Portrait
Evelina Giobbe
2/9/1992 | 27mVideo has Closed Captions
A survivor of prostitution, she is the founder and program director of Whisper, an...
A survivor of prostitution, she is the founder and program director of Whisper, an organization working to educate the public about prostitution as a system of exploitation and abuse. The barriers she faces as she works to help women escaping from the sex industry are similar to those which the battered women's movement encountered some 20 years ago.
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Portrait
Evelina Giobbe
2/9/1992 | 27mVideo has Closed Captions
A survivor of prostitution, she is the founder and program director of Whisper, an organization working to educate the public about prostitution as a system of exploitation and abuse. The barriers she faces as she works to help women escaping from the sex industry are similar to those which the battered women's movement encountered some 20 years ago.
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Lack of Choices in the World - Content Warning
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Giobbe says "women's compliance in prostitution is built on their lack of choices in... (6m 57s)
Prostitution - Content Warning
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As a runaway at 13, she was taken in by an older man who eventually sold her to a... (13m 52s)
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Attending a women's meeting against pornography in New York, Giobbe came out as a... (4m 52s)
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