#intersectional pride

Here's my newest project. I'm making a goth/gay blanket for a friend. The accent colours are going to be the intersectional pride flag and I hope she loves it.

ID: a tabby cat in a rainbow striped hat lifting the left side of their lip to show their teeth

Honestly I feel this is the "We exist, we're here for solidarity and raising us all together and anyone against any of that can go play on the sun" energy we all need to start bringing to Pride.

I love you all! 💜

Yup

It’s also notable that the institutionalised queerphobia in Uganda and other former colonised countries is *directly* attributable to British colonial-era penal codes. There’s a legacy there that’s fucking both queer folk in the UK and in the rest of the world.

Pride is a protest. Fascist organisations and movements are gaining power, entering and influencing governments. Marginalised people and human rights that affect everyone, but particularly marginalised people, are under threat everywhere.

And intersectional marginalisation is a huge issue - people who are BIPOC, disabled, poor, queer, trans (binary and nonbinary) are facing this pushback against basic rights to exist as who we are, not only seperately, but in ways that intersect. BIPOC of almost every other marginalisation, for example, tend to suffer the most in the way of poverty and brutality from law enforcement. Disabled people suffer inbuilt eugenicist ideas from other people in almost every other marginalised group.

Pretty much every other marginalisation increases your chances of living in poverty *and* makes it more difficult to access things like state aid and benefits, access educational opportunities and/or well-paid work due to structural bigotry. I’m personally trying to fight institutional transphobia in a university context atm which is impacted pretty severely by my disability. However I couldn’t even access this to be be thus impacted if I didn’t have the financial means to access postgrad education.

The idea of “inevitable progress” is a 19th century liberal political notion that is simply not accurate. Rights are not only hard-won, but constantly under threat by regressive political movements.

We need to fight for survival.

Having prepared a full set of #heraldic hatchings I've used almost all of them in the first hatched Pride Shield, the intersectional shield.

The idea is to present the design(s) in a way that is equally accessible to colourblind and non-colourblind people. However due to the nature of the hatching patterns I'm concerned about triggering epileptic seizures. Opinions welcome.