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• Author: Brown, Elizabeth Nolan
• Position: 'Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking' by Anne Elizabeth Moore & Ladydrawers Comics Collective - Briefly Noted - Brief article - Book review

In Threadbare: Clothes, Sex, and Trafficking (Microcosm), journalist Anne Elizabeth Moore and the Ladydrawers Comics Collective take a mixed-media dive into the global clothing industry and how it "seeps uncomfortably quickly into larger issues" including women's employment options, human trafficking, immigration laws, and the criminalization of sex work.

Divided into four sections (the U.S., Austria, Cambodia, and "The World"), Moore's prose introductions are important--the strips themselves often leave you craving more context. The book is plagued by off-topic interjections, such as a section shaming a Cambodian aid org...