I Beg Of You, My Fellow Artists/hand-crafters, To Read This! Same Goes For You All Who Want To Buy From

What’s it worth?

This morning I caught a post on a quilting Facebook feed… a member posted a picture of a delightful baby quilt and asked what she should charge the neighbor that just asked to buy it from her…

I beg of you, my fellow artists/hand-crafters, to read this! Same goes for you all who want to buy from an artist and/or crafter but still try to haggle with us on what we charge for our creations.

I’ll admit that I’ve under charged for my creations before. Now, believe me when I say (that for me) that the feelings that come from doing this can be downright depressing. It can negatively impact our sense of worth and our love for our art form(s).

The result of just toying around with an art app

Like a month ago I messaged a craft group about accessibility for wheelchairs and the answer I got was “there’s a lot of stairs but we have cute boys who can carry you”. And it’s…not good. As a wheelchair bound person I largely depend on people when I want to go out and do *anything* so I’m used to it, I laugh it off, make an annoyed post about it and off I go. But I wanna just say a thing real quick.

Even if I wasn’t gay, wasn’t a survivor scared of men, getting help as a disabled person is just…Not a pleasant thing to us! Imagine for a sec how you’d feel being carried up a flight of stairs. You’re a grown person. You’re being touched in an awkward way. You’d rather do it yourself. You’re So Uncomfortable. It’s not where I look for the beginning of a romantic relationship. So like…could abled people stop doing this thing where they think helping us in a condescending and infantilizing way is cute? Cause I’m real tired. Just get me a ramp or lift and I’m cool. I don’t need a dating service when I’m just trying to go about my day

From a couple of Sundays ago. #flowers (at Chicago, Illinois)

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