Happy Endings Documentary
For the first time, women from the spas testified in the General Assembly. Surely they don’t represent all sex workers and all situations, but this is an important voice that has to be heard or the good intentions of anti-trafficking activists could result in more danger and isolation for people who decide, or are forced, to sell sex.
The Women Speak
PROVIDENCE — An Asian woman who said she works in a “spa” took the witness stand in a Senate hearing room Thursday night and asked why lawmakers want to outlaw indoor prostitution.
Professor Donna Hughes on ‘Happy Endings’
Donna Hughes, an expert on human trafficking and one of the speakers at the community forum that started the Rhode Island Coalition Against Human Trafficking attended a screening of ‘Happy Endings’ at AS220 this Sunday, May 24. I have differences with Dr. Hughes, and left the Coalition because I didn’t want to be a source [...]
Happy Endings at the Columbus
We longtime Rhode Islanders navigate by where Almacs used to be. We know what the Columbus used to be.
Human Trafficking–Back to the ‘Loophole’
Who will prosecute traffickers if they prey on immigrants who fear the police? Who will advocate for these people in our angry, anti-immigrant political climate?
Big Anti-Trafficking Tent
I didn’t want to be disruptive, or even a speed bump in the Coalition Against Human Trafficking. But I continually felt that the goal we started with was being changed. It was less a big tent than a big bus, being steered down a different road.
Why I Wasn’t at the Rally Against Human Trafficking
I continue to have serious concerns about anti-prostitution bills and how the laws would be enforced if passed.
Mainstream Attention to Human Trafficking in Rhode Island
I’m proud to say that Kmareka, and our tireless blogger and human rights advocate, Nancy Green, led the mainstream media in discussing human trafficking at length and in detail — and now the topic is front-page news at the Projo: PROVIDENCE –– Just around the corner from the restaurants along Atwells Avenue, Tammy Dudman scrunched [...]
Happy Endings?
Who are the women who live in the ‘spas’ advertised in the Providence Phoenix? Are they here illegally? Are they underage? Are they forced into prostitution? Tara Hurley spent three years interviewing spa workers, johns, police, politicians and activists.
Advice to Prostitutes From the Kama Sutra
I have no idea what Eliot Spitzer was thinking when he decided to break his own laws and pay thousands of dollars to rent a young woman’s body. Did he think she was secretly attracted to him, that she was doing this because old guys who pay for sex are irresistible? Was he wanting something [...]
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