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Yesterday I finally made it out to Iridescent Daydream. If you've been following me for a while, you may remember the queer artist pop ups I used to go to. They were often at community centers, bars, food pods, etc. They've now got a permanent location. I went on Saturday because they still post about having pop ups so I didn't know if the store kept regular hours, they do. They just also have days when additional artists are either in the store or on the sidewalk.
I finally made it out and yeah I guess I went to the pop ups a lot because some of the artists were like 'Hey, been a while.' Some also liked the Wonderwood Springs shirt I was wearing and asked if I'd been up since they put in mini-golf. (Wonderwood is an art thing in No Po, sort of an art walk through and cafe, and now also mini-golf) I haven't, not yet. I did my best to find some stuff to buy, but it took a bit because it's all so femme focused. There were a lot of things I could buy, take pictures of and other people I interact with online would love them, but not so much my vibe. There is almost nothing m/m, masc or even butch. It's all very 'that peach cross section is obviously a vagina'. No plaid, no mothmen butts, no cowboys being frequently, secretly... etc.
Anyway, point of the post is... I really don't have the time for yet another project but I could make some ftm, masc, butch, m/m, etc stuff and I've been sketching some things out. I expect nothing to come of this, but I do know how to do digital art and printing, I do have a button maker and have sold at events before. But, honestly, with the vibe being so boob and peach focused across dozens of artists, would something contrasting even be welcome? IDK. So much queer stuff here is so femme focused it's overwhelming. Of the 70 or so artists I've interacted with at these events, only 2 carry anything m/m or ftm and it's like 1 or 2 items out of several dozen.
I really want to support artists and stuff like this, but unless the vegan baked goods people are there it's hard to find stuff I'd actually want. But, they did give me a logo sticker of their store for free because they recognized me.
I finally made it out and yeah I guess I went to the pop ups a lot because some of the artists were like 'Hey, been a while.' Some also liked the Wonderwood Springs shirt I was wearing and asked if I'd been up since they put in mini-golf. (Wonderwood is an art thing in No Po, sort of an art walk through and cafe, and now also mini-golf) I haven't, not yet. I did my best to find some stuff to buy, but it took a bit because it's all so femme focused. There were a lot of things I could buy, take pictures of and other people I interact with online would love them, but not so much my vibe. There is almost nothing m/m, masc or even butch. It's all very 'that peach cross section is obviously a vagina'. No plaid, no mothmen butts, no cowboys being frequently, secretly... etc.
Anyway, point of the post is... I really don't have the time for yet another project but I could make some ftm, masc, butch, m/m, etc stuff and I've been sketching some things out. I expect nothing to come of this, but I do know how to do digital art and printing, I do have a button maker and have sold at events before. But, honestly, with the vibe being so boob and peach focused across dozens of artists, would something contrasting even be welcome? IDK. So much queer stuff here is so femme focused it's overwhelming. Of the 70 or so artists I've interacted with at these events, only 2 carry anything m/m or ftm and it's like 1 or 2 items out of several dozen.
I really want to support artists and stuff like this, but unless the vegan baked goods people are there it's hard to find stuff I'd actually want. But, they did give me a logo sticker of their store for free because they recognized me.
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Date: 2024-04-02 08:20 pm (UTC)From:I'm just so tired of aggro discourse and people acting like everything is fine, community is welcoming, if you have a problem then something is wrong with you, etc.
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Date: 2024-04-03 03:36 am (UTC)From:Though also true: queer + femme could be a LOT of different stuff... Why is it too much to ask to have something that isn't pastels + suggestive looking fruit or yet another wink-wink-it's-scissors-get-it design? Like... that stuff is FINE, but it's not what I'm looking for. I like girls, but I'd rather have a mothman butt too, frankly. :(
The aggro response to ANY criticism of the community is... exhausting. If you can only keep up the "everything is fine, everyone is welcome, we all get along perfectly and are so mutually supportive" attitude if you ALSO forcibly exclude everyone who dares mention that they don't feel fine/welcome/supported... then you're just making the problems worse.
Yes, the community as a whole has to deal with a lot of bad-faith shit, and there are people who try to troll these spaces with outrageous demands in the hopes of creating ragebait, and there are people who are just shit-stirrers, and there are national political concerns that are very real...
But chucking out multiple demographics as a whole (and dismissing ALL of the members who dare complain as just having individual problems) is NOT the way to improve anything for anyone.