So I was reading various sites and found this: Tide? or Ivory Snow?: Public Power in the Age of Empire by Arundhati Roy. Especially compelling to me was her critique of NGO’s - nonprofits and how they function as way to suppress and divert radical energy for change. Much to discuss there and this [...]
So I found two reports referring to recent research on youth in the sex trade in New York. I assumed it was about the same report until I looked closer and realized they referred to separate studies. I haven’t been able to locate the whole reports yet but I found the differences remarkable in what’s [...]
As a youth worker and community educator I believe it’s crucial to stay away from disingenuous questions. I see this a lot when adults try to educate youth about the sex trade or really many other topics. Adults do the same with other adults too.
For example, asking “don’t you think that it’s wrong for girls [...]
First the encouraging news, that Joe Francis, creator of Girls Gone Wild, is facing serious, on-going legal trouble resulting in an arrest and another court appearance on tax evasion charges.
Also a report on the Ruth Ellis Center for LGBTQ youth in Michigan doing amazing community building work and concrete services.
In case you missed it from [...]
A lot of staff struggle with the issue of life experience in the sex trade of program workers. Setting aside the value and importance of youth peer workers for a moment, I want to focus on adults here.
Adults have few ways to learn about how to support youth in the sex trade. Years in college [...]
As if to prove my point from this post, police from a suburb of Chicago arrested a 17 year old (with an adult male and an adult woman) and charged her with running an escort service using Craigslist.
Although just a year ago she had been arrested at 16 with her mother for prostitution (that case [...]
This month I’m featuring manuals and reports on youth in the sex trade from Canada. I’m really drawn to the way that Canada has deeply involved youth in developing research and effective programs by and for youth in the sex trade. Canada is far beyond the U.S. in this respect.
Effective Youth Collaboration and Engagement: Key [...]
The picture is from one of the news items of note this week. Here in Wisconsin, youth organized to protest a rule banning unaccompanied teens from a mall just inside of a suburb next to Milwaukee.
I want to point out that although I’m posting five news items that caught my eye in the week; I [...]
After a recent presentation to medical students, I spoke with an outreach worker about intake questions designed to tell if a youth is involved in the sex trade. Now intake questions can be a way to find out crucial information and realities for someone accessing services. Intakes can also be irritating, unhelpful and a barrier [...]
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