EEDA Newsletter Vol 5, Res 17: Covid Emergency Kit List and Sustainable Fashion
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Hi friends! This past weekend we attended an iPhone photography class. I have an Android but Nicole has an iPhone. I also already have decades of photography experience but I still learned some things! It was a lot of fun and I think what I loved the most about it is carving out that deliberate time to do something purely for fun. It wasn’t cooking. It wasn’t working. It wasn’t cleaning. It was excellent and we need to do more of that.
Otherwise, it’s the Raygun memes that are keeping me going.
This week's EEDA Pod episode is titled, “A Medley of Best Advice.” This week we share a mélange, a medley, a menagerie, a veritable smorgasbord of some of our favorite advice. Some of it is great advice and some of the advice is a bit dubious and your mileage may vary!
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Resource 1: What's in your Covid Emergency Kit? via Violet Blue
For folks like us who are doing our best to take community care very seriously, Violet Blue has created What’s in your Covid Emergency Kit. I’ve shared Violet’s Pandemic Roundup here and her reporting has helped us tremendously. As she so accurately states, “We’re on our own, scrabbling for accurate information, comparing notes, forming emergency care circles, and trying to educate as many people as we can.” Those of us who live in earthquake country know to have earthquake kits. Folks in areas with fires (also us, hi) or areas that flood know to have go bags (whether or not people actually have them is a different story). What’s in your Covid Emergency Kit is like these things, but for Covid. It’s a free resource but if you find it useful, please direct your tips to Violet Blue as the creator (links are at the bottom of her Patreon post).
Resource 2: Where2Shop Womenswear via Lakyn Carlton, The Sustainable Stylist
Full disclosure: while I try to share resources for free, this is not a free resource. It is $1.99 and it is worth so much more than that. Also, while it is mostly “womenswear,” there is a tab for more gender neutral clothing included.
Sustainable fashion can be expensive because it is well-made with good materials by labor who is paid fairly. It is not financially accessible for a lot of people and Modamensch on TikTok talks a lot about this, especially as a person who was formerly unhoused. Her content is great and he talks about sustainable fashion on a budget as well as just how to tell if things are well-made and a whole bunch of other incredibly helpful stuff. She’s also on Instagram and it’s from him that I learned about the Where2Shop Womenswear spreadsheet.
The Where2Shop Womenswear resource is a giant, multi-tabbed spreadsheet of vetted sustainable fashion brands. There is so much out there that says it’s sustainable and it’s not. I have gladly paid for this resource from a person who knows what they’re talking about.
Recent & Current Reads
Inclusion of a book in this section is not necessarily a recommendation and these books won’t necessarily be added to my Bookshop.
Recently Read:
I'll Have What He's Having by Adib Khorram (out 8/27)
Thinking 101: How to Reason Better to Live Better by Woo-Kyoung Ahn [reread]
The Sunbearer Trials by Aiden Thomas [reread]
Celestial Monsters by Aiden Thomas (out 9/3)
Currently Reading:
Countess by Suzan Palumbo (out 9/10)
Hip-Hop is History by Questlove with Ben Greenman
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by Adrienne Maree Brown
Start Here: Instructions for Becoming a Better Cook: A Cookbook by Sohla El-Waylly and a forward by Samin Nosrat
Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror edited by Jordan Peele & John Joseph Adams (Yes, I am still working on this. I got through one particular story and it thoroughly creeped me out so I’ve set it aside)
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