Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration - 253) Aditi Mayer: Decolonizing fashion and going beyond the tokenism of diversity

253) Aditi Mayer: Decolonizing fashion and going beyond the tokenism of diversity

07/20/20 • 45 min

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

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Aditi Mayer is a photographer, journalist, and sustainable fashion blogger whose work explores the intersections of style, sustainability, and social justice. Her platform, Adimay, looks at the fashion industry through a lens of decolonization and intersectional feminism.

In this podcast episode, Aditi sheds light on how our modern fashion industry reflects its colonial history; what the decolonization of fashion may look like; what the pandemic has revealed of the pre-existing injustices and exploitation embedded within the industry; and more.

Featured music of the month: Yarrow by Kim Anderson

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252) Harriet A. Washington [PART 2]: Understanding the 'deadly monopolies' of the medical-industrial-complex

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Harriet A. Washington is an award-winning medical writer and editor and the author of 'Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present.' She is also the author of 'A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind.' In her work, Harriet focuses mainly on bioethics, the history of medicine, African-American health issues, and the intersection of medicine, ethics, and culture.

In part 2 of our conversation, Harriet sheds light on what the medical-industrial-complex is and how it's been crossing the lines in finding things to profit off of; how public health threats to people of color really should practically concern everybody in society; and more.

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254) Rob Hopkins: Practicing eco-visualizations to go "from what is to what if"

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Rob Hopkins is a cofounder of Transition Town Totnes and Transition Network and the author of From What Is to What If?, The Power of Just Doing Stuff, The Transition Handbook, and The Transition Companion .

In this podcast episode, Rob sheds light on how we can use visualization practices to fuel our activism work; what transition towns are and how they've been working towards decarbonization in their own culturally and bioregionally appropriate ways; and more.

Featured music of the month: Yarrow by Kim Anderson

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