#rainbow flag
I wanted to do something a little more serious for my pride painting this year. Happy pride everyone.
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Happy Pride Month
Diversity is dignity. Inclusion is integrity. To every individual out there living your truth—we celebrate you.
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At first I was like, “Why is the rainbow our symbol? That sounds stolen, can’t the community come up with something original?”
Now it’s just, “H̴̟͛e̴͍̽͝h̶̹̺̔é̷̡̳h̷̫̔͝ȇ̷̖̋h̷̖̚e̵̻͑̆ḧ̶̛̻́ê̸̡͈̑h̸̢̙͊̎e̷̛̺h̶͚͒̚ rainbows are gæ✨ die mad haters”
Happy Pride Everyone! ️️⚧️
For@freyjawriter24, who I was paired with for the Ineffable Game Gift Exchange hosted by @do-it-with-style-events ❤️ Happy holidays! Hope you like it!
Ooh I just remembered pride month is next month so I’m gonna have to go back to working on my stuff for Pride Month! :o
It’s Pride season again, so I decided to check out what Joann has to offer, given that last year’s items were… An attempt.
If you don’t remember (or if I didn’t actually rant about it here, but I’m sure I had to have), one of the biggest complaints I had was that their entire line had a seven stripe rainbow flag. I know we’re all friends with Roy G. Biv and such, but the familiar iteration of the Gilbert Baker Rainbow Pride Flag is only sixstripes. It started as eight, but there was a shortage of pink, which made it a seven stripe rainbow, but then they found when it was hung vertical from a lamppost, the center stripe was hidden, so he made it six stripes, dropping indigo, which, lets face it, isn’t really a color anyway.
Using a seven stripe flag is just weird. If you want the Pride flag everyone knows, that’s six stripes. If you want a throwback, you’d use the 8 stripe flag. If you want to make a mistake, go with seven stripes.
So anyway, Joann made a mistake.
The image above is what they’re currently selling on their website. At first, I thought that maybe they’re still selling off the stock from last year’s mistake, but then I looked closer and realized that they’re not. This is a new product, still using a seven stripe flag. How can I tell? They changed the name for starters, from “True Colors” to “One Together”. They also corrected a mistake: Last year’s model had the Progress flag’s arrow pointing in the wrong direction, and they’ve reversed it here. But it’s still a seven stripe rainbow on the Progress flag, and the arrow is still weirdly aligned (it should be centered between the Yellow and Green stripes on a six stripe flag, but here it’s centered between Green and Blue which doesn’t make any sense, on a seven stripe flag, it should be going down the middle of the green stripe, so how do you even get it between Green and Blue?).
I was thrilled to see the above image and notice that the Ally Flag is gone! That was my second biggest complaint with last year’s model. The Ally Flag is the physical manifestation of “No Homo” and doesn’t belong on any Pride merch, especially if it displaces some other flag. With 12 slots on the ribbon, they couldn’t get every flag, but they could at least have a legitimate Pride flag for that slot. And look, this year they did!
They put a, uh, kinda wonky Intersex flag in that 12th slot. The purple ring is supposed to be thicker than that, and I get what you were going for, and it’s nice to see the Intersex Flag because it doesn’t get much merch love, plus, it got rid of the Ally Flag, so-
Wait…
Nope. The Ally Flag is still there, it’s just in a 13th slot. Oh well.
And it’s still especially grating that it’s a seven stripe rainbow A on a six stripe B&W background. Like… That didn’t clue you into the problem there?
And then there’s this fabric pattern which looks bi and pan inclusive until you look closer and realize that it’s kinda not.
You do know what bi and pan mean, right…?
Still, for all the gripes about Joann’s Pride collection, at least they’re being supportive, in a confused parent giving an effort kind of way. That makes them miles better than explicitly homophobic/transphobic Hobby Lobby, which goes to great lengths to make sure that none of the rainbows they sell are the gay kind:
Started a new piece
Will be for sale once it’s complete, message me to claim ❤️
We NEED to put sex and magic back on the pride flag right now
I’m fed up of people being like yea we need magic but not the sex one, sex positivity is vital to the lgbtq+ community it is not invalidating to asexual people to celebrate gay sex as something that is positive and beautiful and natural. We should be celebrating all the aspects of our community and this can include both asexuals and sex positivity
Asexual here to confirm: I have no interest in doing a sex but like it’s a colour on a flag, and considering the LGBTQ community’s history it definitely has a place there.
Also while we’re at it we should bring back the version with a lavender stripe for diversity too
New pride octopus available in my redbubble shop!!
