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 ().

Apr 12, 2023 | vice.com | Anna Fitzpatrick

If you've never been to a sex party, what do you picture them looking like? Mysterious, elite soirées featuring masks and creepy rituals, à la Eyes Wide Shut? Sweaty orgies where people penetrate one another as a way of saying hi? Some other intimidating, sordid fuckfest that's probably best left to more extroverted, hyper-qualified sex-havers than the likes of you? You're not necessarily wrong, but there are plenty of sex parties where you'd fit right in.

Feb 6, 2023 | chatelaine.com | Anna Fitzpatrick

Breakups can be traumatic. That’s the thesis behind plenty of enduring pop songs, prime time soap operas and former diary entries from yours truly. In the 2004 Michel Gondry film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, characters go so far as to wipe them from their memory. The trauma of breakups was also the impetus behind a recent scientific study out of the University of Ottawa.