Fashion And Resistance

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Dismantling oppressive systems through culture, history, knowledge and art. How Fashion can continue to be used as a medium for social and environmental change at scale.

Resources:

Books/Literary Texts/Articles

Fashion Activism
The Indigenous Fashion Designer Using Face Masks To Fight Injustice
They’re weaving their culture into the fabrics of their face masks
Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women
Urban Indian Health Institute a. MMIWG: We Demand More
Native Women’s Association of Canada
Lakota Law Resource Guide
Sovereign Bodies Resource Guide
The REDress Project – Jaime Black

Violence from Extractive Industry ‘Man Camps’ Endangers Indigenous Women and Children

First Peoples Worldwide

University of Colorado Boulder.

New Report Finds Increase of Violence Coincides with Oil Boom First Peoples Worldwide University of Colorado Boulder
Maria Hupfield Reflects on Indigenous Action at Whitney Biennial – Canadian Art
Indigenous Womxn’s Collective Stages Protest Inside 2019 Whitney Biennial
Warren B. Kanders, the Whitney Museum’s Highly Controversial Vice Chairman, Has Finally Resigned From Its Board
Artists Withdraw from Whitney Biennial as Backlash Builds Against Warren Kanders UPDATED - Artforum International
Warren Kanders Says He Is Getting Out of the Tear Gas Business - The New York Times
‘My sister was more than a dot’: MMIW families upset over designer dress Globalnews.ca
In photos: Wet’suwet’en matriarchs arrested as RCMP enforce Coastal GasLink pipeline injunction - The Narwhal
Unist’ot’en

[Canada: protests go mainstream as support for Wet’suwet’en pipeline fight widens

Canada

](https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/14/wetsuweten-coastal-gaslink-pipeline-allies) The Guardian

COVID-19 adds to local concerns over Keystone XL pipeline PBS NewsHour Extra
Highway of Tears The Canadian Encyclopedia
Rep. Haaland (D-New Mexico) celebrates passage of MMIW legislation - Indianz.Com
Fashion designer Lesley Hampton apologizes to MMIWG families
Water Cannons and Razor Wire: What Happened Last Night At Standing Rock – Transformative Spaces
A year after Wet’suwet’en blockades, Coastal GasLink pipeline pushes on through pandemic CBC News
Illinois Indigenous and environmental groups call Biden administration to shut down Dakota Access Pipeline expansion
Highway of Tears The Canadian Encyclopedia
Native Sun News Today: Pipeline opponents and advocates warn of dangers of man camps
MMIW — Native Womens Wilderness
Follow the Oil Trail and You’ll Find the Girls
Activists Marched for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Teen Vogue

Videos/Podcasts

Who/What to Follow

Korina Emmerich Emme Studios
Urban Indigenous Collective
Indigenous Kinship Alliance
#mmiw
#mmiwgt2s
#whywewearred
#nomorestolensisters

Korina Emmerich

Korina Emmerich has built her Brooklyn NY based brand, EMME Studio, on the backbone of Expression, Art and Culture. Originally from the Pacific Northwest, her colorful work is known to reflect her patrilineal Indigenous heritage stemming from The Coast Salish Territory, Puyallup tribe. With a strong focus in social and climate justice while speaking out about industry responsibility and accountability: Emmerich works actively to expose and dismantle systems of oppression and challenge colonial ways of thinking. Emmerich is a thinker, maker and critical analyst. She serves on the Board of Directors for The Slow Factory Foundation and is a speaker and panelist at sustainable literacy events and global conferences discussing: slow fashion, sustainability, dismantling white supremacy, environmental racism, indigenous sovereignty, climate and social justice and combating systemic racism.