Violence Against Women
“ So Many Survivors I Know Regret Sharing Too Much Too Early ”: Human Trafficking Survivors’ Experiences With Public Storytelling
Survivor storytelling has been a critical component of anti-trafficking work for decades. However, people with lived experience of trafficking have experienced a range of harms through public storytelling engagements, including but not limited to gatekeeping, mental health impacts, tokenizing, and economic exploitation. Using a mixed methods survey with trafficking survivors in the United States and Kenya, this study explored motivations for public storytelling, prior experiences doing this work, and recommendation …