Fashion and Justice Research Lab at Iowa State University

10/11/2020

One of our graduate students, Juliana Guglielmi, is looking for participants for her dissertation research. Please share with those who you know are interested!

07/17/2020

New call for papers!

New Call For Papers! Historically Marginalized Identities, Social Justice, Fashion & Style! Consider submitting a paper to our guest editors Kelly L. Reddy-Best and Dyese L. Matthews.

04/17/2020

Check out this great research!

04/16/2020

Congrats to Dyese Matthews for successfully defending her thesis today! Her thesis is titled: The Black woman student experience: Black identity, activism, and fashion on the college campus. Also, she has accepted a fully funded assistantship at Cornell University where she will complete her PhD in the Fiber Science and Apparel Design department starting in Fall 2020! CONGRATS, DYESE! 💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿😎😎😎🎓🎓🎓🎉🎉🎉

03/18/2020

Exhibition Object of the Day: “Each of us is more than the worst things we’ve ever done” -Bryan Stevenson. This T-shirt was purchased by a current Black women college student who visited The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration in Montgomery, AL, which is a part of the Equality Justice Initiative created by legal activist Bryan Stevenson. The student purchased the shirt while on a university-sponsored trip to the museum and shared that she uses the shirt to “educate people around [her]” as a part of her activist identity.

Although we are currently closed until April 6, 2020, when we re-open be sure to see this object, and others like it in "Collegiate Fashion & Activism" on display in the Iowa State University Mary Alice Gallery, 2015 Morrill Hall until April 17, 2020. The gallery is FREE to the public! We can’t wait to see you there!

03/16/2020

Exhibition Object of the Day: This thrifted, 1990s inspired vest reflects the nostalgia of 90s tv shows that captured Black culture such as "In Living Color" and "Sister Sister" where the characters often wore brightly colored garments with geometric shapes. Black women college students at PWIs wear styles inspired by 90s Black culture to express Black identity while on campus.

Although we are currently closed until April 6, 2020, when we re-open be sure to see this object, and others like it in "Collegiate Fashion & Activism" on display in the Iowa State University Mary Alice Gallery, 1015 Morrill Hall until April 17, 2020. The gallery is FREE to the public! We can’t wait to see you there!

03/15/2020

ISU's Textiles and Clothing Museum is closed for Spring break Mar 16-20, but you can still check out the exhibition here in our digital catalog!

Collegiate Fashion & Activism: Black Women's Styles on the College Campus

03/14/2020

Collegiate Fashion & Activism: Black Women's Styles on the College Campus! Check out this write-up in ISU's Iowa State Daily!

Collegiate Fashion and Activism: Black Women’s Style on the College Campus, an exhibit in Iowa State’s Textiles and Clothing Museum, displays how black women portray their culture and activist identity

03/13/2020

Exhibition Object of the Day: This Nike T-shirt reads “Equality” and was purchased by a Black women college student to support former NFL player Colin Kaepernick’s Nike endorsement and his stance on the need to end police brutality against people of color. “Equality” is only one word, but when worn on the body to make a statement, this one word says a lot.

Although we are currently closed until April 6, 2020, when we re-open be sure to see this object, and others like it in "Collegiate Fashion & Activism" on display in the Iowa State University Mary Alice Gallery, 2015 Morrill Hall until April 17, 2020. The gallery is FREE to the public! We can’t wait to see you there!

03/13/2020

New book is out! Crossing Gender Boundaries! 💪🏾🏳️‍🌈🎉

03/11/2020

Dyese Matthews, curator of Collegiate Fashion & Activism: Black Women's Styles on the College Campus discusses the exhibition at the Ames Public Library public talk!

03/10/2020

Exhibition Object of the Day: “Phenomenal women of soul: Our strength is in our history”, an acknowledgement of the strength that Black women continue to hold today. With images of influential and inspiring Black women including First Lady Michelle Obama, Josephine Baker, Sojourner Truth, Maya Angelou, Madam C.J. Walker, and others, this T-shirt allows the wearer to embody pride in her Black woman identity through her clothes.

See this object, and others like it in "Collegiate Fashion & Activism" on display in the Iowa State University Mary Alice Gallery, 2015 Morrill Hall until April 17, 2020. The gallery is open from 10am-4pm Mon-Fri and FREE to the public! We can’t wait to see you there!