Anna Fitzpatrick

Nov 25, 2024 | tandfonline.com | Kate Fletcher |Anna Fitzpatrick

AbstractDurability is widely recognized as a key feature of materially resourceful, lower-carbon clothing lives. Yet most of what is known about long-lasting garments is rooted in Euro-American ways of thinking, and reproduces its structures, priorities, values and resulting actions.

Aug 28, 2023 | chatelaine.com | Anna Fitzpatrick

It was a rainy day in 1990 when novelist Emma Donoghue, then a 20-year-old student at Cambridge, ducked into a bookshop to seek shelter. Browsing the shelves, she came across a book entitled I Know My Own Heart: The Diaries of Anne Lister. If today Donaghue is considered something of a Lister expert—her just-released novel, Learned by Heart, is a fictionalization of Lister’s early years (more on that later)—this moment could serve as her origin story.

Aug 16, 2023 | hazlitt.net | Jason McBride |Hope Reese |Anna Fitzpatrick |Alison Motluk

If you are a person who, for ethical, environmental, or health reasons, chooses not to consume animal products, at some point or other, you will be asked: “How do you know if someone’s a vegan?” A pause. “Don’t worry, they’ll let you know.”I’ve heard—and even told—that same joke many times in my own life as a non-meat-eater. Alicia Kennedy recounts it early on in her first book, No Meat Required: The Cultural History & Culinary Future of Plant-Based Eating ().