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https://www.businessinsider.com/ikea-accused-of-anti-union-tactics-2018-10
Blahaj is canonically anti union.
Make of that what you will.
Blåhaj has transcended its status as a commodity produced by an evil megacorp
You bought into one of the most successful viral marketing campaigns of all time. I’m sorry for your loss
I have not bought a single blåhaj from Ikea but I have hand-sewn and gifted away multiple ones, since they are a fun piece of queer culture and some of my friends love them.
You’d be surprised how much of pop-culture has historically been shaped by advertisement and marketing campaigns. Feel free to completely boycott these trends, be aware however that this level of ideological purism is at best ineffectual, and at worst highly isolating.
I for one like having fun at times and it has not changed my opinion on the necessity of abolishing capitalism in the slightest. I’m sorry for your cynicism.
Can we unionise it out of the control of Ikea though. If is going to belong to the trans community etc then we must actually own the rights to make and distribute it, not give more money to a corporation that likely does not care one way or the other as it likely will not help us get hormones, fight for our rights etc.
https://freesewing.org/designs/hi/
The kind souls on this site sacrificed a Blahaj to a worthy cause: getting the pattern for it so anyone can make their own. They also have sliders to let you decide some minor customization features for your shark.
That’s literally impossible under capitalism. Blahaj is a commodity like any other, you can’t attribute ownership to a certain group of people based on their qualities (welcome back racial segregation), and trans people aren’t automatically more virtuous because of their struggles, so a trans small business owner selling Blahaj plushies for a living isn’t immune from going full Hitler and abusing their workers, PR to get as much profit as possible.
One of the worst job application decisions you can make is working for a small business owner, given their legal exemptions in discriminatory laws, them always being on the edge of going bust causing them to take psychotic measures to increase profits, and very little infrastructure in place at the job location due to their lack of money causing safety/medical issues.
I saw that before writing the comment, and it doesn’t really change anything. If you want a blahaj of your own and got the sewing skills (from the looks of it you do need to be quite skilled), then sure but if you want to commercialize it and start sewing for others, you’re now a small business and my comment above elaborates on what usually happens with small businesses.
