Some causes make for strange bedfellows, but few like the campaign against sex trafficking, which brings together radical feminists, Christian evangelicals, the US state, and even QAnon. Cultural anthropologist Gregory Mitchell separates myth from fact and examines how allegedly rescuing women and girls from trafficking, included at mega sporting events, leads to increased police violence, … Continued
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Tim Redmond talks about the fight around a navigation center and homelessness in SF. And a conversation with Kelley Kali about her film, Lalo’s House, a moving and horrifying tale about child-trafficking. Set in Haiti, the short film follows 2 Haiti girls who are kidnapped and forced into a prostitution network that fronts as a … Continued
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we speak with Melissa Ryan and Kev Choice about the trafficking of children. And later Poor News Network explores America’s War on the Poor.
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House Full of Black Women: The Meaning of Canaries, a sites-specific dance theater piece addressing issues of displacement, the well-being of Black women and girls and the continuing abuse and exploitation of sex trafficking in Oakland. We speak with director/choreographer, Amara Tabor Smith and Ellen Sebastian Chang the theater director of the “episodes” House is … Continued
