--- product_id: 2668777 title: "Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir" price: "681806₫" currency: VND in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/2668777-girls-like-us-fighting-for-a-world-where-girls-are store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir **Price:** 681806₫ **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir - **How much does it cost?** 681806₫ with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/2668777-girls-like-us-fighting-for-a-world-where-girls-are) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description "Powerfully raw, deeply moving, and utterly authentic. Rachel Lloyd has turned a personal atrocity into triumph and is nothing less than a true hero. . . . Never again will you look at young girls on the street as one of 'those' women—you will only see little girls that are girls just like us." —Demi Moore, actress and activist With the power and verity of First They Killed My Father and A Long Way Gone , Rachel Lloyd’s riveting survivor story is the true tale of her hard-won escape from the commercial sex industry and her bold founding of GEMS, New York City’s Girls Education and Mentoring Service, to help countless other young girls escape "the life." Lloyd’s unflinchingly honest memoir is a powerful and unforgettable story of inhuman abuse, enduring hope, and the promise of redemption. Review: Humor, Grace, & Wonderful Writing: A Joy to Read - So, disclosure: I'm an activist against human trafficking and a survivor of commercial sexual exploitation myself. When Girls Like Us arrived in the mail I greeted the book like a long-lost friend. It was almost embarrassing, I was so giddy about it. Maybe I was a little bit apprehensive, too. What if it didn't live up to my very high expectations? I was a writer for years before moving into social work, and I'm pretty picky. But that little fear disappeared the minute I started reading. Rachel Lloyd is a writer. To me, reading Girls Like Us has felt like coming home. In a good way. This full-hearted, infinitely loving, and also totally human -- as in it's ok to be goofy, sometimes impatient, enjoy fun shoes and also be a serious activist-person --memoir/social analysis has been maybe the first time since I was 13-years-old and lured and abducted by a pimp/trafficker that I've felt 100 percent in the company of someone who understands. Lloyd knows the potential and preciousness of every child, girl, woman, and that our experiences don't define or limit us, especially once love is added to the mix. Plus, like pioneering memoir writer Mary Carr, Lloyd manages to make us laugh. Sometimes through the tears, sure. But laugh, nonetheless. Rachel Lloyd has taught me many things with this book. Among them (though I could go on forever) that the survivor guilt I felt for having escaped so fast is actually that, survival guilt (didn't have a name for that before, it kind of mostly went away once I did). That I don't have to be the most saintly, perfect person on Earth to dedicate my life to creating a world where "girls are not for sale" (i.e., I can be kind of at my wits end sometimes, and also it's ok to like frivolous TV (I was going to do it anyway, but the example is helpful). And most importantly, though I admit I kind of knew this going in, what's revolutionary about the organization Lloyd founded, GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services) is that love is its binding element. To paraphrase Lloyd, people don't connect to programs, they connect to people. Yep. Lloyd is the first writer I've come across who's been able to create an accessible and very readable synthesis of the factors at all levels creating the conditions under which children can be routinely bought and sold in the United States. American children. Our own little girls. She asks the critical question: Why are we appalled that little girls in exotic places are forced into the sex industry, but when our own are we think it's their "choice?" She understands the importance of addressing demand (who's buying these children anyway, and why aren't they going to jail?), the utter injustice of vilifying the girls themselves when they're exploited (how can there be high school girls in Rikers Island Prison? Why aren't the men who bought and sold them there, instead? What kind of crazy system charges an 11-year-old girl for prostitution and, again, not the men who bought and sold her?). Lloyd understands law and policy, and she knows what girls need to heal. And somehow she manages to write in such a way that connections throughout these things are clear, easy to understand, and read like a good novel. This is new. This hasn't happened before. We really need to pay attention. You don't have to be a "survivor" to fall in love with this book. I expect that girls and women, almost regardless of their backgrounds, will recognize the struggle to navigate a world that seems at times so hostile and dangerous for them. But they'll also recognize the sister in Rachel Lloyd, the hope that she brings and the vision, and be happy to have met her and heard her say her heart out loud. Review: A memoir filled with hope, desire, knowledge; brilliantly written; attention getting; a memoir you can’t put down. - Rachel begins this memoir by explaining that she is the Executive Director of a Program named GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services). The program is designed to help girls and young women who have been recruited and trafficked into the commercial sex industry. GEMS is a place where the girls can come and receive counseling from caseworkers; learn different skills such as (poetry, cooking, boxing group); use computers or just simply hang out. Rachel has a unique story of her own because she used to be a “Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth.” Rachel knows firsthand of the things that happened to a girl while they are in “The Life.” As Rachel shares her story from the age of 13 until her mid-thirties; she explains the life of a trafficked child in rich detail. Rachel explains of key phrases and terminology used by the girls and those used by law enforcement. Rachel explains that politicians, officials, police and many other people have biases towards these girls. Rachel also explains several scenarios that would enlist a girl to be sexually exploited. Rachel gives us several stories of the girls that has entered and left the GEMS program. Rachel describes how pimps recruit young girls and also how they treat the same girls badly. Rachel explains how the media can affect the outcome of a case and how much help a person can get on a case. Rachel has learned that through her helping these girls for 10 years that she has learned to value herself. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #131,020 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #63 in Social Activist Biographies #1,254 in Women's Biographies #2,113 in Memoirs (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.7 out of 5 stars 1,026 Reviews | ## Images ![Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61H8BZQv8RL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Humor, Grace, & Wonderful Writing: A Joy to Read *by M***R on April 17, 2011* So, disclosure: I'm an activist against human trafficking and a survivor of commercial sexual exploitation myself. When Girls Like Us arrived in the mail I greeted the book like a long-lost friend. It was almost embarrassing, I was so giddy about it. Maybe I was a little bit apprehensive, too. What if it didn't live up to my very high expectations? I was a writer for years before moving into social work, and I'm pretty picky. But that little fear disappeared the minute I started reading. Rachel Lloyd is a writer. To me, reading Girls Like Us has felt like coming home. In a good way. This full-hearted, infinitely loving, and also totally human -- as in it's ok to be goofy, sometimes impatient, enjoy fun shoes and also be a serious activist-person --memoir/social analysis has been maybe the first time since I was 13-years-old and lured and abducted by a pimp/trafficker that I've felt 100 percent in the company of someone who understands. Lloyd knows the potential and preciousness of every child, girl, woman, and that our experiences don't define or limit us, especially once love is added to the mix. Plus, like pioneering memoir writer Mary Carr, Lloyd manages to make us laugh. Sometimes through the tears, sure. But laugh, nonetheless. Rachel Lloyd has taught me many things with this book. Among them (though I could go on forever) that the survivor guilt I felt for having escaped so fast is actually that, survival guilt (didn't have a name for that before, it kind of mostly went away once I did). That I don't have to be the most saintly, perfect person on Earth to dedicate my life to creating a world where "girls are not for sale" (i.e., I can be kind of at my wits end sometimes, and also it's ok to like frivolous TV (I was going to do it anyway, but the example is helpful). And most importantly, though I admit I kind of knew this going in, what's revolutionary about the organization Lloyd founded, GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services) is that love is its binding element. To paraphrase Lloyd, people don't connect to programs, they connect to people. Yep. Lloyd is the first writer I've come across who's been able to create an accessible and very readable synthesis of the factors at all levels creating the conditions under which children can be routinely bought and sold in the United States. American children. Our own little girls. She asks the critical question: Why are we appalled that little girls in exotic places are forced into the sex industry, but when our own are we think it's their "choice?" She understands the importance of addressing demand (who's buying these children anyway, and why aren't they going to jail?), the utter injustice of vilifying the girls themselves when they're exploited (how can there be high school girls in Rikers Island Prison? Why aren't the men who bought and sold them there, instead? What kind of crazy system charges an 11-year-old girl for prostitution and, again, not the men who bought and sold her?). Lloyd understands law and policy, and she knows what girls need to heal. And somehow she manages to write in such a way that connections throughout these things are clear, easy to understand, and read like a good novel. This is new. This hasn't happened before. We really need to pay attention. You don't have to be a "survivor" to fall in love with this book. I expect that girls and women, almost regardless of their backgrounds, will recognize the struggle to navigate a world that seems at times so hostile and dangerous for them. But they'll also recognize the sister in Rachel Lloyd, the hope that she brings and the vision, and be happy to have met her and heard her say her heart out loud. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A memoir filled with hope, desire, knowledge; brilliantly written; attention getting; a memoir you can’t put down. *by B***N on August 25, 2014* Rachel begins this memoir by explaining that she is the Executive Director of a Program named GEMS (Girls Educational and Mentoring Services). The program is designed to help girls and young women who have been recruited and trafficked into the commercial sex industry. GEMS is a place where the girls can come and receive counseling from caseworkers; learn different skills such as (poetry, cooking, boxing group); use computers or just simply hang out. Rachel has a unique story of her own because she used to be a “Commercially Sexually Exploited Youth.” Rachel knows firsthand of the things that happened to a girl while they are in “The Life.” As Rachel shares her story from the age of 13 until her mid-thirties; she explains the life of a trafficked child in rich detail. Rachel explains of key phrases and terminology used by the girls and those used by law enforcement. Rachel explains that politicians, officials, police and many other people have biases towards these girls. Rachel also explains several scenarios that would enlist a girl to be sexually exploited. Rachel gives us several stories of the girls that has entered and left the GEMS program. Rachel describes how pimps recruit young girls and also how they treat the same girls badly. Rachel explains how the media can affect the outcome of a case and how much help a person can get on a case. Rachel has learned that through her helping these girls for 10 years that she has learned to value herself. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ An Important Read *by L***B on September 2, 2020* Lloyd’s sometimes difficult to look at, but honest memoir shines a light on the abuse and exploitation happening right here, under our collective noses and shows how it persists despite the efforts of many dedicated people like herself. It also highlights the pathological way our society undervalues women and children of lower socioeconomic status, especially people of color, and how the resulting broken families and psychological trauma leaves kids with no choices vulnerable to the commercial sex industry. The story of Rachel Lloyd’s eventual escape from “the life” and how she went on to found GEMS, Girls Education and Mentoring Service in New York City, to help other young girls escape is however, a beacon of hope in this dark tale. The writing is excellent and the narrative bounces back and forth between the author’s own life and vignettes of ‘the girls’ and their struggles. It draws you in with it’s raw humanity, and compassion, making this difficult subject relatable in a way that was unexpected. The quote at the beginning of chapter two made a big impact on me. There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul Than the way in which it treats its children. --Nelson Mandela This story resonated with me more than I thought it would. In my twelve years working in EMS I came into contact with a small part of this world, through encounters with a few anti-trafficking task force members, and trafficking victims, But on a daily basis in this job, I saw how the system I was a part of was failing the children we were supposedly ‘helping.’ This book showed me how those failures can make children vulnerable to trafficking, and how to appreciate the special people making a real difference in tackling this horrific problem and the societal failures that perpetuate it. Without sugar coating or sparing her legacy, or the reader’s sensitivities the author maintained a sense of hope and positivity throughout the book and maintains this positivity in a way that is truly inspiring. We need to do a better job of taking care of all of our society’s children and Rachel Lloyd shows us where to begin ## Frequently Bought Together - Girls Like Us: Fighting for a World Where Girls Are Not for Sale: A Memoir - In Our Backyard: Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It - The White Umbrella: Walking with Survivors of Sex Trafficking --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vn/products/2668777-girls-like-us-fighting-for-a-world-where-girls-are](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/2668777-girls-like-us-fighting-for-a-world-where-girls-are) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vietnam* *Store origin: VN* *Last updated: 2026-06-05*