May has been many things for me. I feel blessed. I was challenged beyond my capacity entering the month. I was held by my people. I asked for a lot of help. I celebrated a lot more than I ever have.
I released a beautiful new shirt that is super special to me. I’ve been working to find shapes of clothes that feel gender-fluid while also being sustainable. I’ve been working to find clothes where everyone in the chain of production is paid livable wages. I’ve been working to meld my love for vintage with my love of color and screen printing. Thus, these shirts have been birthed. They’re perfect and accessible. They’re everything I’ve dreamt of for a long time.
I laugh at how long it’s taken me to make a shirt that I feel this stoked about. I take my tees seriously. No matter how beautiful something is, if it doesn’t sit or feel right on my body then I won’t wear it. The garments are made with care through every stage of production.
It’s the scariest and coolest place in my freelance career that I’ve ever been in. I have no more money than I did a few years back when I just started, and yet the clarity I have now is worth the big bucks. I know in my core that these garments are here to support me, and thus support you. The tee weaves together the messaging and freedom for liberated steps.
My time is spent photographing my humans in the tee in some of our sweet spots. My free time is spent day-dreaming of y’all in the clothes doing really cool and hard and embodied tasks.
I’m at the stage where all of the money I made is going right back into production so that I can invest in having more product in a range of sizes for all bodies. This, too, feels scary as hell and important. This upleveling with production is asking me to touch my own scarcity — with work and with relationship. These shifts ask me to be bigger, to be clearer with those in my life that hold me and I, them.
Boundaries are becoming more regulated; love is flowing more readily. I’m grateful for y’all. If you’d like to further support me, please consider becoming a paid subscriber to this newsletter. Please consider buying yourself a tee for yourself or a loved one.
🌷 we celebrated Mallory and Felix’s first baby at the home I grew up in. I floundered with what to wear until I settled on my tee and a flat bill. We tossed around some disposables and ended up with the best photos like this one:
🌷 reading the desert oracle and loving it
🌷 watching somebody somewhere and laughing/crying every single episode it is so good pls watch
🌷 these shirts
🌷 seeing lots of music all tucked inside the playlist i made up above
🌷 these fits
🌷 this event
🌷 mar’s new podcast
I love you! bye
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