Young, Broken and Beautiful?: The Aesthetization of Girlhood Trauma

In this video I discuss Nobody’s Girl, Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s posthumous memoir, and how her life and story as a teen sex trafficking victim is part of a larger conversation about the normalization of the sexualization of teen girls and aestheticizing their trauma for mass consumption.

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TIMESTAMPS:
Content Note and Intro 0:00
Part 1: “Young and Broken” 2:06
Part 2: Men (and women) Are Broken 17:18
Conclusion 22:17

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Virginia Roberts Giuffre's Memoir:
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