James W. Goh
Working From Home / May ở Nhà
Fashion writer Emma Do and illustrator Kim Lam talk about the process of assembling Working From Home / May ở Nhà – a book that stitches together oral histories, journalistic accounts, and illustrations to tell the stories of Vietnamese outworkers in Australia who sew for the garment industry from home.
When you read a lot of outworker stories, you only get a certain angle because many of the stories were documented to push for better conditions and laws...but in doing so, it also became 'look at these poor people'. That really does reduce people’s humanity. We wanted to be able to take that back a little and show that outworkers were people with families and that they were doing their best and that there was joy to be found as well.