Got some nice compliments for the badges today at Belper Pride!
"beautiful"
"so many cool ones"
"they're amazing"
"they make me laugh"
One of my favourite things about selling the badges in person is hearing people's enthusiastic reactions :-)
The best is when someone exclaims over finding one that really suits them. That's kind of why I started doing them in the first place actually.
Lovely badges being prepped to travel across the world!
Today we have
"fat & gorgeous"
"shy but friendly"
"gender, schmender"
"your fence is sitting on me".
I make these, and I designed them - but I didn't come up with the "fence" slogan! (see next post for that)
#bisexual #queer #fat #shy #gender #nonbinary #badges #buttons #IdentityBadges
To make room in my badge boxes for some new designs, I'm thinking I'll probably phase out two of the oldest ones, "fluffy bi" and "spiky bi".
I first heard people claiming these labels on the Usenet group soc.bi in the 1990s. Fluffy bi is like "hugs hugs, we love people". Spiky bi is more like "don't you dare say that bisexuality doesn't exist!"
Anyway, so if you wanted either of those on a badge, best get them soon :-)
https://www.uncharted-worlds.org/identitybadges/chooseyourbadges.php?catalogue=bi_first
That's all the assembling done for this batch of badges. Over the next few days, I'll be checking all these in daylight (I'm picky about quality control!) and putting their labels in.
#IdentityBadges #LGBTQ #pansexual #asexual #pride #trans #ButtonBadges
Slowly working through a batch of badge-making...
The "asexual pride" one is a new design!
Back in the 1990s when I first came out as bi, Pride would always have stalls selling gay & lesbian-themed merch, & hardly ever anything for the bi people. I started designing bi badges to fill the gap, & this labour of love grew to become the "#IdentityBadges".
Themes include #bisexual, #queer, #trans, #polyam, #kink/#bdsm.
#Asexual Pride & #Pansexual Pride badges coming soon (designed & made, but not yet added to the catalogue page!)
@garius
Thanks for asking!
I make button badges 😀
with free postage all over the world. ✉️
Mostly queer themes: for example
"No, I'm bisexual, _you're_ confused"
+ pronouns inc "they" & "ze"
+ for the allies "Straight but not narrow"
Other topics too:
"Fat & gorgeous"
"Shy but friendly"
"Old enough to know my own mind"
"Normal rules do not apply"
etc.
50+ designs, 8 or 9 colours, 1-inch/25mm size.
"Identity badges" (Jennifer)
Jennifer Moore 😷