Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op
@bluetinstudio
Apparel manufacturing / product development / design & consulting.
Black & brown worker-run & owned co-op✨✊🏾✊🏿
Building a net-zero energy studio in Chicago!
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http://bluetinproduction.com/ 13-04-2020 23:36:59
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. Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op is Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی's response to fast fashion and its countless detrimental effects on the environment and the people who make our clothes. ⤵️ tnvge.co/lvmHbse
Shared Capital member Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op got press in Teen Vogue! "Blue Tin...employs predominantly working-class women of color, is Katebi’s response to fast fashion & its countless detrimental effects on the environment & the people who make our clothes." teenvogue.com/story/unbutton…
Our new Wicker Park gallery space opens our headquarters up to the city like never before, and our first exhibition, showcasing the work of Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op and our collaboration with them on #63rdHouse, is now on view!
Blue Tin Production (Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op) works with Chicago Lawn community leaders to envision a hybrid community center and production studio. Founded by Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی | Annette LePique chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/b…
More on our collaboration with Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op and all the amazing work Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی and her team are doing to create #63rdhouse in the new issue of Chicago Reader 👏
"Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op initiated dialogue with their community partners to identify material needs of Chicago Lawn that should be addressed (among them, green spaces, computer access, and increased accessibility to mental health resources)." | Annette LePique chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/b…
"Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op collective model dictates that the company only agrees to direct partnerships with designers, contractors, and clients, shares profits between all workers, rotates lead workers on all production projects [and more] ..." | Annette LePique chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/b…
"the industry of fast fashion is built upon bodies: whose bodies matter, whose bodies have agency, & whose bodies have power under the colonial & carceral structures that create capitalism." | Annette LePique writes on Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op founded by Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی chicagoreader.com/arts-culture/b…
Are sweatshops’ days numbered? Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op, a Chicago-based clothing manufacturer, is here to shake up the fashion industry. The cooperative is run by immigrants, refugees + working-class women of colour, who believe that 'another world is possible.' whatdesigncando.com/stories/a-swea…
Our exhibition with Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op has been extended through the end of the month! A Different Future in the Making highlights our collaboration and Blue Tin's mission as well as our design for 63rd House. Signup to visit our new gallery Tues/Thurs 3-6pm @ bit.ly/3pQEAIz
On the blog: Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op is a manufacturing cooperative founded by Iranian-American writer, Hoda Katebi. Their community is formed of immigrant, refugee, and working-class women of colour who are determined to prove that 'another world is possible'. whatdesigncando.com/stories/a-swea…
“What can bottom-up, systemic change look like in the garment industry—and beyond—when exploitation & violence are replaced by community & care?” I loved writing this for South Side Weekly! Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op is a worker co-op founded by Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی as an alternative to sweatshops.
Working with Studio Gang and Black and brown youth organizers in Chicago Lawn, Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op is developing a hybrid community space and manufacturing studio at 63rd House. They hope to house spaces for organizers to interact and cultivate movement work. bluetinproduction.com/63rdhouse/
Great to see Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op get some press about being a worker co-op out to change the game in the fashion industry and support their community. #GoCoop #6thPrinciple #7thPrinciple southsideweekly.com/blue-tin-produ…
#WorkerCooperatives make for more ethical #WorkingConditions. The #manufacturing industry is notorious for its exploitation, but the Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op is working to turn it around. southsideweekly.com/blue-tin-produ…
So great to see member Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op get press in The New York Times Hoda Katebi says: “Rather than just campaigning to get garment workers paid a dollar more, we’re calling for an end to the system that puts workers in these positions to begin with.” nytimes.com/2022/05/09/bus…
“Rather than just, say, campaigning to get garment workers paid a dollar more, we’re calling for an end to the system that puts workers in these positions to begin with.” Thank you for the feature/interview of our work, The New York Times!💫 nytimes.com/2022/05/09/bus…
Fantastic profile of Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op's Hoda Katebi هدی کاتبی, who founded the apparel worker cooperative that is dismantling harmful labor and ecological practices in the fashion sector nytimes.com/2022/05/09/bus…