#lesbian flag by lesbian_ocean

[yves-and-scessernee]

DIVERSITY WIN! THE HARBINGER OF THE VOID IS A LESBIAN!

[yves-and-scessernee]

These look great! I love seeing such a wide variety, and these are all so nicely done.

There is the dawn lesbian flag that comes in both 7 and 5 stripes as an alternative to the sunset/lipstick flag (which I also do not use because of the harassment of both myself and my bi+ trans friends and family) that I've been using for the past couple of years since Catastrfy discontinued hir lesbian flags (understandable, since those were also related to the plagiarism & harassment of the sunset/lipstick set, etc.). They're by @lesbian_ocean on twitter and I've been actually kind of sad that there's no merch available for them, compared to the others.

I see Kispesan and Maya Kern's 4-stripe lesbian flag up above, and that's a beautiful flag (though I don't use it myself); gaybreakfast's Sapphic Flag For All Sapphics uses a lot of the same origins as that flag for its colors (namely, Sappho's poetry & queer history) but has been expanded to include all sapphics, and I think it's a lovely flag as well.

You may well be aware of both of these already; I don't mean to step on any toes or imply that you aren't. I'm an agender asexual lesbian, and I found both of these flags after years of dealing with harassment and exclusion towards me, my trans wife, and my greater community of trans bi+ friends and family, so they're both still kind of new to me and I'm just happy to have found flags that make me and mine feel welcome and included. I've been going on about them to anyone who will listen.

But I said all of this -- and I'm grateful if you've read this far -- because I personally would be thrilled to have more merch possibilities in a wider array of sapphic and lesbian flags as custom orders, especially cool merch custom orders that harken back to historic queer slang.

So I literally woke up and came downstairs to make this set of patches. @urbanprole is in the middle of like 3 other projects so these will get test-stitched and photographed when she has a hot minute, but like.

They're about 3" x 3" so you can stack up flags on your arm, backpack, w/e.

(The colors look a little wonky bc it's just a mockup for the embroidery machine, and the way it displays colors has only a passing resemblance to how those colors will look stitched out.)

[yves-and-scessernee]

My thoughts on flag discussion are that there can be multiple flags for our communities, and that this is a good thing. There already are alternate flags for many of the communities I know of, including the sunset bi flag by smatterbrain on twitter, the sapphic flag for all sapphics by gaybreakfast on instagram, and the lesbian_ocean's inclusive lesbian flag on twitter. If only a handful of people use this one or that one, it still matters that it matters to them.

Queer humanity is an incredibly personal and complex experience. There are going to be some of us who only use the rainbow flag, and there are going to be some of us who seek out many flags and perhaps even make our own. Whenever I’ve found a new flag, I’ve never thought, but how many people will need to use this to make it legitimate? I’ve always thought, oh, wow: I feel seen.