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Girls like us

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by Rachel Lloyd

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Girls Like Us is Rachel Lloyd’s memoir of surviving commercial sexual exploitation as a teenager and later founding GEMS in New York to help other girls escape “the life.” It’s raw and direct, but ultimately hopeful, showing how shame gets weaponized and how dignity can be rebuilt through community and fierce advocacy.

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January 17, 2026
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Disturbes the comfortable, but Comforts the disturbed.

As a fellow trafficking survivor, it's extremely hard to find books, (or people for that matter), that I feel like "Get me". most things feel... superficial. surface-level at best. like reading from an outsiders perspective. I haven't even finished this book, but this is one of the only stories I feel connected to. it feels like someone finally "gets" what I have gone through. Because of that, it's a surprisingly comforting book. it feels like I finally found the validation I needed all these years. like it's telling me that yes, it was really that bad. it's especially so because the book was written by a fellow survivor. it's rare to find people like me nowdays.