#queer shopping

[vaspider]

🔥🔥FLASH SALE! 🔥🔥

Don't go out and shop, stay home and do it instead! Use code APRON19 from now until midnight Thursday to snag any of our BRAND NEW aprons for 25% off. All your favorite NK designs including the galaxy patterns, painted floral and Good Omens inspired tartan, plus some new designs!

As always, if you don't see your flag in a particular pattern, email us at [email protected] - we love customs, and this is a new item, so it's possible we missed something!

[vaspider]

NerdyKeppie Tops & Bottoms Sale

(I never could resist a good double entendre.)

With @dadhoc being in the hospital for the next several days, and the fact that we had to shell out the better part of a grand on vet bills earlier this week, our finances have taken more than a bit of a hit. We’ve had to cancel multiple shows this month due to health concerns, and it’s really set us back. So! It’s sale time!

From now until midnight EST on July 6th, 2019, buy any qualifying bottoms -- skirts, leggings, sneakers or boots -- and get a unisex t-shirt free!

If you don’t want swag but want to help out our family, buy me a ko-fi or hit up my PayPal, or grab some queer fiction for $1 at my Patreon! (Psst. The entire first book of The Bureau is up there right now... ) 

[vaspider]

“Hey, can you find pull-on shoes?” 

“Hey, can you find pet shirts?”

“What about more bag choices?”

“I’d really like some proper sneakers for running.”

I’m waiting for my samples on a couple of these items, and the process for uploading designs takes an awful lot longer with this particular printer than it does on any other site, but: 

We’ve found some solutions. Two varieties of pull-on sneaker, tons of bag options including a new messenger bag and a messenger pouch option as well as a few dressier options that will work for fancier occasions or carrying to work. (Plus with some of these floral designs, you can go all stealth pride at work... )

I’ll be working on filling in these new choices in your favorite designs, and soon enough I’ll have samples of a few of these items, but I thiiiink we at least have a solution for having good bags going forward. (Honestly, I’m delighted to find more options, even though I’m really ticked about losing the messenger bags that we currently have.) 

Right now I have the Asexual Painted Floral and Bisexual Painted Floral uploaded (wild how alphabets work) and will work on adding more designs in the morning. Time to go watch reruns of very polite British baking competitions.

[faerywhimsy]

Queer Shopping in Gender Town

I stopped wearing female underpants 10 odd years ago. Originally, the reason was that I’d just discovered sex. But I’m now in my 30s and sex doesn’t pull for a reason exactly the same as it used to. 

I realised really recently (because of a dream, haha, thanks subconscious!) that the idea of male underpants didn’t bother me. In fact, I really wanted to try it on for size (later I might discuss how people actually get to know their sizes for underwear when it’s been 10 years and the last time you bought some was the other gendered garment... but maybe that’s best left alone, since you can’t return it anyway)

The decision was easy to make. I was going to go to a Kmart or Target the next time I was in a shopping centre and buy myself some boy shorts. I’ve seen my partners do it before; I know that’s where they’re sold. But then I was in Knox, and I’d never been to the Knox Target before, so I wasn’t sure of the layout. 

Cue me going up to the nice store lady out the front: Uhh, hi.... this is going to sound like a strange question (me: obviously cis woman) but where are the male briefs shelved?

I thought that was the difficult part out of the way, but then she asked whether I meant men or boys (cause I apparently look like mum material, or that’s just the most likely reason a cis woman goes about buying men’s briefs). 

Cue me suddenly starting to act like I’m a mum: Uh, thanks!

...... WHAT??!! I am a fairly brazen and unembarrassable sort of person, once you get around the sex is awkward to talk about and I feel uncomfortable being naked around most people. ....Okay, so now I think about it, I can kind of see why this was so surprisingly uncomfortable for me. But Still!! 

In my head, I guess I wanted to be that girl who stood up to the nice store lady, who hadn’t asked for anything, and said, “Look here, lady, I’m a cis gendered woman and I want me some men’s briefs to wear MYSELF. You got a problem with that?”

Instead, I was this wilting cis person who was suddenly wishing I had brought a male friend or partner with me so as to have an externally understood reason for shopping this way.

I was more embarrassed by that than anything else. I hadn’t realised how used to ‘passing’ I had become... It’s not exactly like I have ‘POLYAMOROUS’ stamped on my forehead.

Then, then, there was the packaging. Wow, I thought that women’s underwear had it all with the boobs on the packaging, but I’d never actually looked at male brief packaging, and suddenly all I’m doing is looking at a whole lot of dicks. I’m TRYING to look at prices and sizes and colours, but, seriously, DICKS.

So, in the end, I’m just like, screw these dicks, and bought a brand simply because it were a couple that had dots on them and, more importantly, no strange person’s dicks. 

[sadfishing]

I was going to do something nice for myself and buy this black dress the other day but then when I was looking at it I suddenly started feeling really hyper vigilant and like someone was going to try to hurt me and then I just put it back on the rack and walked away feeling embarrassed and anxious. Internalized transphobia sucks.