The latest protest t-shirts from Katharine Hamnett take aim at some of the most toxic attitudes and prejudices afflicting our culture.
Her new slogan, BE ANTI-RACIST, is a call for the daily dismantling of racism in all its forms.
To be silently non-racist is to be a bystander, complacent in the assumption that the world is changing for the better.
The fashion industry is slow to change, with supply chains still profiting from pollution and poverty, but on this issue it cannot be silent.
“Slogan t-shirts are designed to put ideas in your brain.
You can’t not read them.
They make you think, and hopefully do the right thing.”
BE ANTI-RACIST
We need to be actively anti-racist. Question your own thoughts,
assumptions and behaviour every day, and be brave enough to challenge your friends and family.
Question your MP, ask them how they are helping fight
racism in their communities and in government.
100% of profits to the Runnymede Trust
– The UK’s leading race equality thinktank.
DON’T SHOOT– still an issue for 2020
A re-issue of our 2017 campaign, and more relevant than ever.
25% of individuals killed in police shootings in the US since 2015 have been black, while black people make up just 12% of the population.
The police need to overturn institutional racism and become a force for good.
100% of profits to the Runnymede Trust.
LOVE
Disdain and toxicity proliferate online and in the media, in how we treat each other and how we treat our planet.
Remind yourself and each other that everyone is capable and worthy of love.
PEACE
Famous for confronting Margaret Thatcher with her an- ti-nuclear ‘58% Don’t want Pershing’ t-shirt, Katharine has always used the voice fashion has given her to call for peace.
With extremism and national populism on the rise across much of the world, we cannot take peace for grant- ed.
Nor can we be blind to atrocities abroad because they feel remote from our daily lives. Use your vote to achieve PEACE.
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