25 Gifts For The Future Revolutionary In Your Life
The holiday season might be a capitalist conspiracy, but sometimes even revolutionaries like presents.
1. Stay Woke shirt, $20
May the force awaken you.
2. Feminism Is For Everybody embroidery, $22.45
Because bell hooks said it best.
3. I Love My Blackness And Yours T-shirt, $15
Popularized by activist Deray Mckesson, these shirts are available as hoodies, V-necks, and tanks. Proceeds benefit the digital organizing work of WeTheProtestors.org.
5. Spook Magazine - Issue 5, $25 for print and digital copy, $7 for just digital
Spook features a thought-provoking, resonant mix of photography, essays, poetry, and fiction from black creatives.
6. Queer and Trans Artists of Color: Stories of Some of Our Lives by Nia King, $15
Mixed-race queer art activist Nia King interviews 16 queer and trans artists of color about everything from queer fashion to evading deportation to interning at Playboy.
7. Assata Taught Me hoodie, $35
This hoodie bears the phrase often repeated by activists like Ashley Yates during last year's Ferguson protests, a nod to exiled revolutionary Assata Shakur. It's also available as a T-shirt.
8. The BreakBeat Poets: New American Poetry in the Age of Hip-Hop, $15.26
The BreakBeat Poets is a poetry collection "for people who love hip-hop, for fans of the culture, for people who've never read a poem, for people who thought poems were only something done by dead white dudes who got lost in a forest, and for poetry heads." You can also buy co-editor Nate Marshall's award-winning debut here.
9. GET FREE pennant, $30
This pennant, from the rayo and honey shop, is a nice reminder to stay focused on the #work.
10. "And Counting" sweatshirts, $45 each
12. "Lord, give me the confidence" shirt, $20-25
Bearing the always-relevant mantra/battlecry/affirmation from writer Sarah Hagi, this shirt is also available as a sweatshirt.
13. Micah Bazant posters, $15 each
Get "Remember Trans Power" here and the Marsha P. Johnson poster here. For more on activist Marsha P. Johnson, follow along (or donate to support) the forthcoming film about her life, Happy Birthday, Marsha!
14. "If you are neutral" sweater, $29.99
This sweater features a powerful famous quote from Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
15. Stop Telling Women To Smile tote, $17
Artist Tatyana Fazlalizadeh addresses gender-based street harassment with her public portrait series, Stop Telling Women To Smile. You can also buy prints, T-shirts, and lithographs from the series in her shop.
16. I Am Black History T-shirt, $20
Hyp Kreationz also sells this as a sweatshirt.
17. Alesia Fisher prints, $15-40
Get "Ain't I A Woman?" (from the iconic Sojourner Truth speech) here and "When You Sing" (a rendering of the powerful Billie Holiday quote) here.
19. Ratchetness As Praxis T-shirt, $23.99
Ain't no movement more powerful than twerking.
20. We All Can Do It poster, $20.35
Artist Valentin Brown reimagines the famous Rosie The Riveter iconography.
21. Audre Lorde crewneck, $37.50
Lorde is the black lesbian feminist scholar who gave us the language to talk about radical self-care.
23. Cats Against Capitalism button pins, $1.25 each
Obviously cats know best.
24. They/Them/Their mug, $25
Because pronouns are important.
25. All Black Lives Matter hoodie, $35
Because it's really just that simple.