Remake Our World | Happy Earth Month!
April 29, 2022Happy Earth Month to all you Earthlings!
In honour of Earth Month, I wanted to take this opportunity to pivot the conversation and highlight an amazing organization I have been volunteering with as an ambassador for the past year and a bit, which is Remake--a global movement of fashion lovers, women rights advocates, environmentalist and activists whom are working together to change the fashion industry's harmful practices on both people and the planet.
WHAT IS REMAKE?
Remake is a social justice organization with the goal to make fashion a force for good. Their mission is to address the intersections of gender and climate justice within the fashion industry. It is a female founded non-profit which advocates for the women who power the fashion industry. Remake's vision is to end exploitation and starvation wages of garment workers worldwide, through the power and amplification of campaigns and demand of accountability from big fashion brands, as well as centering workers voices. One of the biggest campaigns to date is PayUp Fashion, a long-term campaign which outline 7 Actions with the input of garment workers and experts in labour, law and grassroots organizing.
Earlier this month I travelled to New York where I attended the first in-person event in 2 years, Sustainable Fashion in Action: Remake x Refashion Week, which exhibited sustainable small businesses by Remake ambassadors, as well as a panel discussion with the Founder & CEO of Remake, Ayesha Barenblat, and the Director of Advocacy and Policy, Elizabeth Cline. It was such a surreal moment and experience being in the same room with folks I either knew for a year or only just met, as well as attendees who were interested in my personal journey at Remake. Safe to say, I found my people and community and I am honoured to be a voice in this movement.
This is something that may look different for each person, whether it is taking part in on an online platform and advocating on why this is important and valuable to us or it can be simply implementing and embodying this movement in our personal everyday lives, which is what I personally find empowering, as what we care about and stand for as humans can be shown through how we portray ourselves, or in this case, in the clothing we wear, and how we connect with our values through our buying power and where and and how we choose to shop and who we support.
It is acknowledging and respecting the humans behind the clothing and feeling great and knowing that we aren't causing more harm and damage to both the garment workers and our planet.
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