Changing the Narrative on Teen Sex Trafficking
Cyntoia Brown-Long |
TEDxLenoxVillageWomen
• November 2020
Full talk title: #TheGlitterProject: Changing the Narrative on Teen Sex Trafficking
In her talk, the author of Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System discusses the evolution of our understanding of domestic minor sex trafficking. Her discussion details the legal and cultural responses to victims of child sex trafficking as she talks about her personal experience as a survivor of DMST. Highlighting the critical role that social norms play in the fight to combat child sex trafficking, she lays out a case for a grassroots learning initiative on teen trafficking, exploitation, and rape.