Tansy E Hoskins

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

'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

Need a guest lecturer at your university, school, conference or museum?

Insightful intros or academic deep dives into labour rights & sustainability, journalism & fashion ethics

Newsletter No.02 - Garment workers, brickies, firefighters

Unravelling fashion's threads of chaos, plus protest fashion, Myanmar, & a $665 million lawsuit

Newsletter No.01 - Wage Theft: defining the pandemic

Stop referring to brands as 'buyers'. 2nd edition of Stitched Up, new articles, & a writing prize

Project - Mapping the Covid rights roll back

How the RMG Colectivo used cross-border journalism to document the impact of Covid-19

Italian Foot Work: Lavorare con i piedi

The first translation of Foot Work has arrived and it's Italian. Grazie mille!

Article - RANA PLAZA: Imperialism vs Internationalism

Eight years later, in the midst of a pandemic, brands are still sacrificing people for profit

Article - Bleak Friday: capitalism's drive to consume

Why do we keep shopping even in the midst of a pandemic? How do we escape the trap?