Jade Brooks
Jade Brooks | |
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| Born | Jade Helena Brooks 1992 (age 31–32) Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
| Notable works | The Teen Sex Trade: My Story |
| Website | |
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Jade Helena Brooks is an author and advocate known for her autobiography The Teen Sex Trade: My Story. Her activism work centres around helping sexually exploited youth and raising awareness.
Career
[edit]Following her exit from the sex industry in 2011, Brooks began working with an agency in Toronto to help other victims of the sexual exploitation. She helped to create The Stages of Sexual Exploitation, a tool to help identify if someone is being sexually exploited.[1]
Her first book, The Teen Sex Trade: My Story, was published in September 2017.[2] She self-published a follow-up book, Renegade: Teen Sex Trade Part Two.[3][4]
In 2019, Brooks was featured at Pictou County's symposium on human trafficking.[5] Brooks helped to develop a module of online program, Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence: A Nova Scotia Resource, focussed on the exploitation of children and youth in 2021.[6]
Books
[edit]- The Teen Sex Trade: My Story (2017)
- Renegade: Teen Sex Trade Part Two (2021)
Personal life
[edit]Brooks has four siblings.[2] She was born in Toronto[7] and grew up in the Uniacke Square area of Halifax, Nova Scotia.[1] At age 11, she was placed into the Nova Scotia foster care system.[3] Brooks met the man who would become her boyfriend and, later, trafficker, at age 15. She was trafficked in both Toronto and Montreal. Brooks was able to exit trafficking and the sex trade at age 19.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Brown, Kristen (2016-05-12). "Human trafficking victim brings her story back to Halifax". CBC. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
- ^ a b Rutgers, Julia-Simone (2017-08-31). "Jade Brooks turns her trauma into teaching". The Coast Halifax. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
- ^ a b McIntosh, Jeff (2017-08-31). "Jade Brooks seeks healing and hope with memoir on sex trafficking". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
- ^ Brooks, Jade Helena (2021-03-31). "Teen Sex Trade Part Two (PRESS RELEASE)". Jade Brooks. Retrieved 2022-06-06.
- ^ MacInnis, Adam (2019-05-09). "Pictou County Silent Witness hosting conference on human trafficking | Saltwire". www.saltwire.com. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
- ^ Byard, Matthew (2021-06-02). "Online course educates Nova Scotians on how to recognize and prevent sexual exploitation". Global News. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
- ^ "Conversation with Jade Brooks". Understorey Magazine. 2017. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
- ^ "'They don't know they're victims': She was trafficked at 17, but didn't recognize the signs". CBC. 2018-03-19. Retrieved 2021-09-02.
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- Writers from Halifax, Nova Scotia
- Writers from Toronto
- Victims of underage prostitution
- Living people
- Canadian women activists
- Anti–human trafficking activists
- Black Nova Scotians
- Black Canadian writers
- Black Canadian women writers
- Canadian women memoirists
- 21st-century Canadian memoirists
- 1992 births