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ReDress the Future: on sustainable solutions and holding the fashion industry to account

WaterBear, a free streaming platform dedicated to the future of our planet, has launched its newest original content series, ReDress the Future, to explore some of the fashion industry’s most damaging factors and tangible solutions ahead of the infamous ‘month of fashion’. Premiered on the platform on 10th September and... Read More

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An introduction to holding the fashion industry to account: Why climate justice needs fair fashion

Date: 18th March, Time: 6pm GMT Register for FREE tickets HERE As the world ponders high fashion trends and highstreet retailers aim to provide a budget friendly version, the climate conscious among us are instead focused on this question: what is fashion’s role in the climate justice movement? As a... Read More

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How two Kenyan designers are disrupting the fashion industry through sustainability

Creative DNA x Fashion Scout have come together to create present WAUZINE – a digital showcase including three limited edition digital publications, featuring 11 emerging Kenyan designers, and bringing together cross-cultural collaborations between writers, illustrators and creative teams in both London and Nairobi. Immersed in a 12-month incubator programme between... Read More

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Fashion’s complicity in the Uyghur genocide: who holds the power?

We want to know about who writes the books we read and who sings the songs we listen to. However, when it comes to our clothes, we can be so entranced by their beauty and how they form part of our identity, that we seldom stop to think about the... Read More

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Accountability for exploitation: the climate reparations bloc demands at COP26

For many, the weekend ahead will be focused on Halloween costume planning. But in the climate organising sphere, the majority of us are nervously anticipating something else: COP26. The global climate summit, taking place in Glasgow between 31 October and 12 November, has for the last two years seen the... Read More

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shado x Instagram present: a pride prom – bringing LGBTQI+ youth the party they’ve been denied

Young people have been dealt a terrible hand this past year. In what feels like a never-ending string of lockdowns and false promises stripping away social interactions and throwing futures into jeopardy, UK’s youth have been one of the groups who have been hit hardest by COVID-19. For 2020 and... Read More

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Activist Maya Penn speaks on “sustainability, environmental racism and being a steward of the Earth”.

The first time I’m introduced to Maya Penn over email, I’m informed that she is a 21 year old environmentalist, who’s been in the activism space since she was eight years old. At 28 years old, I’m fairly sure there’s nothing I’ve been doing for eight years, besides maybe breathing,... Read More

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Cashing in on body image: how body dysmorphia is a capitalist issue

As someone who has experienced body dysmorphia, lockdown could have been a make or break moment for my recovery. Being inside for prolonged periods without access to the gym, which had previously become my way of suppressing my obsessive thoughts, would have pushed me over the edge a few years... Read More

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A boat stuck in the Suez Canal, a meme for a world stuck in capitalism

You’ve probably seen the memes popping up everywhere about a gigantic stuck ship and a tiny ineffectual digger. So much so, the image is now fast becoming a euphemism for everything from clothing retailers’ greenwashing bids to combat the climate crisis through a sustainable fashion line to ‘my inbox versus... Read More

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Reclaiming my peasant identity

A peasant is an intercultural and historical subject, with significant memories, knowledge, and practices which are established through family and neighbourhood life for the production of food, common goods, and raw materials. Peasants have a multi-active community life linked to the land and integrated with nature and the territory”. (Instituto... Read More

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The pursuit of ignorance: how big brands are escaping accountability of workers’ rights

A t-shirt. A bowl of rice. A warm bath. Each one of these is the final product of a long and fragmented supply chain. Part of contemporary capitalism’s glossy facade is its ability to invisibilise exploitative and extractive mechanisms which are employed from the production of raw materials, all the... Read More

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Januhairy: embracing hairiness and its histories

Since the pandemic began, articles have appeared about women giving up ‘grooming’ and beauty standards in lockdown. This month is ‘Januhairy’, a movement that encourages women to grow out their body hair. Armpit hair, leg hair, arm hair, yes – but also chest hair, moustaches, beards and back hair. Body... Read More

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shado x Instagram present: a pride prom – bringing LGBTQI+ youth the party they’ve been denied

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fashion

ReDress the Future: on sustainable solutions and holding the fashion industry to account

An introduction to holding the fashion industry to account: Why climate justice needs fair fashion

How two Kenyan designers are disrupting the fashion industry through sustainability

Fashion’s complicity in the Uyghur genocide: who holds the power?

Accountability for exploitation: the climate reparations bloc demands at COP26

shado x Instagram present: a pride prom – bringing LGBTQI+ youth the party they’ve been denied

Activist Maya Penn speaks on “sustainability, environmental racism and being a steward of the Earth”.

Cashing in on body image: how body dysmorphia is a capitalist issue

A boat stuck in the Suez Canal, a meme for a world stuck in capitalism

Reclaiming my peasant identity

The pursuit of ignorance: how big brands are escaping accountability of workers’ rights

Januhairy: embracing hairiness and its histories

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