I’m finishing up my Music minor in Opera this semester, and my last class is “French Literature and Repertoire.” The final project for my class is to create a program of French art songs on a theme. I chose pieces about slavery and captivity to examine human trafficking. I’ve embedded the entire program into my projects [...]
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[Trigger warning: human trafficking, sexual assault, human cruelty]. Yesterday I gave a talk on human trafficking at Sixth Presbyterian Church in Pittsburgh. It’s a presentation I’ve given a few dozen times, and it fits how I think about sex trafficking, and to a lesser extent labor trafficking, perfectly. First, I introduce myself. I talk about [...] I’m taking three classes this semester where we’re discussing the fellahin, a word one of my textbooks translates as “peasants” another as “village people” and a third as “working class.” In my Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict: 1880 – 1948 class I objected because the textbook called all of the Palestinian farmers “peasants” and the Israeli farmers [...] I think words matter. When someone calls sex trafficking “forced prostitution” or worse a survivor of sex trafficking a “child prostitute” I comment on their article like nobodies business. It is important to use the right words because, legally in the United States, people engaged in prostitution (or “sex work” to use to word folks [...] In middle school, I decided I was afraid of too many things. The dark, loud noises and cooking raw meat (ever gotten a bacon burn? It hurts.). I felt I owed it to my heroes (Kel, Alanna, Anita Blake, V.I. Warshawski, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor) to trim down the list of things of which I [...] |
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