Not Your Mama’s Feminism: From Budgets to Beliefs - How Money Shapes Feminist Anti-Trafficking Politics
If you’ve ever found yourself listening to the exact phrases echo through feminist anti-trafficking spaces - conference panels, grant reports, press releases - and wondered why they never seem to chan...
6 Feb 11min
Follow The Money: The Economics of a Human Trafficking Sting - The Taxpayer Spreadsheet
A trafficking sting is as much a political product as a law-enforcement action. It delivers a simple, media-ready narrative: villains, heroes, and a moral arc that ends at a podium. That story moves e...
30 Jan 7min
On the Super Bowl, Safety and Solidarity
Every year, around this time, the airwaves in whatever city is hosting the Super Bowl are flooded with public services announcements about sex trafficking. Billboards go up. Police officers receive sp...
27 Jan 8min
Follow The Money: The Economics of a “Human Trafficking” Sting - The Human Toll
As we close out Human Trafficking Awareness Month, it is critical to center the people most impacted by the systems we claim are meant to protect them. Over the past three weeks, we traced how traffic...
23 Jan 7min
The Sting Show - Where Non Profit Cashes In
Anti-trafficking organizations love to frame themselves as progress. New language. New branding. New slogans about care, rescue, and restoration. But when you follow the money - and follow the people ...
21 Jan 9min
The Economics of a “Human Trafficking” Sting: The Non Profit Spreadsheet
During Human Trafficking Awareness Month, the public is encouraged to support efforts that “help survivors.” Yet, few realize how much funding flows to institutions that expand policing rather than st...
16 Jan 8min
The Sting Show - Plea Bargains, Case Closures, and the Assembly Line That Blocks Justice
By the time someone arrested in a so-called “human trafficking sting” sits down with a public defender, the outcome is already taking shape. Not because the facts are clear. Not because harm has been ...
14 Jan 5min
The Economics of a “Human Trafficking” Sting: - The Criminal Justice Spreadsheet
As Human Trafficking Awareness Month continues, conversations often center on awareness campaigns and sensationalized narratives about “saving victims,” But understanding the systemic costs reveals ho...
9 Jan 7min
