Learn How Design Can be a Weapon in the Fight Against Trafficking
Design students have begun using their creativity to help victims and survivors of human trafficking. For example, this redesigned feminine hygiene product has information about seeking help hidden in its packaging.
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Design Against Trafficking
Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth used their oratorical skills to speak out against enslavement. Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote against enslavement with such verve Abraham Lincoln allegedly quipped upon meeting her "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great [Civil] war!"* Throughout history, the creative have powered social movements.
The fight against human and labor trafficking is not so different. Design Against Trafficking recently launched a website that shares resources and examples of how design can be a weapon in the fight against modern-day enslavement. Architecture, games, clothing, and graphic design are all featured.
*This story has not been verified by anyone outside of the Stowe family.
Forms of Abolition:
Awareness
Forms of Slavery:
Sex Trafficking
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