Love is Love - Equal rights for all

We are proud to present

Our new motif LOVE IS LOVE was created with the artist Naïma from Glitter Power Club. Does the name sound familiar? You may already know her from this trio: SOUL SISTERS, INCLUSIVE and POWER UP.

Now we have started a new project with her :) What the artist herself says about her design:

“ I feel very grateful I could draw about love and the LGBTQIA+ community. Love in all its forms is the most beautiful thing that exists. I wanted to say something so simple and still not happening here, that everyone deserves love, care and happiness, no matter their gender or sexual orientation. But I could witness so much injustice and violence against queer people, and I need to repeat this. These topics are so important to me. I tried to represent every gender and sexual orientation, to create an inclusive print (have a closer look at the clothes colors, you can see some clues there).”

EN:

I am very grateful that I was able to draw on the topic of love and the LGBTQIA+ community. Love in all its forms is the most beautiful thing there is. I wanted to say something so simple, which unfortunately is still often not the reality: that every person deserves love, care and happiness, regardless of gender or sexual orientation. I have witnessed so much injustice and violence against queer people, and I have to repeat that this topic is so important to me. I tried to represent every gender and sexual orientation to create an inclusive print (if you look closely at the clothing, you can spot a few clues).

If you want to know more about Naïma and her art, readHEREpure.

LOVE IS LOVE

No matter who we love, whether we love, how we love. No matter what we look like, how we live, where we come from. All people are lovable and deserve respect and love. That's why we are committed to more tolerance and stand up against hate, exclusion and discrimination. With the CARRY Bottle we want to make a statement in our own environment and also on the street. Are you with us?

Unfortunately, we cannot depict all sexualities and people on the CARRY Bottle because space is limited and we cannot depict everything. We have put a lot of thought into this and done our best. What details do you notice?

Sexual orientation and gender identities

Good to know: the two terms should be clearly separated here!

Gender identity describes whether or not the sex assigned at birth matches one's own. If this is not the case, these people are transgender or transsexual.

Sexual orientation describes which gender a person is attracted to. This can be on an emotional, physical and/or sexual level. These include homosexuality, bisexuality, asexuality, heterosexuality and pansexuality.

Important terms here are:

AsexualPeople feel little or no attraction to other people.

AutosexualsPeople prefer to be attracted to themselves.

DemisexualPeople must first have an emotional connection to people in order to feel sexual attraction.

Genderqueeris an umbrella term for all people who do not conform to the binary norm.

Pansexualityis sexual attraction to all sexes.

Polyamorystands for open love relationships, a person consensually loves several partners.

PolysexualPeople desire different, but not all, genders.

Scoliosexuality refers to people who are sexually attracted to people who do not identify as either male or female.

Transsexuality/transgender/transidentity refers to people who do not identify with the gender assigned to them at birth.

Pride Month in the company

We live diversity in our everyday work, for example by using gender-neutral and discrimination-free language. We also attach great importance to an open working atmosphere in the team, in which everyone feels comfortable and can be themselves. During Pride Month and CSD we deal with the topic in more detail, as there are also many events taking place, but for us every month is Pride! You can find out how we behaved as a company during Pride Month in our blog postSimply Love.

We spend a lot of time on the topic and keep ourselves informed, but we are not absolute experts or professionals. If you have any suggestions for improvement or comments, please send us an email tohello@carrybottles.com.

Sources:

https://www.diversity.uni-freiburg.de/de/bereich-gender-und-diversity/Monitoring/sexual-orientation

https://www.tip-berlin.de/stadtleben/queer/regenbogenkiez-bartour-schoeneberg-nollendorfplatz-motzstrasse/

https://www.wunderweib.de/sexual-orientation-von-asexual-bis-pansexual-12849.html

https://www.wmn.de/love/selbstliebe/liste-der-sexualitaeten-diese-orientien-und-identitaeten-baren-es-id309235