Revolutionary Ideas: Sustainable Fashion and Feminist Societies
The Grabbing Back Team
This is the first ever event that we ran as Grabbing Back, as part of Fashion Revolution Week. We ran it in summer of 2020, so we were all gathered in Zoomland. Below you can find:
The video recording
The transcript
Information on the speakers and the organisations they’re part of
Transcript
Speakers
Kathleen Horton is a design educator and researcher at Queensland University of Technology, Australia. Through her teaching and research she explores the politics and the poetics of getting dressed. In 2010, Kath co-founded the Stitchery Collective – a fashion collective that brings communities together to make things and enjoy fashioning the body.
Anvita Srinistava is a Singapore based sustainability professional, passionate about creating awareness and developing solutions for the societal and environmental challenges we face today.
Paige Street is a research master's student and a sessional academic at the Queensland University of Technology in the School of Design. Her research investigates how consumers understand global responsibility for injustices in the fashion supply chain, and how this responsibility is performed online through digital fashion activism.
Nivedita Jayaram is the Asia Coordinator for Labour Rights at the Asia Floor Wage Alliance. Her core areas of work include research on labour laws and policies, developing legal strategies and campaigns that can be used by garment workers and their organizations to challenge work place abuses in unequal global supply chains, and demanding brand accountability.. Nivedita also has extensive experience in research and organizing of migrant and women workers across India who work in informal worksites.
Faith Robinson is a Copenhagen-based consultant for working across fashion and sustainability engagement. She runs the instagram page @entrylevelactivist, where she debunks jargon around activism. She energises the tension involved in shopping within her work and she loves rock climbing on the weekends.
Organisations
Fashion Revolution is an organisation that campaigns passionately for a clean, safe, fair, transparent and accountable fashion industry. They believe in a global fashion industry that conserves and restores the environment and values people over growth and profit.
We really recommend their resources - they’re really high quality and easy to use.
Asia Floor Wage Alliance is an Asian labour-led global labour and social alliance across garment-producing countries in Asia and consumer regions of USA and Europe. AFWA aims to build regional unity among Asian garment unions to overcome the limitations of country-based struggles in global production networks and holds global fashion brands accountable.
We really recommend their reports, and their campaign wins are really encouraging.