RGI Merch
| Original RGI Classic Logo | |
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This is where it all started: the original RGI logo that has become the face of a rEvolution. As RGI grew each new line, the original logo was tweaked and “Frankenstein-ed up.” This is our largest line at 52 items and even after all of these years, we are proud to say that it is still a best seller! Keeping in a proud tradition, the Original RGI Classic Logo line benefits the RGI artists featured on our Produce & $upport page. |
| RGI Merch Hand-Screened by Queer Rockstars! | |
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God-des & She Love to Screen! |
Take a look at our Etsy to shop!
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| Queercore | |
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Queercore is a cultural and social movement that arose during the early-to-mid 1980s. It is distinguished by discontent with society and a complete disavowal of the mainstream corporate consumerism of the queer community and what many of those involved believe to be its oppressive agenda, expressing itself in DIY style through zines, music, writing, art and film. Show the world that you are the hardest of core with what you choose to rock on your body. All profits from RGI’s Queercore line benefit RGI artists and film projects featured on our Produce & Support page. |
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Are You a Jew Punk? Dare to Daven like a rock star with RGI’s Kick Ass Kippas |
| Eat Yr Makeup | |
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Corporations Sell Products Not Truth! Corporations spend billions every year telling us that we are not happy enough or good enough as we are, promising us that Teflon Dockers, flat screen plasma TVs and gas-guzzling Hummers will magically fill the void. F* that! Buying from RGI’s Eat Your Makeup! line lets you directly support the artists you love instead of the corporations/government/ |
| Hemp Hemp Hooray | |
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Hemp is an annual herbaceous plant of the species cannabis sativa, meaning ‘useful hemp,’ and its uses date back to over ten thousand years ago. Products made from hemp are environmentally friendly, sustainable/biodegradable and psychoactive free. RGI’s Hemp Hemp Hooray line represents the growing need for less expensive fabric alternatives and the banning together of a nation for drug reform. All profits from RGI’s Hemp Hemp Hooray line benefit RGI artists & non-profit organizations featured on our Produce & $upport page. |
| DIY Queer Craft Mafia | |
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Why DIY? Around the world, people are making things themselves in order to save money, to take a stand against consumerism, to customize goods to suit their exact needs, and to feel less dependent on the corporations that manufacture and distribute most of the products and media we consume. On top of these practical and political motivations, there is the simple pleasure that comes from developing an idea, making it physically real, and sharing it with other people in your community. All profits from RGI’s DIY Queer Craft Mafia line benefit the young DIY startup companies featured on our Produce & Support page and several craft fairs around the country. |
| rEvolutionary Webs | |
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The rEvolutionary Webs series is the latest conceptual art project from RGI’s President and CEO, Gina Mamone. The rEvolutionary Webs series incorporates quantum physics and traditional geometry through welding and metalworking. It comments on the webs of interconnectivity we share with each other and the planet that we inhabit from the subatomic, microscopic and cosmic levels to the class system and oppression - the ugly truth of a country supposedly built on equality and opportunity. In the spirit of Gina’s art, RGI’s rEvolutionary Webs line supports rEvolutionary grassroots artists and art festivals around the country. All profits from RGI’s rEvolutionary Webs line benefit the artists and grassroots art festivals featured on this site including Homo-A-Go-Go (HAGG), Ladyfest, Camp Trans, Estrojam and Homocore. |
| No Teacher Left Behind | |
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Education is a growing concern in our country. Everyone agrees that our students need more resources and opportunities (and any form of sex education other than an abstinence-based curriculum!). But what about our teachers? They are paid less and less with each passing year and only 40% of US teachers belong to a union not funded by their own state’s Board of Education. RGI has taken action to change this by creating the No Teacher Left Behind line, which works to send union organizers to rural school districts to unionize teachers. You can help teachers in under-represented areas by shopping the No Teacher Left Behind line. All profits from the No Teacher Left Behind line go to send union organizers to rural parts of the country to unionize teachers. (If the local Board of Education inquires as to who sent the organizing officials, the union representative hands them a hand-written card from the rEvolution taking full responsibility so no teacher need ever worry about loosing their job again for using their voice to speak up.) |
| Whopperjawed | |
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The word “Whopperjawed” has been around the RGI office for years. It is the Appalachian slang our President and CEO, Gina Mamone, uses when something is out of place/not right. It has turned into a staff staying for all that is queer. RGI’s Whopperjawed line benefits queer artists, artists and rEvolutionary, grassroots companies RGI supports. All profits from the Whooperjawed line benefit the artists, organizations and DIY grassroots companies featured on our Produce & Support page. |
| Drop Tuition, Not Bombs | |
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With 1% of our country’s population owning 40% of our country’s wealth, education is no longer the one-way ticket out that it once was. Thirty years ago, an undergraduate degree assured not living anywhere close to the poverty line, now it means straddling it! Our current war costs our country over $1 billion a day, and the cost of tuition continues to skyrocket. RGI created the Drop Tuitions, Not Bombs line to bring attention to this problem and counteract it by funding rEvolutionary projects at colleges and universities all over the world. You can help! All profits from the Drop Tuition, Not Bombs line to go help fund joint projects with colleges and universities all over the world including our Take Back the Night Program, bringing in guest speakers, authors, activists and nationally acclaimed projects like the Clothesline Project and the AIDS Quilt. |
| rEvolution of Art | |
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The rEvolution of Art line embodies the principle that RGI was founded on: art is one of the few mediums that can truly inspire people to become acquainted with their own potential. The rEvolution of Art line is dedicated to the person who decides to take their journal to an open mic for the first time or the girl that stands up to her parents saying that she does not want to learn to play the flute or clarinet but an electric guitar with peddles instead. All profits from the rEvolution of Art line benefit several queer based production companies all over the country that are working tirelessly to create art and culture for their communities. In addition, this line also helps supply performance-grade instruments and technology for emerging RGI artists. |
| rEvolution of Me | |
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RGI’s rEvolution of Me line is the first-ever merchandise line that celebrates the various stages of transitioning. All of the profits from the rEvolution of Me line benefit the Gender Public Advocacy Coalition (GPAC) in Washington DC, where money is directed toward lobbying for trans-inclusive, culturally competent healthcare for the nation. To learn more about donating to GPAG, visit them at www.gpac.org |
| Lil’ Riot | |
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RGI’s Lil’ Riot line is specifically made for newborns, infants, toddlers and wickedly cool kids who like to rock hard in the sandbox and know that life is the ultimate playground. All profits from the Lil’ Riot line benefit the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN). RAINN is the nation's largest anti-sexual assault organization and operates the National Sexual Assault Hotline. Every dollar donated from the Lil’ Riot line pays for one call on the RAINN hotline. To learn more about donating hotline calls to RAINN, click here. |
| Take Back the Night | |
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Take Back the Night rallies are an opportunity for communities to stand together against violence, bare witness, take to the streets and share experiences, strength and hope. RGI’s Take Back the Night project helps sponsor and produce over fifty Take Back the Night rallies around the world annually. All profits from RGI’s Take Back the Night line benefit our Take Back the Night project (link to project page), bringing rallies to communities all over the world. The line also pays for rally shirts to be donated from our Café Press store to the first 100 rally planning committees that contact us every year. |
| Rim N’ Rock | |
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The Rim N’ Rock line is based on the founding principle that if you free your mind, your ass will follow. Wikipedia defines “rimming” as: “anal-oral contact, also referred to as anal-oral sex, rimming, a rimjob, tossing the salad, or anilingus (from "anus" and "lingua", commonly misspelled as "analingus", compare cunnilingus), is a sexual activity involving contact between the anus or perineum of one person and the mouth of another”
The Rim N’ Rock line finally gives you the opportunity to tell the world how you really feel about George Bush, Clear Channel, Condoleezza Rice, Halliburton, Transphobia, Dick Cheney, Fred Phelps, Wal-Mart, Randall Terry, Ann Coulter, Beverly LaHaye, John Ashcroft, the Radical Right. All of the profits from the Rim N’ Rock line benefit RGI artists and non-profit organizations featured on our “Produce & Support” page, and the House that Rawk Built. You don’t have to go running everyday in your George Bush Can Rim Me shirt like Gina does, but don’t you want to? |
| Emma Goldman | |
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Emma Goldman (1869–1940) stands as a major figure in the history of American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control, women’s equality and independence, and union organization. Her criticism of mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I led to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation in 1919. For the rest of her life until her death in 1940, she continued to participate in the social and political movements of her age from the Russian Revolution to the Spanish Civil War. RGI’s Emma Goldman line celebrates the life and rEvolutionary vision of one of the great patriots of our country. Profits from the Emma Goldman line benefit feminist health centers and funds that help low-income women obtain abortion care. |
| rEvolution of Music | |
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RGI’s rEvolution of Music line embodies the principle that RGI was founded on, that music is one of the few mediums that can truly inspire people to become acquainted with their own potential. The rEvolution of Music line is dedicated to all of those people who decide to take their journal to an open mic tonight for the first time or the girl that stands up to her parents saying that she does not want to learn to play the flute or clarinet but an electric guitar with peddles instead. Profits from the rEvolution of Music line benefit Rock n’ Roll camps for girls all over the country, productions companies across the country that are working tirelessly to create art and culture for their communities, and also to purchase performance-grade instruments and technology for emerging RGI artists. |
| When Life’s a Drag | |
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RGI’s When Life’s a Drag line is based on the idea that we are all born naked and everything else is just drag. It is also RGI’s way of paying homage to all those hot, gender-bending performance artists out there who we love to come out and tip. All profits from the When Life’s a Drag line benefit the RGI artists & non-profit organizations featured on our Produce & $upport page. |
| Read Audre Lourde | |
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Lorde described herself as “a black-lesbian feminist mother lover poet,” and we could not have said it better ourselves. Not only was Audre Lorde a writer and an activist but she was an educator. Perhaps the most fitting summary of her life and work can be found in a Boston Globe tribute by Renee Graham: “She took her frailties and misfortunes, her strengths and passions, and forged them into something searing, sometimes startling, always stirring verse…she could weep like Billie Holiday, chuckle like Dizzy Gillespie or bark bad like John Coltrane.” Lorde inspired generations of women with her unflinching dedication to her ideals. One of her famous quotes is, “When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid". The Read Audre Lorde line celebrates the life and work of Audre Lorde. All the profits from the Read Audre Lorde line benefit RGI artists and film projects featured on the RGI website. |
| From NoHo to Olympia | |
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Olympia , Washington and the D.C. punk scene get credit in Herstory for giving birth to the Riot Grrrl music scene. NoHo refers to Northampton , Massachusetts , which is in the middle of the “seven sister” schools and has become a mythological, magically queer place to go to college. Many national tours kick off and end in one of these two places, and queer artist know the circuit well. The From NoHo to Olympia line celebrates those tireless artists that crisscrossed the country carving out the niche that has become contemporary queer music.
All the profits from the From NoHo to Olympia line benefit RGI’s National Street Team that is free to all RGI artist and projects and helps funds national tours of your favorite artist.
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| Champagne & Pork Rinds | |
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RGI’s Champagne & Pork Rinds line is like a bucket of chicken and Smartwater. It’s Jo and Blair from the Facts of Life finally hooking up in an L-Word flashback. It’s Liberace and Ryan Seacrest’s love child, blue collar meets bling, a hybrid Bentley. It’s G.I Jane in a polyamorous relationship with the Golden Girls…. It’s Champagne & Pork Rinds!
All the profits from the from the Champagne & Pork Rinds line benefit the artists, projects and organizations featured on the RGI website.
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