncanny artistic abilities, to Rishi, a clever 20 year old who just started at college and probably should have been studying, but couldn’t resist joining … Read more