The Scarlet Cord: A Megaphone in Phoenix

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The Scarlet Cord in Phoenix just days before Super Bowl

The Scarlet Cord is an educational tool. Through the installation, people learn that children don’t volunteer to be trafficked; they are forced. It would be wonderful if even ten perpetrators changed their minds and decided not to buy sex after the Super Bowl. It would be even more exciting if 100, or even 1,000, perpetrators decided to go home after the game without purchasing sex with a child. If these people left the Super Bowl, without buying sex, marriages could be healed and individuals could potentially be set free.

As I show my work in Phoenix, many children will be trafficked, or raped, and, as a result, bear deep wounds—perhaps for the rest of their lives.

The Scarlet Cord is a megaphone to broadcast the heinous injustice done to children so people will be informed and no longer ignore the issue.

The Scarlet Cord

813 N. 1st Street • Roosevelt Row Art District
January 23 – February 1, 2015
Daily 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Sponsored by StreetLightUSA

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Super Bowl Countdown With The Scarlet Cord

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The Scarlet Cord installation at dusk in Phoenix before Super Bowl

The Scarlet Cord exhibit brings awareness to child sex trafficking through powerful displays

Downtown changes ahead of big game

Big Game Count Down

The Scarlet Cord sits on a vacant lot between downtown Phoenix and the Cardinals’ stadium where the Big Game will be played on Sunday. This past week we have spoken to students, professionals, vagrants, tourists, and trafficked women. A couple of the volunteers have seen “made up” young girls enter the broken down hotel that overlooks The Scarlet Cord.

  • One woman said she was trafficked while her father was wearing the coveted Super Bowl ring
  • A passionate volunteer with a difficult past connected with the visitors
  • Another woman shared that she used to work this neighborhood. Her body bears the scars–gun shot wounds and stabbings—inflicted by the “Johns,” not her pimp
  • Another young woman was molested by her employer when she was in middle school
  • Some don’t share their story

We have been giving away small stones with “Hope,” or “Dream,” or “Believe” painted on them to a few guests. Something tangible to put in their pocket. A reminder that someone cares. It is amazing how much these stones mean to these women. A little love goes a long ways…