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Euphoria // Loreen (2012 Eurovision Winner)
Even as celebrity activists such as Emma Thompson, Demi Moore, and Mira Sorvino raise awareness about commercial sex trafficking, survivor Rachel Lloyd publishes her memoir Girls Like Us, and the Senate introduces a new bipartisan bill for victim support, the problem proliferates across continents, in casinos, on streets, and directly into your mobile device. And, as Amy Fine Collins shows, human trafficking is much closer to home than you think; victims, younger than ever, are just as likely to be the homegrown American girl next door as illegally imported foreigners. Having gained access to victims, law-enforcement officials, and a convicted trafficker, Collins follows a major case that put to the test the federal government’s Trafficking Victims Protection Act.
My heart is breaking after hearing that a sex trafficking ring was busted in Boston this past weekend. I really hate my sex sometimes because of how heartless, cruel, and just plain fucking cold we can be. I’m sorry you have to deal with our shit, ladies. I’m sorry to hear this happened and still happens in places closer than we think. We’re not all assholes. Most are however.
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In Washington, D.C., a Museum Gets a Cinematic Makeover
This spring, millions of people strolling at night near the National Mall in Washington, D.C. will be able to see a museum turned inside-out. The Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden is giving its trademark circular cement exterior a glowing, 360-degree makeover.
