Photo from the night Mamdani launched his campaign. He appears to be wearing a jacket made from chindi, which is an Indian fabric made by upcycling leftover materials. Here, small scraps of material from previous projects are backed by cotton muslin and sewn together using an embroidery stitch.

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Kantha is a similar technique, but using a running stitch and larger scraps of material. Chindi is the leftover of the leftover. By making cloth in this way, the resources used to grow cotton, spin yarn, and weave fabric are not wasted. Left is kantha; right is chindi.

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I’m not stressed or worried about school. Ever. School is annoying but it’s not stressful. I know what I have to do to get the grades/results I want with the time I’m willing to put in. I’ll live and keep moving on. I’ve done harder and more dramatic, I think. Who knows

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Finished the hearsay midterm. We shall see. I guess B but what do I know. Not a lot, that’s what.

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This is a very powerful piece from Sam Borden about gender-based violence towards female runners in Kenya. It accompanies a well-done E60 documentary called Still They Run, which will premiere on Sunday (Nov. 1) at 10:30 p.m. ET on ESPN and be available on the ESPN app after that.

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