Sabra Boyd

Sabra Boyd writes about exploitation, the economics and science of homelessness, prison, human trafficking, tech, food, cults, and healthcare

Sabra is currently seeking an agent for her memoir CAVEGIRL about testifying against her trafficker/dad. Born on the set of the Coen brothers movie Raising Arizona to criminal parents, she survived her child actor career and homelessness as a teenager.

| Vice |
Life Sentence: What It’s Like to Look For a Job After Prison

| Eater |
This Bakery is Revolutionizing Bread with Molecular Science

| Washington Post |
As a homeless teen, I foraged for wild food to survive. The lessons still shape my cooking.

| Newsweek |
Olympic Athletes’ Testimonies Show Why Rape Victims Don’t Trust Police

| Eater |
Seattle’s Stalled ‘Poverty Defense Law’ Could Reform Policies for Hunger-Related Crimes

| Age of Awareness |
I’m a child trafficking survivor: QAnon has politically commodified my trauma

| Vice |
What It’s Like to Be Released From Prison During a Pandemic

| Born a Coen Brothers Movie |
The tragicomic omen of being born on the set of Raising Arizona, a story of stolen identity, and finding where you belong

| January 11 is Human Trafficking Awareness Day |
But awareness of what exactly?

| IndieWire |
Fahgettaboudit: How ‘The Sopranos’ and ‘The Many Saints of Newark’ Forget About the Mob’s Daughters

| Eater |
Seattle’s Food Trucks Are Fighting an Uphill Battle

| Seattle Times |
There’s never a good time to be homeless in Seattle. Now it’s even harder

| Eater |
On Vashon Island, Community Is Found at a Family-Run Syrian Food Cart

| Narratively |
What Working with Cadavers Taught Me About Life

| IndieWire |
What #FreeBritney Can Teach Us About Child Labor Laws

| HuffPost |
Zoom Dysmorphia

| Psychology Today |
Mafia Genes

| Triangle House |
Whale of a Time: Reading Moby Dick While Homeless as a Kid on the Northern California Coast

| Eater |
Foraging in the Pacific Northwest Is a Search for Hope Amid the Pandemic