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The Business of Appropriation: Inside the Larian Family (Part 1)
Cult Gaia reported our video after we accused the brand of colonialism in fashion. The deeper we looked into founder Jasmin Larian’s public record, the more the same instinct kept appearing: borrow freely, commercialize aggressively, a...
The Business Of Appropriation: Inside The Larian Family (Part 2)
Before Jasmin Larian built Cult Gaia, her father spent decades building a billion-dollar toy empire through aggressive competition, litigation and dealmaking. The public record around Isaac Larian is considerably messier than the Ameri...
Welcome to the SSQRD App
6 years in the making.
One all-nighter in a college library. One viral website. A community of over 400,000 people later. Today, SSQRD is finally available on the App Store.
To everyone who has followed our journey from the beginning, t...
I Went Undercover at a Garments Factory in Bangladesh
Hi, I’m Nabihah, a Bangladeshi-American living in New York. My family immigrated from Bangladesh in the early 2000s in search of better opportunities, but almost everyone back home still works in the country’s garment industry.
Growing up,...
Bangladesh Has World-Class Factories. Western Brands Are Choosing Not to Use Them
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On July 10, 2026, SSQRD founder Nabihah Ahmad visited garment factories in Chittagong, Bangladesh, capturing footage of workers and documenting conditions that contradict the story Western fashion brands tell about their supply chai...
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