Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja Barber
Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism by Aja Barber is an engaging examination of the fashion industry and the consumerism that props it up. Barber explores her journey from a lover of fashion to a critic of the fashion industry in an inviting book filled with facts and a touch of levity. Barber shares her experience in both the US and the UK with fashion and life in ways that lead me to think about my own fashion journey and how easily I can fall back into the trap of consumerism and not make purchases mindfully. Consumed not only lays out the problems with fast fashion but offers some options for changing how we interact with the fashion industry and other elements of consumerism including the personal and the systemic changes needed. Currently Reading: Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America by Ijeoma Oluo How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older by Michael Gregor, Md. Col...