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We promised you something fun for our season finale, so here it is! We kick things off with the Traffik Report Collective playing a round of Karen Campbell’s Movie-Matchup Game: The Trafficking Edition. The Collective also joins us for a movie review, or take down, of the movie Taken! We interview collective member, Camilla Ho, about the Children of the Street program and the Youth Arts Engagement Project in BC which showcases how the arts really can be used to bust myths about trafficking. And we share our recommendations on books and movies that are an antidote to trafficking clichés we love to mock.

On this episode (click on Chapters tab to go directly to the following episode segments):

• Movie Match-Up: Can you guess what movie title goes with the movie description?
• Review/critique of Taken and its' trafficking tropes
• Interview with Camilla Ho on youth arts engagement program

Hosted by Elvira Truglia and Fay Faraday

RESOURCES:

PLEA Community Services’ Children of the Street program

Youth Art Engagement Project online Gallery 2021

We’ll update the Gallery link when the 2022 art work is available (late spring 2022).

These are some of the books and movies that Traffik Report Collective members recommended.

Non-Fiction Books:

Jade H. Brooks, The Teen Sex Trade (Formac Publishing, 2017) and Renegade: Teen Sex Trade Part Two (Time Immemorial Publishing, 2021)

Rachel Lloyd, Girls Like Us (HarperCollins, 2012)

TV show:

The Deuce (HBO, 3 seasons: 2017-2019)

Documentary:

Migrant Dreams, Min Sook Lee, director (2016)

Film:

La Nuit Venue (Night Ride), Frédéric Farrucci, director (2019)

Media literacy:

MediaSmarts, Centre for Media and Digital Literacy

If you have other recommendations you’d like to share, send us an email!

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We’ll keep building our resource library through our show notes. If you have a helpful resource you would like to share, write to us with your suggestion!

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Twitter: @TraffikReport

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Credits: This podcast is produced by Elvira Truglia and Fay Faraday. We thank the Canadian Women’s Foundation for their financial support which has made this work possible.

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For all those listening to the podcast from coast to coast to coast on Turtle Island, we acknowledge that we are creating this work on the ancestral and unceded territory of all the Inuit, Metis, and First Nations people who call this land home.

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This episode focuses on youth who are experiencing trafficking and sexual exploitation. The Traffik Report Collective gathers to ask: do we have to think about human trafficking differently when youth are involved? What does trafficking look like for girls and teens? And what has shifted during the pandemic? As front-line workers, how is advocating for youth different from advocating for adults? What are some of the challenges in supporting youth and what are some best practices?

Hosted by Elvira Truglia and Fay Faraday

Click on the 'Transcript' tab to read the show transcript.Link to the show transcript here.

Resources:

Binesiwag Center for Wellness (Fort Frances) (services rooted in Indigenous holistic wellness and direct support to 2SLGBTIAA+ folx, women and girls)

Fort Frances Tribal Health Authority (Fort Frances) (supporting Indigenous women and youth)

Mouvement contre le viol et l’inceste (Montreal) (supporting survivors of gender-based violence)

Ndinawemaaganag Endaawaad Inc. (Ndinawe) (Winnipeg) (supporting Indigenous youth)

PLEA Community Services Society of BC (Vancouver) (supporting youth experiencing or at risk of trafficking in BC)

YWCA Halifax (supporting women and youth in Nova Scotia)

FCJ Refugee Centre, Youth Alliance Against Human Trafficking (Toronto) (support for migrant youth at-risk of and in conditions of labour and sex exploitation)

National (supporting urban, rural, Northern & remote communities)

CCR Youth Network: The Youth Network gives refugee and newcomer youth a voice to address challenges faced by newcomer youth and a space to share ideas on how to meet these challenges.

Canadian Women’s Foundation

• The facts about barriers girls face
  
  
• Signal for Help
  “Signal for Help” is a simple one-handed sign someone can use on a video call. It can help a person silently show they need help and want someone to check in with them in a safe way.

Girls Action Foundation has developed a series of publications and resources for girls' programmers and young leaders that are available to consult and download on-line. Viist their resource centre.

Join the conversation

We’re interested in your feedback and how the podcast can help build mutual aid and communities of practice.

We’ll keep building our resource library through our show notes. If you have a helpful resource you would like to share, write to us with your suggestion!

Contact us: info@thetraffikreport.ca

Twitter: @TraffikReport

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/traffikreport/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/traffikreport/

Credits: This podcast is produced by Elvira Truglia and Fay Faraday. We thank the Canadian Women’s Foundation for their financial support which has made this work possible.

Acknowledgement

For all those listening to the podcast from coast to coast to coast on Turtle Island, we acknowledge that we are creating this work on the ancestral and unceded territory of all the Inuit, Metis, and First Nations pe

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We can’t talk about human trafficking without having difficult conversations. In this episode, the Traffik Report Collective takes on the polarized debates about the commercial sex trade. Some people working on the frontlines see the sex trade as fundamentally exploitative and think the solution is to abolish it altogether. Some look at it from a labour perspective and advocate to ensure the rights of sex workers are respected like other workers in the labour force. How do we break this polarized framework? How do we find common ground and trust in order place people who have experienced coercion at the centre of conversations?

Hosted by Elvira Truglia and Fay Faraday

Click on the 'Transcript' tab to read the show transcript.Link to the show transcript here.

Some resources

We encourage you to host conversations in your community and do your own research on this topic. Here are a few resources to get you started:

Causing harm while trying to help women in sex work, on OpenDemocracy.net

Stop the Harm from Anti-Trafficking Policies & Campaigns: Support Sex Workers’ Rights, Justice, and Dignity, by Butterfly, the Asian and Migrant Sex Workers Support Network

To find out more about the range of issues and perspectives about human trafficking, see the annotated bibliography on human trafficking by the Refugee Research Network.

Join the conversation

We’re interested in your feedback and how the podcast can help build mutual aid and communities of practice.

We’ll keep building our resource library through our show notes. If you have a helpful resource you would like to share, write to us with your suggestion!

Contact us: info@thetraffikreport.ca

Twitter: @TraffikReport

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/traffikreport/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/traffikreport/

Credits: This podcast is produced by Elvira Truglia and Fay Faraday. We thank the Canadian Women’s Foundation for their financial support which has made this work possible.

Acknowledgement

For all those listening to the podcast from coast to coast to coast on Turtle Island, we acknowledge that we are creating this work on the ancestral and unceded territory of all the Inuit, Metis, and First Nations people who call this land home.

We are doing this work as a collaborative feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial practice.