Tara Teng
Tara Teng is a model, human rights activist, blogger, public speaker and television presenter who grew up on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast. She holds a Bachelor of Education degree from Trinity Western University. Teng was named Miss BC World in 2010, Miss Canada in 2011, and Miss World Canada in 2012. She works as an abolitionist against human trafficking and has participated in awareness initiatives, including Buying Sex is Not a Sport, Freedom Week and Ignite the Road to Justice.
Bio last updated April 30th, 2018.
Articles by Tara Teng
"We Are Not Commodities"
By Tara Teng
October 1, 2015
A beauty pageant queen offers eloquent testimony on the way hyper-fantasized imaging aligns with the squalid sale of human beings for sex.
While working with an after-care home for survivors of human trafficking, I met one young lady with a gentle smile, whom I'll call Karen, who at the tender age of 17 had already survived depression, an eating disorder and two years of commercial sexual exploitation by her pimp-boyfriend, which hurled her into further depression, self-harm and anorexia We are bombarded with images of flawless, airbrushed and sexually desirable women who present an unattainable, unrealistic image of beauty that renders many of us feeling unable to measure up I believe that the value of human life is immeasurable and people were meant to live in freedom from the lies media tell that lead to overconsumption and materialistic addiction