Fighting fast fashion and period poverty.

period. magazine

Started at a university in Liverpool. Currently getting out of hand.

period. is not a fashion magazine

It began as one. A final year project at Liverpool Hope University exploring fashion activism, exploitation and identity. The brief said magazine. The result was 120 pages on garment workers earning £2 an hour in Leicester factories, children mining cobalt in the DRC, Palestinian artisans watching their symbol being printed on polyester by the same companies funding their erasure and the Windrush generation dressing with quite defiance in a country that invited them and then tried to deport them.

Now it’s going to Kenya. It’s become something harder to explain and more worth doing.

kenya

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Every magazine sold funds reusable menstrual pad workshops for girls in Kilifi County, Kenya. One magazine. Five pads. Girls staying in school.

Issue 001

£15.00

Sharp. Funny. Political without apology. Designed to sit on your shelf and make your friends ask questions.

All profit for every sale fund reusable menstrual pad workshops in Kilifi County, Kenya. Every magazine funds the materials. Every pad made stays with the girl who made it.

120 pages on the things that fashion doesn’t want to talk about. The keffiyeh being mass produced in polyester. The children mining cobalt in the DRC so your metallic mini skirt can shimmer under club lights. The Windrush generation dressed like they belonged because they did. The supply chain that runs from Liverpool docks to Guangzhou factories to your doorstep by Tuesday. The quiet luxury aesthetic that dresses up class warfare in linen neutrals. The 1,134 people who died in Rana Plaza making Western denim.

And the bit that nobody expects: why your clean girl routine is funding modern slavery, why faux fur might be worse than the animal skins it replaced and why changing your profile picture isn’t activism.