I was so honoured to be chosen among many fabulous artists to create a banner for Uptown Waterloo BIA’s series of Pride themed banners that were hung in June 2024 and can still be seen hanging on King street in front of Starbucks in Uptown Waterloo.

 

As we all know, butterfly mania gripped the nation this last year, and no one was more enthralled than myself. So naturally, my banner consisted of butterflies and moths (referenced from the Cambridge butterfly conservatory), hand illustrated and coloured to represent the flags for progress pride as well as trans, two-spirit, lesbian, nonbinary, asexual, pansexual, intersex and bisexual identities. The butterflies are surrounded by a gold chain representing the constraints we still face and also how our queer identities bind us together as one community.

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Queer people, like butterflies, swans, 🦢 narwhals and fireflies, are cool because we are both real living beings but also magical creatures! there are so many great subtypes and species I couldn’t fit them all on this flag, but if you don’t see yourself represented by a butterfly here remember that you are still a precious winged thing!