My name is Eneale Pickett and I’m the founder of Insert Apparel. I am a young Black male creator and teaching artist currently living in Madison Wisconsin. I created Insert Apparel to cultivate conversations around anti-Blackness, Black joy, transphobia, homophobia, misogyny, and black culture. Insert Apparel came to be when my friend , a Black womxn, was spat on by an Asian student because he thought her scholarship status meant she was poor and did not deserve to attend the our university. That incident inspired me to create my first shirt: “Affirmative action didn’t grant me access to this space.” My clothing is for people who wish to speak truth to power while destroying the oppressive anti-Black systems that continue to kill Black folks each and every day. My clothing is beyond aesthetic- it’s a curriculum, a new way of thinking, which leads to the destruction of the current oppressive world.

Clothing as Curriculum.