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Anne Elizabeth Moore is an internationally renowned and bestselling
cultural critic and comics journalist. Moore is a Fulbright
scholar, UN Press Fellow, and USC Annenberg/Getty Arts Journalism
Fellow, and teaches in the Visual & Critical Studies department at
the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The Ladydrawers Comics Collective publishes accessible comics,
texts, and films about how economics, race, sexuality, and gender
impact the comics industry, other media, and our culture at large.
Collective members who contributed toThreadbare include Leela
Corman, Melissa Gira Grant, Julia Gfrörer, Sarah Jaffe, Delia Jean,
Ellen Lindner, Melissa Mendes, and Anne Elizabeth Moore.
Praise for Threadbare
Threadbare takes us down the rabbit hole of the global fashion and
textile industry, connecting the dots between the lives of the
women who work at Forever 21 and the women who sew the clothes that
hang on the racks there. With vivid storytelling and deep
investigation. Anne Elizabeth Moore and her team of talented
cartoonists prove the strength of comics as tool for translating
impossible complexity to our everyday experience. --Jessica Abel,
Out on the Wire and Drawing Words & Writing Pictures "A fascinating
look into the lives behind our clothes. From the people who make
them, to the people who model them, to the people who sell them,
our clothes are part of an intricate network which spans the globe.
The art in Threadbare helps draw a personal connection to what
might otherwise be overwhelming statistics, and gives an intimate
look into the way the world is affected by what we buy." --Sarah
Glidden, author of Rolling Blackouts and How to Understand Israel
in 60 Days or Less A compelling and comprehensive portrait of the
human cost behind what we wear. The sharp, gorgeous, and
distressing Threadbare will leave you questioning both your
wardrobe and the state of the world as a whole. --Tim Hanley,
author of Investigating Lois Lane: The Turbulent History of the
Daily Planet's Ace Reporter and Wonder Woman Unbound: The Curious
History of the World's Most Famous Heroine Describing the
environmental, social, economic and personal costs of fast fashion
in a style cool as gin, Threadbare is both a damning indictment and
a stellar example of comics journalism. --Molly Crabapple, Drawing
Blood Colleges offering degree programs in Fashion need to add this
book to the curriculum. A must read!!!! --Carol Tyler, Late Bloomer
and You'll Never Know Well-researched, engaging, and full of
surprising (and sometimes horrifying) statistics, you may finish
reading this book and decide to become an activist--no longer
shopping for clothes at your local mall and pressuring your elected
officials for legislation that holds clothing manufacturers and
retailers responsible. --Lisa Wilde, Yo, Miss: A Graphic Look at
High School Threadbare is a brilliant amalgam of art, storytelling,
consciousness-building, and old-fashioned muckraking. It takes on
the enormous project of confronting the international apparel
trade, through delving into individual stories and lifting up
voices that are usually suppressed or ignored in mass media. The
Ladydrawers collective and Anne Elizabeth Moore bring us face to
face, literally, with the people most affected by labor
exploitation and abuse - and in seeing their faces, we understand
the realities beyond the facts. An intrepid journey! --Maya
Schenwar, editor-in-chief of Truthout, author of Locked Down,
Locked Out: Why Prison Doesn't Work and How We Can Do Better Praise
for the Ladydrawers
"Beautifully illustrated intellectual ammunition." --ThinkProgress
"Depressing news, but the comic makes it a little easier to
swallow." --Bitch "Making an art form out of researching and
publishing findings that others might write or talk about."
--Forbes "Wry."--New York Times Magazine Praise for Anne Elizabeth
Moore
A "post-Empirical, proto-fourth-wave-feminist memoir-cum-academic
abstract [that] makes our country's Mommy Wars look like child's
play--and proves ... why we should be paying attention to
Cambodia's record of human rights and gender equity." --Bust
Magazine (on New Girl Law) "Attains the modest yet important
success of making personal narratives and experience matter to
critiques of history and globalization."--Hyphen Magazine (on
Cambodian Grrrl) "A passionate, engaging, heartbreaking, funny, and
inspiring book. I want to slip it into every tourist guide to Asia
and give a copy to every girl in the world." --Jean Kilbourne,
author, filmmaker, and cultural critic (on Cambodian Grrrl) "Anne
Elizabeth Moore lets readers peer over her shoulder as she attempts
the implausible. It turns out, the implausible is hard, and funny,
and tragic, and illuminating, but once you sign up for the journey
she never lets you look away. After reading what this woman
accomplished in a few months, you might ask yourself some hard
questions about how you spent last summer . . ." --Glynn
Washington, NPR's Snap Judgment (on Cambodian Grrrl) "Cambodian
Grrrl offers a compelling and spirited model of what is possible
when media-making becomes a community endeavor. Don't understand
why media is a human rights issue? You will by the end of Anne
Elizabeth Moore's latest effort." --Jennifer Pozner, Executive
Director, Women In Media & News "1000000000000000% punk rock."
--Jacksonville Public Library (on Cambodian Grrrl) "Conversational,
intellectually curious, and charmingly ragged, Unmarketable is an
anti-corporate manifesto with a difference: It exudes raw
coolness."--Mother Jones (on Unmarketable) Offers "something
distinctly more radical than merely protesting against consumerism:
a total rejection of the competitive ethos that drives capitalist
culture." --LA Times (on Unmarketable) "This is a work of honesty
and, yes, integrity."--Kirkus (on Unmarketable) "Sharp and valuable
muckraking." --Time Out New York (on Unmarketable)
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