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thecraftyqueer.bsky.social
The Crafty Queer
@thecraftyqueer.bsky.social
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🏳️‍⚧️Alister (they/it)🏳️‍🌈
🌈 Trans tattooer & artivist making the world gayer, one rainbow design at a time
✨ Affirming tattoos, handmade jewelry & queer joy
🫶Stay for the art chaos, crafts, cats, and tats
📍Troy, NY
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The Crafty Queer @thecraftyqueer.bsky.social · Jan 31
Hi to my new friends who love to ink and be inked!! My name is Alister (they/it) and I'm a self-taught tattoo artist working out of Radiant Body Art in Upstate NY. I love tattooing all things botanical, homosexual, and trans affirming🫶🏳️‍🌈 Happy you are here!
A fat white tatted person with a shaved head tattooes a person's arm. They are wearing a mask and a headlamp. A fine line tattooing of a pansy. It has sparkles and a rainbow border. A black and gray fine line tattoo. It is a an estrogen bottle filled with flowers. The client has white skin. A fine line black and gray tattoo. The design is a sword piercing a magnolia flower. The client has melanated skin.
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Did I tell you I got a job at @plume-clinic.bsky.social as a support group facilitator? This week's topic was gender expression and I got dressed up! Love a lipstick and men's wear moment💅✨️ #Gender404 #TheRulesAreThereAreNoRules
Alister, a fat white tatted person, smiles as they take a selfie. They are wearing red lipstick, black tie, and a pinstrip button up. The background is colorful with teal walls.
March 27, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Check out my welcome back tattoo! Of course it had to be floral💐 I'm so happy to be art-ing people with needles again!!! 😁😁😁💉💉💉
A fine line tattoo on a white calf. It is a flower binder with various types of vines.
March 27, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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I didn't forget how to tattoo! I've been on medical leave and was getting anxious that I would forget how to tattoo and have to learn it all over again (which was really hard). False news! It's like riding a bike😁
A heart shaped fake skin in a white skin tone. It is designed with vines and mushrooms that form a heart shape with a spider hanging down the middle.
March 27, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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This Neurodiversity Celebration Week, let’s challenge outdated narratives that neurodiversity is something to be fixed and create spaces where neurodivergent minds thrive. Read my latest blog post on why neurodivergence is beautiful and vital!
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March 21, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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LGBTQ+ healthcare is a human rights issue. Harmful legislation is putting lives at risk and the need to take action is urgent. In this post, I cover the impact of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation and how we can fight for equity. Take action, now.
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here are white slides with black text. The background is white with splashes of rainbow gradient
March 19, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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✨️🌈 Adopt a Rainbow 🌈✨️
My latest watercolor collection is live! I painted these through some seriously tough times, and they are my queer resistance actualized. I hope they find loving homes and bring some ROYGBIV joy to someone who needs it.
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March 11, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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On this International Women's Day, we must reaffirm that trans women are women and that when we uplift and protect Black trans women, we all move closer to collective liberation. When Black trans women are free, we all will be free✊️🏳‍⚧
March 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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Just listed a bunch of new queerings! 🌈✨️
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March 4, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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Check out the newest additions to the custom pronoun earring family🌈✨️ Let me adorn you in pronouns and rainbows please!!! #PronounsMatter #Queerings #RainbowFashion
February 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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A little sneak peek of my latest cozy creation🌈🧶 #WIP #GaysWhoCrochet #CozyVibes
A large crocheted granny square. The yarn is shades of gray with rainbow splashes. The color is called "rainbow meteorite".
February 22, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Bluesky, please help me find my my people🏳️‍🌈

🍓trans & queer babes

🥭fatties & ink enthusiasts

🍋cat parents & rainbow lovers

🥝abolitionists & anarchists

🫐spoonies & neurospicy artists

🍇queer freaks & rope tops
February 21, 2025 at 2:20 AM
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The ongoing epidemic of violence against Black transgender people is a crisis that demands immediate attention. Looking at you white cis folks👀
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A digital image on a white background. At the bottom. There is a row of fist held up in a solidarity action. The arms in the middle are trans pride colored. The remainder are different shades of brown including an arm with vitiligo.
February 20, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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Like all my hobbies, I find a way to make it rainbow🌈🌈🌈 Pictured is my spouse and favorite rope bunny, Jordan🪢🐰❤️ #ROYGBV #QueerAndKinky #Shibari
A fat white trans person dressed in all black is in an inverted suspension. The rope and ring is rainbow. They are tied in both chest and leg harnesses. A hairy white trans person lays on their stomach on a blue mat. They have a booty rope harness and wax in each color of the rainbow dripped on their back. A pile of rainbow jute rope. It is placed on a hot pink furoshiki. There is also a pair of safety shears with a black handle and rainbow blades. Jordan smiles happy lying face up on a blue map. They are tied in a reverse TK with rainbow jute rope. They are upside down in relation to the camera.
February 20, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Happy Aromantic Spectrum Awareness Week! The aromantic spectrum is an umbrella term that is home to many diverse identities... there is no one way to be aromantic! Aro folks remind us that you can live a love infused and fulfilling life without traditional romantic relationships💚🤍🩶🖤 #AroSpecWeek
An umbrella in the aromantic pride colors: dark green, light green, white, gray, and black. There are raindrops under the umbrella with different aromanticidentities in their respective pride flags.
February 16, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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Lookit how cute my valentines are🥰 #TransJoy #T4T4T #PolyFamily
2/3's of Alister's polycule is photographed. They are 2 white trans humans in an embrace hub from behind. They are standing on a porch with bright curtains.
February 15, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Where are all my gay cowboys at?! 🌈🤠

#RainbowFashion #GayArtistsOfBluesky #CowboysAreSecretlyFrequentlyFondOfEachOther
Image description: three polymer clay creations on black fabric with rainbow tool. There are holographic glitter rainbow cowboy boots with rainbow details in both hoop earrings and a pin. There is also a pair of mixmatch rainbow cowboy boots/cowboy hat earrings.
February 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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I finished my blanket! I would show you, but...
#CatsOfBlueSky #GaysWhoCrochet
February 13, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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This is a rainbow art appreciation post! 🌈🫶
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A digital illustration with 6 people in shibari suspensions. The background and rope/hair is rainbow. Each person in rope has a different body type. A digital illustration of a brain; it is viewed from the top and you see each half. One side is a rainbow gradient, the other is full of colorful flowers. A digital illustration of an eye with a rainbow iris. It has a whimsical cloud at each end with a progress pride rainbow above it. A row of rainbow mushrooms and leaves grows from the top and sides. A sunflower with rainbow petals. The center is black with text, "take up space". The background has swirls of rainbow, black and white patterns, and space/sparkles.
February 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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This is a black & white art appreciation post🫶
A black and white digital illustration. There are 6 torsos with different body types and top surgery scars. There are flowers growing from the top of each torso. A black and white digital illustration. There are 8 femme torsos. They have different body types and stretch marks. Flowers grow from the top of each torso. A black and white digital illustration. There is a coffin with a banner that reads "gender is dead". It is surrounds by peonies. A black and white digital fine line illustration. There are various types of gender affirming hormones, including estrogen, testosterone, spiro, and progesteron.
February 12, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Crocheting blankets onto myself, and attracting cats while doing it, is my favorite winter activity🧶❄️
#CatsOfBlueSky #CozyTime
February 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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I've been working on re-vamping my pin collection over the past year. I'm happy and proud to report that all 53 new listings are now live on my website! Here are a few of my favorites🫶
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Apple green polymer clay pin. It is a juicebox that reads "TERF" tears. A dried pansy pin. It is coated in resin and has 3 spikes dangling from the bottom. A sparkle cowboy boat. The details are rainbow and there is a small spike dangling from the heel. A rainbow arch with spikes at each end. There are handlettered pronouns, "it•they"
February 5, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Don't talk to me when I'm wearing my new rainbow goth bag🌈✨️ #Crochet #GothGranny
A fat white tatted human in a crop top and tan sweat outfit stands in front of a pink wall. They are wearing a crocheted cross body bag. It is pink rainbow with spikes and pyramid studs. A crocheted rainbow arch bag. It is pink rainbow with spikes and pyramid studs.
February 4, 2025 at 2:33 PM
thecraftyqueer.bsky.social
Hi to my new friends who love to ink and be inked!! My name is Alister (they/it) and I'm a self-taught tattoo artist working out of Radiant Body Art in Upstate NY. I love tattooing all things botanical, homosexual, and trans affirming🫶🏳️‍🌈 Happy you are here!
A fat white tatted person with a shaved head tattooes a person's arm. They are wearing a mask and a headlamp. A fine line tattooing of a pansy. It has sparkles and a rainbow border. A black and gray fine line tattoo. It is a an estrogen bottle filled with flowers. The client has white skin. A fine line black and gray tattoo. The design is a sword piercing a magnolia flower. The client has melanated skin.
January 31, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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It's Cecilli Gentilli Day! Check out these sliding scale Cecillia Gentilli and Lorena Borjas memorial lockets❤️ All proceeds benefit the Cecillia Gentilli legacy fund.

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Image description: A silver locket with filigree accents. There are photos of Cecilia Gentili and Lorena Borjas. Locket is shown open and closed on a black and rainbow toulle background.
January 31, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Happy birthday, Cecilia! Honored to have known, loved, and grown from this incredible incredible human.

Cecilia Gentili was an advocate, organizer, and storyteller working at the intersections of sex work, immigrant rights, incarceration issues, and trans liberation. May your memory be a blessing❤️
There is a black and white glam photo of Cecilia Gentilli. It has a floral illustration going through the middle of the picture. The second half of the picture has a quote: " Those in the trans community often feel it's not our place to complain because we are not worth it. The truth is, we ARE freaking worth it." -Cecilia Gentilli
January 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM