Ive any ok and im really glad youre in the stream the sex trade is a nightmare for the millions of women and girls who fall into it but surviving is only half the battle in a romney devon on the chapter of the comic book series prei shakti indias 1st woman super hero and rape survivor returns to shed light on the challenges survivors face are trying to get back to a normal life today we meet the woman behind priya and the last girls. The series was born in the aftermath of the brutal gang rape and murder of a young woman on a bus in delhi in 2012 and sadly it doesnt seem like much has changed last week in the Southern City of hyderabad a group of men gang raped smothered to death and burned the body of a 27 year old woman all right P Priyanka Reddy is just one of the hashtags that indians are rallying around after the murder of the young woman in indias tellen ghana state and the country has been in the international spotlight since that 2012 gang rape actor akshay kumar tweets our moral fabric continues to be in pieces we need stricter laws this needs to stop while the suspects in this recent case were quickly arrested by the indian authorities renewed outrage erupted over the countrys handling of Sexual Violence some women online voiced their fears about gender based violence. Are we safe secure or are we suffocating others questioned what it will take to end the cycle of victim blaming heres what one person has to say about how authorities can better address gender based violence a konchesky of assad is a Cyber Security expert. Such a why learned and deliberate acts such heinous crimes should only be awarded death penalties make these convictions key study the field of law and people but the more system borton point does educate educate educate we have to be children to be responsible citizens from a very young age there is no bandaid quick fix solution for this kind of a problem so are the comic books and efforts like them enough we want to hear from you on this join us in our you tube chat and ill do my best to bring in as many of your comments into today so as i can before we get started todays program might be disturbing for some of you watching we will be discussing rape and sex trafficking joining the show in new york shanteau was into is a survivor of Human Trafficking and the found offs and c. E. O. Of mentality a survivor Mentorship Group in new delhi which. Is the founder of indias anti Sex Trafficking Organization apne app women worldwide and the latest chapter of the comic is based on what and here with us onset dip is an actress and playwright and cowriter of priya and the last girls ladies it is good to have him here let me start 1st of all by looking at this beautiful comic right here which here in this comic amazing scenes of fantastical stories but these stories of based on real life this is a real life combining can you tell us how you went about finding the real stories that ended up informing what was in this book. Over 20 years ago i was a journalist looking through the hills of new when a human cross rules of religious. And of course as a journalist asked the question but you know the goods and some of the villagers the city of the sun so. But the few who do so dont you know there and bought me bob it was 1400 kilometers of i just didnt understand how so many girls could be bought i followed the tree ended up in the brothels above. And found that this would have existed in my generation in my lifetime in my country and my word of little girls who were being sexually exploited and soared commercially pretty day in and out i ended up making a documentary on the subject the setting of innocence and i won an emmy for it but. Telling the story was not enough i wanted to do more it was life changing that kind of exploitation i saw inside the branches as a journalist a couple for me and i cut 100 but ive never seen this kind of exploitation applied to be by another so i could join the list and began this lifelong journey to fight the sex industry and Sexual Violence in the lives of young girls and young women. Chandra im just wondering what difference does it make to a young person or family who read Something Like this like this graphic novel. And how educated they are about how they should behave towards women and gals at the same actually walk. Yes in pakistan aggression a few things actually organisation also has a comic book in b. M. D. I mean if. We would be like that we can speak to that in a tiny shack. Because of the still present a book in the school because we disagree today and because the book home and the family there aprils movie that even those that has no money back in the bronx let them say we are them because the french and because the book i think you know often we know. Is. Really the ugliest the. Saw in the life and i think it will be connected with the south again and the slang really. Wasnt. That making and this a. Conversation education at home. School system and also because the community. I think thats what youre saying is why people online are saying its such a good thing its such a good vehicle for doing that so i wanted to share a common we got from someone watching live this is on you tube. I love the comic book and i think its a perfect vehicle to engage with younger children about difficult questions surrounding gender based violence and it is not the only one we also got a video comment from someone whose title littlemore more intimately to the project her 1st song was used in one of the series of the comic her name is shining star of arts and shes a singer and songwriter based in the u. K. And heres what she told the stream ok thanks for having me on the show any im an artist based in london a country. Like when you she said shes fine its against women and men to help and so on and what i love the prius is simply a she said she said relatable and so relevant in Todays Society because what shes done is shes taken such an experience such a negative experience and shes converted it into something positive by going out there and helping other people through her story and through her experience and we as a society that is so quick to be to blame to sit down and listen. So its a superhero who takes on sex trafficking it is not something you see every day how did you get involved with this project so i have a one woman plea on or confessions of a mumbai court on which theyve been a whos the founder of the comic books he saw the show in 2016 and then sometime in 2013 beginning he contacted me to see if id be interested in sharing more about the characters and how i went about creating them from a show the show is about a Trafficking Victim who learns of having a child in the brothel and now the child has come of age so it was very close to home for you know this comic book and then finally we had a few conversation and he invited me to write the 3rd chapter which was supposed to be about rescuing a village of sex Trafficking Victims. Did she can you tell us some of the stories that are in this book because they are true stories is depicted in a fantastic a way. Its not necessarily toxic masculinity that you see when you do see this scary monster that is there so youve kind of bowed down to sort of metaphor but the Actual Stories that you see in the book can you help us understand what they are so one of the things that i grew up seeing were women being womens worst enemies mother sitting their daughters how they should cover their bodies are they should stay safe they should let a man protect them they should their only job is to grow up and get married and have children things like that but also that you do not associate with bad women there are storms like to women meaning a woman of the market a woman whos going to sell herself things like that and those were so deeply disturbing for me and then once women were caught in the sex trade whether it was because of trafficking or whether it was because of any reason poverty or whatever you may have it then coming out for them was a huge problem so even if they were rescued society would not give them a place to stand that they would not give them jobs why because but we cannot have our daughters associate with them our women associate with them so a lot of that informs the book youll see you know women talking about well were see if you we need to keep us safe we need patriarchy to keep us safe and the fact when when we start telling women that you need to be kept safe were already telling them youre weak and you need somebody whos going to give you that protection and keeping that bubble i mean we just talked about the hype about it in the aftermath of that there are some rules that the government is proposing one of them being that women should not be made to do night duties but these things that all kind of like you know just get convoluted and used against women some stories of these women in the book that you read in the last girls about how they got there and now how do you associate the. Shared identity with their abuser and they now dont trust the world outside they think this is safe and thats a big problem so some of the stories came about like that and youre a right i wanted to stay away from villain izing and pointing fingers and i wanted to portray like the evil energy of like a false sense of masculinity power lust believe those kind of things so he created a love a monster who represents all of one of those why not this one of the things i do remember chatting with the way she was developing the script for owner and then when she began to work on the last girls was the experiences that i had while talking to the women when trying to help them get out of systems and prostitution many types of women didnt want to get out because they just understood the sci fi of patriarchy the safety of corporation and began to almost a whole from Something Like the stockholm syndrome where you did begin to like the kidnapper because they didnt understand the world out and begin to order histories of that weve been on our website going to play dispatches which the women bring out every month talking about their experiences and that and. So on this became the cumulative experience of the terms of sex trafficking and prostitution who are now in this fantastic comic book to educate people that how crossed it usually is an absence of choice and prostitution is a manifestation of. Which is so pervasive that in prisons women 1st as girls inside the hall then as bright aides and then finally the slope is so slippery that the absence of choice is to examine so grafters and then they dont see any exit out. So you mentioned on air and i want to share with our audience what that looks like of course thats your work but before i do i want to share whats behind this comment you can see it here from showed a little bit earlier in the last girl so i am going to show you how its done it is featuring augmented reality and that looks a little Something Like this you hold your your phone your i pad whatever you have your device and you see flowing a lot of that there are lots of content animations things that really make this comic come to life it also includes a clip from deep the solo show that tackles the sex trade have a look at that. You arent to hear it in my eyes. My. Beam when im 13 years will he bring me to bombay and hed be i has to stay with these a friend of a few would be is a big. Big and he. Said you tell us whats behind that clip. So thats a story of the woman who gets trafficked unfortunately who gets sold by her own father to a pimp because the father is poor and needs to you know fetch for the family and the younger kids so shes sacrificed by the family but shes also told that she should never return home because if she returns home in the ring she of the family in that cannot be accepted so she learns of being in this brothel and she finds some kind of we do exist here and survive and has a daughter when she has a daughter she takes power in order to her own hands but again still stuck with the social construct that has now put her in this brothel so when their daughter comes of age there arent many choices so she just wants to give her daughter a better life but still in the confines of the brothel so under were talking about tools and ways to discuss activities and gender based violence which are really hard to even talk about but they are in plays and productions and also via comics but you also have experienced this i know one of things that you are really keen on doing is so lets discuss how do we fix this rather than just keep telling stories but you have a certain amount of authority because if people are watching this show and thinking this would never happen to me you were trafficked all the way to go in for a job and i just want people to understand that it could happen to anybody would you mind just retelling that little that little part about how you even got caught up in this world. This is 38 but important question for me you just. Missed understanding the will if theyre picking that everythings happening in my life being a community if theyre for actually not sets their thinking has until. It was one blown for i am also a land of than santa and typical only so all in a situation i think its a bit even because of i came from a wealthy family but because of that the false nominees so i end up sol and so you thought you were going for a new job when the person who met you at the airport and this was in the United States but youre the airport had sold you multiple times and then you were stuck in this web of being sold being trafficked. How did you catch it its i think its a little big given that the situation will get this threat that iran because iran has me at so i mean thats the look of me have you not fallen if i had to go and i said i guess we could. Help i think less that because of they think with a debt regulation of my own again i could bake they would take us and us dollars the big debate comes 2nd that is going to be solved by a sudden think sites 31 past the idea that were going to get out so i think and if not its not a night that so i decided were escott many but difficult i end up in brooklyn so i dont go out on the 2nd run but and i think that i was like but in this equation i know that but on the woman that in the hospital she and they asked me the cotton marable if i repeat so i know that not likely and not that there could be an outside that wait for me when i asked so i lost the thread again since i learned some hands so i guess what you know all youre saying right i think the rest of it so i think its important also that we at the meeting of all the women got us to be able to finance this equation. And this is the case in 5 major on this understanding why ringback. Yet trying to have a question for you i know you visited the guns and gun could show how salute was your story to the stories of the girls in calcutta is it a universal experience thats when i was a trafficking hopes that this story yes this is everything i love is saying way of the saudi in the book in the comic book but yet in my spine he respects that he ends. Yes lance and this film well a lot theres a saying theres a sense of a silence that we have and shows and its so interesting because its such a web because you just mentioned that you jumped out of the 2nd floor window and then you call the number that someone gave you and you trusted this person and it happened to be another trafficker so its kind of like they are working off of their basically breaking you so now you Never Trust Anyone else and that yet and it happened in brooklyn and people tell me this is not a 1st world problem and its just take are you kidding me yeah it is a difficult essay we need. For all of the acts there yes its excellent appears effect that this is let me go get this its a good sales lady. Gaga has it sort of this s. On. Health. Care you know what i mean. To actually you know. The b. 2 d. Normal only use the social exploitation. Because what happens is that we see its all right for women to be prostitution and to be paid to be lived and therefore we allow people to begin to think that its alright to sexually exploit to exploit limited and this culture then becomes the culture of all were all other countries in the United States so digitals who in the world also i feel like its important to understand right like that reapers hardly ever about sex its all about power and control so i feel like this conversation perfectly leads into what other Solutions Like i feel. As without the gender biases and gender specific roles would be one of the ways we could maybe break free of that when you guys think about that but i feel like were so pink and blue everywhere the world not just in india i mean india has its own problems and all the patriarch otos have the problem but its so pink and blue and then when they grow. Up its like oh you this is your role in this the Auto Industry protect a woman and your role is to be to allow a. New dealer did that of course you have to bring out a boyish and. Good to learn how to say no and for boys how to. Know all about it. Because can you imagine how much more fun 6 would be if it looked like you enjoyed it but if you tried to you dont and not because yeah well look i did this and so we have to have the solutions around saying you know i feel like you feel whole t. V. Serious mistakes advice i would definitely be watching now what. You want to take us next will you all raise such important things and i want to pick up on just 2 of them the people in our Community Join us here says that often victims endure concert pressure from men who know of their play and that speaking to what you were saying earlier shandra these men then make it difficult for traffic victims to see the good in themselves but that is why we have other people in our community saying this comic will help that so this is been john who says for many kids priya and the last girls will be their 1st brush with topics like sexism Sexual Violence crimes against women as a comic book is a carrier of this hard hitting message it will help bring conversations around uncomfortable topics to the dinner table so deep to figure this one to you because i know that you have a 55 and a half year old daughter are you talking about these things with her how do you even begin to approach that so she knows about the comic book she doesnt understand the concept as you know shes going to 5 if you ask her she says 5 and half. But i do tell her that there are bad people or rather i refrain from using the term bad people but i tell her that there are people who think bad actions and do bad things to other people unfortunately this is how it is so you know i try to educate her in some ways i tell her how if somebody touches you inappropriately you know if you see for a 5 year old you understand somebody touches you in. Here or there its not ok and used to come down mommy or daddy you know so i try to interview her about those things because things start to happen very early on and you know mean silly. Ladies are its a summer that happened as we were getting ready for this show and this was that appalling rape that happened in india another one and we were thinking as we were talking about how extraordinary this piece of work is and the work that all of you do how how is it helping. When women are being murdered and brutally raped me right now its not helping i hear and i just i just want to hear that because im thinking if this isnt this isnt enough surely this is not enough ive i think personally and im an artist and i have a romantic heart and i want to change it all right now but i think what the the the magnitude of the problem is so massive its beyond this shocking beyond theirs and he yawned beyond each individual but we all have to come together collectively as a society the work that brutalizing the work the chandos to the work that you guys are doing we all need to come together collectively i think we need to propose a 2 prong solution strict laws self defense all those things but until this is like putting bandaid on the gang engrave around dont do our job doesnt cause our. Head like really quickly at the end of the show because were talking about strict laws i want to mention there was defies belief that the shore duty of but richmond is more important than the city if you will. And most families were working on the ground im not for the Death Penalty in jail didnt cause the Death Penalty but if last year and it has not worked well how many would only have problems right well they had to go look at people how did people. In the last year and yet it did not deter deform it from. The exactly so why does the i deliberately change the culture of thats what im saying that for the 2nd crime leadership the top leadership in the country right now is sending messages that you have to straighten your chest out you have to impose death a little bit and to be a man suppressed or protest limited. So the messaging trumped up to the ship. And then all. 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