turps

Hilary Knight coming off of the Long Term Injured Reserve list changed my plans for yesterday. Yesterday was also the Trans Town Marketplace. Trans Town is a group I was unfamiliar with and I'll need to look into them more.

I wore my Torrent shirt because I was going to go right from one event to Sports Bra. I knew that a shirt with a logo, any sort of brand, was not going to be the vibe. It never is for a queer art event. But, it still felt good to wear because the Torrent have CJ, who is non-binary. They are the only person in top level professional hockey who is openly nb or trans. So, it felt right to wear. Sometimes wearing a shirt that is a little not the vibe is fine, if you feel confident in it. Sometimes.

Turned out, the event was far more punk/street that I expected and some vendors didn't even interact with me and I am reasonably sure that it was because of how I was dressed. And, fair enough. I go to a LOT of queer art pop ups and mostly it's people who art have a street/punk edge as an aesthetic, this was different. No one was LARPing here. I did not expect that, especially considering the venue.

They also had a prosthetics vendor with samples you can handle, which I've never seen at any event before. This event was... very much what I would have expected from a trans marketplace before I started going to queer art pops ups. I really liked it and want to find out a bit more about this group.

So, that was a lot of words to say 'even though some people there side-eyed my logo shirt and decided to not interact with me, I actually felt more comfortable there than at most queer events I've been to'.

Also, there was someone selling dairy /soy free mochi-based brownies that had the most perfect fluffy texture and I would like to eat 5 of those every day for the rest of my life.





And then I went to Sports Bra to see the return of Hilary Knight, and sadly the Torrent lost. It's not too surprising because from what I've seen so far, first game back for a top player is often not a great game for them. They need a few games to get back in the swing.