Lauren Moton
@motonlauren.bsky.social
Black feminist and queer criminology | sex work | critical trafficking studies | Assistant Professor @CUNY John Jay College
✨ Exciting Career Update ✨ Thrilled to share I’ve started as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at CUNY @JohnJayCollege! 🎉 It's a joint appt. in Criminal Justice + International CJ, continuing my work on human trafficking & gender-based violence. Let's collaborate!
August 18, 2025 at 3:51 PM
✨ Exciting Career Update ✨ Thrilled to share I’ve started as a tenure-track Assistant Professor at CUNY @JohnJayCollege! 🎉 It's a joint appt. in Criminal Justice + International CJ, continuing my work on human trafficking & gender-based violence. Let's collaborate!
My 10th publication (and first solo article) is officially out! 🥳 Based on my diss research, it explores how sex workers involved in HTICs define their own victimhood, using ideal victim theory.
✨ It’s open access until July 20, check it out here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBbP6FI3r...
✨ It’s open access until July 20, check it out here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBbP6FI3r...
June 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
My 10th publication (and first solo article) is officially out! 🥳 Based on my diss research, it explores how sex workers involved in HTICs define their own victimhood, using ideal victim theory.
✨ It’s open access until July 20, check it out here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBbP6FI3r...
✨ It’s open access until July 20, check it out here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lBbP6FI3r...
New publication in Anti-Trafficking Review! We explore how familial and community social ties impact Ethiopian women domestic workers' decisions to seek out notoriously exploitative work abroad.
✨ Check out the open access special issue here: antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...
✨ Check out the open access special issue here: antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...
May 1, 2025 at 5:16 PM
New publication in Anti-Trafficking Review! We explore how familial and community social ties impact Ethiopian women domestic workers' decisions to seek out notoriously exploitative work abroad.
✨ Check out the open access special issue here: antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...
✨ Check out the open access special issue here: antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...
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The way the government treats houseless people and the way people talk about them on Nextdoor are unconscionable.
“I Have Lost Everything”: The Toll of Cities’ Homeless Sweeps
Cities often take belongings — including important documents and irreplaceable mementos — when they conduct sweeps of homeless encampments. ProPublica gave notecards to people across the country so th...
projects.propublica.org
December 28, 2024 at 11:02 AM
The way the government treats houseless people and the way people talk about them on Nextdoor are unconscionable.
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Just looked this back up for something I'm working on, and think it bears repeating.
The NYC subways are incredibly safe. What people see is not violence, but disorder.
That person (and they are a person) sleeping on the train poses very little risk, however unsettling ppl find them.
The NYC subways are incredibly safe. What people see is not violence, but disorder.
That person (and they are a person) sleeping on the train poses very little risk, however unsettling ppl find them.
Hold up. Wait.
For airplanes--the "safest way to travel"--it takes ~6,000 years to be in a fatal accident if you flew once a day.
If you took the MTA once a day, it will currently take you almost 150 THOUSAND YEARS to be murdered (3 murders YTD out of 175M-200M rides).
MTA is SAFER THAN PLANES.
For airplanes--the "safest way to travel"--it takes ~6,000 years to be in a fatal accident if you flew once a day.
If you took the MTA once a day, it will currently take you almost 150 THOUSAND YEARS to be murdered (3 murders YTD out of 175M-200M rides).
MTA is SAFER THAN PLANES.
December 6, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Just looked this back up for something I'm working on, and think it bears repeating.
The NYC subways are incredibly safe. What people see is not violence, but disorder.
That person (and they are a person) sleeping on the train poses very little risk, however unsettling ppl find them.
The NYC subways are incredibly safe. What people see is not violence, but disorder.
That person (and they are a person) sleeping on the train poses very little risk, however unsettling ppl find them.
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LISTEN NOW: The US Supreme Court hears arguments in US v. Skrmetti, on whether Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
December 4, 2024 at 3:01 PM
LISTEN NOW: The US Supreme Court hears arguments in US v. Skrmetti, on whether Tennessee's ban on gender-affirming care for trans minors violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. www.supremecourt.gov/oral_argumen...
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A mentally ill man sat on Texas death row for 36 YEARS without a lawyer and no one noticed - until now.
Excellent reporting by @amari-clare.bsky.social
houstonlanding.org/harris-count...
Excellent reporting by @amari-clare.bsky.social
houstonlanding.org/harris-count...
Harris County’s longest-serving death row inmate has a lawyer for the first time in decades
Clarence Curtis Jordan, Harris County’s longest-serving death row inmate, has legal representation for the first time in nearly four decades.
houstonlanding.org
November 22, 2024 at 5:16 PM
A mentally ill man sat on Texas death row for 36 YEARS without a lawyer and no one noticed - until now.
Excellent reporting by @amari-clare.bsky.social
houstonlanding.org/harris-count...
Excellent reporting by @amari-clare.bsky.social
houstonlanding.org/harris-count...
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I want to talk about my trans son, the other trans people I know and love, and the need to fight for their rights. But I keep just circling back to this more basic statement:
November 21, 2024 at 4:34 AM
I want to talk about my trans son, the other trans people I know and love, and the need to fight for their rights. But I keep just circling back to this more basic statement:
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If 320 donated by 25 we will meet the goal today, donate if you can
We can do it today I swear ♥️
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November 13, 2024 at 9:45 PM
If 320 donated by 25 we will meet the goal today, donate if you can
We can do it today I swear ♥️
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For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
November 9, 2024 at 8:22 PM
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Another world is possible if we fight for it
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
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Good morning, I'm trans.
I'm ignoring news about who thinks trans people deserve rights & bodily autonomy. I'm focusing on being out & supporting trans ppl in my communities.
Here's a list of resources, I forget who made it initially (sorry!) but it looks good.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I'm ignoring news about who thinks trans people deserve rights & bodily autonomy. I'm focusing on being out & supporting trans ppl in my communities.
Here's a list of resources, I forget who made it initially (sorry!) but it looks good.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Collective Trans Resource List 11-2024
Resources for Our Trans, Gender Expansive, & Non-Binary Community, Our Families, & Allies This list is constantly being updated to best support our communities who may reach out requesting support. I...
docs.google.com
November 18, 2024 at 4:25 PM
Good morning, I'm trans.
I'm ignoring news about who thinks trans people deserve rights & bodily autonomy. I'm focusing on being out & supporting trans ppl in my communities.
Here's a list of resources, I forget who made it initially (sorry!) but it looks good.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
I'm ignoring news about who thinks trans people deserve rights & bodily autonomy. I'm focusing on being out & supporting trans ppl in my communities.
Here's a list of resources, I forget who made it initially (sorry!) but it looks good.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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I started an academic criminologists/criminal justice scholars starter pack.
This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful.
go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z
#ASC2024 #criminology
This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful.
go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z
#ASC2024 #criminology
November 15, 2024 at 1:22 AM
I started an academic criminologists/criminal justice scholars starter pack.
This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful.
go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z
#ASC2024 #criminology
This is an ongoing starter pack that I am still expanding, so please let me know if you'd like to be added (sorry for any omissions!), and please share if you find it useful.
go.bsky.app/SL8dP7Z
#ASC2024 #criminology
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“Thus far, Sound of Freedom has grossed $155 million+ at the box office. The amount of money the film has made is almost unreal to the survivors doing anti-trafficking work, who often struggle to fundraise for things as small as the cost of a bus ticket.”
Trafficking Survivors and Advocates Are Being Harassed by ‘Sound of Freedom’ Fans
Survivor leaders in the anti-trafficking movement are attempting to confront the issues around the surprise blockbuster film – and facing a hail of invective in the process.
www.vice.com
August 8, 2023 at 1:13 AM
“Thus far, Sound of Freedom has grossed $155 million+ at the box office. The amount of money the film has made is almost unreal to the survivors doing anti-trafficking work, who often struggle to fundraise for things as small as the cost of a bus ticket.”