Consumed — By Aja Barber
By Jo Lorenz
Consumed — The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism, by Aja Barber, guides readers through the multifaceted topic of fashion — from its inequitable and ineffectual colonial past, all the way through to what is needed to make fashion fair and sustainable today.
Serving as the starting point in your journey to understanding colonialism, Consumed is an essential bread crumb trail to initiate your understanding of the widespread inequalities in our consumer industries.
In Consumed we learn how oppressive consumer systems have seeped into the fashion industry, while simultaneously understanding the uncomfortable truth behind why we consume the way we do.
Aja has masterfully created an important and accessible book, that enables readers to recognize and consequently disengage from detrimental fashion and consumer systems, in order to become conscious citizens and fight for collective change.
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Footnotes:
When you read a book you really enjoy, buy a few extra copies and gift them to friends you know will benefit from reading it. This is an especially great rule when buying books from BIPOC, LGBTQIA+ or women authors.
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