I bought this shirt in the lead up to Pride loving how it cleverly established “babes” as a non-gendered descriptor and challenged the gender binary. But every time I wear it, I also love the reminder to challenge binaries ~everywhere~. Binary thinking pits one thought against another and excludes the possibility of other options. It’s insidious and ubiquitous. Think about the idea of “good”. Binary thinking has us also immediately thinking about “bad” and assuming it’s the opposite. If something isn’t one, its the other. Binary thinking is inherently exclusionary (no muddled middle ground) and inevitably leads to hierarchies. Hierarchies lead to supremacy... see where I’m going with this? Today’s the Fourth of July and to say that I have mixed feelings about my country would be a hell of an understatement. So I’m wearing this shirt today to remind myself that it’s okay to have mixed feelings. I can hate and love my country at the same time. I can be ashamed of broad swathes of our history and be immensely proud of others. I can love the shit out of the USWN soccer team and fucking loathe our state sanctioned concentration camps. These things do not cancel each other out, they are not paradoxes: they are truths. I’m wearing this shirt today to remind myself that Activism isn’t a yes or no, a succeed or fail. It’s a question of scale and dedication and daily practice. All progress is progress. / / / Also I made these shorts this week. Fabric is Michael Miller cotton/linen and the pockets are IKEA fabric I bought circa 2009 with confused looking birds on it. Bonus points for the highlighter yellow zipper because why even make your own clothes if they can’t be ridiculous? 😘 #icontainmultitudes #sodoesmywardrobe #babesagainstthebinary #bonfireshirts #sewqueer #maritimeshorts #independencedayramble #memade #memadewardrobe https://www.instagram.com/p/BzgMq1PhD7G/?igshid=sbyvfk29dipb
