High Hopes for refuge for human trafficking survivors seemed like just another story about small Rescue-Industry projects getting big funding and providing founders with lots of good feelings about themselves. I ran it on facebook poking gentle fun at the rustling pecan trees. After a few routine comments I got a call on the anti-trafficking hotline.
I don’t think we missed any major points to be cynical about in this spoof of a person who makes a hotline-call to help police, not a victim. It was a spontaneous conversation, and I haven’t edited it to publish here.
Norma Jean Almodovar is author of Cop to Call Girl: Why I Left the LAPD to Make an Honest Living As a Beverly Hills Prostitute, published in 1994. She created and maintains Police Prostitution and Politics: Operation Do the Math, where she keeps track of FBI claims about sex-trafficking. ‘I do it because prostitution abolitionists can’t count,’ she says.
And the pecan trees keep on rustling. I’d sure like to get me some of that horse therapy.
Laura Agustín – The Naked Anthropologist
oh wonderful!
can i translate the conversation to spanish and publish into my blog?
thats exactly what happens here
but sadly nobody cares….
Adelante, pero ojo, la ironía es muy fuerte en cada línea (ambas voces, la mia y la de Norma Jean). Incluye enlaces al original et cetera.