Comments on: The State Is A Trafficker: Why Alaska Arrested Amber Batts

By: House Bill 66 will make sex workers and sex trafficking survivors charged with working or traveling together register as sex offenders – Sex Trafficking in Alaska

Tue, 14 May 2024 03:35:24 +0000

[…] Here is a story about our member Amber being convicted of sex trafficking in the second degree under the travel part of the statute. More recently, a mother who was a victim of horrifically violent sex trafficking was charged in a similar way. […]

By: IWRAW Asia Pacific :: International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific

IWRAW Asia Pacific :: International Women's Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific — Mon, 30 Jul 2018 06:22:41 +0000

[…] harm. We need to be aware of what trafficking actually means, and how its definition is being expanded and […]

By: 5 must-read resources that’ll change the way you think about sex work | Civil Attorney Team

Sun, 08 Jul 2018 08:44:12 +0000

[…] example, Tara Burns’ feature on Alaska’s case against Amber Batts is great reading you won’t find anywhere […]

By: International Whores’ Day (And Lobby Day!) Link Roundup | Tits and Sass

Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:01:37 +0000

[…] Broadly published the firsthand accounts (and included gorgeous pictures!) of sex workers at the IWD event in Las Vegas. From Amber Batts: […]

By: Amber Batts

Amber Batts — Thu, 04 May 2017 23:31:33 +0000

Hello everyone!
I just wanted to say thank you so much for reading Tara’s amazing article and let you know I am out on electronic monitoring. The article was almost 2 years ago and so much has happened. So, yes I am still technically incarcerated but now I am paying for my incarceration, rather than the State of Alaska.
I am ecstatic that I can communicate on social media and am trying to get up to speed on the different issues we face as sex workers. The State may have charged me for Sex Trafficking, but what they did was awaken a sense of purpose in me. Hell if I want anyone else to experience the loss and pain my children and I have been put through. I look forward to being a catalyst for change in any way I can!
Solidarity and gratitude
Amber

By: 5 must-read resources that’ll change the way you think about sex work | Civil Attorney Group

Tue, 07 Mar 2017 04:33:08 +0000

[…] example, Tara Burns’ feature on Alaska’s case against Amber Batts is great reading you won’t find anywhere […]

By: Why Sex Workers Shouldn’t Vote Green — Tits and Sass

Why Sex Workers Shouldn’t Vote Green — Tits and Sass — Thu, 04 Aug 2016 15:02:13 +0000

[…] trafficking’ does to both consenting workers and trafficking survivors. Arrest, jail time, prison sentences, open records in Human Trafficking court—this is violence, and yet it’s what the GP USA calls […]

By: 5 must-read resources that’ll change the way you think about sex work | 9Feeds

Sun, 03 Apr 2016 22:28:54 +0000

[…] example, Tara Burns’ feature on Alaska’s case against Amber Batts is great reading you won’t find anywhere […]

By: 602 Imaginary Prostitutes Were Arrested in Alaska Three Years Ago — Tits and Sass

Fri, 12 Feb 2016 16:01:43 +0000

[…] but they have yet to charge anyone with trafficking a minor. Instead, they have arrested a sex worker who provided safety services to other sex workers, refused to take reports from sex workers who were crime victims, and followed up on other reports […]

By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Thu, 24 Sep 2015 02:25:57 +0000

In reply to Pancho. Not to mention Meyers' spouse who was the Special Assistant to the disgraced former Adjutant General of the Alaska Army National Guard, Tom Katkus.