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Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking QUOTES

Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking QUOTES

1 " Unfortunately, what anti-human trafficking NGOs [non-governmental organizations] really do is instead quite damaging: they 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. "

― Anne Elizabeth Moore , Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking

2 " [T]he dozen or so items I wished to return to XXI Forever could only be traded in, and the store had a strict BOGO policy: Buy One, Get One (Free). This means that the 12 items I had but did not need could only be returned by trading them in for 24 different, new items; I tried, of course, to eschew that "one free" I didn't need. Not allowed. (Everyone I knew got glittery spangles as holiday gifts that year.) The garment industry, it seems, is now inventing new ways to give this stuff away. "

― Anne Elizabeth Moore , Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking