Swag Ready Pride Tardigrades!

A quick fun project to celebrate Pride 2025! Ready to adorn shirts, pins, mugs, and more!

Tardigrades, are also known as water bears or moss piglets, are microscopic, eight legged animals renowned for their incredible resilience and ability to survive extreme conditions.

First recorded observations published by German pastor Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1773.

They are found in diverse environments worldwide, from the Himalayas to the deep sea, and can withstand temperatures from near absolute zero to well above the boiling point of water. They can also tolerate extreme pressure, radiation, and even the vacuum of space. All flags created with the help of https://www.sexualdiversity.org/ . Every RGB and CMYK color value for every queer flag is archived there along with the history involving every pride flag imaginable. All descriptions below are small snippets from each flags entry at https://www.sexualdiversity.org/ . Bookmark this resource today!

My Tardigrade/ Water Bear illustration illustrated in Adobe Illustrator and group picture mocked up in Photoshop.

Mockup Fonts: 

Header: Shooting Star

Copy: HoneyBold

Available on Pins, Stickers, Shirts, Hats, Scarves, Mugs, & More!

All pride swag linked below.

Progress Pride Flag

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Learn more about the flag & learn its hex values here: https://www.sexualdiversity.org/edu/flags/1086.php

The Progress Pride flag includes black and brown stripes to represent marginalized LGBTQ+ communities of color, as well as the colors pink, light blue and white, which are used on the Transgender Pride Flag.

The Progress Pride flag was created in 2018 by Oregon-based designer Daniel Quasar, both genderqueer and non-binary, in response to Philly's updated pride flag. Quasar added a five-colored chevron to the classic Rainbow Flag to emphasize inclusion and progression. The flag's design combines the colors and stripes from Philly's version of the pride flag and the colors of the transgender pride flag.

Quasar is quoted as saying, "When the Pride flag was recreated to include both black and brown stripes as well as the transgender stripes, I wanted to see if there could be more emphasis in the design of the flag to give it more meaning."

Trans Pride Flag

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https://www.sexualdiversity.org/edu/flags/1054.php

The Transgender Pride flag was designed by Monica Helms, and was first shown at a pride parade in Phoenix, Arizona, USA in 2000. The Transgender Pride flag represents the transgender community and consists of five horizontal stripes, two light blue, two pink, with a white stripe in the center.

Monica Helms described the meaning of the transgender flag as follows:

"The light blue is the traditional color for baby boys, pink is for girls, and the white in the middle is for those who are transitioning, those who feel they have a neutral gender or no gender, and those who are intersex. The pattern is such that no matter which way you fly it, it will always be correct. This symbolizes us trying to find correctness in our own lives".

Lesbian Pride Flag

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Learn more about the flag & learn its hex values here:

https://www.sexualdiversity.org/edu/flags/1095.php

The simplified 5-color variant. From top to bottom, the five selected colors represent Gender non-conformity (dark orange), Community (light orange), Unique relationships to womanhood (white), Serenity and peace (pink), and Feminity (dark pink).

Bisexual Pride Flag

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https://www.sexualdiversity.org/edu/flags/1067.php

This Bisexual Flag consists of a magenta stripe at the top representing same-gender attraction, a broad blue stripe at the bottom representing opposite-gender attractions, and a narrower purple band occupying the fifth central area, which represents attraction toward both genders. The pink stripe takes up two-fifths of the flag, the purple stripe takes up the middle fifth, and the blue stripe takes up the other two-fifths.

• Pink: Attraction to people of the same gender

• Purple: Attraction to two or more genders

• Blue/Lavender: Attraction to people of a different gender

Labrys Pride Flag (The one with the hatchet)

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https://www.sexualdiversity.org/edu/flags/1057.php

The Labrys Pride Flag is a symbol for the lesbian feminist community and was adopted in the 1970s by lesbian feminists as a symbol representing strength and empowerment. The original Labrys Pride flag was created in 1999 by graphic artist Sean Campbell and first used in 2000 as a visual element for the Pride issue of the Gay and Lesbian Times newspaper (Palms Springs edition).

• The color violet became associated with lesbians through the representation of the violet flower as a symbol of lesbian love, which originates from a poem by Sappho about a lost love wearing a garland of "violet tiaras, braided rosebuds, dill, and crocus."

• The labrys symbol, a double-sided axe used in ancient Minoan civilization as a religious symbol often associated with female divinity and priestesses; and in European, African, and Asian matriarchal societies as both a weapon and a harvesting tool. The labrys was also often associated with the mythological Amazons.

• The labrys is superimposed within an inverted black triangle rooted in Nazi Germany. Like the pink triangle design, the black triangle was used in concentration camps to designate prisoners with anti-social behavior, including lesbians.

Trigender Pride Flag

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https://www.sexualdiversity.org/edu/flags/1120.php

It is yet to be known who created the trigender flag, which features five horizontal stripes; a pink stripe, blue stripe, green stripe, blue stripe, and pink stripe. The first reported use was on July 4th, 2015.

The trigender pride flag has five stripes comprised of three colors which signify:

• Pink: Signifies femininity and female genders.

• Blue: signifies masculinity and male genders.

• Green: Signifies androgyny, non-binary, and third/other genders.

Asexual Pride Flag

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https://www.sexualdiversity.org/edu/flags/1064.php

In August 2010, after a debate over having an asexual flag and how to set up a system to create one, and contacting as many asexual communities as possible, a flag was announced as the asexual pride flag.

The flag consists of four horizontal stripes: black, grey, white, and purple from top to bottom.

• The black stripe represents asexuality.

• The grey stripe represents the grey area between sexual and asexual.

• The white stripe sexuality.

• The purple stripe community.

The flag colors have been used in artwork and referenced in articles about asexuality.

Genderqueer Pride Flag

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Learn more about the flag & learn its hex values here:

https://www.sexualdiversity.org/edu/flags/1069.php

The Genderqueer flag was designed by Marilyn Roxie in 2011, an advocate for genderqueer rights. It was originally intended to represent the genderqueer and non-binary groups.

• Lavender: The mixture of blue and pink (traditional colors associated with men and women, present on the transgender pride flag) as lavender represents androgynes and androgyny. It also represents the "queer" in genderqueer, as lavender is a color that has long been associated with "queerness," including gay, lesbian, and bisexual communities.

• White represents agender identity, congruent with the gender-neutral white on the transgender pride flag.

• Dark Chartreuse Green: The inverse of the lavender color; meant to represent "third gender" identity, i.e., those whose identities are defined outside of and without reference to the binary.

6-Color Pride Flag

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https://www.sexualdiversity.org/edu/flags/1051.php

Using a rainbow flag as a symbol of gay pride began in San Francisco, California, in 1978 and eventually became common at LGBTQ+ rights events worldwide. In the past, it's also been used as a symbol of peace. The rainbow flag symbolizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) pride and LGBT social movements. Also known as the gay pride flag or LGBT pride flag, the colors reflect the diversity of the LGBT community and the spectrum of human sexuality and gender.

Originally devised by artist Gilbert Baker, Lynn Segerblom, James McNamara, and other activists, the Rainbow Gay Pride Flag design underwent several revisions (see flag images below) after its debut in 1978. Although Baker's original rainbow flag had eight colors, from 1979 to the present day, the most common variant consists of six stripes: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The flag is typically displayed horizontally, with the red stripe on top, as it would be in a natural rainbow.

Cheers! And Happy Pride!

You can read more about the first observations of tardigrades in the article Among the Moss Piglets: The First Image of a Tardigrade (1773) located at Public Domain Review.