Yves Tong Nguyen is a queer disabled abolitionist organizer with Red Canary Song and Survived and Punished NY.

Elena Shih is the Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University and she received her PhD from the Department of Sociology, UCLA. Her forthcoming book, “Manufacturing Freedom: Trafficking Rescue, Rehabilitation, and the Slave Free Good,” is a global ethnography of the transnational social movement to combat human trafficking in China, Thailand, and the United States. She is the author of “How to Protect Sex Workers,” New York Times, March 26, 2021.

Introduction by Jennifer Chun, Associate Professor, Asian American Studies and the International Institute.

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