Writing

Aditi’s writing practice is rooted in the idea of connective storytelling: tracing the threads between issues that appear disparate but are, in truth, profoundly intertwined. Her work moves across landscapes of displacement and war; the erasure of Indigenous knowledge and the accelerating climate crisis; immigrant precarity and exploitative fashion systems; social media culture and cycles of overconsumption.

In each piece, she writes from the belief that systems of injustice are linked—and so are the solutions.

Our storytelling, she argues, must reflect that interdependence if we’re to imagine a more just world.

From Gaza to LA, the Right to Remain Is Under Attack

The slow violence of climate change and the fast violence of war share a common outcome: the loss of home. Domicide is the name for a growing pattern of intentional violence—where homes are targeted and erased, by war, by raids, by climate inaction. Read More

India’s native cotton was stamped out. Can it be revived?

The cultivation of indigenous cotton crops in India could create a more resilient, ethical and climate-conscious supply chain. But first, they need to be reintroduced to its agriculture. Read More

Can Social Media’s New Deinfluencing Trend Really Encourage Us To Buy Less Stuff?

These days, it’s hard to escape the clutches of influencer culture that in many ways defines our digital landscape – from outfit of the day (#OOTD) posts on Instagram to paid partnerships with brands and the murky world of gifting. Over on TikTok, there are even now tutorials on how to become an influencer. Read More

The Yosemite Fires: Settler Colonialism and Indigenous Wisdom

After experiencing the Creek Fire firsthand, photojournalist and writer Aditi Mayer looks at the past and present of Yosemite National Park to understand its historical brushes with Indigenous wisdom, climate change denialism, and settler colonialism. Read More

How learnings from Rana Plaza are being rolled out in Pakistan

It’s been 11 years since the Rana Plaza disaster and one year since the groundbreaking agreement to improve workplace safety for garment workers in Bangladesh was expanded to Pakistan. We take stock of progress. Read More

Sustainability activist and photojournalist Aditi Mayer takes a trip across India’s homegrown fashion landscape

Activist, content creator and photojournalist Aditi Mayer takes a long journey through India to deepen her sustainable fashion practice via the lens of her motherland—a journey spanning a nation’s agriculture, its artisans and beyond Read More

Meet the South Asian Diaspora Preserving their Unique Asian American History

Meet four cultural organizations and collectives preserving their unique South Asian American histories while contributing to a new American nation. Read More

Sustainable Fashion Has a Diversity Problem. Here’s How I’m Helping to Fix It.

Aditi Mayer on the importance of building an intersectional movement. Read More

Inside the Fight to End Labor Exploitation in L.A. Garment Factories

Garment workers are working to change a long history of wage theft and sweatshop-like conditions in Los Angeles. In this reported piece for, Fashionista Aditi explores the long history of garment worker resistance in Los Angeles, and deep dives into the contemporary issues of labor exploitation in the age of ICE, COVID-19, and more. Read More