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Natalie Shehata
Sustainable Stylist | Ethical Fashion | Community organiser | Speaker | Writer
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“If our environmentalism
isn’t intersectional, then it isn’t part of a sustainable future that sustains us all”.
We chat about an article I wrote back in 2018.
“The communities most affected by our sustainable industry decisions are Black and Brown communities, yet they are not afforded the right to take part in the decision making process. It is the White privileged, resourced and elite groups who dictate the climate of fashion – now and for the future. When we’re referring to the current climate of sustainable fashion and bringing the topic of visibility to media, we’re faced with the over saturation at the moment of words like diversity - now is the time to acknowledge how powerful language is in communicating messages. I think we need to consider the fact that the term diversity in its very nature can be quite tokenistic.”
