Tansy E Hoskins

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Foot Work - Japan Edition

I have some big news - my book Foot Work - What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation launches today in Japanese! 私の本が日本語で出版されます。(My book is now out!) 「あなたが履いている靴が、 どこから来たか知っていますか？ 私たちを、どこに連れて行くのかも―― 〝足元〞から世界を考える」  (Do you know where your shoes come from? Do you know where they take us? Thinking

Bangladeshi garment workers fight for a living wage

How you can help end poverty wages in Bangladesh.

German edition: Das antikapitalistische Buch der Mode

Guten Tag! Some great news this week - the German edition of The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion has now been published as Das antikapitalistische Buch der Mode. The publisher is the brilliant Rotpunkverlag who are based in Zurich. They also published the German edition of Stitched Up back in 2015

Fashioning The Future - report launch

Publication news! I've co-authored a new report on fashion and degrowth and it's out today.

A good news garment story?

Newsletter No.15 - The Dindigul Agreement to End Gender-Based Violence and Harassment should be the biggest news in the fashion industry

Naming The Dead

Reading 1,138 names outside Primark on Oxford Street.

Fashion or Trashion?

Newsletter No.14 - Kenya's secondhand clothing avalanche, the tenth anniversary of Rana Plaza and much more

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Let's keep in touch

Welcome to my small slice of the internet. As the fashion industry becomes more authoritarian and the climate crisis intensifies let's connect & act

Newsletter No.13 - Winter greetings

Short and positive! Three recommendations and some garment industry news

Newsletter No.12 - Muskageddon vs Mastodon

In a bid to introduce more people to Mastodon this newsletter is on the experience of joining and why it's different from the usual online alienation

Newsletter No.11 - Branding the planet with Patagonia

Don't let the fight for climate justice be transformed into a series of branded announcements

Newsletter No.10 - The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion

Launch pics, audiobook & tour news. Plus street kitchens in Sri Lanka and repression in Myanmar

Book tour dates: The Anti-Capitalist Book Of Fashion

We're off to London, Cardiff, Bristol, Southend-on-Sea, Leeds & Leipzig

Newsletter No.09 - Heat, hope, anger & courage

Meditations on hope in a heatwave, Sri Lanka, the drive for 1M signatures and book launch news

Book Launch Invitation

Launch details - 24th August, Waterstones Tottenham Court Road

Newsletter No.08 - Shein: Saviour or arsonist?

On slash fashion giant Shein's $15M charitable donation to ‘solve ecological and social problems’

Newsletter No.07 - Why is the world ignoring the impact of climate change on home-based workers?

On invisible supply chains, historic agreements and tackling greenwashing

Can I show you my new book cover??

Quick note with major book news

World Book Day & Foot Work paperback launched

Paperback edition includes a new foreword on the global impact of the pandemic on shoe workers

Newsletter No.06 - Foot Work, gender based violence & picket lines

Book giveaway! New article on gender-based violence, plus Myanmar & lots of strikes

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'The only thing worth doing is fighting to bring down the system, and one's humanity is central to that'

A personal reflection of grief on the loss of Neil Faulkner which I hope will bring some comfort

Newsletter No.05 - The jumper Kate Dibiasky wore to die

'Don't Look Up' in jumpers, Leigh Bowery exhibition, plus are your old sneakers really recycled?

Newsletter No.04 - Life In The Time Of Vaccine Inequality

Pandemics in a stupid economic system. Plus industry news and Abba's tax affairs

Newsletter No.03 - Can they buy style or must they buy fashion?

On 1930's fashion critiques and the "horrid little man" that is the industry