A Memorial Book
This is a group project done by the women artists of the SAGE Project (Standing Against
Global Exploitation) located in San Francisco. The mission at SAGE is to serve women, men,
transgendered individuals and girls who are at risk of sexual exploitation, entry and/or
recruitment into prostitution, and persons who have begun to adopt lifestyles that lead to
exploitation and prostitution. We believe survivors of violence, exploitation and prostitution
can best understand the problems individuals face. We at SAGE can thus provide a safe
space through which those in prostitution and the sex trade can find education, support,
resources, treatment for drugs and trauma, and healthcare for injuries and illness. Through
SAGE, a client can come to understand her or his options more clearly. Reversing
Vandalism is an appropriate metaphor for the issues that SAGE works to reverse. We used
the vandalized books from the San Francisco Public Library as metaphors for the human
body vandalized by violent acts, chronic substance abuse and the many forms of
exploitation the people of SAGE have endured. Our goal in this project is to find materials
and gestures that give these books back their dignity and a sense of wholeness.
Thank you to the San Francisco Public Library for providing their creative project and
thank you to the SAGE artists for their brilliant responses.
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