Jun 15 2020 16 mins
This is the final episode of season three of Talking About Clothes. In it, I talk about how the hardest part of this whole year-long project was showing up everyday and doing the thing I showed up to do. And also, how after a transformative year (which this year of The Self-Made Wardrobe Project certainly was), there’s no going back to the way things were before. That year changed how I related to my clothes in fundamental ways.
Thank you for revisiting this project with me, now I hope you’ll take some time to explore these remarkable Black creators and thinkers working in clothing-related fields. Because Black lives matter. And these creators are doing incredible things.
In Style, Handmade Style & Sewing
- Brittany Diego is a celebrity stylist and fashion consultant. She also hosts the Fashion School Dropout Podcast.
Website: https://www.brittanytdiego.com/
Instagram: @brittanydiego
Podcast: Fashion School Dropout - Stephanie Thomas, the founder and CEO of Cur8able, is a disability fashion stylist, speaker, and consultant.
Website: https://cur8able.com/
Podcast: Cur8able the Podcast
Instagram: @disabilityfashionstylist - Jasika Nicole, is an actress and also makes her entire wardrobe.
Website: http://jasikanicole.com/
Instagram: @jasikaistrycurious - Marcy Harriell, as she says in her IG bio, is an actor, singer, sewist, and merrymaker.
Website: http://www.oonaballoona.com/
Instagram: @marcyharriell - Black Girls Sew™ is “committed to making an impact on the lives of women and youth through education in sewing, design and entrepreneurship.”
Instagram: @blackgirlssew
In Clothing Sustainability
- Dominique Drakeford, Founder of MelaninASS, and Co-Founder of Sustainable Brooklyn. In her own words, she “work[s] at the intersections of sustainability and style to heal our relationship to the Earth and spark equitable change for economic wellbeing.”
Website: https://www.dominiquedrakeford.com/
Instagram: @dominiquedrakeford - Aja Barber is a a writer and fashion consultant focusing on race, intersectional feminism, and fashion.
Instagram: @ajabarber
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/AjaBarber
In Fashion & History
- Cheyney McKnight, founder and owner of Not Your Momma’s History, is a Historical Interpreter and Living Historian.
Website: http://www.notyourmommashistory.com/
Youtube: NotYourMommasHistory
Instagram: @NotYourMommasHistory
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/NotYourMommasHistory - Dandy Wellington is a bandleader, entertainer, event producer, and creative consultant. #VintageStyleNOTVintageValues
Website: https://www.dandywellington.com/
Youtube: Dandy Wellington
Instagram: @dandywellington
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dandywellington
Additionally: Anti-Racism Training, Resources & People to Follow
- "Undoing Racism" by The People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond
- “Race Demystified" by Milagros Phillips
- Rachel Elizabeth Cargle a public academic, writer, and lecturer.
Website: https://www.rachelcargle.com/
Twitter: @rachelcargle
Instagram: @rachel.cargle - Layla F. Saad is an "author, speaker & teacher on the topics of race, identity, leadership, personal transformation & social change."
Website: http://laylafsaad.com/
Instagram: @laylafsaad - The Conscious Kid: "Parenting and Education through a Critical Race Lens"
Instagram: @theconsciouskid
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/theconsciouskid - Nupol Kiazolu, President Black Lives Matter Greater NY and Founder/CEO of Vote 2000.
Instagram: @nupol_justice
Twitter: @nupol_justice - A document with dozens of additional resources. This document was compiled by Sarah Sophie Flicker & Alyssa Klein in May 2020: bit.ly/ANTIRACISMRESOURCES
Learn more at WhoWearsWho.com/podcast3