Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op

Apparel manufacturing / product development / design & consulting.
Black & brown worker-run & owned co-op✨✊🏾✊🏿
Building a net-zero energy studio in Chicago!

[MSI Integrity @MSIIntegrity]

Fantastic profile of @BlueTinStudio's @hodakatebi, who founded the apparel worker cooperative that is dismantling harmful labor and ecological practices in the fashion sector
https://t.co/9LQ4CHgLNZ

[Reema Saleh ✨ @reemasabrina]

“What can bottom-up, systemic change look like in the garment industry—and beyond—when exploitation & violence are replaced by community & care?” I loved writing this for @SouthSideWeekly! @BlueTinStudio is a worker co-op founded by @hodakatebi as an alternative to sweatshops.

[Reema Saleh ✨ @reemasabrina]

Working with @studiogang and Black and brown youth organizers in Chicago Lawn, @BlueTinStudio is developing a hybrid community space and manufacturing studio at 63rd House. They hope to house spaces for organizers to interact and cultivate movement work. https://t.co/nsoORKhnS8

[Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op @BlueTinStudio]

“Rather than just, say, campaigning to get garment workers paid a dollar more, we’re calling for an end to the system that puts workers in these positions to begin with.”

Thank you for the feature/interview of our work, @nytimes!💫
https://t.co/5MNNGEc3fL

[Shared Capital Co-op @Shared_Capital]

So great to see member @BlueTinStudio get press in @nytimes Hoda Katebi says:
“Rather than just campaigning to get garment workers paid a dollar more, we’re calling for an end to the system that puts workers in these positions to begin with.”

https://t.co/i8rk5OOP2x

[Shared Capital Co-op @Shared_Capital]

Great to see @BlueTinStudio get some press about being a worker co-op out to change the game in the fashion industry and support their community. #GoCoop #6thPrinciple #7thPrinciple

https://t.co/aXsIdVzwQ7

[Howard Brodsky @_HowardBrodsky]

#WorkerCooperatives make for more ethical #WorkingConditions. The #manufacturing industry is notorious for its exploitation, but the @BlueTinStudio is working to turn it around.
https://t.co/9E2ookgJ1m

[Blue Tin Production Worker Co-op @BlueTinStudio]

@CubanLink__ 👀 We can help you with that! We're a garment manufacturing co-operative owned and operated by women of color in Chicago offering product development, production, and can even drop-ship to your customers. We haven't closed once - DM us 😊

[South Side Weekly @SouthSideWeekly]

Blue Tin Productions Lays the Foundation for Ethical Manufacturing

The apparel worker-cooperative reimagines the fashion industry and raises funds for a collaborative community center.

https://t.co/OFNgBJOQ6R

[Studio Gang @studiogang]

Our exhibition with @BlueTinStudio has been extended through the end of the month! A Different Future in the Making highlights our collaboration and Blue Tin's mission as well as our design for 63rd House. Signup to visit our new gallery Tues/Thurs 3-6pm @ https://t.co/ZIrsNnTHzb

[What Design Can Do @WhatDesignCanDo]

On the blog: @BlueTinStudio is a manufacturing cooperative founded by Iranian-American writer, Hoda Katebi.

Their community is formed of immigrant, refugee, and working-class women of colour who are determined to prove that 'another world is possible'.
https://t.co/pxSwNgCN2C

[Chicago Reader @Chicago_Reader]

"@BlueTinStudio collective model dictates that the company only agrees to direct partnerships with designers, contractors, and clients, shares profits between all workers, rotates lead workers on all production projects [and more] ..." | Annette LePique https://t.co/ptHtTut41g

[Chicago Reader @Chicago_Reader]

"the industry of fast fashion is built upon bodies: whose bodies matter, whose bodies have agency, & whose bodies have power under the colonial & carceral structures that create capitalism." | Annette LePique writes on @BlueTinStudio founded by @hodakatebi https://t.co/ptHtTut41g

[What Design Can Do @WhatDesignCanDo]

Are sweatshops’ days numbered?

@BlueTinStudio, a Chicago-based clothing manufacturer, is here to shake up the fashion industry. The cooperative is run by immigrants, refugees + working-class women of colour, who believe that 'another world is possible.'
https://t.co/pxSwNgCN2C

[Chicago Reader @Chicago_Reader]

"@BlueTinStudio initiated dialogue with their community partners to identify material needs of Chicago Lawn that should be addressed (among them, green spaces, computer access, and increased accessibility to mental health resources)." | Annette LePique https://t.co/ptHtTut41g

[Studio Gang @studiogang]

More on our collaboration with @BlueTinStudio and all the amazing work @hodakatebi and her team are doing to create #63rdhouse in the new issue of @Chicago_Reader 👏

[Chicago Reader @Chicago_Reader]

Blue Tin Production (@BlueTinStudio) works with Chicago Lawn community leaders to envision a hybrid community center and production studio. Founded by @hodakatebi | Annette LePique https://t.co/ptHtTut41g

[Studio Gang @studiogang]

Our new Wicker Park gallery space opens our headquarters up to the city like never before, and our first exhibition, showcasing the work of @BlueTinStudio and our collaboration with them on #63rdHouse, is now on view!

[Teen Vogue @TeenVogue]

. @BlueTinStudio is @hodakatebi's response to fast fashion and its countless detrimental effects on the environment and the people who make our clothes. ⤵️ https://t.co/wu1tEfSnfR