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Who is Emma Hakansson?

Emma is an activist, passionate about collective liberation. She is particularly interested in total ethics fashion, anti-speciesism, child sexual abuse prevention and autonomy for all.

She writes articles and books (Total Ethics Fashion, Sub-Human, How Veganism Can Save Us), and is the founding director of the charity Collective Fashion Justice, dedicated to fashion putting people, our fellow animals and the planet we share ahead of profit.

Emma works with Australian Childhood Foundation, which launched what started Emma’s Project (now collaboratively renamed by fellow survivors to Our Collective Experience Project) in 2022. Her short films, Willow and Claude and SHIRINGA have won awards internationally.

Read Emma’s full bio.

 
 

Emma shares monthly updates on her work, as well as other previews into her life, book and work on Instagram.

Wow, February the shortest month was also the most massively packed, including with a few things I’m proud of and grateful for: - With @Emma.Hurst MP we got a motion passed in NSW Parliament that gets us one step closer to mandatory training i
MOTION PASSED for survivor-led reform to protect children from abuse. Survivors told @AusChildhood that they could have been safe from abuse if adults understood how to speak to children, support their autonomy, notice signs that something was wron
A big day trying to prevent children from suffering the kind of s*xual abuse that I did. If you want to help, the link is in mine and @auschildhood’s bio 🧡
January: a mish mash of global politics sliding further into the gutter, time star gazing, swimming and admiring nature with friends, working early mornings and late nights because of timezones, looking after cutie pie dogs, launching my film trailer
a very blessed start to 2025 filling cups to later pour from, with much loved people a part of beautiful nature
buh-bye december
Abuse anywhere makes way for abuse everywhere — the same is true in fashion, and my own personal experience made me even more aware of it. From the latest episode of our podcast, Fashion, Really?
Leaving November with this first slide feeling, because even though it wore me down there have been wonderful wins towards that better world we all keep banging on about!! London Fashion Week banned wild animal skins, I had good meetings about chil
VERY grateful to be on the @voxdotcom #FuturePerfect50 list! 💫 Recognised alongside people I hugely admire, the list is for ‘innovators, thinkers and changemakers working to make the future a better place’ and I’m in the combating
Every single month, new media stories about adults who abuse children while holding Working With Children Checks are published. So many more stories never make it to the public sphere. Today, our campaign to mandate child abuse prevention education
soaking in the natural world — beautiful from afar and up close and inside of us. sometimes unfair and sore, and our duty to limit that when we can and respect that when we cannot: a note that there is a deceased animal who I sat with and gav