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Happy Solstice, Earthlings! Things have been quiescent here once again (for wonderful reasons! see here & here & here), but we would be remiss in our duties if we did not wish you a Happy Pride this month! These Pride Planets were created by astrophysicist, illustrator, & science communicator Dr. Héloïse Stevance and are free to download, use, modify, and re-upload, with credit to H. F. Stevance / @Sydonahi.

–Emily

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We’ve shared these wonderful inclusive designs by Soft Biology before, but today is an excellent day to highlight them again - specifically the “Space Trans” one for International Transgender Day of Visibility.  The design is available via Redbubble on all types of products from tees to notebooks to mugs to stickers. A portion of the proceeds go towards providing binders for trans youth. 

To our trans colleagues, readers, and fellow passengers on Spaceship Earth, we see you and we support you. 

- Summer & Emily

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Pride Month 2017 started yesterday so we’d thought we’d reshare our tribute to the LGBTQIA community. This design came out of the Orlando club bombings almost a year ago, but is a reminder that we all live under one sun. Light comes in a spectrum of wavelengths and humans come in a spectrum of identities, all of which are valid. 

Here are a few designs we’ve posted before to help you show your pride this month (and every month really):  

Safe Space sweatshirt

Space Queer tee

Space Lesbian tees

Rainbow candle

Love artwork

And remember, our “One Sun” solar spectrum design is available via Redbubble with half our proceeds going to the Ali Forney Center here in NYC. You can also see various version of the design in action out in the wild here. 

Be good to each other. 

- Summer

P.S. Shameless plug: if you want to read more about the science of our sun heart image, I wrote about it for Now.Space earlier this year. 

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Y'ALL

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I came across both these designs on the same day this week and their existence makes me hopeful that we are making progress (however slow) in the right direction. Astronomy (and science) is for everyone and needs to be free of barriers to access for all oppressed minority groups. This requires all of us with privilege to do some heavy lifting for however long it takes. 

Show your support for those who feel excluded from the field with this Safe Space fleece sweatshirt from Hello (ht @MxHarperion).

And help this Space Queer design campaign become reality on Cotton Bureau - sales end January 30th at 8pm ET (TOMORROW NIGHT). Available as a t-shirt or sweatshirt. 

Lastly, if you don’t know about Inclusive Astro already, go follow them on Twitter and learn how you can help. 

- Summer

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