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Reality Behind Pimp Culture
LREI Feminism Class With Rachel LLoyd My journey learning about the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) started with a very eye-opening documentary, Very Young Girls. This documentary...
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Media Selling Pimp Culture
Every morning when I take the train, I put my iPod on shuffle and let various thoughts run through my head. But as I think about how tired I am or about the math test I have during first period, I...
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children: America’s Contemporary Form of...
In 1865, under President Abraham Lincoln, the United States of America adopted the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. The Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude,...
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How We Fail Trafficked American Girls
When I say child sex trafficking, what pops into your mind? Street children in the Philippines, maybe? Illegal brothels in Cambodia and Ukraine? I can tell you what you’re definitely not thinking...
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Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Stockholm Syndrome: Why It’s...
While I was sitting in my living room talking to my mom, somehow the topic of Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) came up. “Do you know that this is going on in our own city? In the...
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How a Pimp Catches his Prey
The Prey “Pimps prey upon the most vulnerable girls and young women; girls who are runaways and homeless, girls who have been victims of child sexual abuse, low-income girls, often girls of color, who...
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Why a Guy Like Me Needs Feminism
“I need feminism because equality is a must.” (photo credit: Ileana Jiménez). When I was asked to think about why I need feminism, I couldn’t start writing for a while. I thought about this question...
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Feminist Consciousness Raising: There’s No Turning Back
I need feminism because I would not be who I am without it! Feminism to me is like oxygen; I don’t want it. I need it. Feminism has awakened some giant in me that has been sleeping for the past 16...
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A Letter to My Grama, Who Is Afraid of the Word Feminist
“I need feminism because it defines me as a conscious woman. I have been exposed to a different way of thinking that properly influences my womanhood.” (photo credit: Ileana Jiménez) Dear Grama, I...
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