Status Updates From Threadbare: Clothes, Sex & ...

“What anti-human trafficking NGOs really do is… normalize existent labor opportunities for women, no matter how low the pay, dangerous the conditions, or abusive an environment they foster. And they shame women who reject such jobs. The true impact of the US-led human trafficking movement around the world is bleak. What [they] are saving women from, is a life outside the international garment trade.”

“The international policies that drive production of U.S. and EU-consumed apparel offshore and keep wages too low and options too limited for far too many women in the world are driving national and industrial leaders to kill those same women when they speak up about low wages and bad working conditions. There is no alternative reading.”

“‘These big companies like H&M, while they are a necessary part of evolution, they are ruining my fate. I have no problem saying that. They are really doing it. I did it before, at a big company, so I know the ins and outs of these people. H&M, they’re destroying something.’ - Johann Perzi, Tailor
(There are 62 H&Ms in Austria, a country with the same population as Chicago, which has THREE.)”

huh. did not know the dirndl was a fictitious garment. Bonanzaland strikes again!