Want to feel old? When Marie-Louise Mogensen started designing undergarments for Baserange, the womenswear brand she cofounded with Blandine de Verdelhan in 2012, underwire bras were the norm. “It was important for us to remove the wires because, in a way, they dictate a more ‘correct’ shape or stereotype,” Mogensen, who is based in Denmark, … Read more
%20Amazon%20Frontlines.jpg "Indigenous Activist Nemonte Nenquimo on Her New Book ‘We Will Be Jaguars’ and Defending The Amazon")
Encountering other Indigenous communities during this time also led to the idea of joining together to rally against the multiple threats they faced. In 2015, Nenquimo co-founded the Ceibo Alliance, comprising members of the Waorani, Kofan, Siona, and Secoya peoples, alongside Amazon Frontlines. “It’s an organization that works with Indigenous communities to secure their land … Read more
Nearly 56 years ago, during the Summer of Love, Sally Fox inadvertently laid the seeds for her career as a groundbreaking cotton breeder. A then-11-year-old Fox, accompanied by her older sister, went to Northern California’s first-ever Renaissance Faire and spent her babysitting money on a drop spindle from “these cool people.” From there, she was … Read more
It does feel, in many ways, that there are now even fewer reasons to be hopeful, with the film’s setting now seeming less a dystopian future and more a contemporary story about the times we live in, with the UK once again ravaged by flooding, the climate emergency becoming more urgent while political solutions are … Read more
%20(1).jpg "In Her Debut Book, Willow Defebaugh Meditates on a World—And a Life—In Transition")
One essay, for example, considers the slow and highly complex metamorphosis of certain insects, such as dragonflies, to reflect on the importance of incremental evolution in the climate movement and our lives more broadly. “We grow imperfectly, incompletely,” she writes. “I’m talking about the subtle shifts, the months of molting, swimming beneath the surface, wondering … Read more
