Ep 231, Inside Shein: How the Ultra Fast Fashion Brand Makes Clothes So Cheap — Wardrobe Crisis Despite Shein’s new sustainability rhetoric, workers are still paying the price for the ultra-fast fashion giant’s success. To 75-hour working weeks, piece rates and no contracts, add secrecy, opaque...

Swimming in #goldenworld copyedits this week & thinking a lot about supply chains & modern waste colonialism. For anyone interested in labour & craft in our own fashion system, this is such a good Wardrobe Crisis episode on the evils of super fast fashion: thewardrobecrisis.com/podcast/ep-2...

On this day in 1611 — days before the first recorded performance of Shakespeare’s Tempest — the inauguration of a new Lord Mayor of London involved an elaborate pageant featuring English subjects dressed up as Indigenous Americans ‘from the rich and Golden Indian mines’. #goldenworld

felt fitting to pass the gold shops on Hatton Gardens on my way to discuss #GoldenWorld with my editor at the Faber offices today — a book full of treasure, bullion, and silver shillings making transatlantic crossings into Renaissance England

"sweet soul music" "laura lee- to win your heart" "women of soul music"

youtu.be/3LdBfupfoFY

#lauralee #ricticrecords #goldenworld #detroit #northernsoul

The Eccles Institute & Hay Festival Global Writers Award

What an honour to be shortlisted for this - and what company! Now to finish the manuscript...

www.hayfestival.com/eccles-insti...

#vastearlyamerica #goldenworld