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Stop Traffic: Using Expert Witnesses To Disrupt Intersectional Vulnerability In Sex Trafficking Prosecutions, Blanche Cook
Stop Traffic: Using Expert Witnesses To Disrupt Intersectional Vulnerability In Sex Trafficking Prosecutions, Blanche Cook
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Sex trafficking thrives on intersectional inequality and reinforcing
layers of vulnerability. Sex trafficking exists on a continuum of
sexualized violence, from microaggressive sexual harassment to
macroaggressive gang rapes, all of which create vulnerability in the
victim and perfect sovereignty in the perpetrator. Sexualized violence
performs power, as it is raced, classed, and gendered. Power not only
requires performance, but it necessitates repetitive reenactments of
domination in order to normalize its compulsive and pathological nature.
Lynchings, police shootings, gang rapes, and sex trafficking are all
performances of power on vulnerable bodies through which power
perfects itself. The same inequality that creates …