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Rebranded: How Survivors Ink Is Erasing the Marks of the US Sex Trafficking Industry
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Rebranded: How Survivors Ink Is Erasing the Marks of the US Sex Trafficking Industry

2015 · EN · STATUS: [ STREAMING ]

Pimps who control women in the sex trade often brand them with tattoos, marking them as property in the same way gang members or owners once marked cattle. This film follows Survivors Ink, a nonprofit that connects trafficking survivors with tattoo artists willing to cover or transform those brands for free. Survivors sit for the camera and describe what the original marks meant, who put them there, and what it took to leave. The tattoo sessions themselves become a kind of testimony, with artists working over names, symbols, and barcodes while the women talk through what the process means to them. The film treats pimp-led prostitution as an organized, violent business rather than an abstract social problem, laying out how branding functions as a control tactic inside that business. Interviews with survivors and the people who run Survivors Ink carry the narrative, with the tattoo work itself standing in for the harder, longer process of leaving a trafficker behind.