Fashion Cats & Cocktails is a new monthly feature. The Dismantle editors get together to do three of our favorite things: bring our usual critical, cultural studies perspective to current issues in fashion, swap drink recipes, and talk about cats. You already know that Sara and Elise are fashion and cultural studies scholars, writers and educators. But did you know that Elise also has over a decade of experience working behind a bar? And Sara…she just really likes cats.
In episode 1 we talk about Forever 21’s recent bankruptcy and what it says about gender, race, class, fast fashion, and American consumer culture (among other things). And of course, we also swap cat tales and beverage stories.
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This podcast is all about deepening the conversations we have anyway and putting them in larger contexts. With that in mind, we created this reading guide with article links, discussion questions, and reflections if you want to dig deeper into the topic.
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