digital market
Welcome to our Digital Market! SUPPORT Dykes and their amazing businesses!
Softcore Neurotica
Softcore Neurotica is an Ottawa-local source of handcrafted leather harnesses and accessories by a neurotic dyke bitch. At Softcore Neurotica, each piece of leather is dyed by hand to achieve an infinite range of glamorous, contemporary colour schemes not offered by most leatherworkers. Handcuffs, collars, and assorted accessories are occasionally offered for direct sale, but the maker’s favourite projects are the larger, custom pieces they design in collaboration with creative clients.
Where to buy: Products can be found on Instagram at @SoftcoreNeurotica
Wheelie Creations
I've always been a creative person, but when the world shut down and I was stuck inside I found a new passion and love for making fun earrings. Affectionately known as lesbian earrings (thanks to the trend started on tiktok), these earrings are mostly made out of random objects (but I can make ones that are more conventional upon request) and are a great way to show off your personality. While the earrings may be made by a lesbian you don't need to be a lesbian to buy them!
Where to buy: Products can be found on Instagram at @wheeliecreations
Munea Wadud
My name is Munea and I am a queer, non-binary, poc artist who sells prints, patches, paintings, drawings, stickers, buttons and pins. I make art that is very bright and colourful - I address issues that I have lived-experience with such as racism, homophobia and sexism. I work with a lot of different mediums such as acrylics, watercolours, markers, digital art. When I'm not drawing or painting, I love to go out dancing, write fanfiction and poetry, take hot baths and watch anime
Where to buy: etsy.com/shop/muneawadud
Ifs, Ands, or Buttons
Ifs, Ands, or Buttons is the creations of a proud dyke! Activist buttons, fun magnets, needle minders and more are all available from this local Ottawa maker. A portion of the proceeds from many of the items also benefits local charities, including Dyke March Ottawa. Use the code DYKEMARCH until December 31st to save 10% on your purchase from their Etsy shop!
Where to buy: https://ifsandsorbuttons.ca/
The Pipi Ranch
Handmade jewelry & accessories with found vintage components and graphic merchandise.
Where to buy: https://thepipiranch.com/ + IG: @thepipiranch
Lucky Little Queer
Description of you and what you sell: Lucky Little Queer is a bisexual, non-binary feminist artist named KJ Forman. KJ works as a freelance illustrator at their home studio in Ottawa, Canada. They create visual art speaking to their LGBTQ experience that has a feminist and sex-positive focus. Lucky Little Queer’s goal is to create positive, affirmative pieces that can be used as a tool to connect and bond with other marginalized people in a way that celebrates lived experience and resilience. They describe their art style as bright and flowery with a hard edge - their merch typically features floral work combined with darker imagery like skulls and swords, featuring feminist and LGBTQ mantras. You can find their work on stickers, art prints, enamel pins, patches, t-shirts, mugs, and more.
Where to buy: https://www.luckylittlequeer.com/shop and https://www.etsy.com/shop/luckylittlequeer.
Subscription service for monthly merch on Patreon -(https://www.patreon.com/luckylittlequeer).
Elaina Martin - EM Publishing
Elaina Martin is a Canadian, butch Dyke singer, songwriter, and author. She recorded the EP Cancer Woman in 2000. She is also an award-winning live event producer and director. She writes both fiction and non-fiction. Dyke, A Memoir is her second published literary work. In 2001, her short story “The Homecoming” appeared in Hot & Bothered 3: Short Short Fiction on Lesbian Desire (Arsenal Pulp Press). Martin lives a proud queer life with her partner, Cara Tierney, alongside their four cats and two dogs.She wrote “DYKE, a memoir” in the winter of 2020, while in their cottage home on unceded Algonquin territory in L’ange-Gardien Quebec, just outside of Ottawa, Canada.
Where to buy: Buy directly from Author by emailing elaina.martin1969@gmail.com, or purchase from VENUS ENVY on Bank Street or Kindle Version on AMAZON.
bonnieandclydecreations
We are a community aware partnership who help to support our communities through sales of handmade care items and spreading community awareness. We do custom creations as well as fashion accessories, greeting cards, wall art, burlesque accessories and self care items. Come join us for our launch day today for an exclusive basket giveaway!
Where to buy: Products can be found on Instagram at @bonnieandclydecreations