SWEATSHIRTS

This is the shirt to wear if you have been raised by refugees. Raised by the resilience, love, grit and promise of parents or carers who had to leave their known for the unknown. And, with it, had to adapt to new culture, language, food and life. This is the shirt to wear if you are proud of your refugee heritage or being part of a migrant story. This is a thank you to our refugee raisers; a visual paean to the ones that whispered dreams in mother tongues, the ones that sang us lullabies; song stories of home, the ones that fed us rice, sauces, foods from lands they had to leave. This shirt is a statement about how refugee mothers, fathers, siblings, aunties, uncles and carers have raised us up - some with little to no resources - relying on stories, love and heart. This is a thank you to the refugees who raised us and made us, us.

The inspiration from this design comes from my grandmother who crossed the Mekong river to bring her family, including my mom, to safety. The Secret War in Laos brought death and destruction to their hometown so they fled to Thailand to seek refuge. Months later, they were all flown to the US and arrived in 1976.

FIT & FEATURES:
/ Regular unisex fit 
/ 50/50 cotton/polyester (fibre content may vary for different colors)
/ Double-needle stitched
/ "C" logo on left sleeve

PRODUCT DETAILS:
50/50 cotton/polyester / Machine wash cold / Tumble dry low

Size Guideline: I'm 5'3, 130lbs and I wear a medium for a loose fit, and a small for a tighter fit. 

Please make sure you choose the right size as we can only refund or exchange an item if it's damaged. Thank you.

This is the shirt to wear if you have been raised by refugees. Raised by the resilience, love, grit and promise of parents or carers who had to leave their known for the unknown. And, with it, had to adapt to new culture, language, food and life. This is the shirt to wear if you are proud of your refugee heritage or being part of a migrant story. This is a thank you to our refugee raisers; a visual paean to the ones that whispered dreams in mother tongues, the ones that sang us lullabies; song stories of home, the ones that fed us rice, sauces, foods from lands they had to leave. This shirt is a statement about how refugee mothers, fathers, siblings, aunties, uncles and carers have raised us up - some with little to no resources - relying on stories, love and heart. This is a thank you to the refugees who raised us and made us, us.

The inspiration from this design comes from my grandmother who crossed the Mekong river to bring her family, including my mom, to safety. The Secret War in Laos brought death and destruction to their hometown so they fled to Thailand to seek refuge. Months later, they were all flown to the US and arrived in 1976.

FIT & FEATURES:
/ Regular unisex fit 
/ 80/20 cotton/polyester (fibre content may vary for different colors)
/ Double-needle stitched
/ Athletic rib knit collar

PRODUCT DETAILS:
80/20 cotton/polyester / Machine wash cold / Tumble dry low

Size Guideline: I'm 5'3, 130lbs and I wear a medium for a loose fit, and a small for a tighter fit. 

Please make sure you choose the right size as we can only refund or exchange an item if it's damaged. Thank you.

Eat the rich is an abbreviation of Jean Jacques Rousseau’s words “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich.”

But today it’s a slogan that asks us to consider wealth inequalities of our contemporary era and more commonly used as an anti-capitalist rallying cry. The ‘rich’ Rousseau was originally referring to were rich people in power. 

This design is a metaphor for reclaiming what is lost and for fighting the systemic powers that have caused such loss. Our crown design points to the monarch as a constitution that hoards wealth and as a symbol of colonisation and white opulence. As one of our founders is Lao, the chopsticks were chosen especially to symbolise the diaspora of Asian Americans. As an extension of this, we wanted to have the chopsticks act as a reminder of the ways in which many Indigenous groups world wide have had their resources and power stripped away from them due to colonisation and its power systems which often play architec to inequality and help uphold dynasties of billionaires. Hence, our chopsticks here are metaphorical tools for dismantling those systems. 

It’s time to reclaim power. It’s time to salivate. It’s time to consume. It’s time to feast.

Let’s ‘eat the rich’.

To read more about ‘Eat the Rich’ and it’s origin, see here https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/2/4/ellis-eat-the-rich/ 

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Ideal for any situation, a unisex heavy blend crewneck sweatshirt is pure comfort. These garments are made from polyester and cotton. This combination helps designs come out looking fresh and beautiful. The collar is ribbed knit, so it retains its shape even after washing. There are no itchy side seams on these sweaters.

.: 50% Cotton 50% Polyester
.: Medium-heavy fabric
.: Loose fit
.: Sewn in label
.: Runs true to size

When we say Black lives matter, Trans lives matter and Indigenous lives matter, we mean this. However, matter is the minimum. We need to move beyond the minimum and behave in anti-racist, anti-transphobic and anti-homophobic ways. This means more than just wearing a shirt, of course. However, we believe it's a good place to start. We personally have learned a lot through many activists in these spaces and one we really like is Ibram X. Kendi. You can find a link to his text below. 

FIT & FEATURES:
/ Relaxed regular unisex fit 
/ 50/50 cotton/polyester
/ Double-needle stitched
/ Athletic rib knit collar

PRODUCT DETAILS:
50/50 cotton/polyester / Machine wash cold / Tumble dry low

Size Guideline: I'm 5'3, 130lbs and I wear a large for a loose fit, and a medium for a tighter fit. 

Please make sure you choose the right size as we can only refund or exchange an item if it's damaged. Thank you.

Are you still chasing after white picket fences and looking for the perfect SUV for a generic family with 2.5 kids? Nope. Us neither. If you're over the 'American Dream' and ready to wake up for good, wear your wakefulness with this lyrical line. Ponzi schemes aren't our dreams.

**Please note our prices have changed to reflect equitable pricing for all sizes.

FIT & FEATURES:
/ Relaxed regular unisex fit 
/ 50/50 cotton/polyester
/ Double-needle stitched
/ Athletic rib knit collar

PRODUCT DETAILS:
50/50 cotton/polyester / Machine wash cold / Tumble dry low

Size Guideline: I'm 5'3, 130lbs and I wear a medium for a loose fit, and a small for a tighter fit. 

Please make sure you choose the right size as we can only refund or exchange an item if it's damaged. Thank you.

Do you stand in solidarity with groups considered marginalised by the dominant culture? In solidarity to us means, we stand with the oppressed and we will continue fighting until we are all equal. 

FIT & FEATURES:
/ Relaxed regular unisex fit 
/ 50/50 cotton/polyester
/ Double-needle stitched
/ Athletic rib knit collar

PRODUCT DETAILS:
50/50 cotton/polyester / Machine wash cold / Tumble dry low

Size Guideline: I'm 5'3, 130lbs and I wear a medium for a loose fit, and a small for a tighter fit. 

Please make sure you choose the right size as we can only refund or exchange an item if it's damaged. Thank you.

The construct of gender and its role in our society greatly affects power structures, and therefore corruption, violence, and inequality. 

Let's openly challenge gender inequality and traditional masculinity by making visible how harmful gender roles and norms impede the full exercise of rights for girls, women, and gender minorities.

FIT & FEATURES:
/ Relaxed pre-shrunk unisex fit 
/ 50/50 cotton/polyester
/ Double-needle stitched
/ Athletic rib knit collar

PRODUCT DETAILS:
50/50 cotton/polyester / Machine wash cold / Tumble dry low

A sturdy and warm sweatshirt bound to keep you warm in the colder months. A pre-shrunk, classic fit sweater that's made with air-jet spun yarn for a soft feel. 

When we decolonise we start with a colonised environment or space and attempt to revert it back to its Indigenous scaffold. However, what if we did more. What if we flooded colonised spaces with Indigenous knowledge. Or better still, what if the blueprint itself was indigenised. Think of it this way, by the time we have to 'DEcolonise' something, it's too late. By the time you have to DEtonate a bomb, it's too late. Let's instead work to indigenise our thoughts, our spaces and our work. The concept of decolonising relays on centring of the colonist; it centres colonisation. It's even in the word 'deCOLONISE'. However, 'Indigenise' centres the Indigenous Peoples and their kaupapa. 'Indigenise' is about creating, not subtracting. That's where we're heading.

10% percent of proceeds for this t-shirt will go back to Indigenous Communities, i.e.,

https://www.protectihumatao.com/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/save-mauna-kea

FIT & FEATURES:
/ Relaxed unisex fit 
/ 50 Cotton, 50 Polyester  
/ Double-stitched
/ Runs true to size

PRODUCT DETAILS:
50% Cotton 50% Polyester / Machine wash cold / Tumble dry low

The future is fluid.
The future is non-binary.
The future is intersectional. 

**Please note our prices have changed to reflect equitable prices for all sizes.

FIT & FEATURES:
/ Relaxed pre-shrunk unisex fit 
/ 50/50 cotton/polyester
/ Double-needle stitched
/ Athletic rib knit collar

PRODUCT DETAILS:
50/50 cotton/polyester / Machine wash cold / Tumble dry low

A sturdy and warm sweatshirt bound to keep you warm in the colder months. A pre-shrunk, classic fit sweater that's made with air-jet spun yarn for a soft feel. 

When we decolonise we start with a colonised environment or space and attempt to revert it back to its Indigenous scaffold. However, what if we did more. What if we flooded colonised spaces with Indigenous knowledge. Or better still, what if the blueprint itself was indigenised. Think of it this way, by the time we have to 'DEcolonise' something, it's too late. By the time you have to DEtonate a bomb, it's too late. Let's instead work to indigenise our thoughts, our spaces and our work. The concept of decolonising relays on centring of the colonist; it centres colonisation. It's even in the word 'deCOLONISE'. However, 'Indigenise' centres the Indigenous Peoples and their kaupapa. 'Indigenise' is about creating, not subtracting. That's where we're heading.

FIT & FEATURES:
/ Regular unisex fit 
/ 50/50 cotton/polyester (fibre content may vary for different colours)
/ Double-needle stitched
/ Athletic rib knit collar
/ Runs true to size

PRODUCT DETAILS:
50/50 cotton/polyester / Machine wash cold / Tumble dry low

Size Guideline: I'm 5'3, 130lbs and I wear a medium for a loose fit, and a small for a tighter fit. 

Please make sure you choose the right size as we can only refund or exchange an item if it's damaged. Thank you.

The negative connotations surrounding the word 'protest' don't fit with our kaupapa/mission. We are not protesters, we are protectors. We want to protect the water, the earth, human kind and our environment. We want to protect languages, cultures and mana. We want to protect ancestral knowledge and we want to protect our future generations.

**Please note our prices have changed to reflect equitable pricing for all sizes.

FIT & FEATURES:
/ Relaxed unisex fit 
/ Pre-shrunk 50% cotton, 50% polyester
/ Athletic rib knit cuffs
/ Runs true to size

PRODUCT DETAILS:
50% cotton/50% polyester / Machine wash cold / Tumble dry low

A sturdy and warm sweatshirt bound to keep you warm in the colder months. A pre-shrunk, classic fit sweater that's made with air-jet spun yarn for a soft feel and reduced pilling.

Size Guideline: I'm 5'3, 130lbs and I wear a medium for a loose fit, and a small for a tighter fit. 

Please make sure you choose the right size as we can only refund or exchange an item if it's damaged. Thank you.

Marsha P. Johnson's trailblazing involvement in LGBTQIA+ rights helps us see her as an instigator of change and someone whose legacy we can continue through our words and actions. As someone who is commonly referred to as a core figure during the Stonewall rebellion, Masha P. Johnson is someone we really admire. We want to continue in her footsteps. Let's fight the good fight, let's be rebels and let's remember; in a world where our identity is often silenced, our very existence is resistance.

**Please note our prices have changed to reflect equitable pricing for all sizes.

FIT & FEATURES:
/ Relaxed unisex fit 
/ Pre-shrunk 50% cotton, 50% polyester
/ Athletic rib knit cuffs
/ Runs true to size

PRODUCT DETAILS:
50% cotton/50% polyester / Machine wash cold / Tumble dry low

A sturdy and warm sweatshirt bound to keep you warm in the colder months. A pre-shrunk, classic fit sweater that's made with air-jet spun yarn for a soft feel and reduced pilling.

Size Guideline: I'm 5'3, 130lbs and I wear a medium for a loose fit, and a small for a tighter fit. 

Please make sure you choose the right size as we can only refund or exchange an item if it's damaged. Thank you.