Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir, (Paperback)

from BevJohn70072

Rachel begins this memoir by explaining that she is the Executive Director of a Program named GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services). The program is designed to help girls and young women who have been recruited and trafficked into the industry. GEMS is a place where the girls can come a...

from alexann

There's nary a false step in this incredibly readable, heartbreaking account of girls who are coerced into selling their bodies for the profit of the men who control them. Sounds a bit like slavery, doesn't it? The author, Rachel Lloyd, speaks from personal experience. She pulled herself out of "...

from _msjohnson

Lloyd's personal experiences in "the life" broke my heart, but her work with a non-profit organization called GEMS in New York City is what stays with me. She is honest about what it takes to balance injustice and idealism in order to make progress. I'm left with hope that, despite our social/pol...

from BevJohn70072

Rachel begins this memoir by explaining that she is the Executive Director of a Program named GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services). The program is designed to help girls and young women who have been recruited and trafficked into the industry. GEMS is a place where the girls can come a...

from alexann

There's nary a false step in this incredibly readable, heartbreaking account of girls who are coerced into selling their bodies for the profit of the men who control them. Sounds a bit like slavery, doesn't it? The author, Rachel Lloyd, speaks from personal experience. She pulled herself out of "...