Anti-racist pro-Muslim T-shirts

RosaL, I had just been looking at the pretty photos of funny-smart t-shirts and now I've read most of the "To Veil or Not to Veil" article and am going to bookmark this as one of my new favourite sites. Kewl! [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]

Tue, 2008-07-29 10:38

#7

al-Qa'bong

quote:

Originally posted by Michelle:
[b]"My name causes national security alerts. What does yours do?" ROTFL. [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img] [/b]

I guess it's funny, but I've run into cop trouble because of my name. I didn't find that funny.

Tue, 2008-07-29 10:40

#8

johnpauljones

My brother has a mouse pad with make Chai not war

funniest story he said about the mouse pad is that someone thought it was about a chai latte [img]smile.gif" border="0[/img]

Tue, 2008-07-29 10:42

#9

M. Spector M. Spector's picture

Why is that funny?

Tue, 2008-07-29 11:09

#10

Sharon

I kind of liked, "This is what a radical Muslim feminist looks like." [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img]

Tue, 2008-07-29 11:49

#11

oldgoat

I wish there were T-shirts that good for lapsed Catholics with waspish names.

Tue, 2008-07-29 12:42

#12

martin dufresne

quote:

I wish there were T-shirts that good for lapsed Catholics with waspish names.

Yeah, racialized minorities get all the cool lines. [img]wink.gif" border="0[/img]

Tue, 2008-07-29 13:46

#13

kropotkin1951

quote:

Originally posted by oldgoat:
[b]I wish there were T-shirts that good for lapsed Catholics with waspish names.[/b]

A little rewrite should get you there.

Father, Frisk me I'm Catholic.

Veils are for nuns.

Or a Canadian version for Moslems might say; Really, I'm Canadian not Syrian.

Tue, 2008-07-29 14:01

#14

oldgoat

"Transubstantiation is for crackers"?

Tue, 2008-07-29 15:20

#15

Michelle

quote:

Originally posted by al-Qa'bong:
[b]I guess it's funny, but I've run into cop trouble because of my name. I didn't find that funny.[/b]

I don't think it's funny that people get stopped because of their names. I think it's funny that the t-shirt is so pointedly sarcastic about it. Just to clarify!

Your post reminds me of an experience I used to have. Although I don't know what it's like to be racialized, I used to have an Iranian last name while I was married. (Yes, I was a bad feminist and took his name.) I sometimes wondered whether people were shocked when they met me after seeing my resume first. And I would always get people asking me where I "come from" or where my last name "was from".

[ 29 July 2008: Message edited by: Michelle ]

Thu, 2008-07-31 22:40

#16

al-Qa'bong

I hear that quite often, with "What nationality is that?" being the most common question.

When I tell them, I get puzzled looks, as I have fairly Nordic (someone once said I look Irish) features.

Recently I was asked by a work colleague why my great-grandparents came here, since Canada isn't like the Middle East. I couldn't believe he would ask such a question.

I told the guy they came here for the same reasons all the other homesteaders came to the prairies; cheap land and a new start. A fairly distant cousin claimed that my ancestors were freedom fighters and came here to flee the Turks. I don't know about that.

I'm starting to think that I ought to get that T-shirt.

Fri, 2008-08-01 13:04

#17

Robespierre

CafePress is one way of getting your tshirt designs out there for sale to the general public. You can't make a big profit because it's expensive for a short run of shirts, but if you want a few just for a joke or maybe a political event, check it out.

CafePress is non-union, however.

[url=http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/sell/]http://www.cafepress.com/cp/info/...

Fri, 2008-08-01 15:29

#18

al-Qa'bong

Cafй Press would sell its own mother into slavery if the profits were there.

[url=http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/hezbollah_yellow-t-shirts?page=2]For example[/url]

[ 01 August 2008: Message edited by: al-Qa'bong ]

Fri, 2008-08-01 17:00

#19

Robespierre

quote:

Originally posted by al-Qa'bong:
[b]Cafй Press would sell its own mother into slavery if the profits were there.
[url=http://t-shirts.cafepress.com/hezbollah_yellow-t-shirts?page=2]For example[/url]
[ 01 August 2008: Message edited by: al-Qa'bong ][/b]

Yep. That's how capitalism works.

Fri, 2008-08-01 17:12

#20

Webgear

[img]http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y108/webgear/revolutionaries.jpg[/img]

Fri, 2008-08-01 17:19

#21

Stargazer

Webgear!!! Yay! You're back!! [img]biggrin.gif" border="0[/img]

Fri, 2008-08-01 17:42

#22

M. Spector M. Spector's picture

Um, nice to see you again, Webgear!

But what's up with the big [url=http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_profile&u=00009443]Ch... Crusader theme on your profile[/url]?

Fri, 2008-08-01 18:11

#23

Robespierre

That Xian Crusader image would make a nice tshirt. [img]tongue.gif" border="0[/img]

And, speaking of tshirts, I bet that Babble could sell a whole lot of these below. Perfect for political demostrations, press conferences, even quiet fishing trips.

[img]http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/7824/pigtnv9.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img127.imageshack.us/img127/5594/drinktsr4.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img355.imageshack.us/img355/6181/goattvp0.jpg[/img]

Fri, 2008-08-01 18:15

#24

Webgear

Stargazer

Thank you, it is a pleasure to hear from you. It is also nice to be back from self-imposed exile.

I have spent the last 4 months re-thinking my personal ideology and decide that it was time to come back.

M. Spector

It is also nice to see you.

The crusader theme was created before my disappearance in April. In the spring I was reading many books on the 1st, 2Nd and 3rd crusades and the Knightly orders of Europe.

I have changed the theme.

[ 01 August 2008: Message edited by: Webgear ]