#gadsden flag

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Flag Art

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pwease dont tread on me 🥺🐍👉👈

Let's talk about the original Gadsden flag design. The well-known yellow flag showcases a timber rattlesnake poised and ready to strike. This snake has a history of being used to represent unity in the early days of America. I'm sure you've seen the "Join, or Die" illustration? That's supposed to be a timber rattlesnake, too.

On the Gadsden flag, the snake is whole and connected-- united. The flag was flown during the revolution to assert that we were united and ready to strike against coercion and willing to fight for our liberty.

I love the flag design, but I think it's interesting how many members of a party of the least threatened people in America have adopted this flag as their own, while simultaneously trying to take away liberties from other Americans.

What exactly do they believe they have that is at risk of being "tread on"? What liberty do the white cishet men of America worry about losing? I think it's absurd. It's giving... "pwease dont tread on me 🥺 I'm big and scary and need to be in complete power to make sure we are never equals 🥺👉👈". So, I redrew the flag for them.

There are marginalized communities in the country who are better suited to be flying the Gadsden flag. We deserve liberty. We deserve equality.

This second design is also tangentially inspired by Jefferson's "Join, Or Die". The particular phrase "United we stand, divided we fall" has been used by Americans for centuries to drive feelings of unity, with the purpose of reminding folks that a divided community is weaker than a connected one. This phrase even appears on the Missouri state flag and on the seal on Kentucky.

And yet, we see so much division (particularly both against and within the LGBTQ community). Everyone within the queer community is at risk of losing rights and it won't do anything to protect those rights if we divide amongst ourselves with the hope of being "the good gays" to the bad guys. We need to remember that the community as a whole is at risk. United we will stand, but divided we will fall. We keep each other safe. Stand together.

I designed these two as stickers for my laptop, so I figure I'll make them available on my shop as well in case anyone else feels similarly! Idk! I just know I'm tired of being tread on.

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Caturday Harris - Walz sign.

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My dumb idea is now a bumper sticker & vinyl sticker.

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Flag History

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HAPPY 4TH!

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