Collection

The shirts

Every shirt carries one figure. Scan the QR code on a shirt, or start with a figure below. No shirt to hand? Get a story picked for where you are.

Painting of Bayard Rustin by Camil Williams: a stylized portrait in glasses, dark suit and tie, one hand on his chest, against a bright orange background.

Shirt no. 01

Bayard Rustin

1912 – 1987 · 26 stories

Civil rights strategist and chief organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.

Art by Camil Williams

Geometric portrait of Urvashi Vaid by Krithik Devarajan, on a sky-blue field with white doves and small flowers.

Shirt no. 02

Urvashi Vaid

1958 – 2022 · 12 stories

Lawyer, organizer, and writer who argued that LGBTQ+ freedom is bound up with every other fight for justice.

Art by Krithik Devarajan