Crystal Queer Creations
Crystal Queer Creations is where to find multi-media creations by queercrip punk artist Kiera Toews. Creating crystal and botanical jewellery, linoprints and stickers, and hand-dipped botanical beeswax candles - all lovingly, intentionally handmade from start to finish.
Drawn to flora and fauna throughout their life, creating designs inspired from what they observe through the lens of chronically ill queer grief and joy and honouring what they experience around them while knowing they’ll return to the dirt themselves eventually. Common themes guiding their work is queer divinity and blasphemy, new life out of decay, and the way connection and community is magical - including and especially with the bugs and dirt.
Crystal Queer Creations exists out of a childhood desire for visibility for queer disabled folks and their art, so an effort to nurture community is a guide in their business values, such as many items providing donations to local community care organizations.
What Do You Rebel Against?
pinkwashed pride, eugenics and ableism,
fatphobia, queerphobia, respectability politics, a colonizing mindset,
"don’t let your disabilities stop you", apathy,
christofascism
What Song Are You Currently Loving Most?
The Guillotine -
The Coup
If You Could Be Anyone/thing For A Day, Who/What Would It Be?
dirt under a spruce tree