Queer family with a family business: Velocitoddler. My blog takes the backseat to my unisex/gender neutral kids clothing line, but it’s important to write when words are congesting my spirit. My partner and I are raising our kids in a country with rapidly shifting gender dynamics. I am an actor, artist and seamster; she is a biomedical engineer.
The short story is, that seeing shattered glass for the third time since our lease started broke me, too. There's a much longer story in here about the daily transients who would wander in, some of them aggressive, some of them refusing to leave, some trying to grab items on the way out, all of them requiring that my toddler go hide quietly in the back of the store.
Read MoreIt's eleven at night, a time that has shifted in purpose over the last few years. Right this moment, I'm claiming it to write about the cache of topics on my brain. I hear that the brain can only prioritize four things, so here are the four that spark the brightest:
Read MoreSome days, I think maybe I want her to go to a regular school. Other days, like today, I don't want her in school until she's in college. Our cultural treatment of adolescent males coupled with ease of weapons accessibility is going to continue to combust into mass shootings until gun reform happens. That might not ever happen.
Read MoreKnow a tot, but know not what size that tot shops? Did a friend of yours put Velocitoddler on their baby shower wishlist? Have no clue if your kid friend likes sloths or dinosaurs more? Coolio coolio. We have a solution because we have a really cool platform we host our site on (Squarespace, for all of you podcast lovers—I have also tried the socks and the Me Undies, but I still sleep on a mattress that fell off the back of a truck).
Read MoreThe shop is owned by me, Tabatha Hansen. I went to school for Anthropology and Theatre and graduated with an interest in other humans. I’m a film actor; this business was originally my side job, but after transforming it into something I love, it stands on its own. I am a seamstress for tots. I also hang out on film sets.
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