We notice our breath and continue breathing. We don’t know how to describe to you what’s been happening because our bodies need a break from it, from the incessant repeating of it through either experiencing it or having to try again (and again) to verbalize it.
It is deceptively simple approaches that gain us surprising and wondrous solutions. This happens all the time; it happens more and more, the more we choose to listen to, respect, and care for one another.
Many voices want to say their piece, their peace. Many minds want to share their unique perceptions and show how beneficially they are connected to every other being’s hopes and dreams.
Some of these are the worst of nightmares. Do we push them off, yearning for a half-real world that only comforts and secures us, never challenges us or asks us to learn? A world in a strange kind of stasis?
And the most magical and nourishing of the real-life dream manifestations we may reach are only accessed through willingness to honorably explore the most challenging of the challenges. What will we do with this part of it?
As we find ourselves increasingly conscious --- and conscientious --- we return repeatedly to process this.
Whether or not we successfully verbalize it, our bodies are living it.
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Our approaches center trauma awareness and toxemia awareness as part of identifying the subtle early pathways that lead vulnerable families and individuals into circumstances of human trafficking and related violence.

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Because we ensure we can successfully listen to, talk with, and understand survivors of human trafficking, including them in our spaces and honoring their contributions, we can therefore stop human trafficking before it begins in any of our environments and eliminate it where it otherwise exists.

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"We and you do not talk the same language. When we talk to you we use your language: the language of your experience and your theories. When we try to use it to communicate our world experiences, we only succeed in communicating our experience of exclusion. We cannot talk to you in our language because you do not understand it" (Lugones and Spelman 1983, 575)
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Teamwork is something that has seemed to dribble out of the seams of many of our communities, replaced by financially advantageous technology that serves the needs of some while disabling others.

Thankfully, teamwork is easily restored when we tune to learning respect for one another.

As we learn one another's languages of respect and kindness, we are able to co-create communications methodologies that solve our problems with collective capacity and dignity.

Sometimes this means the collaborative invention of truly unique and surprising languages. Often it means bridging languages previously thought to be unbridgeable.

To work together with caring and courage in this way is a true font of healing and life energy revitalizing strength.

"I know more than one genius organizer—usually a Black or brown sick or disabled woman or nonbinary person who doesn’t have a ton of disability community—who’s casually told me that they’ll be dead by the age of fifty.

I respect that crip years are like dog years, and sometimes we live really huge lives in short amounts of time, but I can’t help but think that it doesn’t have to be that way.

We’re soaked since birth in narratives that we will die young, that our lives aren’t worth living, and that we’re up against everything from insurance denials to police trying to kill us who want to do the same damn thing.

But as I hear my friends talking about how they’re sure they’ll die young, I wonder if changing the narratives around care might change their expectations of dying young. I think about what it would take to continue to build communities of care, where caring for each other is something we actually practice and build the structures to hold."

— Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice

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"Victims of human trafficking may develop disabilities from abuse at the hands of their traffickers, and individuals with disabilities may be targeted by traffickers because they are vulnerable. Many human trafficking task forces miss identifying this risk factor or fail to make provisions for people with disabilities. People with physical disabilities, cognitive or intellectual disabilities, sensory disabilities, and mental illnesses all need special attention and protection.

There are several factors that make people with disabilities vulnerable to trafficking.

People with disabilities often rely on others to meet their basic needs. These caregivers have opportunities to traffic them as a result.

People with disabilities may become submissive to their caregivers and comply with their caregivers’ wishes because they are so dependent upon them. This learned response makes the unequal power dynamic in relationship with a trafficker, even if the trafficker is abusive, seem normal.

People with disabilities may lead isolated lives and crave friendship and human connection. Because of this need, they may be persuaded to perform sexual acts if they are promised friendship or money as a reward. Isolation can also make it difficult or impossible for people with disabilities to make contact with people who could help them.

Some people with disabilities cannot speak clearly or require communication devices or interpreters to make their needs known, so they, also, cannot ask for help.

Because of the level of touching that accompanies intimate care and medical procedures, people with disabilities can become desensitized to touch and/or may be unsure about whether they have the right to object to and report unwanted touch, sexual abuse, and sexual acts. They lack information about and understanding of what constitutes a crime and what their rights are as victims of crimes. This is also true of trafficked workers.

People with disabilities may not be believed if they report abuse and violence. If they are believed and their cases are prosecuted, their abusers may be given shorter sentences than abusers of able-bodied people. Task forces should promote awareness of these trends when training service providers, police, prosecutors, and judges."

https://www.ovcttac.gov/taskforceguide/eguide/4-supporting-victims/45-victim-populations/victims-with-physical-cognitive-or-emotional-disabilities

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