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[Note: This piece, along with the others in this series, refers to diet culture, weight stigma, fat phobia, intentional weight ...

Dear Dismantlers, This might sound like an obvious question, but why do people keep falling for fashion trends that are ...

Dear Dismantlers, I just read your article on Cacao ceremonies and it got me thinking about my experiences as a ...

Dear Readers, We couldn’t be more delighted to bring you this magical Fall Issue! Making the switch to issue-based publishing ...

I am the keeper of the photos. I had the chutzpah at age 13 to declare that when my maternal ...

In my matriarchal childhood household in Trinidad and Tobago, none of the women—neither my two great-aunts nor my mother—wore their ...

At the start of the pandemic, when entertaining ourselves at home was still novel, I automatically turned to fashion. A ...

As a child growing up in the United Arab Emirates, I wondered why none of my classmates obsessed over fabrics. ...

I used to have an outfit for each transformation of my body. More recently, my relationship to clothes has become ...

I’ve been editing Dismantle with Elise Chatelain for just over four years. We’ve had the pleasure of working with contributors ...

We are so very excited to present to you Dismantle Magazine’s Summer 2022 issue! The major theme in our lives ...

It’s June and I am sitting around a campfire in Northern California with a host of travelers, all complete strangers. ...

I am fascinated by death. While most people around me dedicate their lives to avoiding death—not to mention thinking about ...

The first time I saw images of the ohorokova, the traditional dress of the Herero women in Namibia (and in ...

Allucquére Rosanne Stone, better known as Sandy Stone, has been at the center of controversy for much of her life, ...

I’ve always been invested in girly things. My wardrobe is undoubtedly very feminine and predominantly pink: there are mini-skirts and ...

At the age of fourteen, I signed up for my first social media account. Before I knew it, my Instagram, ...

Writing is hard. You know it, I know it. If you care about the craft at all, it’s hard no ...

Sara and Elise are busily putting the final touches on our very first issue — scheduled to come out later ...

Soon Dismantle will be publishing quarterly issues, rather than weekly posts!  When we officially launched Dismantle Magazine in September 2018, ...

“If you don’t think representation is important,” said Mariko Tamaki, a Canadian artist and writer speaking at the 2017 Lakes ...

On 01 January 2019, I shared with friends my annual round-up of new books read the year prior. Out of ...

In Singapore, you’ll notice a curious sight. Whether it’s shopping malls, Kopitiams (our word for coffee shops), or the red-brick ...

 I’m often less concerned with being lost than I am with looking lost. My brain doesn’t produce the visual maps ...

The first thing I do when I get home — from work, after traveling  — is change. Off comes the ...

Dear Dismantlers, I’ve noticed you write a lot about fashion revivals — especially the 1990s. So, I’m just curious, why ...

The sunshine is surprisingly generous this morning. I sit on my front doorstep, sipping hot coffee from a chunky mug ...

Fast fashion is bad for the environment and your wallet. Thrifting can help combat wastefulness and be a really fun ...

Fashion is an important part of self-expression but has a bad rap in the environmental movement. Here are sustainable ways ...

How do you decide what to put in a yard sale and what’s worth holding on to? What makes a ...