Collection: About

KARMAKLUB is a multidisciplinary platform rooted in challenging disposability culture. 

WHAT IS DISPOSABILITY CULTURE

the practice of throwing something out after a short time. this goes for people, places, and things. 

PRACTICING SLOW CONSUMERISM

Toxic capitalism requires one to operate from a fractured place. 

to see and treat self as just the body, removed from the heart or spirit creates a fractured relationship with the world. 

when we purchase products, we do so from a place of brokenness, to fill parts of us that only we individually have the ability to fill. 

practicing slow consumerism requires plenty of pause. of feeling deep into the heart and hands to see if a piece resonates with the soul. 

KARMAKLUB intends to practice pause and create rhythms that align with the body, heart, and soul. creative mediums like jewelry making/curating, fashion design, poetry, and film are practiced and shared from this slow ever evolving rhythm.

THE IMPACTS OF FAST CONSUMERISM

“What I fear for them (our kids) is that a culture of disposability affects not only our consumptive habits (our clothes shopping, our resistance to car-pooling, our endless pursuit of the newest technology), but also our interpersonal habits. I fear that as we teach our children that the diaper or the toy or the year-old smartphone is disposable, so too are we are teaching them that our friendships, our romantic relationships, our affection, our promises, our commitments are disposable as well.” - Greg Carpinello

PRACTICING SLOWNESS

see a piece you like? 

pause and breathe. see what it feels like on your body. 

what does the product bring out in you? what does it remind you of? 

can you see this in your closet for the next 10 years? 

give yourself the chance to love it, leave it, and come back if it’s aligned. 

the practice of slowness is in direct opposition to scarcity. trust is in direct opposition of fear. let’s practice this together.

LIVE BREATH SHOP SLOW

"if we, as a society, keep teaching our children that the earth’s resources can be thrown away (through our compulsive consumption that spawns practices like the removal of mountain-tops for mining, for instance) and that people can be thrown away (through our inhumane labor practices rampant in the global economy, for instance), then we will not teach them love or justice” - Greg Carpinello

BIRTHER

Palm Nguyen is a queer gender fluid first generation Vietnamese American born and raised out of Minnesota, now living in Colorado. They are in an ever evolving practice of decolonizing their time and creations. Deeply practicing ancestral worship, meditation, and story telling, he is rooted in creating and sharing with intentionality. She is in the practice of pause instead of pressure, rhythm instead of time tracking, and slowness instead of fast pace. KARMAKLUB was birthed as the vehicle in which their storytelling can take many different forms- sharing the ranges of growing up as a first generation Vietnamese American, queerness, death, and more. They are a Scorpio sun, Sag moon, and Cap rising. 

A little more about Palm HERE.