“Sing me a pretty love song as I start to cry Tell me you love me as you wipe the blood from my eye Tell me why the only one who can wipe away my tears Is the only one… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Sing me a pretty love song as I start to cry Tell me you love me as you wipe the blood from my eye… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
“I am both numb and oversensitive, overwhelmed by the need, the raw and desperate need of the girls I am listening to and trying to help. I'm overdosing on the trauma of others, while still barely healing from my own. I cry for hour at home and have fitful nights of little sleep. My nightmares resurface as my own pain… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share
I think a huge part is how we're socialized growing up to see our value and worth as being tied into a relationship and how our culture teaches us a distorted sense of romantic love - can't live without you, can't breathe without you, I'll die without you. As teenage girls we believe that level of emotional intensity and dramatics… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share
Even in New York City, we've seen some major improvements from the way the system was 20 years ago. There's still a lot to do - we know that training workers and parents, reducing caseload size, developing therapeutic foster care, strengthening kinship care, and putting more emphasis into preventive care are all solutions. Unfortunately, if a child is in a… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share
An important documentary that sheds light on one of the most terrifying realities in the U.S. today—the commercial sexual exploitation of young girls. TRICKED… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
Every age, race, socio-economic background of men are 'johns.' It's a little more complicated who's doing the selling. The truth is that the average street pimp selling American girls is often a man of color, however, Mexican pimps are selling Mexican girls, Russian men are selling Russian girls etc. Those who profit off the sex industry overall are not the… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share
Girls weren’t drug addicted, they were love addicted, and that, I’ll learn, is far harder to treat. — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
“Every new encounter provides a new mirror for me to view my own experiences through, and there is a level of selfishness during this… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
If we're going to address trafficking in our country we have to address poverty, racism & gender based violence. — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
“..you may not be able to choose your family or origin but you can choose your family of creation.” — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
“In 1973, Jan Erik Olsson walked into a small bank in Stockholm, Sweden, brandishing a gun, wounding a police officer, and taking three women… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
Over time I learned that there were a lot of people who would judge you, blame you, and try to make you feel lesser,… — Rachel Lloyd Copy Share Image
