Ode to My White Tees: A Gay Staple

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Clover

Rae/Rachel is a queer artist creature based in Brooklyn, NY, trying to figure it all out. @rajamie // rachelajamie.com

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  1. Love love this article. Some of my favorite and gayest shirts in my closet are white button ups and I am waaaaaaay to attracted to humans wearing jeans and a white tee with the sleeves cuffed, especially if they’re a woman/nb person who’s walking towards me like they wanna do me

  2. Comix for days! Love it!

    But you beautiful humans in white shirts mystify me. How are you not covered in tea stains, splashes of spaghetti and random mud??

    My forways into white tee wearing tend to last under an hour before ending in shame and disaster.

  3. I actually have a draft letter for a Find Your Fit submission tucked away somewhere that reads, “You know how every queer of every gender has that one photo on instagram where they’re slouchily lying on a bed in a white tank top tucked into blue denim? That’s all I want to be, forever.” so I felt really seen by this piece!

    • Saaame, I have a white gym shirts from middle school and uh a random white tees couple from elementary school age cause they ARE cool and I look hot in them.
      One is a shirt from a ballet I was in, I may not have glutes or the stamina but I pretty much do have the flexibility still.

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