Gift suggestions for the beloved freaks in your life!

Hey friends,

Hope you’re all hanging in there. I still haven’t finished tomorrow’s episode soooo let’s get right to the main event! Well, first, disclaimers:

• None of this is paid promo! Some of these people are my friends but mostly they are not.

• I own stuff from most of these people but not every single one! Ymmv!

• Not all of these people are trans but many of them are, and most of the rest are queer, and in one or two cases I don’t know and don’t want to litigate it but the vibe is good.

• I’m not listing books because that’s too much to wade into and I’ll get in trouble for leaving someone out lol. (Oh, except Little Puss Press is having a huge sale with free ebooks!)

• Speaking of: I surely forgot someone amazing, so please feel free to chime in with your own suggestions in the comments!

Tuck shameless self-promo:

• We currently have live show tickets available for our DC, San Francisco, and Seattle shows. (There are 3 tickets left for Seattle, oops, and DC is almost out of whatever “premiere” tickets means)

• You can grab 2T2F cheap from AK Press or slightly less cheap from me directly

• Patreon allegedly offers gift subscriptions now, so you could pay to let a friend access whatever the hell we’re doing over here

Very specific items that someone might need:

• Piss mugs by Liz Born (my gf sent me one and I put it on my special bookshelf for safekeeping but then my whole bookshelf collapsed and it broke but then I glued it back together because I love it so much and it looks even cooler now imo)

• Ceramic creatures by Fat Snails (check their “FOR SALE” story)

• Gay rug art by I Look Great With Rugs

• Candles shaped like hot fat queer bodies by CTOAN

• Queer skateboards by Unity

• Choose Your Own Dykeventure zines by Maddy Court

• Cute colorful wiggly tables from Object Lover

• Handmade earrings from former pod guest Lehuauakea

• If you have the money, why not buy a Shing Yin Khor original?

• Queer candles from Queer Candle Co #NoPromo #ButUseOurPromoCode

• A Hirbawi kufiya whenever they next restock!

Prints & art:

• Barry Lee is closing shop on Tuesday, so move quickly!

• I bought sooo many prints from this Secret Room Press series and I still want more tbh

• Huge fan of Halsey Berryman’s anarchist bird series but you could also get this for the Chappell fans in your life.

• One wall in my living room is dedicated to Felix d’Eon art (and it’s fun to see who notices that two guys are sucking dick and cock up there)

• Animal Sleep is usually where I buy my calendars — they’re not offering one this year but they still have one zillion incredible prints

• Em Jon-Michael Frank’s prints are so so important when you are Sad or In Therapy but I also have this one and it makes me laugh a lot (also, looks like they’re on sale for $10! Wow!)

• Kah Yangni has beautiful prints and children’s books!

• Softprints is a local NYC artist who also has lots of great stickers and keychains

Prints & art & also clothes:

• I love Io so much. What else is there to say? They invented ~be gay do crime~ and every design they’ve printed since then is another banger

• Toxic Femme is also an absolute icon putting out hit after hit (with plenty of stickers & koozies for cheap gifts)

• Shoog sells prints of their stunning fat queer portrait series AND iconic hats

• Transfigure Print Co are the folks behind those iconic Protect Trans Kids shirts!

• Gender Reveal alum Demian DinéYazhi’ runs the wonderful Rise Indigenous store

More clothes:

• Girl of Swords is one of the most powerful to ever do it (I have this one)

• For Everyone Collective, which sells cool abolitionist shirts, is worker-owned and operated by formerly incarcerated people!

• Technically Bird Collective clothes aren’t all gay but also dude come on

Zines / pins / stickers:

• Sweater Muppet is out here making some of the most important trans stickers of all time imho

• Craft or DIY has loads of great little queer zines and pins — I love to buy this one for people and then get worried that they’ll be offended lol

• Strongly recommend signing up for Shay Mirk’s zine of the month club, for yourself or a friend! It’s a really good deal and has introduced me to so many rad artists

• Gabby Kash makes art of these cats that are both cute and colorful and somehow freaky? Incredible vibe, I aspire to it.

Phew, I really feel like I’m forgetting so many people but here’s where we gotta end it for now. If you end up buying any of these items, please let me know — I don’t get a commish or anything, I’m just nosy :) :)

That seems like enough for today. Here’s your Weekly Rhubarb, courtesy of my roommate.

Photo: POV Ruby is lying on top of you.

Xo,

Yr favorite gender detective