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Sierra Bellows

Sierra Bellows lives in Missoula, Montana. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Gulf Coast, Meridian, and the Greensboro Review, among other publications.

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Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

Intimate relationships shaped by the movement of history

by Sierra Bellows | Monday, June 01, 2015
Water in the Empty Part of the Map

Water in the Empty Part of the Map

The treacherous quest for the source of the Nile was the downfall of John Hanning Speke

by Sierra Bellows | Friday, December 07, 2012
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What the Jeffrey Epstein Case Can Teach Us About Sex Trafficking

by Scott W. Stern

Financier Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on Saturday and charged with new counts of sex trafficking. Epstein was previously investigated for alleged sex crimes, a controversial case that ended when he signed a nonprosecution agreement and served a 13-month jail sentence, with generous “work-release” privileges. In his article for the Scholar’s summer issue, Scott W. Stern refers to the Epstein case in highlighting the complexity of prostitution laws in the United States, which often make no distinction between consensual sex workers and trafficked ones—meaning that many trafficking victims are arrested and prosecuted while the men who solicit sex are let off the hook. “Trafficking survivors are likelier to go to the authorities,” he writes, “if they won’t be thrown in prison—or deported—as a result.”