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What show? Spider loves stand-up and improv shows. :]

You would not believe the number of strangers this week I’ve directed to ithaspockets.gay. That’s what happens when you wear a Big Dyke Energy t shirt to a queer comedy show. @nerdykeppie

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Talk about missing the mark on targeting your emails... 🙄

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End Your Top Shortage: Buy 2 Get 1 69% off!

Printed Tees & Tanks on sale through 6/21/25

Add some extra swag to your 2025 Pride - use code TEEPRIDE when you buy 2 printed tees or tanks & take 69% off your third pick!

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So let's talk about this for a minute.

First of all, how do you think Pride events fund themselves and stay free for attendees? O.o Vendor fees aren't all of it - a lot of money comes from sponsors - but like... we paid $1300 to vend at Seattle Pride this year. That's the money that pays the people who work to make Pride happen. That is not free. Pride as an event does not just magically happen. A lot of people work really hard to make Pride happen and to clean up after it.

We're a small trans-owned company and 100% of our employees are trans & queer. We jokingly refer to Pride as "Gay Christmas". The money we make during Pride means we stay open, Pride events get vendor fees, and our employees get paid for the rest of the year. This company does not exist without Pride events. The only reason we survived as a company during COVID is because my wife has a stable, good IT job.

This shit isn't free to do. It does not just magically happen. Performers need to get paid. Tech crew needs to get paid. Equipment needs to be rented for performers. Stages need to be rented. Electrical services need to be paid for so food can happen. Ice and water cost money. Trash pickup costs money.

A lot of people volunteer and donate, but festivals and big community events? They cost money, and the money we pay to be able to vend is part of how Pride events happen. Without that, small queer businesses like @nerdykeppie don't survive and the only people putting their money in to make this happen, AND MONEY NEEDS TO CHANGE HANDS FOR EVENTS TO HAPPEN, are Smirnoff and fucking Wells Fargo.

For fuck's sake. Y'all want small queer businesses, but you really don't want us to actually survive, do you?

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finally putting all of this awesome art up on my walls!!! clockwise from top left:

custom city skyline embroidery by @claraxbarton

Ursa Minor / Ursa Major by @telekitnetic-art

Celtic Knotwork Corvid Ace Pride by @nerdykeppie

and Lord of the Plains and Lord of the Meadows by @palaeosinensis

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@nerdykeppie love my new gear!!

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Come look at shiny things!

Links to what I demolded:

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i get that americans love their cultural imperialism, but it really does piss me off that june is “international” pride month just because something happened in the united states.

in aotearoa, june isn’t our pride, it’s theirs. martha p johnson and sylvia rivera are their historical figures, not ours. the phrase that “you owe your rights to Black trans women” is true there, but here we owe our rights to (mostly) Māori historical figures. i have the freedoms i do because of the legacy of an entirely different set of people operating in an entirely different context at entirely different times.

But because of american cultural imperialism, most queer people in Aotearoa don’t even know our own queer history. Carmen Rupe, Ngahuia Te Awekotuku, the Dorian Society, Gillian Laundon, Georgina Beyer, and the Wolfenden Association are some of our queer history. We should know their names! we should know what they did for us! but because of the power of the american imperial machine, we don’t.

our national pride month should be july, the month that the Homosexual Law Reform Act passed in 1989. our two largest cities hold their pride festivals in february and march, respectively. american queer history has very little (or nothing, depending on who you ask) to do with our queer history. anecdotally, from my own queries, queer youth in aotearoa know more about american queer history than our own.

anyway, happy pride, americans. i’m truly sorry that most of you don’t see the negative impact your nation’s culture has on the rest of the world. and to the rest of the world reading this, try searching for your own country and culture’s queer history, don’t accept the american narratives as your own. we deserve our own histories divorced from the cultural hegemony of the USA.

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Samples ordered for new possible provider that would go up to 6X...

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*snickering*

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Reminder that you don't have to call yourself AMAB or AFAB. You don't have to say "I'm AFAB nonbinary." Saying "I'm nonbinary" is enough. You don't need to identify with what you were assigned as by some doctor however many years ago. Mentioning your ASAB is scarcely relevant to most conversations, even those about medical transitioning.

Nonbinary is enough, you don't have to supplement it with a binary system of any kind. It doesn't matter how many people want to know your "transition direction." It doesn't matter how many people want to know what your genitals are (which wouldn't be alluded to by your assigned sex anyway). It doesn't matter how many people what to binarise you. It doesn't matter how many binary people you confuse. No one needs to binarise you. Nonbinary. Is. Enough.

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Just a reminder that at the time of her passing, Brenda Howard (z''l), called The Mother of Pride, was a bi woman in a long-term nesting relationship with a cishet man.

Anybody that says you don't belong there simply doesn't know their history.

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Booker kept watch over our booth at Bend Pride. :]

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@nerdykeppie me at Ren Faire today bearing my standard.

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We just added golems & Pride hamsas as well.

If you're looking to make a bulk purchase, send an email over to help@nerdykeppie.com & we can chat. :)

does anyone have recommendations for shops that sell jewish-related stickers i could buy to cover up antisemitic graffiti/posters/etc that i come across? thanks!

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We'll be at Bend Pride tomorrow in Drake Park! Come see us & snag these necklaces before they even get listed on the site. :]