During a lunch/recess period in February, my Social Justice Group watched Very Young Girls directed by David Schisgall. We invited the Women in the Media Social Justice Group and the End Rape on Campus Group to watch with us because some of our topic’s concepts overlapped. Very Young Girls was produced by Rachel Lloyd (founder of GEMS – Girls Educations and Mentoring Services). In Rachel Lloyd’s book that all my  groups members read over winter break, she mentions Very Young Girls numerous times so we decided it would be worth watching. The movie was very moving and left me with a different idea of sex trafficking. This was the first time we had really understood the life of a victim and how much they have to endure. One thing that stuck out to me was when a victim of sex trafficking names Shaneiqua said, “I got into the life when I was 11.” Shaneiqua met her pimp when at the age when we were in sixth grade. Her child hood, her innocence, her future has all been stripped away from her. My group had spent so much time learning statistics and facts that we forgot about the victims who are silenced by numbers. Another quote from the movie that I thought was very important was when Rachel Lloyd is speaking about sex trafficking and says, “We look at places like the Philippines, Thailand and the Ukraine and we talk about trafficking and sexual exploitation in other countries and when it’s happening two blocks away from this auditorium, in Hunt’s Point, in Queens Plaza, we look the other way.” Now it is clear why this is the third most ignored global crisis. Sex trafficking is thought of to be in third world countries when it is really happening all around us to girls like us. The other viewers were astonished by the lives of these victims and were definitely influenced to spark change.