Quickies
Quickies: Street harassment, making TedX accessible, and child abuse in the Hasidic community
- “You’re a good looking girl. I want to attack you.” – “Listen babyfellas: I’m not picking on you. I’m trying to help you. And I’m trying to help me. As a woman, I don’t imagine that I will ever get to feel safe in my lifetime.”
- TedX talks have a disability problem – On Haben Girma and her fight to make Ted videos accessible. From Mary.
- Mapping the market for sex: New report details Minneapolis sex trade – “Seventy-five percent of juvenile sex trafficking cases in Minneapolis in 2013 involved Native American victims even though Native people make up just 2 percent of the city’s population.” From Jon.
- The outcast – “After a Hasidic man exposed child abuse in his tight-knit Brooklyn community, he found himself the target of a criminal investigation.”
Featured image by Ed Yourdon.
A bit of an elaboration on the article I linked to: In a lot of these cases, with Indians, the pimps are themselves prostitutes. (Which explains why they’re younger than non-Indian pimps, of course.) This does not, of course, justify their behavior, but it does…complicate things.