One friend (now serving a life sentence) got trafficked and started working at a "dance" club. We were 15. #ThisIsHowWeDisappear #MMIW
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She was an urban Indian girl, and she was being trafficked at 15 in Los Angeles.
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My friend (don't want to say her name; some of you know who I'm talking about) wound up getting caught in a web of madness.
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She essentially had to kill her way out of the situation. She's serving a life sentence now. She's disappeared.
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I was a homeless teen, so I saw a fair share of what happens to kids of color on the street in Los Angeles.
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And that's just Los Angeles. That's not New York. That's not Phoenix. That's Vegas. That's not the rez.
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When (mostly white) sex workers shut down the conversation and minimize sex trafficking, they're disappearing lives.
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You can support people who do sex work. AND you can acknowledge that sex trafficking happens. It's possible.
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At this moment, I have
#WellActually happening in my mentions, telling me that I don't understand sex trafficking.#HowWeDisappear#MMIW1 reply 9 retweets 10 likes -
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I'm being told that the approach to trafficking is based on the war on drugs. Please stop. Just stop.
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I'm not talking about approaches to trafficking. Listen to me. Because I've had to listen to you for a long time. #HowWeDisappear #MMIW
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I'm talking about the fact that (mostly white) sex workers and advocates say sex trafficking mostly doesn't exist.
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I'm talking about the fact that you are disappearing us when you say that.
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