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image this; i’m on-line procuring and if i add just a few extra nice british kilos to my basket, i can get free supply. it’s really an order i’m putting for my mum and he or she tells me to spend the additional.
i determine i may at all times do with one other espresso cup, proper?! so i peruse the web site and see a biking one. now, it’s not horrible, however… it may very well be higher.
when it arrived i used to be shocked any of the characters had been really girls to be sincere, but it surely was no shock in any respect that none of them had been girls of color or represented totally different physique sorts or other ways to cycle.
so i fastened the issue i encountered.
i commissioned some art work – due to the superb tegan phillips who created precisely what i needed – and i made my very own mugs. that includes girls of color, in numerous our bodies, driving totally different bikes however all dwelling their finest life.
i’m claiming this character (within the yellow field) because the one which resonates probably the most with me. i do love my liv street bike (and my cyclocross bike) and love me some lycra and a cute cap too. comply with alongside on instagram to satisfy some extra of the characters.
now, if you happen to suppose that is only a mug, you’re mistaken.
to cite a quote from the ebook interval energy “white womens experiences are presumed to talk for and characterize all girls’s experiences. they don’t. for years, black girls have been instructed to place apart their race and deal with gender. that is the agenda of white girls in order that their points are those heard, and as soon as once more black girls are erased” – mars lord.
so this mug isn’t, only a mug. they’re me making the tiniest try and reverse the erasure of black womens (and different marginalised teams) experiences, particularly in the case of biking. to be sincere, for some girls of color, it would even be the creation of chance of them adventuring on two wheels.
with regards to biking, i’ve at all times questioned anybody who says they advocate for womens biking… as in, do you advocate simply for many who seem like you… or are you all in, and advocating for all of the intersectionalities that sit alongside gender?
you may need to be fast as i solely ordered a small batch and greater than half of them have been offered already. you may choose up a pink and white model, or all white model from my ko-fi store right here.
i spent ages attempting to supply one of the best ways to supply them – drop delivery was too dangerous with the standard and the worth so i opted to buy all of them myself after which make my a reimbursement promoting them. i’m solely really ready to do that due to a grant i obtained final yr to help feminine black owned companies that struggled as a result of pandemic.
i hope it might go with out saying, however i need to be clear; you don’t have to seem like me or any of the characters on these mugs to purchase one.
i actually can’t wait to see all of the mugs out within the wild – i hope they bring about a smile to the faces of whoever will get to sip their tea / espresso from one and whoever simply spots one and notices how distinctive they’re!
even if you happen to’re unable to buy a girls of color biking mug proper now, please do remark and share. help is available in many alternative kinds and it’s at all times appreciated!
what do you consider the design?! what different merchandise would you like to see these characters on?!

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