NEW
THREADS
Young Thrifters & Vendors in a Changing Fashion Economy
an audio documentary
by Jamila Davenport & Emily Krumberger
New Threads is
an audio story in 5 parts about the subculture of thrifting. It focuses on youth culture, fashion, and the clothing industry.
The story started when Jamila and Emily attended a pop-up thrift event in Durham, NC with their friend Simone. The experience made them question how differently the younger generation might understand thrifting.
Listen if you share our nostalgia for the thrifting of church basements and Saturday morning Salvation Army’s. If you’re a sneakerhead. If you think fashion doesn’t affect you. Perhaps you want to know more about fast fashion. Or environmental sustainability within the market. Finally, maybe you’re curious about how we all create and negotiate identity and belonging through consumerism.
This story features:
Tank [pictured top right], Be Your Own Person (BYOP),
Kailen [pictured bottom left], Bottom of the Bins,
Dr. Delisia Matthews, NC State’s Wilson College of Textiles, and
Dr. Katia Dayan Vladimirova, University of Geneva and The Sustainable Fashion Consumption Network.
about us
Emily Krumberger (she/they) is an audio producer, writer, and educator living on Lumbee, Catawba, Saponi, and Occaneechi land with a background in community media, youth work, and podcasting. In 2018 she helped found, and later directed, the Twin Cities-based nonprofit Listen Up Youth Radio. Emily hosted and produced shows for KFAI, KRSM, and WFNU radio stations, worked as an editor and associate producer in the podcast industry, and wrote scripts for museum audio tours. Her audio storytelling work includes documentaries on culture, music, spirituality, and queerness for KFAI Radio’s MinneCulture, Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies program, and independent projects. She currently works as a Sound Engineer for Sonic Pie Productions and a Communications Coordinator at UNC Chapel Hill.
Jamila Davenport is a Durham native interdisciplinarity creative who loves highlighting ‘New South’ multimedia narratives. Having a vast history in the arts and their performance venues, working in audio was an inevitable possibility! Jamila can be found as an ‘impact producer’ creating initiatives using fandom and pop culture to address minority and marginalized sub-culture ‘adulting’ challenges. Jamila has been featured in an Audio Under the Stars story and John Biewen’s Storymakers Durham project.