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Stitch PleasePart 2: Mending the Gap: Honing Ancestral Skills with Mahdiyyah MuhammadThis week on Stitch Please, Lisa is back with Mahdiyyah Muhammad for part 2 of their soulful sewing saga. They dive into denim history, fabric frequencies (yes, cloth has vibes), and why mending is basically ancestral witchcraft. From fast fashion fails to fiber alchemy, it’s a masterclass in making sustainability stylish. Tune in, get stitched, and feel the frequency.====Where You Can Find Mahdiyyah! The Black Fiber & Textile NetworkMahdiyyah Muhammad's IG===========Dr. Lisa Woolfork is an associate professor of English specializing in African American lite...
2025-05-2826 minStitch PleasePart 1: Mending the Gap: Honing Ancestral Skills with Mahdiyyah MuhammadThis week on Stitch Please, Lisa is joined (again!) by the fabulous Mahdiyyah Muhammad for a thread-heavy deep dive into sewing that’s sustainable, soulful, and seriously stylish. They chat denim history, fabric vibes (yes, literal vibrations), and why mending isn’t just for grandma—it’s radical, ancestral, and low-key magical. From fast fashion faux pas to fiber alchemy, this convo stitches together culture, community, and circular fashion with plenty of wisdom and a dash of sass. Tune in and get mended, mentally and materially.====Where You Can Find Mahdiyyah! The Black Fiber & T...
2025-05-1426 min
Conscious Style Podcast101) Demystifying Financial Sustainability in Slow FashionFinancial sustainability is essential for creating a more just, and sustainable, fashion ecosystem with thriving businesses that care about people and the planet. But how do you go about actually making money in this space, especially when you care about not overproducing? Money-making is a topic that is all-too-often taboo in the slow fashion space, but our panelists Dani Des Roches, Mahdiyyah Muhammad, Jacqueline Schumann, and Aiste Zitnikaite are unpacking their experiences, transparently, in this episode!Note: This is a recording from a Conscious Fashion Collective Membership panel discussion, so you may hear references to the membership...
2024-03-1251 minConscious Style Podcast99) 10 Lessons Learned From 100 EpisodesAs you might have noticed, we are just one episode away from the 100th episode of the podcast! We're starting the celebrations early and changing up the usual format with this episode. Instead of interviewing a guest, this week we’re sharing 10 lessons we’ve learned from 100 episodes of the podcast that features interviews with some of the most inspiring changemakers in the fashion industry.***MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:Online Platform: Conscious Fashion CollectiveOnline Community: Conscious Fashion Collective MembershipPodcast Episode: EP79: Sustainable Fashion Policy and Collective Action with Elizabeth ClinePodcast Episode: EP96: Choosing Hope Over...
2023-09-0549 min
Conscious Style Podcast94) Can Slow Fashion Businesses Scale Without Encouraging Overconsumption? With Mahdiyyah MuhammadHow can we reimagine the traditional role of fashion designers in a world filled with fashion waste? And how can we rethink our primary role as consumers in a way that allows us to become contributors to collective well-being instead? It’s no secret that we live in a world with far too much clothing. If we are to work towards a more sustainable fashion industry, we need to unpack the ways that fashion brands and designers can pivot away from the mainstream business model of take-make-waste and embrace alternative sustainable fashion business models that limit waste. And...
2023-08-0149 min
Stitch PleaseFabric Alchemy with Mahdiyyah Muhammad Mahdiyyah Muhammad is a self-taught Artist, Fashion Designer, and Instructor who began designing at a very young age, breathing new life into discarded clothing. She draws inspiration from her practice of fabric alchemy; with an ability to take recycled, bio-based materials and turn them into one of one works of wearable art that boost healing properties. Taken from her research of naturally occurring materials and the effects they have on the body, each design is created with intentional fabric carrying high vibrational frequency like linen, cotton, wool, and organic cotton. Knowing the body in its op...
2022-07-1336 min