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Kofi shop is officially up!!! Find your flag as a chain of daisys, go classic, or make your own! All pieces are made to order and help me help my baby♡

Aroace daisy chain! Available along with other pride daisys on my kofi shop♡

Remember this?👀 Well if you thought it was neat you can now get a classic daisy chain bracelet of your own over on my kofi shop!

Aromantic daisy chain bracelet! Available on my kofi shop plus more♡

Transgender daisy chain! Available on my kofi shop♡

"The hat is customizable," he said, struggling with the velcro patch on the front. "If I need it, I have an ICE one too. I pick based off the business i walk into."

"Customizable is an important hat descriptor," I said. "what can I get you?"

"You wouldn't believe how offended people get these days," he said. "And I'm supposed to do something about it if you're offended? You chose to be offended!"

"We all have hundreds of thousands of decisions everyday," I said. I thickened my accent. "That's what my stepdad always said. But I can make one easier - we have a delicious Ethiopian roast available."

"Like if I told you you have a bull ring," he said, "because bulls have rings in their noses. Is that offensive?"

I laughed. "I've heard that before."

"It's a joke, but people get offended. Maybe you're offended."

I looked at him. I smiled. "You aren't trying to offend me though, right?"

Of course he was. I was being friendly and the friendlier I was, the faster he switched topics. He was saying anything inflammatory he could think of to see if I'd take the bait. After about 20 minutes of my redirecting and deescalating, he settled into a more normal interaction. He took up too much of my time showing me a product I'd feigned mild interest in to get him to stop talking about getting accused of inappropriate behavior at work. When we finally disengaged, he spent 10 minutes trying to catch my eye again. When he failed, he left.

There's this new breed of customer who insists on trying to incite political conversation through their clothing and, when that doesnt work, their snide little comments. If I owned my own business, maybe I would have given the guy the fight he wanted. But I work for a corporation and I love paying my bills so I deescalated.

These were some of their answers:

but when they were represented, they said:

Queer history matters!

We chatted this week on our podcast about these answers – what good queer representation looks like, what’s changed since 2019, and what still needs to change.