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Can we unionise it out of the control of Ikea though. If is going to belong to the trans community etc then we must actually own the rights to make and distribute it, not give more money to a corporation that likely does not care one way or the other as it likely will not help us get hormones, fight for our rights etc.
https://freesewing.org/designs/hi/
The kind souls on this site sacrificed a Blahaj to a worthy cause: getting the pattern for it so anyone can make their own. They also have sliders to let you decide some minor customization features for your shark.
Excellent! Thank you!
That’s literally impossible under capitalism. Blahaj is a commodity like any other, you can’t attribute ownership to a certain group of people based on their qualities (welcome back racial segregation), and trans people aren’t automatically more virtuous because of their struggles, so a trans small business owner selling Blahaj plushies for a living isn’t immune from going full Hitler and abusing their workers, PR to get as much profit as possible.
One of the worst job application decisions you can make is working for a small business owner, given their legal exemptions in discriminatory laws, them always being on the edge of going bust causing them to take psychotic measures to increase profits, and very little infrastructure in place at the job location due to their lack of money causing safety/medical issues.
I saw that before writing the comment, and it doesn’t really change anything. If you want a blahaj of your own and got the sewing skills (from the looks of it you do need to be quite skilled), then sure but if you want to commercialize it and start sewing for others, you’re now a small business and my comment above elaborates on what usually happens with small businesses.
Okay. But since it’s owned by a corporation that hates unions and doesn’t care about us (most likely) currently we wish trans and queer folks would stop promoting it as a trans and queer symbol and paying them for the privelege of owning one.
We don’t understand why other trans folks would possibly want to give money to a corporation for a commodity they ultimately get no benefit from in the grand scheme of things.
Edit: We personally think this is a much better symbol, especially because some of the money goes to trans artists. Sure it’s not the entire trans community, but at least a trans person gets something, unlike with blahaj.
