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6 - “Locked in Like a Dog in a Kennel”: Expanding Tactics, Challenging Systems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 September 2018

Carrie N. Baker
Affiliation:
Smith College, Massachusetts
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The 2010s saw the consolidation of youth survivor leadership in the movement and activists’ turn toward broader critiques of society for failing youth involved in the sex trade. During this period, the movement employed new strategies, like survivor memoirs, film and social media campaigns, to convince the public of the problem’s urgency and to transform attitudes, language and treatment of youth. Activists worked to reform the criminal justice and child welfare systems, and they worked to "end demand" and stop online advertising of minors for sex. Activists also began to call attention to a wider range of youth, including youth of color, LGBT youth, and boys. Activism by religious groups grew significantly, sometimes generating tension with progressive groups, and critiques of the movement by the left and sex-worker organizations proliferated. Despite these differences, activists still functioned as a collaborative adversarial movement by working together to achieve common goals, like expanded safe harbor laws, improvements to the child welfare system, and enhanced programs for runaway and homeless youth at risk of entering the sex trade.
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Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade
Gender, Race, and Politics
, pp. 161 - 199
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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