WILLY WONKA & THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY
1971 | dir. Mel Stuart
one of my "special interests" in the past couple of years has been exploring fast fashion vs. slow fashion. it has been a long journey trying to find clothes that actually 1) fit me 2) look good 3) are made from material that is not actively shoving plastic in the ecosystem 4) involve ethical labor, fair trade, fairly compensated, etc
before i did this research, i really had no clue about fabrics or fashion brands. i used to think i had zero interest in fashion, in fact.
i grew up wearing walmart and thrift store clothes, and when i went to college i bought clothes from target and asos. something started to shift a little bit when i found vintage resellers on etsy and ebay... those clothes were so unique. but a lot of the vintage clothes were polyester blends, stiff, and would fall apart as easily as my asos clothes. i would leave them hanging in my closet and never wear them. i would wear the same old t shirts and jeggings every day. i felt like it was impossible to ever wear comfortable clothes, or ever feel good in clothes, so why bother?
it started with linen. linen is very comfortable and pretty sustainable. i was amazed that i didn't feel the urge to rip my clothes off when i wore linen. lightbulb number one.
a friend let me borrow a nooworks dress, and i went to the store and got some overalls. wow. overalls. lightbulb number two. holy shit, you can wear overalls. you know how people say "not binary or non-binary but a secret third thing." that's overalls.
i realized i loved the bonkers prints that nooworks had, and all of it was soft, and made ethically. it was a higher price point than i was used to, which gave me pause. but then you realize: we're not supposed to be buying dumb clothes every other weekend. and isn't a slightly higher price point for soft clothes that you won't want to tear off your body worth it?
so i started my research. i made a spreadsheet. the prices can be all over the place across brands, so i made a column for prices. sizes can be all over the place too -- people always ask me "where is the plus size slow fashion?" it's there. just look at the size column. people say "isn't it better to buy secondhand?" yeah, it is. i have many links to secondhand sources.
if you have any suggestions or additions please let me know, it is a living document.
“kill them with kindness” Wrong. CURSE OF RA 𓀀 𓀁 𓀂 𓀃 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆 𓀇 𓀈 𓀉 𓀊 𓀋 𓀌 𓀍 𓀎 𓀏 𓀐 𓀑 𓀒 𓀓 𓀔 𓀕 𓀖 𓀗 𓀘 𓀙 𓀚 𓀛 𓀜 𓀝 𓀞 𓀟 𓀠 𓀡 𓀢 𓀣 𓀤 𓀥 𓀦 𓀧 𓀨 𓀩 𓀪 𓀫 𓀬 𓀭 𓀮 𓀯 𓀰 𓀱 𓀲 𓀳 𓀴 𓀵 𓀶 𓀷 𓀸 𓀹 𓀺 𓀻 𓀼 𓀽 𓀾 𓀿 𓁀 𓁁 𓁂 𓁃 𓁄 𓁅 𓁆 𓁇 𓁈 𓁉 𓁊 𓁋 𓁌 𓁍 𓁎 𓁏 𓁐 𓁑 𓀄 𓀅 𓀆
Katie, a Jewish American who grew up in a pro zionism family. And is very much anti zionism and pro Palestine talks about "birthright trips."
I've heard some crazy shit in my life but oh man I was not prepared for this.
"PALESTINE WILL BE FREE this riso prints of this will be up for auction http://PRINTSFORPALESTINE.COM 100% of the funds raised go to Medical Aid for Palestinians, an organization directly supporting Palestinian healthcare workers on the ground"
By: @prairieghosted on tumblr
Ok I've decided to make some basic resources for anti-Zionist Jews who feel really alone and want to connect with each other or with our culture or history.
Reading List
Traces of History: Elementary Structures of Race
The Making of Jewish Revolutionaries in the Pale of Settlement
Twenty Years with the Jewish Labor Bund A Memoir of Interwar Poland
Crisis, Revolution, and Russian Jews
Colonial Paradigms of Violence: Comparative Analysis of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Mass Killing
The Holocaust and the Nakba: A New Grammar of Trauma and History
With Freedom in Our Ears: Histories of Jewish Anarchism
A Fire in Their Hearts: Yiddish Socialists in New York
How Jews Became White Folks: And What That Says About Race in America
Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought: Writings on Identity, Politics, and Culture, 1893–1958
A History of Egyptian Communism Jews and Their Compatriots in Quest of Revolution
The Sultan's Communists: Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Belonging
On the Arab-Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements: Selected Writings of Ella Shohat
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew
When We Were Arabs: A Jewish Family’s Forgotten History
The Arab Jews: A Postcolonial Reading of Nationalism, Religion, and Ethnicity
(Do also check out Decolonize Palestine for the original resources as well as the reading list that centres Palestinians themselves)
News and Magazines
Jewish Currents [United States]
Treyf Podcast [Montreal, Quebec, Canada] (sadly defunct but you can listen to their older, archived podcasts which include some great interviews)
Edit: I think it's also worth adding The Electronic Intifada. It's not explicitly Jewish, but it often features interviews with and opinion pieces by anti-Zionist Jews while primarily being an outlet for Palestinians themselves.
Organisations
Jewish Voice for Peace [United States]
IfNotNow [United States]
Independent Jewish Voices Canada [Canada]
Jewdas [United Kingdom]
Jews Against Fascism [Australia]
Dayenu: New Zealand Jews Against Occupation [Aotearoa / New Zealand]
Sh'ma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices [Aotearoa / New Zealand]
Synagogues
Tzedek [Chicago, Illinois, United States]
Chavurah For A Free Palestine at Kehilla Community Synagogue [Piedmont, California, United States]
Edit: Have also been told I can add Kadima Reconstructionist Community [Seattle, Washington, United States] to the list!
if I may, I would also add:
Reading List
Antisionisme, une histoire juive
A Threat from Within: A Century of Jewish Opposition to Zionism
There Is Nothing So Whole as a Broken Heart: Mending the World as Jewish Anarchists
"Not by Might, Nor by Power:" The Zionist Betrayal of Judaism
Jewish Identity and Palestinian Rights: Diaspora Jewish Opposition to Israel
Reclaiming Judaism from Zionism: Stories of Personal Transformation
Parting Ways: Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism
Wrestling with Zionism: Jewish Voices of Dissent
Jews Against Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942-1948
Organizations &c.
Jews Against White Supremacy [international]
Judaism On Our Own Terms [North America]
Kavod Boston [United States]
Loud Jew Collective [Australia]
Een Andere Joodse Stem - Another Jewish Voice [Belgium]
Shabbes 24/7 Collective [Belgium]
Junts - Associació catalana de jueus i palestins [Catalonia]
Tsedek ! Collectif juif décolonial [France]
Jüdische Stimme [Germany]
Jüdisch Antikolonial [Switzerland]
TzedekUKI [United Kingdom & Ireland]
while some of these do not describe themselves as anti-zionist, I think it can nevertheless be a good start to meeting like-minded people and building explicitly anti-zionist alliances
Miscellaneous
Disillusioned [podcast]
Matzpen [website, documents, videos]
when people are like “oh so you’re just gonna judge someone for their political beliefs?” yes actually. I think someone’s values and opinions is a pretty reasonable thing to judge them for.
Pink silk ball gown, ca. 1867, French.
By Emile Pingat.
Albany Institute of History & Art.
Lion King 1994 (remastered)