Welcome to my achieved blog! These posts are from 2018-2019. I wanted to start fresh with a new blog in 2020 because I felt that my brand was going in a new direction. I had an apartment I love, reached a new level professionally, and was starting to think of going back to college. My hope was to showcase a transformation on my site. It was originally my goal to explore emotional topics, and discuss my research on a new level in my new blog. But COVID and the general hostility online made me NOT want to reach a new level of intimacy in my writing. In many ways, it is very disappointing to look back and realize that I’m still struggling to survive and fight for my community.
Twitter Threads on Problematic ways Human Trafficking is discussed.
That’s the scary thing about only censorship, because of what I do everything I ever write and do is in jeopardy of being erased forever. It’s happened so many times already that I don’t panic the way I used to. I’m used to starting over and over again.
Non Profit Industrial Complex and how it serves Neoliberalism
Sexual humanitarianism’s moral imperative to “rescue” victims of sex trafficking often becomes entangled with the enforcement of restrictive labor-migration policies and controls, exacerbating migrants’ vulnerability to exploitation in line with racial, ethnic, and class-based hierarchies (Chapkis 2003). My work draws on critical studies of the category of the trafficked “victim,” which strongly indicate the need to transcend the dichotomy between “free” and “forced”