You might think I’ve always been this body positivity advocate. Afterall, my face and my body are all over my website. All over my instagram. Daily, unfiltered on my Instagram stories. People often say to me ‘you are so confident! - I could never do what you do!’ and I kinda have to shrug it off because I certainly don’t feel like the person they are describing.
I’m not sure where I learnt it from, but a deep belief that I keep coming up against in my own psyche is that it's GOOD to be independent. That relying on other people or asking for help is somehow shameful or a failure. Big sister syndrome? Being a single mum? That doing IT ALL is the goal and doing it all MYSELF is the standard. When I started Milk & Moon I was terrified that anyone would realise that I had no idea what I was doing.
The fight for women’s rights globally is an urgent movement. The list of ways in which women are not just unequal in the world, but marginalised and subject to violence is as long as history itself and reaches across all cultures. Perhaps because of this vastness, Feminism is itself a broad movement. One person’s feminist ideology can be so very different from another’s and yet all sit under the banner that is ‘Feminist’.
Making new stuff is always gonna be at odds with a goal of sustainability. There is no escaping that and I fully admit that the most sustainable action anyone can take is to not buy from me at all. Wear the things you already own, buy or swap second hand, mend or repurpose what can be reused. I don’t want to ‘greenwash’ what I do here.
