Article: Pride season is over. We are still here.
Pride season is over. We are still here.
Pride season is over for another year. The flags have come down, the rainbow logos have quietly disappeared, and we are still here.
This summer I spent a few days up on the roof at Jealous Gallery in London, painting a Let Trans People Bloom mural in the middle of a massive heatwave, just before Trans Pride London. It is the second one I have painted up there and it was such a joy to make. Big pink and blue flowers, the words sitting in the middle of them, the whole thing looking out over the rooftops.
It is no longer Pride season. Still queer, still trans, still making things, still packing them up and posting them out from Brighton. Here is what is new.
The bandanas
There are five designs now, all printed here in the UK. They are all stocked at Queer Britain, the UK's first LGBTQ+ museum, which still feels like a treat to be able to say out loud.
- Narwhals for Non-Binary Rights
- Snakes for Trans Rights
- Queer as Flowers
- Queer Joy
- Run Wild with Unicorns
They are 56cm x 56cm, so big enough to be useful. Round your neck, round your wrist, tied to a bag, or on your doggo perhaps. Of everything in the shop these are the easiest thing to actually wear day to day, and they are £22 with UK postage included.
Let Trans People Bloom, two ways
There are two different designs sharing that name.
The first has flowers all around the lettering. That is the same design as the mural, so you can have a smaller version of it on your wall or on your back.
The second is a bouquet, gathered together rather than scattered around. That one comes as an art print or a soft style t-shirt.
Both t-shirts are organic cotton. The prints are £25 and the shirts are £30.
About postage
UK postage is included in the price on everything, so what you see is what you pay. Everything is printed to order here in the UK, which means nothing sits in a warehouse waiting to be thrown out at the end of the season.
Thank you for being here. It makes a real difference to a small independent studio.
Written by Fox Fisher
