How to pronounce “slashing”(noun) in English

that and uh I started like the kids around me and the other people in the class there was like 50-year-old Homesewing moms and like the punkrat kids who who like thought fashion was like slashing and safety pinning everythingand it was it was like the beginning of a community and I I was 18 at the time and I thought you know what if I'm going