All Men Are Cremated Equal is what happens when equality rhetoric gets handed to somebody with a very dark sense of humour. The line works by twisting a solemn equality...
Profanity hits differently when a cheerful cartoon sponge is standing under a rainbow. Internet-era camp loves corrupting childhood cartoon sweetness with adult profanity. The joke works because the visual language...
Queer equality made Love Is Love familiar by repeating it until the world had to listen. The phrase became global LGBTQ+ equality shorthand because the argument was deliberately simple, consenting...
Queer love is not only a feeling, it is who actually reaches back. Queer survival has always depended on hands doing things, holding partners in public, making protest signs, cooking...
Miniature flag, full equality slogan, zero need for subtlety. Flags mark territory, protest, community and belonging, so putting the equality slogan into a flag format makes the message more public...
Black Lives Matter is not a side note to queer liberation, and neither is anti-Black racism. Black Lives Matter made its name a global rallying cry against anti-Black racism and...
A raised-fist Black Lives Matter pin works because solidarity does not need decorative euphemism. The Black Lives Matter movement began in 2013 as a Black-centred response to anti-Black racism and...
America's Ass turns a superhero shield into a butt joke, which is exactly the level of civic symbolism the internet deserved. Captain America's famously admired backside became a pop-culture gag,...
An anatomical heart filled with rainbow colour and the word LOVE is much more interesting than another tidy Valentine's heart. An anatomical heart changes the mood of queer love imagery....
Putting GROW A PAIR across a flower-covered uterus is feminist anatomy humour doing exactly what it came to do. Grow a pair traditionally ties courage to testicles. Replacing that macho...
A black cat paw with pink toe beans may be the only motivational speaker worth listening to. Pet humour succeeds because it can make encouragement feel less earnest. 'Stay Pawsitive'...
You Are Safe With Me is a powerful thing to put on a lanyard, provided the behaviour behind it agrees. Visible safety cues matter in classrooms, clinics, workplaces and community...