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HaakSaan Essay: Realities must be shared - thanks or no thanks
Published in Western News
May 22, 2019
By Max Martin
"In a crowded coffee shop in downtown London, I sat with a colleague interviewing a subject for an upcoming story. We hadn’t known her for more than 10 minutes, and yet she spoke to us with the comfort and confidence of a long-time friend.
To the passersby, our conversation seemed as innocuous as any other. But against the backdrop of students studying, awkward first dates and power lunches, we were being told the gut-wrenching story of a sex-trafficking victim.
The way she would so seamlessly veer from frank statements about the years of abuse she endured to waving at familiar customers, was both jarring and endearing. She was happy to tell her story – the information, she said, was essential for the public to know." (continue reading)
