I Think I Like That Better Than The Original Acronym!

I think I like that better than the original acronym!

women in STEM (supervillainy, treachery, evilness, malevolence)

I wish I hadn't been socialized to think that smooth legs are sexy. I wish I hadn't grown up trading stories with friends about the best ways to get absolutely baby smooth legs in the summer. I wish every magazine I've ever read hadn't shown me models with hairless legs and underarms and Brazilian waxes. I wish my friends hadn't asked with shock "you don't shave your bikini area?!" in tenth grade, while we changing in the same room. I wish I hadn't immediately conformed to meet that expectation. I wish that every swimsuit I looked at online wasn't on a body hairless model. And while I hate the idea that women's worth is equated with their looks, I still wish someone had told me that body hair is beautiful.

PCOS & Gender Survey 2021

This year's PCOS & Gender Survey is now LIVE and is expected to be live until July 4th, 2021

This year, there are 2 versions of the survey: one for participants diagnosed with PCOS, and another for participants with ovaries that do NOT have PCOS

To participate in either version of the survey, respondents MUST be 18+ and have been born with female reproductive organs (because this is necessary for a formal diagnosis of PCOS)

The links for each version of the survey can be seen below:

[Link] WITH PCOS

[Link] WITHOUT PCOS

This post will be queued to post regularly for the following 2 weeks; if you would like to avoid seeing the reposted version, please blacklist the tag "#2021 survey"

And men, on average, have more free time than women, (Sources: here, here, and here) so you would think they would be the ones doing more interesting things with it. But no, instead women just do everything and then get super creative with our free time and then we get burnout because we don't get any extra time to just lounge around and do nothing.

Men are boring.

Women's free time as told by Rapunzel GIFs:

It's so wild how when you ask ppl about how they like to spend their free time it's always men going "sports and games" and women like "oh i dunno i like to dance and paint and play music and bake and write and sing and draw and cook food and read and tend to my plants/pets and make crafts" yet women are stereotyped as vapid??? ppl will debate you about whether women ever did anything in world history?? helloooooo????

Documentaries about sex trafficking:

Sex, Slavery, and Drugs in Bangladesh

Inside the Lives of American Sex Slaves

Stuck in Traffick

Rape for Profit

What Happened to the Girl-Next-Door

The Price of Sex (2011) dir. Mimi Chakarova (sex trafficking in post-Communist Eastern Europe)

Body Without Soul (1996) and Not Angels But Angels (1994) (prostituted young boys in post-Communist Eastern Europe)

Men for Sale (Hommes à louer) (2008) dir. Rodrigue Jean

Stopping Traffic: The Movement to End Sex-Trafficking

A Path Appears

Demand by sharedhope.org

Sex Trafficking in Cambodia

The Virgin Trade

Malaysia Underage Sex Trade

Finding Home

Sands of Silence – Journey into Trafficking

Born Into Brothels: Calcutta’s Red Light Kids

Slavery: A 21st Century Evil 

Whores’ Glory

Cargo: Innocence Lost

Dreams Die Hard – Free The Slaves

Not My Life

Redlight

Virgin Harvest

Trapped (about trafficked Nigerian women)

Sacrifice (about Burmese children recruited in their native villages and trafficked into the Thai sex trade)

The Day My God Died (sex trafficking in India, includes information about sacred prostitution)

Tin Girls (focuses on the trafficking of girls for prostitution from Nepal to India)

The Selling Of Innocents (1997) dir. Ruchira Gupta

Love, Sonia (2018) dir. Tabrez Noorani

Save My Seoul (2017) dir. Jason Y. Lee

Sold (based on a best selling novel by Patricia McCormick, which in turn was inspired by true stories of trafficked girls)

Daryl Hannah’s activism: interview, documentary 

Children for Sale

Trafficked - The Reckoning

My Boyfriend The Sex Tourist (2007)

Nefarious: Merchant of Souls (2011) dir. Benjamin Nolot

Trading Women

Very Young Girls

I am Jane Doe (sex trafficking on Backpage)

Child sex trafficking in America (TED Talk with the mother of a sex trafficking victim recruited through Backpage)

Selling the Girl Next Door (2011)

Sold For Sex: Trafficking in Nebraska

Thai Brides (2000), Louis and the Brothel (2003) and Selling Sex (2020) dir. Louis Theroux

Poverty, Inc. and Toxic Hot Seats are searing exposes about global charity and the chemical industry that show how these industries are linked to sex trafficking and to pro-legalisation lobbysts

Prostitution and coal mining in Indonesia

Sex trafficking and illegal gold mining in Peru

Underage victims of sex tourists in the Dominican Republic

Red Lights and Red Lines: Prostitution in Europe

The Hunt for Britain’s Sex Traffickers

The Long Night (discussion with director Tim Matsui)

The Moral Bankruptcy of the Left on Prostitution

Selling Sex For £4 In Liverpool

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Testimonials:

Shandra Woworuntu: My life as a sex-trafficking victim

‘I came to the UK and I was turned into a prostitute’ – trafficked women share their horrific stories

I survived human trafficking. That makes me the exception to the rule by Crystal Isle

From rural Romania to a Swiss brothel: Generations of Romanian girls trafficked into Europe’s sex industry

Sex trafficking in the UK: one woman’s horrific story of kidnap, rape, beatings and prostitution

Women from All Over the World Are Being Sex-Trafficked into Greece

Chained to a bed and servicing 50 clients a day: this is why we need the Walk for Freedom

Harrowing ‘Crazy Heart’ Music Video Raises Awareness of Human Trafficking

Karla Jacinto (Mexico)

Jasmine Marino, author of “The Diary of Jasmine Grace”: “Sex trafficking is domestic violence on steroids”

Sophie Hayes: I was trafficked by my boyfriend

Rebecca Bender (website)

Sandra (Mexico) 

Kika Cerpa (USA)

Melissa Woodward (USA)

Apartment 407 (2017) dir. Frida Farrell (Interview)

Catie Hart, of AnnieCannons, an Oakland-based nonprofit organization which teaches sex trafficking survivors how to develop software and websites so they can find work outside of the sex trade

Police criticised as organised gangs gain control of UK sex industry

Doctors often unaware they are treating human trafficking victims, written by  Hanni Stoklosa, MD, co-editor of “Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue“ 

Invisible Boys: Inside the Push to Help Unseen Victims of the Sex Trade

Call me Collin: The diary of a sex trafficked boy

A Toronto Star investigation into the dark underbelly of domestic sex trafficking in Ontario

Sex trafficking in South Africa: Lured by cash, women face lethal risks beyond disease and addiction

Embrace Dignity, a pro-Nordic Model women’s group in South Africa

Decriminalisation in New Zealand is a tragic failure

Climate change leads to increase in trafficking of women in the Philippines

The Game review – true stories of sex work performed in a mounting torrent of trauma

Growing up in mum and dad’s brothel: former university lecturer Dr Aaron Darrell speaks out

The Harms of the Sex Trade: A Conversation with the Founder of the Survivor Clinic in New York City

Sex trafficking survivors during #MeToo

Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking? (2012) by Seo-Young Cho, Axel Dreher, Eric Neumayer (cross-section of up to 150 countries)

Legalisation: A Dream Come True for Traffickers

The artwork of a sex trafficking survivor, Suzzan Blac

Anneke Lucas (Belgian peadophile ring survivor):

Ted Talk

Podcast

Interview

UN report (2019): human trafficking is on the rise: Trafficking for sexual exploitation is the most prevalent form in European countries, whilst in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East, forced labour is the main factor driving the illicit trade. Women and girls make up most trafficking victims worldwide: almost ¾ of them are trafficked for sexual exploitation and 35% are trafficked for forced labour

Lydia Cacho’s activism

Invisible: Britain’s “Migrant Sex Workers” by Hsiao-Hung Pai (undercover journalist works as a housekeeper in a brothel and exposes the terrible reality of the British sex trade)

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Isolated cases:

A Greenville, SC couple convicted in 2015 under the state’s human-trafficking law forced a woman to have sex with up to 30 men a day by threatening her and her family

Forced to have sex with 1,000 men, a girl is now suing the motel that she says let it happen

Children caught in Winnipeg sex-trade sweep

Fort Myers sex trafficking case:

Mom says girl recorded while she was being sexually assaulted in school bathroom was human trafficking victim

Human trafficking at core of S. Fort Myers High sex scandal

N. Fort Myers teen stolen from home into sex trafficking

Another arrest made in SWFL human trafficking ring

Two more arrested in SWFL sex trafficking ring

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Sex trafficking in the USA:

Human trafficking persecution unit (HTPU)

National Human Trafficking Hotline

Trafficking, Prostitution, and Inequality by Catharine MacKinnon

Sex Trafficking & Pornography: The Links Between The Two by Robert Peters

Dr. Laura Lederer: Pornography’s Link to Sex Trafficking

The US Military and the International Sex Industry

Sex trafficking in the Silicon Valley tech industry

Sex trafficking and the Superbowl

Sex trafficking post Backpage-shutdown 

Sex trafficking in AZ (includes information about the foster care-child trafficking pipeline)

Sex trafficking in Toledo, OH

Sex trafficking in San Diego, CA

Elle Snow (Sex trafficking in Humboldt County, CA)

Sex trafficking in Los Angeles, CA

Sex trafficking in California, nearly 500 arrested (2017). More cases of human trafficking were reported in California than in any other U.S. state in 2016

Sex trafficking in Central Minnesota (2016)

Sex trafficking in Texas, response inadequate

Sex trafficking in New York

Sex trafficking in North Dakota

Connecticut sex trafficking ring pimped out disabled young man

Who buys a trafficked child for sex? Otherwise ordinary men

Child sex trafficking in Seattle, “as easy as ordering pizza”

Playground (2009) dir. Libby Spears

Stubborn cycle of runaways ending in prostitution (2013)

Operation Cross Country X (2016)

Tricked (sex trafficking in Fairfax County, VA)

Trafficked: The Exploitation of Women and Girls In the Bakken and Beyond (a period of rapidly expanding oil extraction from the Bakken formation in the state of North Dakota leads to an increase in crime, including sex trafficking. Murder of Olivia Lone Bear)

Hidden America: Chilling New Look at Sex Trafficking in the US

Sex Trafficking Goes Unnoticed in America (2016)

Frontline: Sex Trafficking in America (2019)

In Plain Sight: Human Trafficking

How US sex traffickers recruit jailed women for prostitution

Youth Involvement in the Sex Trade (2016): Between 8,900 and 10,500 children, ages 13 to 17, are commercially exploited each year in the United States

Sex trafficking in American hotels

John Whitehead’s activism

Demand Abolition

The Samaritan Women

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Mediterranean migrant crisis:

Mafia-Backed Nigerian Prostitution in Sicily

An Exited Woman’s Sanctuary For Trafficked Sex Slaves

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Prostitution in Germany:

Germany may roll back legalised prostitution amid exploitation fears (2013)

How Legalizing Prostitution Has Failed

We’re living in a pimp state 

Welcome to Paradise: inside the world of legalised prostitution

The Mega Brothel (a look behind the doors of the five-storey Paradise club in Stuttgart)

Inside Germany’s Sex Supermarkets

German mass raids target forced prostitution gang (2018)

Legalization in Saarland, 15 years on

Ingeborg Kraus’ input (in French) during a conference about exiting prostitution in 2015. Other videos from the same evening (including Rachel Moran’s testimonial) can be found here 

Ingeborg Kraus expanding on the same subject (in English)

Ingeborg Kraus’ presentation “International Approaches to Prostitution: Sweden, Germany, Canada”  in Vancouver, Canada on September 20, 2016

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TED talks:

3 ways businesses can fight sex trafficking: Nikki Clifton (2018)

Bought and Sold: Trafficking in America: Kaylen Runyan

#Buycott: ending human trafficking: Jesse Bach

A novel solution to sex trafficking: Sandy Skelaney

Child Trafficking in Canada: Emily Pelly

Combating human trafficking: AnnJannette Alejano-Steele

End Human Trafficking: Shannon Sedgwick Davis

Every 15 Seconds: Matt Friedman

Enslaved: from victim to victor: Jessica Minhas 

Exposing the Reality of Sex Trafficking: Bonnie Gatchell

Growing up in the foster care system: Angel Mechling 

How to end modern day slavery – surviving the sex industry: Roslynn Gallegos 

How to spot human trafficking: Kanani Titchen

Human Trafficking: Discovering the Value of a Human Life: Amanda Howa

Human trafficking: Rachel Lloyd (author of “Girls like Us”)

Human trafficking: Anne Victory

Human trafficking - 21st century slavery: Faridoun Hemani

Human trafficking - dreams and realities: Diep Vuong

Human trafficking – Stop the silence: Catalleya Storm

Human trafficking – stop the nightmare: Kim Dempster

I am human, not cattle. : Jennifer Kempton, founder of Survivor’s Ink, a charity which helps sex trafficking survivors who have been forcibly tattooed and/or branded to have their tattoos/branding covered or removed. Sadly, Jennifer passed away in 2017

I was human trafficked for 10 years. We can do more to stop it: Barbara Amaya

Justice for child victims of sexual exploitation: Jessica Munoz

Look Again: Sex Trafficking in your Own Backyard: Elizabeth Melendez Fisher

Prostitution is not a victimless crime: Andy Hall

Sex trafficking: Linda Smith

Sex Trafficking in the U.S.: Young Lives, Insane Profit: Yolanda Schlabach

Sex Trafficking in Your Back Yard: Vednita Carter (founder of Breaking Free)

Sex trafficking isn’t what you think it is: Meghan Sobel

Sex worker: the truth behind the smile: Antoinette Welch

The Face of Human Trafficking: Megan Rheinschild

The fight against sex slavery: Sunitha Krishnan

The Porn Paradox: Megan Johnson 

Turning up the volume, bringing human trafficking down: Ruici Tio

Why I Turned Toward Sex Slavery: Shannon Keith

Where were you?: Matt Friedman

Why you should care: the human trafficking footprint in the U.S.: Ryan L. Brooks

Winning the fight against human trafficking: Michael Brosowski

Witness: Illuminating the World of Modern-day Slavery: Lisa Kristine

Your vagina is not a car: Clementine Ford