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Sustainable Fashion’s Race Problem

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Don’t Let Your Activism End Here: Reflections after 2018’s Women’s March

The Aesthetics of Inclusion: Women of Color in Sustainable Fashion

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🧿 who put nazar on 2020? 🧿 ⁣
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*grabs 🌶 & 🍋*

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How has (social) media affected your sense of self? #DovePartner⁣
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One of end, Instagram + social media has been a powerful tool in self-representation for me. ⁣
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However, we can’t ignore the pitfalls of online spaces that are hyper-curated— media that inevitably ends up pushing aspirational understandings of how we should live, dress, look… the list goes on.⁣
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With this in mind, @lenawaithe, @attndotcom & @dove partnered to create #GirlsRoom, a series exploring the barriers to self-esteem that young people face every day— from body image, body functionality, understanding our body’s needs, and more. ⁣
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Supported by academic research by the #DoveSelfEsteemProject, the series is something I wish I’d seen growing up. It's an important narrative and commentary on everything from social media, our bodies (on and off line) and navigating growing up. #ConfidentGirl

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COVID-19 quarantine is prime time for knowledge expansion y’all 🤓 ⁣⁣
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This week I spoke to @engenderedpodcast which explores the systems, practices, and policies that enable gender-based violence and oppression and the solutions to end it. ⁣
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Here's a little snippet introducing the fashion industry's global race to the bottom 🗣 #DecolonizingFashion

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Amritsar, balcony sights at sundown: drying clothes and cha da cups ☕️

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This International Women’s Day, I want to stand in solidarity with the Indian women and youth that have been at the forefront of the fight against a fascist government. #IndianWomenResist ⁣
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Peaceful resistance for the past three months has looked something like this – thousands of women, across over 170 sites around the country, have been staging peaceful 24x7 sit-in protests to register their dissent against the new fascist law(s), that come after half a decade of systematic persecution of minorities. ⁣
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The government’s response to counter this movement has been to resort to police brutalities, state-sponsored riots, violence against women. Properties have been damaged and seized, arbitrary arrests have been made and murders have taken place in broad daylight. ⁣
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This #IWD, stand in solidarity with your own observances. It’s part of the diaspora’s responsibility to elevate the myriad of global struggles. ⁣
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[Image: India archives, 2018 Harmandir Sahib in Amritsar]

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“Diversifying the voices of sustainable fashion isn’t just to elicit the cosmetic role of “inclusion,” but also to diversify the modalities through which we understand what sustainability looks like.” ⁣
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Some snippets from my piece for @teenvogue. ♥️ ⁣⁣
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Big love to @tahairy for inviting me to write about my experiences in this space ⚡️

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Cracked borders, cont. Swipe for @svmxxra’s poem, whose form is inspired by ghazal poetry to pay homeage to the way qawwalis have connected folks across borders 💫

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some have compared punjab as ⁣
sisters ⁣
torn apart ⁣
others have described it as ⁣
one being ⁣
split in two ⁣
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— on punjab & partition

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A few weeks back I conceptualized a visual project about the Partition of India & Pakistan and Punjabi identity. ⁣
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In the past, Sumeera (photographed) and I had conversations at length about our own identities as two Punjabi women from India / Pakistan, across Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh lines. ⁣
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With Punjab as the faultline of Partition, we share a collective memory. A collective culture— despite the nuances of religion and lived experience. ⁣
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A project that began as a reflection of shared identity, borders, collective trauma and violence sits differently with what’s happening in India right now. ⁣
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How do we define community? Who do we see as our own? ⁣
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How do we justify violence as we create the image of the ‘other’? ⁣
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Thank you @svmxxra for inviting all the conversations on our own Punjabi identities in the past, and @simrahfarrukh for helping bring this vision to life. ❤️

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Granddaughter of those who survived partition in 1947. Daughter of those who survived Sikh genocide in 1984.⁣⁣
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We’ve seen, lived through, the trauma and violence when the state constructs the image of the ‘other.’ ⁣⁣
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The first step to act upon violence is to dehumanize. ⁣⁣
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Continue to protect one another. Continue to confront state-sanctioned violence.

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