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United Nations and Human Trafficking

March 11, 2021 by Julia Flynn Siler Leave a Comment

March is Women’s History Month and I’m thrilled to take part on Friday, March 19th in a virtual panel at this year’s United Nations Commission on the Status of Women NGO Forum.

The event is being organized by the San Francisco Collaborative Against Human Trafficking, a public-private partnership established more than a decade ago by the National Council of Jewish Women and the Jewish Coalition to End Human Trafficking in collaboration with the San Francisco Department on the Status of Women, the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, and the San Francisco Mayor’s Office.

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Filed Under: Human Trafficking Tagged With: empowerment, human trafficking, women, women's history

Honoring Hawaii’s Queen

July 1, 2020 by Julia Flynn Siler Leave a Comment

At a time when statues are toppling across the nation, one work of public art stands tall.

It is the eight-foot-tall bronze of Hawaii’s Queen Lili’uokalani, who faces the state Capitol in Honolulu. This  beautifully rendered artwork, by the American realist sculptor Marianna Pineda,  is even more powerful today than it was when it was erected in the 1980s.

If anything, this regal public monument become even more beloved over time. To understand why, watch this PBS American Masters short documentary on the Queen that’s just been released. It’s a wonderful and very moving.

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Filed Under: Hawaii, History, Music, Research, The Writing Life, Uncategorized, women's history Tagged With: Hawaii, History, queen lili'uokalani, statues, women's history

Who Should California Honor?

June 23, 2020 by Julia Flynn Siler Leave a Comment

Father Junipero Serra. Christopher Columbus. Sir Francis Drake. Even Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the national anthem.

What do most of the statues being toppled across California have in common?

Mariposa Villaluna at Coit Tower after a crew from the city dismantled a statue of Christopher Columbus during the night. Photo: Paul Chinn / The Chronicle

They’re figures from history who supported white supremacy. And they’re all men.

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Filed Under: Research, Uncategorized, women's history Tagged With: History, tye leung schulze, women's history

Unladylike2020

May 11, 2020 by Julia Flynn Siler Leave a Comment

Women’s lives have long been overlooked by historians, especially the lives of women of color. But a new PBS project, UnladyLike2020, is producing 26 documentary shorts of unsung women heroes of American history.

Tye Leung Schulze, artwork by Amelie Chabannes

 

Part of PBS’s American Masters series honoring the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, just aired a film about Tye Leung Schulze.  She was the first Chinese American woman to work for the U.S. Federal Government and an advocate for trafficked women. You can watch the film here.

 

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Filed Under: Asian Americans, History, Human Trafficking, Research, The Writing Life, women's history Tagged With: "donaldina cameron", cameron house, documentary film, tye leung schulze, women's history

Disrupting the Business of Human Trafficking – Then and Now

March 5, 2019 by Julia Flynn Siler 2 Comments

In 1874, a group of women opened a “safe house” on the edge of San Francisco’s Chinatown. Because their work disrupted the thriving trade in women between China and America, they faced endless legal challenges and even sticks of dynamite placed on their doorstep. By offering a place for survivors of sex slavery and other forms of servitude to escape to and drawing public scrutiny to the crime, they threatened their century’s existing business model of human trafficking.

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Filed Under: Human Trafficking, Uncategorized Tagged With: activism, History, human trafficking, women's history

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