Compost, Cotton & Cornrows
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows is a podcast centering Black sustainability leaders across fashion, agriculture, wellbeing and beyond. Through storytelling, culture, and climate conversations, the show explores how ancestral wisdom and modern practices can cultivate regenerative futures. Hosted by Dominique Drakeford, each episode unearths powerful insights that shift the narrative of environmental justice.
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows
Episode 16 | Are Any of Your T-Shirts Made by Black Cotton Farmers? Tameka Peoples on Building Global Black Cotton to Textile Ecosystems
Let’s be real—your “woke” t-shirt might be screaming liberation, but let’s take it a step further…
Is it organically grown, ginned, spun, woven, cut, and sewn by Black hands that's economically building Black global supply chains?
In this blistering and beautiful convo, Dominique Drakeford links arms with Seed2Shirt founder Tameka Peoples to expose the truth behind the cotton industry—and why Black folks must reclaim every thread of it. From deep ancestral ties to cotton that built empires to the glaring wealth gap between Black and white farmers, Tameka breaks down why we can’t talk sustainability without talking sovereignty.
Seed2Shirt is the first Black woman-owned, vertically integrated apparel manufacturing and print-on-demand company in the U.S.—ethically and sustainably produced by Black American and African cotton farmers.
This episode is a masterclass in not becoming what the system has been to us. Tameka takes us from Southern U.S. fields to African textile mills, revealing how building non-extractive, global, Black-centered ecosystems isn’t just a dream—it’s LITERALLY happening.
If we’re serious about liberation, we need more than slogans. We need supply chains that love us back.
Compost, Cotton & Cornrows: the space where Black & Afro-Indigenous Vanguards are redefining sustainability through storytelling!
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