Sex Trafficking and the New Abolitionists: A Panel Discussion at Brooklyn Museum

Acclaimed activist Gloria Steinem leads a panel discussing the fight against human trafficking, sexual exploitation, and violence against women and girls. Joining her will be Taina Bien-Aime, Executive Director of Equality Now; Dorchen Leidholdt, Director of the Center for Battered Women's Legal Services at Sanctuary for Families; and Rachel Lloyd, Executive Director of GEMS. This panel discussion took place at the Brooklyn Museum on December 13, 2008. Video courtesy of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.

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• sex trafficking
• Gloria Steinem
• feminism
• Brooklyn Museum
• feminist art

[Manjikoa]

I don't think I would call this Feminist. I'd just call it Humanist. It should be something all people should care about.

[boobootoob]

@VeryHugeAss and I'm aware it's a matter of degree, that's why laws like Sweden's reduce prostitution. To suggest that women get into that bus to liberate themselves, like some form of feminism, or they get into it for some ideological reason is just plain ignorant of the facts. World wide most are in slavery conditions-no choice. So "feminists are to blame" arguments are for crazy men. Ask a pimp, he'll laugh in your face, then I hope he shanks ya. (YOUTUBE CHECK COMMENT I AM RESPONDING TO)

[horsie111]

Finally, a feminist doing some worthwhile complaining? I thought these east coast American women didn't care about anything outside of upper-class white women's "issues". Because, except for the example here, I could never understand WTF these weirdos were on about...

I'll eat my hat *and* read a crap book by her when the dopey cow condemns the international abortion providers for their involvement in forced abortion in China. Yep, I like those odds thanks very much...

[ukewdgb]

Why doesn't she lecture in Saudi Arabia?

[conservthestate]

@HardlineFeminist ok, your defenitely not getting the point. dont try to start up with men, or you WILL end up paying for it. i just mean that you should carry a gun for protection. dont lose yourself in the failed femenism movement.

[littlemoretime1]

@HardlineFeminist by the way- to call a woman a traitor with so little knowledge as to her opinions, life and reasoning is counter-productive to the cause. You talk of a female utopia yet attack someone online on the basis that their view is slightly different (in addition to a lack of understanding u have of my views in the first place). How are people like u capable of coming across a utopia if u r so quick to attack?

[littlemoretime1]

@HardlineFeminist I'm a woman. Accusing me twice of being a man seems strange- esp since it does come across as accusation. I don't think utopia as exists in the first place- let alone one created without 1/2 of the population on board. I believe that good traits r found in both genders and discovering a better world is not dependent on whether a man or woman does so. I am not a traitor to women's rights- I believe in them and live by them. But I don't believe in hating men

[HardlineFeminist]

@newjerseydev

If you say so... But men are still men, which makes you PART OF THE PROBLEM.