In northern Thailand, there is a village where female human trafficking survivors live in and run a self-help group. In addition to their past experience, they are still financially-challenged. However, what we saw in them was not ‘misery’. We felt their toughness for survival and the capacity of empathy toward others which are gained through their painful experiences in the past. Those experiences they had to overcome would go beyond the imagination.
After being deprived a lot of things, they managed to survive and “gain liberty of your body”. Similarly, it could be possible for us, the Japanese, to find a way to “gain liberty of your body” which is likely to be deprived without noticing under various social circumstances. This is not simply ‘their’ problems but also ‘ours’. Keeping this in mind, this event was organized in order to increase our capability of sympathizing with human trafficking survivors and taking a step forward together instead of ‘helping them out’.
At the exhibition, pictures of village where female survivors live in, and the pictures taken by both TJC (Thai-Japanese children) and children of ethnic minorities will be displayed. We also have the video which would reflect our point of view. On the first day of the exhibition, we will have Yukiko Kaname as a guest speaker for a talk show.
The issues of human trafficking and prostitution could never be separated. In the discussion of whether prostitution is bad or good, we need to refrain from simply concluding prostitution as acts of sexual violence. This could end up depriving women’s rights and their access to welfare. We need to think about the existence of work in sex industries in order to enable human trafficking victims to gain knowledge about HIV/AIDS and to avoid illegitimate discrimination by others. In the talk show, after discussing the theme of sexual exploitation and sexual autonomy, we will explore the relation between human trafficking and our body.
- Open Days
- June 21st Sunday (Mon)-June 28 November(Sun) 2 p.m.-7p.m.
- Places
- Latitude☆P(3 minutes walking from No.2 exit of Yotsuyasanchome Station Marunouchi metro-subway line)
- Entrance Charge
- 300 YEN
- Contact
- prismscapefilm@gmail.com
- Sponsored
- ：
Think Net Pro Inc.
- Opening talk show
- “To whom does your body belong?”
- Day
- June 21st Sunday 2:00-3:30 pm
- Place
- Latitude☆P
- Guest Speaker
- Yukiko Kaname (A member of SWASH [Sex Work And Sexual Health]. SWASH is a group that is working on encouraging safety and health of the people engaged in sex industries. She has done attitudes surveys of fuzokujyo (women engaged in prostitution), lectures and flyer distribution about prevention of HIV/STD. Nowadays, she conducts a research on migrant sex workers in Japan, and work on the issues related to those people.)
- Participate Fee
- 1000 YEN(comes with a cup of tea)
I am sorry, the text posted in the gallery is not translated into English. Moreover, there is not a simultaneous interpreter in the talk show either.