EP031: Exploitation of Vulnerability
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On this episode we hear from Sabra Boyd. For those of you who don’t know Sabra, she is the Editor in Chief of REAL CHANGE, Seattle’s award winning street newspaper. Sabra is also an award winning independent journalist, public speaker, consultant, and web developer. She covers stories about exploitation in all its forms including healthcare, homelessness, trafficking, tech, prison, food, and beauty.
Sabra Boyd in 2025
Excerpt from the episode
”Children are vulnerable in a unique way because. Um, you know, you're hardwired to trust your caregivers, to trust your parents or whatever adults are, you know, tasked with and appointed to care for you. They're your protectors. Yeah. And so if they tell you like, this is the way things are, this is normal, you are hardwired biologically to trust that.
Um, and then, and then compounding that is the fact that children do not have. Legal rights of their own. You as, as a kid, um, even, you know, a 17-year-old, you only have as many legal rights as the adults around you are willing to bestow and, and protect for you. And so if you're surrounded by abusive exploitative adults, you essentially don't have legal rights.”
-Sabra Boyd
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