This is just a very small interview (at least by my standards!) with Chi from Mo-Corner, who makes beautiful handmade leather cases and sleeves for handhelds and other bits of tech (iPods, e-readers, handhelds).
I recently got one of her handmade leather sleeves for my RG Rotate, and absolutely love it, so I got chatting to her about the work that goes into making them. There’s some really interesting stuff in here about the process, why she makes these things, and the thinking behind designing a case for something as oddly shaped as the Rotate.
I featured Chi’s work briefly in my recent RG Rotate recommendations article, but there was a bit more to her work and the process behind these cases that I couldn’t really fit into that piece. So I thought it’d be nice to share our chat in full here.
I know this is a little different from the usual handheld stuff I post here, but I really love seeing people making genuinely nice physical things for these devices, and Mo-Corner is a particularly good example of that. Hope some of you enjoy it!
I mean that it’s a practice that’s been around for thousands of years. It is very normal and was extremely common back in the day.
Slavery is also a practice that has been around for thousands of years and was also normal and extremely commn “back in the day.” We don’t need to continue systems of violence, and by normalizing the purchasing and use of animal skin, animals are having violence directly enacted upon them.
comparing slaves to animals is what slavers do
Both slavery and the animal exploitation industry are institutionalized systems of oppression and violence, and both are horrific and should be eradicated. Maybe you should ask yourself why “being treated like an animal” is a euphemism for being mistreated.
it’s literally dehumanizing. that’s it.
You’re right. I’m only saying that it is, in fact, already normalized.
Fair enough.