So I need to buy a couple things off Amazon. Now as a treat to myself (which I never do) I have decided to take the $20-30 I would usually spend on period products a month (I am no longer doing that as I got a menstrual disk) and I would buy myself something.

Lately I've gained weight and that's been a blow to my self esteem (thank you mom for putting down every fat woman we saw while I was growing up, I learned quickly my value was in how helpful or pretty I could be).

I have adopted my fashion now to be an oversized t shirt and short shorts. I'm a little too fat for short shorts, but so far I've gotten positive reviews. I think mostly because of the t shirts. I try to buy t shirts that are related to what event I'm at (ex: I have an 'arrow to the knee's t shirt I wear to my orthopedist lol).

Well, that brings us to the algorithm, why you are here (my apologies I'm AuADHD and background feels very important to me).

I usually have no plans and just type in 'funny shirt'. Now I know Amazon has made some assumptions about who I am based on my purchase history as well, so I can get over that.

But today I typed that search in and found nothing. But please note here that when I did that I initially got listings for shirts that were almost male centric (even though I have purchased a menstrual cup with them 3 times!!). Things like "if you want my gun pry it out of my hands" or those long t shirts that talk about I'm a ____ man and I have a wonderful wife who I would smother a baby for looking in her direction etc etc.

So I changed the search to "witch t shirts" this got me a few match of shirts I would have purchased, things like "we are the granddaughters of the witches you didn't burn" etc. But I found nothing that jazzed with me.

Finally after a few more searches (I'm fast forwarding here because the rest of the info isn't too relevant). I search "feminist T shirt".

At first, it's banal. Then the trans stuff starts popping up. I have never given an indication that I was trans, or looked up material related to it. Even if it was taking my internet search history to account, it shouldn't pop up for me.

Why is it popping up when I search feminism?!

Because TERFs aren't feminist. That's why! What a refreshing take and honestly I'm so happy. I'm genderqueer, but I have a ton of trans friends and for all of us it's really the little things like that. Things that remind us, not only are you a person, but you belong even in places not created with you in mind

(I imagine it's a similar feeling to POC people after 'seperate but equal', sure you're allowed to be anywhere, but are you really welcome?).

Of course I could probably find 1k queer designers, whose designs are queer specific. But it's nice when we are just included as another joe. When target had their pride line it felt good, but I wanted more integration into the store (in fairness, I have not been to a store really since covid as I am disabled now). I'd like to see basic queer stuff included. Even just one greeting card that says something like "happy birthday from your wife and your girlfriend" (for poly people) or something like that. It takes up so little space.

But anyway, all that to say (while Amazon is a hurtful conglomerate and I hate having to use them, I need to for my disability tho) I am excited by this new development. (But maybe it was actually based on my previous shopping somehow and I would be disappointed if that's the case)

So has this happened to YOU anywhere? Does YOUR Amazon do this?

Also, if anyone knows where I can get an affordable (<$20) T shirt that is clever, funny, or offensive to conservatives lmk. Bonus points if they are POC, women, queer, or witch owned 💚