#rad jacket

Update on my Rad Jacket!!! 

1) So first of all, I sewed around the shoulders and cut off the sleeves and started unravelling the fabric up to the stitching. I’ll sew zippers on and make the sleeves re-attachable at some point soon so I can actually wear it as a jacket this fall. 

2) I got some small iron-on patches from a friendly women at the People Called Women booth at Michigan Framily Reunion. They are: DYKE purple on orange, left front, AMAZON pink on purple, RISE yellow on red, right front. 

3) I got these other patches from a this rad lesbian I met at MFR who I know through Bunch Of Dykes! She made the flaming labrys, white on black “Bunch of Dykes” logo that’s on the top of the back, for me and a bunch of the other Dykes. When I actually met her, I got the “XX” white on blue on the top right front, the black on red “RADICAL” and the white on purple “SISTER”, those are both on the bottom of the back. (I might take the “radical” “sisters” off and put them back on with a sewing machine and/or find a way to put some solid edging on them)

4) I also threw a few stitches in the corners of a few patches where the corners were curling up, “Lesbian & Gay Lib”, “Never Again” and the “pride flag” under the “DYKE”. 

I got quiet a few compliments from sisters at MFR and that felt great; knowing I was around all these women, most of them lesbians, who agreed with mu politics 😝

Future plans for the Rad Jacket™️  - put on this “the first gay pride was a riot” patch (when i decide where) - finish the pride flag I’m working on and add it to one of the shoulders (like in the military?) and then figure out wtf to put on the opposite side  - make this detransition pride flag one and add it (large, not for a shoulder)  - make this “silence = death” ACT UP “stop killing us” (or some variation of it) into a patch and add it  - make this lesbian avengers logo into a patch and add it - decide on which cool small buttons to add to my jacket 

AND I’m going to borrow my one friend’s sewing machine and my other friend’s iron and remove the sleeves and make them detachable. I basically want it as a vest cause I think I’ll mostly end up wearing it in the summer to prides and music festivals and that kind of thing BUT the sleeves are already like 3″ too long so after adding the velcro, they’ll still be a decent length. 

(hopefully I’ll get all the ⬆️ done before my local Pride on June 18th, I think)