On Saturday, December 7th, at the Red Bird Chapbook Press Open House in the Landmark Center, I will be reading a story from If You Wave a Chicken Over Your Head, my flash fiction collection, as part of a presentation by Red Bird authors from 11 a.m. – 12 p.m. Landmark Center, 75 Fifth Street…
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Article about Immigrant Garment Workers in Prato and the Florence Area
My article for Remake, published on May 15, 2024, “Made in Italy: How Prato Became One of Fashion’s Biggest Manufacturers,” recounts the history and tells today’s story of immigrant workers in Italy’s fashion industry, with an emphasis on Prato and the Florence Area. The article includes my interviews with workers themselves.
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I designed and facilitated an expanded version of “Becoming a Garment Worker” for middle-school students at Heilicher Minneapolis Jewish Day School with Social Studies teacher Annika Graf, March 19-21, 2024.
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“Collaborare ad Alta Voce: Stories by Immigrant Garment Workers From Italy then and to Italy Now,” was an evening of multi-media story-telling and discussion about Italian and Jewish immigrants working in NYC’s garment industry at the turn of the XX century and today’s immigrant workers in Tuscany’s fashion sector. With Francesca Ciuffi, Maria Grazie Cotugno,…
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I read from my poem “Delicate Cycles” and from my recent research with Debora Florio about workers and alternative brands in the Florence-Prato fashion industry at “Unite for a Positive Change,” a panel discussion about how education, advocacy and collaboration can drive change in the fashion industry, organized by Debora Florio, the Italian Community Organizer…
Read MoreMore TagMy Poem at the Rutgers’ LEARN Event “From Triangle To Rana Plaza To Temp Workers: Building Worker Power”
On May 6th, I presented one of my poems, “Ready to Wear,” which was also translated into Bangla, as part of the Rutgers University Labor Education Action Research Network (LEARN) Event “From Triangle To Rana Plaza To Temp Workers: Building Worker Power,” an international virtual panel discussion with: Moderator: Dina Siddiqi, Clinical Associate Professor, Global Liberal…
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Debora Florio, Italian Community Organizer for Remake, and Kathleen Grevers, Director of Education for Fashion Revolution USA, will perform my poems “Delicate Cycles” and “This Is Supply & Demand” in Italian and English as part of their presentation for “Refashion,” an art-fashion-sustainability event at Female Arts in Florence at 6:30 p.m., Borgo J. Frediano 131,…
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Four of my poems, “Union Maids,” “To Target,” “#Garment Workers, Too,” and “Craft Project,” appear in The Bangalore Review.
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Two of my poems, “Conundrum Dream Dialogue” and “Delicate Cycles,” appear in Social Fabric, an anthology of visual art and personal writing about textiles and apparel.
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Watch participants read the poems and stories they wrote for the “Stories We Wear” workshop that I facilitated in June, 2022, at the Side Freedom Library.
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