I'm actually being responsible and getting shit made in advance of Pride festival season this year; these guys will eventually be ultra lightweight earrings! (Seriously, they weigh almost nothing and are SO easy to wear for long periods of time)
I've done the pride flags I'm familiar with off the top of my head, but I KNOW there's a ton I don't know. If anybody wants to see specific flags, feel free to let me know!
The first of the four designs from my 2022 Pride Line: Sacred Sappho, divine ancestor of women who love women.
Sappho, on the off chance that you don't know her, was a poet from the island of Lesbos in the Aegean Sea, who lived and wrote in the seventh and sixth centuries BCE. Her work was taught as a pinnacle of poetic skill for centuries, well into the Roman Empire, until - through a combination of censorship, neglect, and luck - it was lost to the ages. No contemporary biography survives, and we are left with mere scraps of her estimated 10,000 lines of poetry, but her work has been associated with sexual love between women since the Hellenistic period. Now, she and the island from which she came are virtually synonymous with queer women and their experiences.
The image is based on one of the few surviving images of Sappho, a black figure vase painting from the late 6th century BCE.
* Made of solid .925 sterling silver or shibuichi (an art metal alloy made of 3:1 copper:silver), yellow brass, or red bronze.
* Available as a coin, with an upeye for use as a pendant, or with three jump rings for use in a rosary-style necklace.
Each piece is hand-made to order in my home studio, with unique variations and defects as a result of the fabrication and casting process.
New earrings and pendant necklaces now in stock by Brian's Handmade Beads!
We're so excited to be launching our Earring and Pendant line with Nonbinary and Trans Pride flag designs. More designs to come soon, keep an eye out! Thank you for supporting small queer-owned business!
Hey, hi, what's up. I have an Etsy shop where I sell jewelry, including a few Pride options. It is now Pride Month, so I'm going to commence shouting into the void about them.
Top Left: ace and aro rings made of resin. Available in 8 sizes; 16mm up through 23mm. $3 apiece.
Top Right: glass earrings, available as posts/studs or dangles/drops. The posts/studs and the ear wires are made of steel. You can get rainbow pride, asexual, transgender, aromantic, lesbian, bisexual, or pansexual options. $10 a pair.
Bottom Row: crackle glass accessories, available as keychains, necklaces, pins, or bookmarks. You can get rainbow pride, asexual, transgender, aromantic, lesbian, bisexual, or pansexual options. $10 apiece.
My Etsy shop is called WidgetsApparel. There's a link to the shop in my pinned post, my blog description, and the notes of this post.
A pair of pins featuring the staring eyes of Dionysos, my second Pride 2023 offering.
Dionysos, the many-natured god associated with mystery, ecstasy, madness, and contagion, has been widely recognized as a god of queer desires and queer bodies for centuries. To worship Dionysos is to be penetrated by him – by drinking of his wine, or even through the staring eyes of his icons and idols. These are those eyes: entrancing, bewitching, possessing.
I know that I’m several years behind on the collar-pin trend, but these Bacchic eyes are worth bringing it back.
It is worth noting that the eyes of Dionysos closely resemble the eyes of Classical Gorgoneions, and the eyes painted on the prows of ships, both intended to ward off evil.
Available either as loose pins, as pins with a chain strung between them, or – on special request – as a festoon necklace to hang around your neck.