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Mission & Vision

Darb Garb is here for people who want help navigating any and all of the quagmires of gender-expansive presentation and self-expression. This is design for queer bodies by queer bodies. Our work must be responsive to your needs and welcoming to every kind of body.

We are committed to creating real solutions for gender pioneers. That means charging fair prices that support the livelihoods of our queer work family while also thinking outside the box about financing so that these products and services can actually be accessible to everyone who needs them.

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THE STORY

This design revolution began as a project to design fully functional packers that would better represent my imagined & whimsical non-anatomical genitalia than packer products that exist for trans men. In my endless restless experimenting, I had started stuffing all kinds of things in my jock. For a while I used a clown nose, which was a joy to whip out for the timely punch line, or when I really wanted people to leave me alone biking home late at night. Soon my packing ambitions outgrew this gag (the nose I was using started breaking) and I moved on to packing with parts from old puppets that I had lying around. Soon after a local art gallery had an open call for visual work dealing with queer representations. The spark ignited. Instead of using parts of old puppets, I could make foam and fabric sculptures for the express purpose! I entered several designs and the gallery selected three of the original Darb Parts to show. This work was very well received. It got me thinking, surely I wasn't the only gender rebel who could benefit from this project. But I couldn’t stop just with packers, there are so many elements of getting dressed that are not designed for non-binary life and that’s a problem worth solving.

&> Eppchez!

What is a Darb?!?!?

In different moments our founding designer Eppchez Yes might have described emself as neutrois, genderfuck, a transexual mongrel clown, a troll babe, and many other things. In this landscape of terms and labels ey came to feel more and more that the identities we claim for ourselves are just that; for ourselves. It is absurd when people are frustrated by the specificity of identity preferences that exist today. These terms are important not so that someone can look at a gender-expansive person and slot them into the proper category, but because language is a way to make space for identity. Sometimes these labels are more meaningful because other people also identify with them and this creates a feeling of solidarity. Sometimes identity terms are just for you. So why not conjure up a new word of your very own. A series of phonemes that carve out a little space for yourself. Eppchez likes silly sounds and knows that the mouthfeel of a word can carry its own meaning. So when ey heard the word “darb” ey heard how its onomatopoetics just fit em like a glove. So, what is a darb? Eppchez is a darb.

And you are whatever you know yourself to be.

So tell us about it! we want to help your gender goals come true!