We wanted to offer you some sneak peeks at projects we’re currently working on. A big current undertaking of ours is we’re making a new…[Read More on Patreon]
Tag: merch
Poetry & Trauma: It Is Hard to Write with a Broken Heart
This week my debut poetry book, “Pet: the Journey from Abuse to Recovery” comes out. The poetry sequence takes you through my experiences in an abusive relationship, my attempts to heal, my retrospective reflections on the relationship, and the larger-scale insights that came with long-term healing. To introduce it, I wanted to share with you this piece about what it took to write that book in the first place. CN: extensive and detailed discussion of …Read More
New Merch: Emotional Support Kitties & More
We have two new merch items available for you now! A few months ago, I was working on a cute painting of two cats while I was also doing everything in my power to try to get an application for a property I wanted to rent, approved. We had a suspicion that they might be making it difficult for us to get approved because they didn’t want to house our Emotional Support Animal, Rosa. We …Read More
Patreon Bonus Content: Choosing the Title Font of Our Poetry Book
When we were getting close to finishing the cover illustration, we started messing around with…[Read More on Patreon]
New Merch: LGBTQ Pride Dice Pattern
Happy Pride! A goal we made for ourselves for the summer was to get into pattern design and start uploading them to Spoonflower (another Print on Demand site that specializes in fabric & wallpaper). I asked a friend if there were any patterns she wished existed that she hadn’t seen before and she said, D&D Dice! I had a lot of fun drawing the dice and quickly realized this would be perfect design to adapt …Read More
Patreon Bonus Content: Designing the Border
Once we were almost done with the illustration, we started working on… (Read more on Patreon)
Patreon Bonus Content: The Bird Illustration Part 2
Once we had our sketch, we started trying out different brushes and ways of… (Read More at Patreon)
New Merch: You Could Never Be Ice Cream, You’re Too Hot
Back in our early days of social justice work when most of what we knew about was the forms of oppression specific to women, an important part of our journey to empowerment was establishing for ourselves the idea that we could enjoy and appreciate our appearance, and that of others, while still treating them as a human. This value was particularly strong in the social circles we frequented but no where was it stronger between …Read More