I am feeling a great deal of anger about the violence being experienced by our community members right in the midst of people who say they care and recognize and support us.

They do not understand that traffickers use these same words as casually, without following up to be sure words match actions and awareness.

Except another major difference is that it is usually trafficking operatives who will step in and provide a more nourishing and supportive response.

It is only those who recognize us and can meet us with a response that matches the experiences we're having in the first moments we are interacting that we can consider building trust litmus with in relationship over time.

If someone is not able to do this initially, it may be too dangerous for us to try to communicate with them ongoing until we establish a stronger position.

In every case, victims and survivors of human trafficking deserve to have a clear, explicit and immediate litmus to discern active trafficking operatives and people who are being trafficked and helping to traffic others without realizing it... from people who are able to function well enough and have the courage to truly be present with us.

This is the only way others can truly show respect and kindness to us, because failing to notice us and failing to prioritize our communities is killing us and creating violence across many other communities than only ours.

This is a community disease that is spreading if we do not become alert to it and always act immediately on knowledge of how to restore safety.

Funny, all this talk about diseases.

#LANDBACK #MMIP