Dead White Man's Clothes: The Global Secondhand Clothing Trade and the "Afterlife" of our Waste with Liz Ricketts of the OR Foundation
Description
Fast fashion and the world's fashion addiction is causing an environmental catastrophe.
We have a conversation with Liz Ricketts, co-founder of the OR Foundation, a U.S. and Ghana based non-profit working at the intersection of environmental justice, education, and fashion development.
Kantamanto Market is the largest Secondhand Clothing Market in West Africa, located in Accra, Ghana where 15,000,000 items pass through the market each week and 40% leaves as waste. It's also where the the Global North exports most of its unwanted clothes.
We chatted with Liz Ricketts, co-founder of the OR Foundation to learn more about the serious implications that overconsumption and overproduction has within the fashion industry, the journey of our discarded clothes, and so much more.
Links mentioned in this episode:
Support the Secondhand Solidarity Fund https://donorbox.org/secondhand-solidarity-fund/
Dead White Man's Clothes research project
https://deadwhitemansclothes.org/intro
@theorispresent on Instagram
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