Episode 38 - Reconnecting with Land and Community through Slow Fashion
In the darkness of solstice season, a slim and nourishing light begins to return, imperceptibly, like the small and steady reconnections we are making to the earth and each other.
This conversation explores how we can reconnect with land and improve our relationship with the environment through natural dye and slow fashion. These practices allow us to express creativity and connect with our specific homes on a miraculous and hurting planet. We discuss how no one can shoulder the weight of environmental care alone – we need each other.
Malú Colorin, a Mexican natural dyer and designer living in Ireland, inherited her name and a calling for textile art from her mother and grandmother. She is the founder of Talú, a natural dye house and educational hub, and she is also the co-founder of Fibreshed Ireland, a community-supported social enterprise building networks to craft a regenerative Irish textile system based on local fibre, local dyes and local labour.
In the slowly-receding darkness, we reflect on what to let go of – and what we hold onto fiercely.
Episode 16 - Resisting Consumerism, Reclaiming Power
Consuming stuff is embedded into our identities, culture, and definitions of self-worth. For the sake of our planet’s health and our own freedom, it is well worth the hard work of dismantling our addiction to stuff. Aja Barber joins Reseed for a fascinating and frank conversation about the journey to consuming less, intersections between fashion, justice, and climate, wildest dreams for remaking the fashion ecosystem, and how to balance individual and collective action to reclaim our power.
Episode 10 - Regenerative Textile Economies
Rebecca Burgess of Fibershed on rebuilding regenerative textile communities that are carbon beneficial and regenerate soil, while restoring livelihoods to rural communities.
Episode 9 - Reclaiming Culture, Decolonizing Fashion
Aditi Mayer joins Reseed to help reimagine the fashion system to be rooted in justice and environmental care, while advocating for the reclamation of culture.
Episode 8 - Reflecting Climate Grief Through Music
Music can help us make sense of, and deeply feel, our climate grief. Tamara Lindeman of The Weather Station discusses her acclaimed 2021 album Ignorance about climate grief which struck a chord with citizens and critics alike. Tamara joins Reseed for a conversation that spans selfhood, rootlessness, connection, the heartbreaking beauty of birds - and the role of artists is helping us process, feel, grieve, and reimagine.
Episode 5 - Re-cycling Kids’ Clothes to Reduce Overconsumption
This is a story of children’s clothing, textiles, time passing, and the valiant confrontation of overconsumption. Mini-Cycle Founder and Owner Jad Robitaille talks about entrepreneurship, motherhood, and zero waste fashion for kids.
Episode 3 - Revealing Luxury Brands’ Dirty Waste Secrets
Meet the woman who digs through and documents Manhattan’s waste, to divert from landfill, raise consciousness, and create systemic change.
Anna Sacks, aka the Trash Walker, creates viral TikTok and Instagram videos that shed light on the brand new merchandise that luxury brands deliberately destroy in the name of growth. This conversation explores not just our society’s waste problems - but also its solutions.
Episode 2 - Remaking Fashion: Fossil-Free and Feminist
How do we remake fashion so that it is regenerative, fossil-free, inclusive, and equitable?
Sophia Yang, Founder and Executive Director of Threading Change, joins Reseed for a conversation about fashion, justice, gender, circular economy, and climate - and how they all weave together.