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Ladydrawers: The Somaly Problem
The Somaly Problem does not lie in one sex trafficking activist's trustworthiness, but in a vast network of media makers, celebrities and professional do-gooders with surprisingly imperialist agendas.
Astroturf America
Radical cartoonist Sarah Rosenblatt illustrates astroturfing, or fake grassroots organizing, to demonstrate how corporations and politicians undermine social democracy.
Ladydrawers: Out of the Factories Part Two
For many women in Cambodia, the occupational alternatives are limited to sex work or garment work and conditions are such that sex work may be the preferred option.
Surveillance State and This Year’s “High-Risk” Boston Marathon
After last year's violence, this year's Boston Marathon will be a “high-risk event,” but that should not justify any and all intrusions by the surveillance state.
Ladydrawers: Thin Line Between Garment and Sex “Trades“
Anne Elizabeth Moore visits an NGO in Cambodia that aims to offer women in the sex industry “fair trade” employment opportunities.
Shame Shame Shame
Radical comic artist and illustrator Sarah Rosenblatt examines the many ways in which women are shamed in our society in this graphic art.
It’s the Money, Honey
While global garment industry revenue represents the lion's share of many countries' exports and GDP, the workers who make the garments almost never make a living wage - and …
Outta Sight, Outta Mind: What Producers Don’t Want You to Know About How Your Clothes Are Made
The most important resource for garment manufacture is a pool of cheap and often desperate labor. A corrupt government is also helpful.
This School Is Not a Pipe
Metaphors matter and it is bad policy and worse poetry to describe education as a pipeline.
Red Tape: Controlling the International Flow of Apparel
More than half a million jobs in the apparel industry have been lost since NAFTA. Ladydrawers connects the dots between homeland security, bras and the loss of US jobs.