Hello Dear Ones,
An Official Hello Thread from the Pluriverse
I'm excited to finally be releasing this Substack, years in the making... my gosh!
The past four years already feel like another lifetime as I have been deeply immersed in contemplation, research, practice and writing my PhD. This has felt like a 'monk on the mountain' type of experience, where I haven't shared much, and instead have been deeply sitting in these spaces, ruminating and embodying them, much on my own.
As much as parts of me want to keep being tucked away and in my comfort zone, the same parts of me that are still terrified of being seen and heard (anyone else?!), the time has come to leave the reclusive mountain top and venture into the world. Aka start sharing all that I've learned and experienced, because of how much it has transformed me, and maybe, just maybe, it may also benefit you too.
In these transitionary and intense times, we just don't need any more people hiding and hoarding their visions.
What we need are people being bold, courageous, audacious, and open-hearted.
And so here we are.
My aim is to use this as a space to share my recent and ongoing research in less academic ways, as well as personal reflections, musings and explorations. Even though you'll read a lot here about fashion-textiles and sustainability, you'll also notice me sharing on a diversity of topics. I deeply believe that everything is interconnected and as such I'm very much into building bridges between seemingly disparate fields and ideas.
This is a place where traditional boundaries and borders become blurred and interrelate.
This is a place where we can explore other possibilities and ways of being in the world.
This is a place to stretch the limits of our minds and what we think is possible to imagine and enact alternative potentialities.
And perhaps through this exploration, seeds may sprout, and new forests may bloom.
I invite you to ask questions, post comments, critique. Take what resonates and leave the rest.
It is so great to have you here :)
Ania xx
**I currently write this on the Indigenous ancestral lands of the Nahua peoples, specifically on the site of Tenochtitlan, the former capital of the Mexica (Aztec) civilisation that now forms the heart of Mexico City.
I am so grateful to be held by this place, in this time now.