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Here at Reality Glitch we love a flat earth inspired T shirt design and we think you will love this one too. We have a HUGE selection of hilarious products inspired by popular culture and funny memes with most designs available for Men, Women and Kids. A 100% ring-spun pre-shrunk cotton tee with a seamless double-needle collar, double-needle sleeves and bottom hem as well as taped neck and shoulders for maximum comfort and premium quality feel and appearance. Tracing the history of fashion antipiracy efforts back to the 1930s, she foregrounds the work of policing that has been tacitly outsourced to social media. Despite the social media concern for ethical fashion and consumption and the good intentions behind design policing, Pham shows that it has ironically deepened forms of social and market inequality, as it relies on and reinforces racist and colonial norms and ideas about what constitutes copying and what counts as creativity. In 2016, social media users in Thailand called out the Paris-based luxury fashion house Balenciaga for copying the popular Thai 'rainbow bag', using Balenciaga’s hashtags to circulate memes revealing the source of the bags’ design. Duke University Press, 176pp, 15. These struggles over ethical fashion and intellectual property, Pham demonstrates, constitute deeper struggles over the colonial legacies of cultural property in digital and global economies. Minh-Ha T. Pham is Associate Professor in the Graduate Program in Media Studies at the Pratt Institute and author of Asians Wear Clothes on the Internet: Race, Gender, and the Work of Personal Style Blogging, also published by Duke University Press.