{"product_id":"threadbare","title":"Threadbare","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThreadbare\u003c\/i\u003e is about witnessing and experiencing sexual violence against women from a young age, and how, despite unravelling, we manage, time and time again, to stitch ourselves back together. This pamphlet is a crucial contribution to the ongoing conversation about sexual violence and the nature of victimhood brought into the limelight by the #MeToo movement.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe collection is broken into two parts - each beautifully demarcated with hand-drawn illustrations from the author. Part I sees the speaker witness sexual violence against women from a young age, and constitutes an extended falling:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhen I fell, the trees and houses were geometric shapes and I didn’t hit the ground, I tore through it.\u003c\/i\u003e (from ''When I walked out'')\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart II explores with the utmost nuance and subtlety the relationship between sexual consent and emotional abuse. Yet this collection is ultimately uplifting, a reclamation and catharsis, a triumph of familial love:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eShe says, without turning, ‘You’re the women who survived.’ Her hair is caught, not by the wind, but by the fireflies. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThey puppeteer and pull at it, like stars to the stark grey moon. Before we forward march, she stands: ‘I think I’ll be leaving soon. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e‘Thank the ones who believe your words and love you back to life. Listen to the blackbirds. Build a house for the blackbird’s wife.’ \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOur tears flow into the lake, growing underwater forests. ‘Tomorrow, it’ll be sunny,’ she says. ‘And that, I can promise.’\u003c\/i\u003e (from ''For my sister'')\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57316064887166,"sku":"NW9781912196272","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9781912196272.jpg?v=1778717456","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/threadbare","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}