The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum's Summer Exhibition Suite
On Christopher Street: Transgender Portraits by Mark Seliger and Portraits From Boston, With Love will be on view from June 13 to September 8.
Hakeem Adewumi's Possession of A Recalcitrant Dream will be on view Anne H. Fitzpatrick Façade outside the Museum from June 4 to October 1.
The Museum’s summer exhibition suite explores how portrait photographs by artists from New York City, Boston, and Texas reflect and refract multifaceted LGBTQIA+ experiences. Across three galleries, including the façade, we illuminate how portrait photography is a powerful tool for LGBTQIA+ self-discovery, community-making, and affirmation of found family. Each artist presents us with their unique processes, which prioritize making space for their subjects and shaping stories—sometimes their own—through the camera’s lens.
Gift at the Gardner's exhibition-inspired book collection uplifts the stories and voices of people in the LGBTQIA+ communities. Shop new and unique gifts from transgender and queer business artisans.
On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories
$55.00
On Christopher Street there are all kinds of sexual orientations and gender identities, endless possibilities of potential selves: transgender, transsexual, non-binary, genderqueer, femme, butch, cross-dresser, drag kings, drag queens, and many other identities that shift, adapt, and challenge our understanding of gender. This street nestled in the middle of New York City’s Greenwich Village is heralded as the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Today, the intersection at Christopher and Hudson Streets has been renamed “Sylvia Rivera Way,” after the pioneering trans-activist and the annual LGBTQ pride parade ends its procession on Christopher Street, where the revolution began at the Stonewall Inn.Renowned photographer Mark Seliger, best known for his portraits of celebrities, musicians, and artists, has called the West Village home for nearly two decades. For his latest book, On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories, his curiosity inspired him to shoot a handful of portraits—documentary style—in On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories hopes of capturing the color, flamboyant characters, and theatre of a famous, but vanishing neighborhood.
What Seliger discovered was a nightly carnival of personalities that open up the visual discourse about sexuality and the constant ebb and flow of the transgender world we all inhabit today. The end result is a collection of 74 beautiful, black and white portraits, all taken with Seliger’s Hasselblad camera, and never-before-published.
These forthcoming portraits of trans people on Christopher Street combined with their moving and deeply personal stories remind us of our need for sanctuary, for a space to call our own. Their presence challenges us to redefine home, community, and ownership. Their presence challenges us to stop and reflect. No longer will we remain idle and pass by them in fear and prejudice. We will stand with them, recognize them, and see them. These are our streets, and these are our people. On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories stands out as some of Seliger’s most powerful work.
By Mark Seliger with foreword by Janet Mock
160 pages
Published by Rizzoli, 2016
Hardcover
10.7 x 1.1 x 11.4 inches
On Christopher Street Signed by Mark Seliger
$75.00
Copies signed by Mark Seliger now available!
On Christopher Street there are all kinds of sexual orientations and gender identities, endless possibilities of potential selves: transgender, transsexual, non-binary, genderqueer, femme, butch, cross-dresser, drag kings, drag queens, and many other identities that shift, adapt, and challenge our understanding of gender. This street nestled in the middle of New York City’s Greenwich Village is heralded as the birthplace of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. Today, the intersection at Christopher and Hudson Streets has been renamed “Sylvia Rivera Way,” after the pioneering trans-activist and the annual LGBTQ pride parade ends its procession on Christopher Street, where the revolution began at the Stonewall Inn.
Renowned photographer Mark Seliger, best known for his portraits of celebrities, musicians, and artists, has called the West Village home for nearly two decades. For his latest book, On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories, his curiosity inspired him to shoot a handful of portraits—documentary style—in On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories hopes of capturing the color, flamboyant characters, and theatre of a famous, but vanishing neighborhood.
What Seliger discovered was a nightly carnival of personalities that open up the visual discourse about sexuality and the constant ebb and flow of the transgender world we all inhabit today. The end result is a collection of 74 beautiful, black and white portraits, all taken with Seliger’s Hasselblad camera, and never-before-published.
These forthcoming portraits of trans people on Christopher Street combined with their moving and deeply personal stories remind us of our need for sanctuary, for a space to call our own. Their presence challenges us to redefine home, community, and ownership. Their presence challenges us to stop and reflect. No longer will we remain idle and pass by them in fear and prejudice. We will stand with them, recognize them, and see them. These are our streets, and these are our people. On Christopher Street: Transgender Stories stands out as some of Seliger’s most powerful work.
By Mark Seliger with foreword by Janet Mock
160 pages
Published by Rizzoli, 2016
Hardcover
10.7 x 1.1 x 11.4 inches
Horse Barbie
$28.00
As a young femme in 1990s Manila, Geena Rocero heard, “Bakla, bakla!,” a taunt aimed at her feminine sway, whenever she left the tiny universe of her eskinita. Eventually, she found her place in trans pageants, the Philippines’ informal national sport. When her competitors mocked her as a “horse Barbie” due to her statuesque physique, tumbling hair, long neck, and dark skin, she leaned into the epithet. By seventeen, she was the Philippines’ highest-earning trans pageant queen.
A year later, Geena moved to the United States where she could change her name and gender marker on her documents. But legal recognition didn’t mean safety. In order to survive, Geena went stealth and hid her trans identity, gaining one type of freedom at the expense of another. For a while, it worked. She became an in-demand model. But as her star rose, her sense of self eroded. She craved acceptance as her authentic self yet had to remain vigilant in order to protect her dream career. The high-stakes double life finally forced Geena to decide herself if she wanted to reclaim the power of Horse Barbie once and for all: radiant, head held high, and unabashedly herself.
A dazzling testimony from an icon who sits at the center of transgender history and activism, Horse Barbie is a celebratory and universal story of survival, love, and pure joy.
By Geena Rocero
320 pages
Published by The Dial Press, 2023
Hardcover
6.36 x 1.17 x 9.53 inches
A Dead Name That Learned How To Live
$20.00
–from SUPER-HUMAN
An honest lyric, a mighty harpoon straight from the heart, Golden’s debut full-length, A Dead Name That Learned How To Live weaves poems, family photographs, and self-portraits to share a journey of survival and living in the American south. Exploring themes of loss and legacy, nation and love language, forgiveness and fortitude, Blackness and being, Golden continually asks–What shifts within and around us when we choose to name ourselves and our kin here–our tragedy and triumphs, our human failures and feelings, our desires to be free? Releasing on their parent’s 30th wedding anniversary (August 29th, 2022) as a dedicated love letter and living archive, this debut is an awe and ode towards southern Virginia & Eastern Shore Maryland, Black family pasts, presents, and futures, to Black queer beginnings and belongings outside and within the family home.
By Golden
Published by Game Over Books, 2022
All the Flowers Kneeling
$18.00
A profound meditation on physical, emotional, and psychological transformation in the aftermath of imperial violence and interpersonal abuse, from a poet both “tender and unflinching” (Khadijah Queen)
Visceral and astonishing, Paul Tran's debut poetry collection All the Flowers Kneeling investigates intergenerational trauma, sexual violence, and U.S. imperialism in order to radically alter our understanding of freedom, power, and control. In poems of desire, gender, bodies, legacies, and imagined futures, Tran’s poems elucidate the complex and harrowing processes of reckoning and recovery, enhanced by innovative poetic forms that mirror the nonlinear emotional and psychological experiences of trauma survivors. At once grand and intimate, commanding and deeply vulnerable, All the Flowers Kneeling revels in rediscovering and reconfiguring the self, and ultimately becomes an essential testament to the human capacity for resilience, endurance, and love.
By Paul Tran
112 pages
Published by Penguin Books, 2022
Paperback
6.19 x 0.32 x 8.98 inches
Homie: Poems
$16.00
Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry
Finalist for the 2021 NAACP Image Award for Poetry
Homie is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence, xenophobia, and disparity, and in a body defined by race, queerness, and diagnosis, it can be hard to survive, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up, or a shout comes up to the window, and family―blood and chosen―arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary, part bright elegy, part war cry, Homie is the exuberant new book written for Danez and for Danez’s friends and for you and for yours.
By Danez Smith
96 pages
Published by Graywolf Press, 2020
Paperback
6.5 x 0.85 x 8.95 inches
All This Could Be Different: A Novel
$18.00
From a brilliant new voice comes an electrifying novel of a young immigrant building a life for herself—a warm, dazzling, and profound saga of queer love, friendship, work, and precarity in twenty-first-century America
Graduating into the long maw of an American recession, Sneha is one of the fortunate ones. She’s moved to Milwaukee for an entry-level corporate job that, grueling as it may be, is the key that unlocks every door: she can pick up the tab at dinner with her new friend Tig, get her college buddy Thom hired alongside her, and send money to her parents back in India. She begins dating women—soon developing a burning crush on Marina, a beguiling and beautiful dancer who always seems just out of reach.
But before long, trouble arrives. Painful secrets rear their heads; jobs go off the rails; evictions loom. Sneha struggles to be truly close and open with anybody, even as her friendships deepen, even as she throws herself headlong into a dizzying romance with Marina. It’s then that Tig begins to draw up a radical solution to their problems, hoping to save them all.
A beautiful and capacious novel rendered in singular, unforgettable prose, All This Could Be Different is a wise, tender, and riveting group portrait of young people forging love and community amidst struggle, and a moving story of one immigrant’s journey to make her home in the world.
By Sarah Thankam Mathews
320 pages
Published by Penguin Books, 2023
Paperback
5.14 x 0.66 x 8 inches
Before We Were Trans
$30.00
A groundbreaking global history of gender nonconformity
Today’s narratives about trans people tend to feature individuals with stable gender identities that fit neatly into the categories of male or female. Those stories, while important, fail to account for the complex realities of many trans people’s lives.
Before We Were Trans illuminates the stories of people across the globe, from antiquity to the present, whose experiences of gender have defied binary categories. Blending historical analysis with sharp cultural criticism, trans historian and activist Kit Heyam offers a new, radically inclusive trans history, chronicling expressions of trans experience that are often overlooked, like gender-nonconforming fashion and wartime stage performance. Before We Were Trans transports us from Renaissance Venice to seventeenth-century Angola, from Edo Japan to early America, and looks to the past to uncover new horizons for possible trans futures.
By Dr. Kit Heyam
352 pages
Published by Seal Press, 2022
Hardcover
6.4 x 1.4 x 9.55 inches
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
$19.95
An empowering collection of essays on the author’s experiences in the disability justice movement.
In this collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award–winning writer and longtime activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centers the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all.
Care Work is a mapping of access as radical love, a celebration of the work that sick and disabled queer/people of color are doing to find each other and to build power and community, and a tool kit for everyone who wants to build radically resilient, sustainable communities of liberation where no one is left behind. Powerful and passionate, Care Work is a crucial and necessary call to arms.
By Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha
304 pages
Published by Arsenal Pulp Press, 2018
Paperback
6 x 0.5 x 8 inches
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds
$16.00
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures we want.
Inspired by Octavia Butler's explorations of our human relationship to change, Emergent Strategy is radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help designed to shape the futures we want to live. Change is constant. The world is in a continual state of flux. It is a stream of ever-mutating, emergent patterns. Rather than steel ourselves against such change, this book invites us to feel, map, assess, and learn from the swirling patterns around us in order to better understand and influence them as they happen. This is a resolutely materialist “spirituality” based equally on science and science fiction, a visionary incantation to transform that which ultimately transforms us.
By adrienne maree brown
280 pages
Published by AK Press, 2017
Paperback
5 x 0.8 x 7.9 inches
Queer Love in Color
$28.00
Queer Love in Color features photographs and stories of couples and families across the United States and around the world. This singular, moving collection offers an intimate look at what it means to live at the intersections of queer and POC identities today, and honors an inclusive vision of love, affection, and family across the spectrum of gender, race, and age.
By Jamal Jordan
224 pages
Published by Ten Speed Press, 2021
Hardcover
8.31 x 0.84 x 9.38 inches
Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation
$45.00
Revolution Is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation is the powerful and celebratory visual record of a contemporary activist movement in New York City, and a moving testament to the enduring power of photography in activism, advocacy, and community.
In June 2020, after a Black trans woman in Missouri and a Black trans man in Florida were killed just weeks apart, activists Qween Jean and Joela Rivera returned to the historic Stonewall Inn—site of the 1969 riots that launched the modern gay rights movement—where they initiated weekly actions known thereafter as the Stonewall Protests. Brought together by the urgent need to center Black trans and queer lives within the Black Lives Matter movement, a vibrant and radical community emerged.
Over the following year, the Stonewall Protests brought together thousands of people across communities and social movements to gather in solidarity, resistance, and communion. Each Thursday was an invitation for protests, healing, and celebration—whether through marches, voguing balls, or vigil—and a living testament to love in revolution. This book gathers twenty-four photographers who participated in these actions to share images and words on the demonstrations and their community at large, preserving this legacy as it unfolded. Through photographs, interviews, and text, Revolution Is Love celebrates the power of shared joy and struggle in trans community and liberation.
Featuring images and text by Ramie Ahmed, Lucy Baptiste, Budi, Brandon English, Deb Fong, Snake Garcia, Stas Ginzburg, Katie Godowski, Robert Hamada, Chae Kihn, Zak Krevitt, Erica Lansner, Daniel Lehrhaupt, Caroline Mardok, Ryan McGinley, Josh Pacheco, Jarrett Robertson, Phoenix Robles, Souls of a Movement, Madison Swart, Cindy Trinh, Sean Waltrous, Ruvan Wijesooriya, and David Zung.
224 pages
Published by Aperture, 2022
Paperback
6.77 x 0.81 x 9.25 inches
Trans Hirstory in 99 Objects
$40.00
A compelling exploration of trans art, activism, and resistance
Spanning over four centuries, this volume brings together a wide-ranging selection of artworks and artifacts that highlight the under-recognized histories of trans and gender-nonconforming communities. Through the contributions of artists, writers, poets, activists, and scholars, this title reflects on historical erasure and imagines trans futures.
An expansive array of objects chart not a patriarchal history but a gender-neutral, trans-centric hirstory. The first publication of its kind, this survey celebrates trans forebearers, highlights struggles and triumphs, and reflects on the legacies of trans creative expression. Contributions by Kate Bornstein, Ria Brodell, Vaginal Davis, Leah DeVun, Mo B. Dick, Zackary Drucker, David Getsy, Martine Gutierrez, Andrea Jenkins, Jade Guarano Kuriki-Olivo (Puppies Puppies), Thomas (T.) Jean Lax, Abram J. Lewis, Miguel A. López, Amos Mac, Cyle Metzger, Deborah A. Miranda, Morgan M Page, SA Smythe, C. Riley Snorton, Dean Spade, Sandy Stone, Jeannine Tang, Michelle Tea, McKenzie Wark, and many others probe new horizons where institutional critique and trans culture meet. This book is co-published by the Museum of Trans Hirstory & Art (MOTHA), a conceptual art project of artist Chris E. Vargas that is forever “under construction” by design to allow continual transformation.
288 pages
Published by Hirmer Publishers, 2024
Hardcover
7.5 x 1.6 x 10 inches
We See Each Other: A Black, Trans Journey Through TV & Film
$26.99
A groundbreaking look at the history of transgender representation in TV and film, by an of-the-moment and in-demand culture reporter
We See Each Other is a personal history of trans visibility since the beginning of moving images. A literary reckoning, it unearths a transcestry that’s long existed in plain sight and in the shadows of history’s annals, and further contextualizes our present moment of increased representation. The films and television shows that Tre’vell covers include: Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, Psycho, Holiday Heart, Boy’s Don’t Cry, America’s Next Top Model, Some Like It Hot, Survivor, Tangerine, Pose, RuPaul's Drag Race and much more. Though there have been trans memoirs and histories, there has never been a book quite like this, nor is anyone more suited to write it than Tre’vell.
“I don’t remember exactly when I was taught to hate myself," says Tre’vell Anderson in We See Each Other's introduction. As the narrative unfolds, Tre'vell knits together the history of trans people on screen with stories of their life growing up and their formative experiences as a Black, trans journalist.
By Tre'vell Anderson
240 pages
Published by Andscape Books, 2023
Hardcover
6.3 x 0.84 x 9.28 inches
Young Queer America: Real Stories and Faces of LGBTQ+ Youth
$24.95
Photographer and activist Maxwell Poth has traveled all over the United States, inviting LGBTQ+ youth to share their stories as part of Project Contrast, a nonprofit that amplifies these voices and connects kids and families with the resources they need to survive and thrive.
This book collects the stories and portraits of seventy-three queer kids and teenagers from fifteen different states. In their own words, these young people share the challenges they've faced coming out or coming to terms with their own identities; they write about their families, their schoolmates, their teachers, and the queer community they've found throughout their journeys; and they offer messages of love and support to their LGBTQ+ peers. Featuring a foreword by trans actress and model Isis King, this book sends a powerful message to the many LGBTQ+ kids growing up in small towns who feel isolated: We see you, we love you, you are not alone.
Across the United States, a wave of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation is targeting queer and transgender youth. These stories will not only help queer and trans kids everywhere feel seen and connected to one another, they will shine a much-needed light on the challenges and realities of growing up queer in America. From stories of kids surviving on their own after coming out to close-minded families, to examples of supportive parents who encourage their kids to be proud of who they are, these narratives demonstrate that growing up queer or trans in America is difficult and complicated and normal. This book is a powerful reminder that no matter what your path looks like, you deserve love.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS: In this groundbreaking book, LGBTQ+ kids and teens tell their stories in their own words. The submissions that Poth and his Project Contrast team have collected are honest, articulate, and uplifting—these kids deserve to be taken seriously, and this project has given them a platform to share their truth with the world.
Author and photographer Maxwell Poth has been working with LGBTQ+ kids all over the United States since 2017. He started his nonprofit, Project Contrast, to amplify the stories of queer youth and connect them with the community and resources they need to thrive, no matter where they are in the country. His work highlights the unique mental health challenges facing queer and trans young adults, and demands that we stop turning a blind eye to the harm that is caused when we single out those who are different instead of embracing and uplifting them.
Perfect for:
- Queer and trans kids and teens who want to see their experiences reflected in print
- Parents and family members of LGBTQ+ youth who want to show support or learn more about their loved one's experiences
- Allies who are inspired by the book's mission and content
- Anyone interested in understanding the next generation of queer Americans
By Maxwell Poth with foreword by Isis King
Benny's True Colors
$18.99
Discover the joy of being your true self in this uplifting and empowering picture book about Benny, who looks like a bat but knows that he really is a butterfly.
Benny may look like a bat, but Benny doesn’t like flying at night, or eating bugs, or hanging upside down. Benny does like sunshine and fluttering and colorful wings. On the inside, Benny knows he is a butterfly!
“I want my outside to match who I am inside!” With the help of some butterfly friends in the garden, Benny makes a happy change. And his friends and his Momma all love him just the same.
Writer Norene Paulson and illustrator Anne Passchier's Benny’s True Colors is a transformative story about knowing your true self, and the joy of letting the world know you, too.
By Norene Paulson with illustrations by Anne Passchier
40 pages
Recommended for ages 3 - 6
Published by Imprint, 2020
Hardcover
10.33 x 0.45 x 10.33 inches
Julian at the Wedding
$17.99
The star of Julián Is a Mermaid makes a joyful return—and finds a new friend—at a wedding to be remembered.
Julián and his abuela are going to a wedding. Better yet, Julián is in the wedding. Weddings have flowers and kissing and dancing and cake. And this wedding also has a new friend named Marisol. It’s not long before Julián and Marisol set off for some magic and mischief of their own, and when things take an unexpected turn, the pair learns that everything is easier with a good friend by your side. Jessica Love returns with a joyful story of friendship and individuality in this radiant follow-up to Julián Is a Mermaid.
By Jessica Love
40 pages
Published by Candlewick, 2020
Hardcover
10.31 x 0.38 x 9.38 inches
Pink Is for Boys
$17.99
Parents and kids will delight in Robb Pearlman's sweet, simple script, as well as its powerful message: life is not color-coded.
By Robb Pearlman; illustrated by Eda Kaban
40 pages
Published by Running Press Kids, 2018
Hardcover
9.25 x 0.7 x 9.65 inches
Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk & the Rainbow Flag
$18.99
Celebrate Pride and its iconic rainbow flag--a symbol of inclusion and acceptance around the world-- with the very first picture book to tell its remarkable and inspiring history!
In this deeply moving and empowering true story, young readers will trace the life of the Gay Pride Flag, from its beginnings in 1978 with social activist Harvey Milk and designer Gilbert Baker to its spanning of the globe and its role in today's world. Award-winning author Rob Sanders's stirring text, and acclaimed illustrator Steven Salerno's evocative images, combine to tell this remarkable - and undertold - story. A story of love, hope, equality, and pride.
By Rob Sanders with illustrations by Steven Salerno
48 pages
Published by Random House Books for Young Readers, 2018
Hardcover
9.2 x 0.36 x 11.3 inches
Recommended for ages 3-9
Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution
$18.99
Celebrate Pride every day with the very first picture book to tell of its historic and inspiring role in the gay civil rights movement, from the author of the acclaimed Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag.
A powerful and timeless true story that will allow young readers to discover the rich and dynamic history of the Stonewall Inn and its role in the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement--a movement that continues to this very day. In the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raided by police in New York City. Though the inn had been raided before, that night would be different. It would be the night when empowered members of the LGBTQ+ community--in and around the Stonewall Inn--began to protest and demand their equal rights as citizens of the United States.
Movingly narrated by the Stonewall Inn itself, and featuring stirring and dynamic illustrations, Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution is an essential and empowering civil rights story that every child deserves to hear.
By Rob Sanders with illustrations by Jamey Christop
40 pages
Published by Random House Books for Young Readers, 2019
Hardcover
11.38 x 0.36 x 9.31 inches
Recommended for ages 5-8
Protecting My Energy Eco Tote
$40.00
The founder of Bianca's Design Shop, Bianca Negrón (they/them), is a queer gender-fluid Latinx designer and artist. They create inclusive pride art that provides representation and visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community. Their style is minimal yet playful and often uses lines, geometric shapes & custom typography.
Bag your goodies while protecting your energy using this organic cotton tote bag. There’s more than enough room for groceries, books, and anything in between.
Made of 100% certified organic cotton 3/1 twill
Measures 16" x 14.5" x 5"
Straps measure 1"W x 24.5"L
The Future Is Inclusive Enamel Pin
$13.95
The founder of Bianca's Design Shop, Bianca Negrón (they/them), is a queer gender-fluid Latinx designer and artist. They create inclusive pride art that provides representation and visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community. Their style is minimal yet playful and often uses lines, geometric shapes & custom typography. These elements feature rounded corners and curvy/squiggly lines with colors from various pride flags.
For those striving for a more inclusive future! No one should ever feel excluded from our LGBTQIA+ community.
Spread the word with this pin: the future is inclusive!
Double pinbacks for extra support
Pin measures: 1.5 inches in width by 0.75 inches in height
The Future is Inclusive Temporary Tattoo
$4.00
The founder of Bianca's Design Shop, Bianca Negrón (they/them), is a queer gender-fluid Latinx designer and artist. They create inclusive pride art that provides representation and visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community. Their style is minimal yet playful and often uses lines, geometric shapes & custom typography. These elements feature rounded corners and curvy/squiggly lines with colors from various pride flags.
The Future Is Inclusive Temporary Tattoo is made especially for those striving for a more inclusive future! No one should ever feel excluded from our LGBTQIA+ community. We are all human and we all deserve love & acceptance. Spread the word, the future is inclusive.
1 tattoo
Can last up to a week
Measures 3" x 1.5"
Printed in the USA with vegetable-based ink.
Safe and complies with FDA regulations
The Future Is Inclusive Mug
$18.00
The founder of Bianca's Design Shop, Bianca Negrón (they/them), is a queer gender-fluid Latinx designer and artist. They create inclusive pride art that provides representation and visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community. Their style is minimal yet playful and often uses lines, geometric shapes & custom typography. These elements feature rounded corners and curvy/squiggly lines with colors from various pride flags.
For those striving for a more inclusive future! Say it loud and proud with this cute mug and add a pop of color to your morning coffee or tea ritual!
Made of ceramic
Measures 3.85"H x 3.35"D
Dishwasher and microwave safe
The Future Is Inclusive T-Shirt (XS-4XL)
$34.95
The founder of Bianca's Design Shop, Bianca Negrón (they/them), is a queer gender-fluid Latinx designer and artist. They create inclusive pride art that provides representation and visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community. Their style is minimal yet playful and often uses lines, geometric shapes & custom typography. These elements feature rounded corners and curvy/squiggly lines with colors from various pride flags.
The Future Is Inclusive T-Shirt is made especially for those striving for a more inclusive future! No one should ever feel excluded from our LGBTQIA+ community. We are all human and we all deserve love & acceptance. Spread the word, the future is inclusive.
The t-shirt feels soft and lightweight, with the right amount of stretch-comfortable and flattering for any human.
Made of 100% combed and ring-spun cotton
Available in sizes XS-4XL
Beyond Gender Enamel Pin
$13.95
The founder of Bianca's Design Shop, Bianca Negrón (they/them), is a queer gender-fluid Latinx designer and artist. They create inclusive pride art that provides representation and visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community. Their style is minimal yet playful and often uses lines, geometric shapes & custom typography.
The Beyond Gender Enamel Pin reminds us that gender is a social construct! Look beyond the gender binary and you'll find beautifully unique human beings.
Made with polished silver plating and enamel
Two rubber pin clutches
Measures 1.25" x 0.6"
Queer Magic Enamel Pin
$13.95
The founder of Bianca's Design Shop, Bianca Negrón (they/them), is a queer gender-fluid Latinx designer and artist. They create inclusive pride art that provides representation and visibility for the LGBTQIA+ community. Their style is minimal yet playful and often uses lines, geometric shapes & custom typography.
The Queer Magic Enamel Pin reminds us that every queer person has a bit of magic in them.
Made with polished silver plating and enamel
Two rubber pin clutches
Measures 1.25" x 0.6"
Floral Bowtie
$45.00
Bowtie Behavior is a genderless bow tie brand created to bridge the gap between affordability and style while helping people feel good when they look in the mirror. Bowtie Behavior creates pieces that are bold and flavorful - pieces that outfits are built around.
Every Bowtie Behavior tie is handmade with care with high-quality fabrics.
Adjustable neck strap measures 18"L
Bowtie measures 3"L x 4.5"W
Watercolor Bowtie
$45.00
Bowtie Behavior is a genderless bow tie brand created to bridge the gap between affordability and style while helping people feel good when they look in the mirror. Bowtie Behavior creates pieces that are bold and flavorful - pieces that outfits are built around.
Every Bowtie Behavior tie is handmade with care with high-quality fabrics.
Adjustable neck strap measures 18"L
Bowtie measures 3"L x 4.5"W
Chai Masala
$16.95
The spices in Diaspora Co's first masala are the result of four years of sourcing across 40 small, regenerative family farms throughout India and Sri Lanka. In this masala, you'll encounter Iniya Cardamom from Tamil Nadu; Aranya Pepper from Kerala; Makhir Ginger from Meghalaya; Lucknowi Fennel from Uttar Pradesh; and Kandyan Cloves and Peni Miris Cinnamon from Kandy, Sri Lanka.
Tasting notes include rich cardamom and ginger, sweetened fennel and cinnamon, and spicy with a touch of pepper and cloves.
45g
Yields 12 cups of kadak chai
Protect Trans Folks T-Shirt (4XL)
$32.00
Now 50% off listed price! Markdown applies at checkout.
Transfigure Print Co. is a trans and queer-owned print shop that creates things with and for the LGBTQIA+ community. Since starting fundraising in 2019, the Transfigure team has helped raise over $85,000 for LGBTQIA+-centric organizations nationwide.
This black short-sleeved shirt with the statement “Protect Trans Folks” with a rose and a broken chain between the letters, all in a white gothic font.
Made of 100% cotton
Made in the US
Babes Against the Binary Enamel Pin
$13.95
This pin is made in collaboration with b. against the binary.
What is b. against the binary?
b. against the binary was born shortly after the birth of our child. As queer parents, we were confronted by a world in which, in order to guarantee us equal legal protections to our child, we would need to complete a second parent adoption. This reality was both emotionally and financially taxing. It also further illustrated oppressive dynamics that we both knew well as a queer, non-binary, interracial couple, but that we were now experiencing through the new lens of parenthood.
From the moment we announced that we were expecting a baby, we were inundated with assumptions and questions about our unborn baby's future gender identity. Once our child was born, we witnessed all of the ways their sex assigned at birth dictated the way they were perceived and the treatment they received. We want our child and other children in this next generation to feel liberated from the inherently oppressive dynamics of the gender binary. We want a world where children are asked, "who are you?" rather than, "what are you?" We want a world where children are safe to be and become their whole selves.
We decided to design, produce and sell BABIES AGAINST THE BINARY onesies and toddler t-shirts and BABES AGAINST THE BINARY adult garments to defray some of the exorbitant costs of our second parent adoption process. After meeting our initial need, we decided to continue as a family business, with the goal of continuing to support families and communities like ours by bringing visibility to this message and by donating to organizations that are fighting for gender justice locally and worldwide.
With love and gender liberation for all,
Anastasia & Pam Fujii
b. against the binary
50% of profits from this pin are donated to Third Wave Fund.
Made with polished silver plating and enamel
Two metal pin clutches
Measures 1.5" x 1"
Drag Queens Taught Me to Read Enamel Pin
$13.95
The Drag Queens Taught Me to Read pin lets you show your support for your local drag queens who are teaching us to read (in more ways than one)!
50% of profits from this pin are donated to:
- T.A.K.E. Resource Center (Birmingham)
- The Ali Forney Center (NYC)
- The Trans Lifeline
Made with polished silver plating and enamel
Two metal pin clutches
Measures 2" x 2"
Let Trans Kids Bloom Enamel Pin
$13.95
Trans kids are kids, and the Let Trans Kids Bloom Pin is the perfect way to show you're here to support them as they grow. This pin was designed by Noah Grigni, a freelance artist and community worker from Atlanta.
50% of profits from this pin are donated to:
- T.A.K.E. Resource Center (Birmingham)
- The Ali Forney Center (NYC)
- The Trans Lifeline
Made with polished silver plating and enamel
Two metal pin clutches
Measures 1.5" x 1.5"
Queer Joy Is Sacred Patch
$18.00
Founded by Maine-based artist AJ, a genderqueer transman, PocketBean creates genderless and gender-variant fashion full of magic and style to help anyone wearing it feel unstoppable.
This cathedral-style stained glass window features the words Queer Joy Is Sacred.
This iron-on patch is embroidered onto a thick backing and is perfect for jackets, backpacks, and more!
Measures 5" x 3"
Rivers of Sangria Wine Lip Duo
$23.00
Now 40% off listed price! Markdown applies at checkout.
Treamintt Lip Duos from Mintty Makeup are infused with kindness and empathy, blended from a bold Black/Trans/Queer point of view, and delivered with the perfect pop of pure drama every face needs to be truly fabulous.
The Rivers of Sangria Wine Lip Duo includes the perfectly matched Mintty Makeup's signature moisturizing Matte Lipstick and InfiniteEdge Lip Liner.
Ingredients: Talc, Mica, Mineral Oil, Kaolin, Titanium Dioxide, Magnesium Stearate, Isopropyl Palmitate, BHT
Vegan and Cruelty Free
Red Brick Rebellion Lip Duo
$23.00
Now 40% off listed price! Markdown applies at checkout.
Treamintt Lip Duos from Mintty Makeup are infused with kindness and empathy, blended from a bold Black/Trans/Queer point of view, and delivered with the perfect pop of pure drama every face needs to be truly fabulous.
The Red Brick Rebellion Lip Duo includes the perfectly matched Mintty Makeup's signature moisturizing Matte Lipstick and InfiniteEdge Lip Liner.
Ingredients: Talc, Mica, Mineral Oil, Kaolin, Titanium Dioxide, Magnesium Stearate, Isopropyl Palmitate, BHT
Vegan and Cruelty Free
Oakmoss & Amber Candle
$16.00
From the Smoky Mountains to the Rockies, oakmoss blankets the rugged bark of strong oak trees. The Oakmoss & Amber Candle from Untamed Supply is an ideal scent combination if you're just getting into the world of candles or unsure what to gift someone. This scent has a woody element warmed with velvety notes of amber and musk.
Top Note: Sage, Orange, and Grapefruit
Middle Note: Oakmoss and Tonka Bean
Base Note: Amber and Lavender
Untamed Supply candles are made using 100% domestically grown soy wax, fine fragrance oils, and cotton-core wicks, free of additives and dyes. Each candle is wicked, poured, and labeled by hand to ensure unparalleled quality.
4 oz.
20 hour burn time
1 candle
Whiskey Smoke Candle
$16.00
The Whiskey Smoke Candle from Untamed Supply is an ideal scent combination if you're just getting into the world of candles or unsure what to gift someone. This scent is known for its grounded, not-very-sweet composition.
Top Note: Saffron
Middle Note: Sandalwood, Incense, and Clove
Base Note: Smoke, Patchouli, and Amber
Untamed Supply candles are made using 100% domestically grown soy wax, fine fragrance oils, and cotton-core wicks, free of additives and dyes. Each candle is wicked, poured, and labeled by hand to ensure unparalleled quality.
4 oz.
20 hour burn time
1 candle
Pansy Mix Seed Packet
$5.50
Although the word pansy has its origins in the French pensee, meaning "thought," the word became a slur directed toward gay, effeminate, or gender-nonconforming men. Artist Paul Harfleet's Pansy Project, which ceremoniously sets pansies into the earth at spots where homophobic abuse has occurred, reckons with both senses of the word. Hardy plants that can bloom through the snow, pansies intrinsically embody the resilience and fortitude at the core of the LGBTQIA+ community.
Violet Les Anis De Flavigny
$6.95
Known as the French mint, Les Anis De Flavigny are a sweet delicacy with a lengthy history. The recipe used to make the candies today dates back to 1591 and has garnered these naturally-made confections a cult following.Each candy begins with a single anise seed. The seeds are placed in a large pan with sugar syrup and left to tumble for 15 days, until they are covered in smooth, successive layers of syrup. The candies are then covered in natural flavors, extracted from plants by steam or alcohol distillation.
The suave and mysterious natural violet flavor of these extraordinary candies is sure to awaken your senses!
Ingredients: Sugar, natural flavor, green anise seed, violet extract
Violet Flower Confit
$10.00
The Violet Flower Confit is a true taste of Provence, France and is created using the finest ingredients available, including the freshest, most fragrant violet petals flowers, pure cane sugar and pectin. With its fresh and sweet taste, this confit is the perfect addition to any appetizer plate. Enjoy this confit with foie gras, poultry, and other white meats. It is also a pleasantly floral sweetener for hot tea.
4.4oz
Ingredients: Cane Sugar, Water, Violet Flowers (1.5%), Fruit Pectin, Calcium Citrate, Citric Acid, Natural Aroma
Old Fashioned Violet Candies
$14.95
These Violet Candles are a beautiful gift or a sweet treat for yourself. Packaged in a 12-sided decorative glass jar with coordinating lid wrap and satin bow, keep this candy on your counter to add a splash of color. Each violet flower-shaped candy is made without artificial flavors or preservatives. Next time you want a quick fix for your sweet tooth, pop one of these candy flowers in your mouth!5.3oz
Made of Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Citric Acid, Violet Flavor, Blue Carmine, Water, Sugar
Made in France
Wild Violet Dainty Brooch
$92.00
These beautiful, delicate flowers appear to pop up in the most unexpected places during early spring, gifting us with the hope of warmer days to come. Native to North America, there are over 400 known species of violets, one of the most popular being the common blue violet. In Ancient Greece, violets were beloved and even considered a symbol of the city of Athens. These flowers can adapt to a variety of environments and never fail to surprise with their sporadic, vibrant blooms.
The Wild Violet Dainty Brooch is cast in bronze with a hand patina finish and accented with cast glass and a 24k gold finish.
Measures 1.75"L x 1.25"W
Wild Violet Dainty Pendant Necklace
$82.00
These beautiful, delicate flowers appear to pop up in the most unexpected places during early spring, gifting us with the hope of warmer days to come. Native to North America, there are over 400 known species of violets, one of the most popular being the common blue violet. In Ancient Greece, violets were beloved and even considered a symbol of the city of Athens. These flowers can adapt to a variety of environments and never fail to surprise with their sporadic, vibrant blooms.
The Wild Violet Dainty Pendant Necklace is cast in bronze with a hand patina finish and accented with cast glass and a 24k gold finish.
Chain measures 16"-18 inch"L (adjustable)
Pendant measures 0.76"L
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