October 2021 | Monthly Wrap Up
I don’t really know how I’ve felt about October. Parts have been great but there have also been parts where I’ve felt quite anxious and felt myself slipping a bit. But hey, we move, and I’m still...
View ArticleWhat is SB62 and Why Is It So Important? | Slow Fashion Simplified #3
SB62, otherwise known as the Garment Worker Protection Act, is a piece of Californian state legislation which was signed into law on 27th September of this year. You might have heard it mentioned by...
View ArticleWhere Was Fashion at COP26?
By now, we all know that COP26 was a failure. It feels almost astounding how little it managed to achieve apart from the extent to which it highlighted our world leaders are the major climate...
View ArticleNovember 2021 | Monthly Wrap Up
I have been exhausted in November but I have also been pretty happy. I just need to keep forcing myself to physically take breaks and rest.Favourite part?I continued my new trend of beginning the month...
View Article10 Organisations to Donate To This Holiday Season
Christmas is just around the corner (literally next week) and gift guides have flooded blogs everywhere. It is also the time of year consumption and waste get thrown into overdrive, which we know isn’t...
View ArticleDecember 2021 | Monthly Wrap Up
December, you have been stressful. Favourite part?I started off the month well by taking part in Remake’s last Community Call of the year, as one of many ambassdors sharing our experiences campaigning...
View Article10 Best Non-Fiction Books I Read in 2021
2021 for me was definitely the year of incredible non-fiction books. Don’t get me wrong, I read some great fiction too, but it was so so hard trying to decide which titles to include in my top 10...
View Article5 Best Fiction Books I Read in 2021
While my Storygraph has confirmed that I read more non-fiction in 2021, I still read some cracking fiction books too! Most of those were for my degree (particularly for the end of my undergrad), but...
View ArticleJanuary 2022 | Monthly Wrap Up
January, you were overall quite a good way to kickstart 2022. Favourite part?I spent the first few days of 2022 in isolation with Covid. I was eventually able to get out and travel back home after...
View Article5 Steps to Getting Over Your Break-Up with Fast Fashion
Fast fashion is the ultimate shitty ex. It’s the truth. You’re caught up in an intense and possessive relationship (potentially for many years) that you keep going back to because maybe they’ve changed...
View ArticleFebruary 2022 | Monthly Wrap Up
February has been full on but all in all pretty good. Favourite part? One of the biggest things that happened in February was probably becoming President of my university’s Feminist Society! It’s been...
View ArticleMarch 2022 | Monthly Wrap Up
A lot has happened in March. It’s seemed non-stop in parts. And now it’s time for more of a rest.Favourite part? There’s been so much stuff happening March, my trip to Edinburgh feels like much longer...
View ArticleApril 2022 | Monthly Wrap Up
April has been a slower month than the past and for that I am grateful!Favourite part?I’ve had a bit less on this month which has been great, especially after such a hectic month as March when I didn’t...
View ArticleAD | Meet GeeGee Collection
In July, I went along to the first ever Northern Fashion Week, held in Manchester for 3 days. I had never been to a fashion week event before and I admit I did feel a fair bit of imposter syndrome when...
View ArticleAD | Is Hemp a Sustainable Fabric?
When it comes to sustainable choices, fabrics can be a minefield. Polyester seems to be in everything, but brands rarely talk about the fact that this means plastic is one of their most used materials....
View ArticleBook Review: Burnt - Fighting for Climate Justice by Chris Saltmarsh
“In the textbooks and on broadcast media, the impacts of climate change are abstracted as technical policy debates without a proportionate sense of the scale of the suffering and devastation already...
View ArticleMe at 23
Today, I turn 23. I was thinking the other day about how this series may be a little strange but I genuinely love looking back on them years later. This is the seventh iteration of ‘Me at’ and it seems...
View ArticleTop 10 Fiction Books I Read in 2022
2022 was the year I rediscovered reading for fun. It was the first year since I was very very young that I didn’t have any required reading to do. I graduated from my undergrad degree in English Lit...
View ArticleTop 10 Non-Fiction Books of 2022
Over the past couple of years, I’ve struggled with the question of whether I prefer reading. fiction or non-fiction. At some moments, I’ve tended towards non-fiction, and others I’ve preferred novels....
View ArticleClothes I Got in 2022 as a Slow Fashion Campaigner
Last year, after being inspired by fellow slow fashion blogger Farihah (@easypeasysustainability), I decided to keep a log of my clothing consumption for the entire year. It was overall a successful...
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