5/21/2023 0 Comments Strip Tees by Kate Flannery![]() What were some of the challenges in writing about this experience? It’s still the same messed-up stuff that’s been going on, but we hear about it more. But young women these days-they seemingly take way less shit. I still fall into misogynistic traps all the time. ![]() What would you tell young women today who are thinking of taking a job like this? That’s why it took me so long after leaving to write about it-those were and still are my closest friends. There was no distinction between work and personal life: my whole world was the job. It was good to be in his circle, and we thrived under his attention. I was right in there with that cult language-“you’re one of us,” “this is a revolution.” I wanted to be a part of something that made a difference. ![]() The language American Apparel used to recruit you evokes a cult-is that how it felt?Īt my first job, at Urban Outfitters, I saw what was really going on behind the scenes in fashion-sweatshops making clothes, executives courting controversy. We all thought, let’s party! We’re post-feminism! It was the perfect storm to bring me into American Apparel, where calling out sexual harassment was seen as buying into a culture of victimhood. It was a post-9/11, post-AIDS, sex-positive environment. I graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2003. ![]()
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