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2015 Holiday Buying Guide


​Badass Gifts for the Special People in Your Life
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by THE NAT. BRUT EDITORS | 09 DEC 2015
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Despite the unseasonable warmth in much of the US, it's that season we call winter -- and with it comes the clangorous tolling of come-hither capitalist bells, urging you to find whatever warmth you can in the trappings of materialism. Gift guides everywhere seek to distract us from pressing existential questions by posing other ones with squalling urgency: are you "in" enough? Can you help your friends feel trendier, thus entrapping them within an endless and ever-hastening trend cycle? Will you ever be cool before you reach that final cold? ​Here at Nat. Brut, we're ready to aid you on your quest to spend your disposable income on things that feel real because you can touch and count them. But we'd like to do it a little differently. We've selected hand-crafted, hand-designed and often hand-made items created by artists of color and queer folks, who have done their best to infuse these objects with art and soul. And we're not being paid to do it. We want our gift guide to guide you towards purchasing items by marginalized artists, many of which seek to draw our attention to pressing social issues: gifts that encourage examinations of the deeper questions of our time, rather than gloss, glitz and glitter over them. So take a look at the items below, and think about giving them to someone you love -- and, hopefully, dear reader, that includes yourself.



Apparel + Accessories
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My Name Ain't Baby Pin | by Got a Girl Crush | $11.00

No my name is not sweetheart, honey, shorty, sugar, gorgeous, beautiful, sexy...and my name certainly ain't BABY. This Janet Jackson send-up keeps all the feral dudes informed. 0.5 inch tall size with two military clutches

​Handmade | Accessories

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Sticker Sheet | by Manjit Thapp | $9.75

Includes 32 individual stickers that have been digitally printed onto 140gsm, high quality, gloss vinyl which is suitable for both indoor and outdoor use. 6 x 4"

​Handmade | Stickers

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Buttons | by Roni Cortez | $1.25

Original Button designs made by artist Roni Cortez  on 1.25 inch Button. Designs: Black Lives Matter, That's Cool, Fuck Greg Abbott, and Fuck Off.

Handmade | Accessories

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Curandera Shirt | by Nalgona Positivity Pride | $20.00

Shirt reads: "My bruja-curandera medicine is stronger than your medical corporations." This shirt was made in honor of our curander@s, healers, bruj@s who have been providing us with medicine for thousands of years. 
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Handmade | Apparel 
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Confidence Tote Bag | by Kathleen Parvin | $13.95

"CARRY YOURSELF WITH THE CONFIDENCE OF A MEDIOCRE WHITE MAN" tote! This bag features a quote inspired by the writer Sarah Hagi.

Handmade | Accessories
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Queer Butterfly Stickers | by Julio Salgado | $8.00

10 Queer Butterfly 4 x 2.5" vinyl stickers by artist Julio Salgado.

Handmade | Stickers
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Print Goods
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Ghost​ | by Whit Taylor | $10.00

​Granted the chance to meet three of her dead idols, the author embarks on a mind-expanding journey to remote and unanticipated landscapes, in a story of exploration, self-discovery, and healing.
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Self-published | Comics | 2015 
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Chicana Lesbians | Ed. ​by Carla Trujillo | $22.95

Brown girls, lesbians, making their own love poems. Winner of Lambda Literary Award for Best Lesbian Anthology.

Third Woman Press | Literary Nonfiction + LGBT Studies | 1991

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Queer & Trans Artists of Color | by Nia King | $15.00

A collection of sixteen unique and honest conversations you won’t read anywhere else...

Createspace | Nonfiction + LGBT Studies | 2014
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Lupe & Sirena Notecards | by Alma Lopez | $10.00

Set of 10 Our Lady notecards with envelopes. Lupe (from Vir­gen of Guadalupe) is a sex­u­ally assertive woman who embraces her lover, Sirena (from the Mex­i­can Lote­ria game). Lupe and Sirena is about uncon­di­tional love for self and community.

Self Published | Postcards 
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Faces and Phases | by Zanele Muholi | $53.00

In Faces and Phases, Zanele Muholi embarks on a journey of "visual activism" to ensure black queer and transgender visibility in South Africa.

​Steidl Books | Visual Art | 2014
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Nat. Brut Issues Five + Six | $60.00

Of course, we'd be remiss if we didn't offer up our own tomes as holiday goodies! Our fifth and sixth issues are full-color feasts of art, fiction, poetry, and comics. Grab your copies before they're all gone!

​Nat. Brut Inc. | Art/Lit Magazine | 2015

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