11: This is why we should abolish fast fashion (with Hoda Katebi)
Re-envision Business
English - November 03, 2021 13:54 - 57 minutes - 131 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsEntrepreneurship Business Management social entrepreneurship business for good Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In 2019, UpEffect and the Islamic Finance and Ethics Society had the honour of hosting Hoda Katebi at Kings College London. The goal of this event was ambitious: let's get real and address the state of the fashion industry, what financial equity is and why capitalism is broken. There is much to learn from Hoda but this event was a brief glimpse into the vast knowledge and experience she brings to the industry (much of it being exemplified through her recent initiative, an apparel manufacturing workers co-operative run by working class women of colour).
We're delighted to now bring this conversation to our Re-envision Business listeners as we know so many of you will enjoy it. It covers a spectrum of topics, including:
the hold capitalism has on the fashion industrythe reality of how fast fashion thrives off violence inflicted on garment workers whether the industry can be reformedand so much more!A special thank you to Georgina Wilson-Powell (Editor of pebble magazine) for facilitating a discussion that many described as a mind-blowing interview that changed their views on fast fashion forever.
Hoda Katebi is an Iranian-American writer, abolitionist organizer, and creative educator. Her work has been hailed from the BBC to the New York Times to the pages of VOGUE and featured and cited in books, journals, and museums around the world. Hoda is the host of #BecauseWeveRead, a radical digital book club and discussion series mobilizing local communities with 25+ chapters globally; founding member of Blue Tin Production, an apparel manufacturing workers co-operative run by working class women of color setting new international standards in labor and sustainability within fashion supply chains among many other hats.
We're also immensely grateful to Maaria Lohiya for capturing the event, event partner Emerald Network and our wonderful sponsors that made this event a success.
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