Adaptive Clothing: Addressing Inequity in Fashion for People with Disabilities by Susan Kolko
June 11, 2025 Although adaptivewear is a formally recognized category of clothing, it is not given much attention in fashion education programs. Adaptive clothing is often presented as a separate category and is not integrated into mainstream fashion assignments and educational collections. This can lead to a sense of separation that limits the visibility of adaptive clothing as a design and production opportunity for students.
Black, Queer, and Fabulous: Reclaiming Joy Through Fierceness by Michael Boezi
May 30, 2025 FREE SEMINAR JULY 17, 2025: In this conversation between Dr. David B. Green Jr. and Seutaʻafili Dr. Patrick Thomsen, they discuss the intersection of identity, music, acceptance, and resistance through the life course from childhood to adulthood.
Reverse Engineering as a Curriculum Development Process by Michael Boezi
May 6, 2025 FREE SEMINAR NOV 13, 2025: In this conversation between Anne Cecil and Dr. Reham El-Morally, they discuss the practice-based pedagogy of starting with current trends and deconstructing their influences – not only to build connections between the past and present but also to encourage students to reflect on how historical cycles, subcultures, and innovations influence contemporary identities and cultural narratives.
What the United States Can Learn from Postwar Czechoslovakia by Miriam Potocky Rafaidus
April 30, 2025 by Miriam Potocky Rafaidus | Today, as I watch troubling developments unfold in the United States, I can’t help but feel history knocking—not softly, but insistently. The parallels between the collapse of Czechoslovak democracy in 1948 and the democratic backsliding occurring in the U.S. under the Trump administration in 2025 are unnerving.
The Ongoing Epidemic of Violence Against American Indian and Native Women & Girls by Lara and Lisa Neel
April 23, 2025 Violence against American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) women is ongoing in the U.S. – and it's personal for Lara Neel and Lisa Neel. On February 13, 1872, their grandfather’s great-grandmother was murdered. Today, they use their historic dressmaking work to tell a woman-focused, Cherokee-centered story that has relevance today.
