Kinship Market

08/30/2024

08/19/2024

E-transfer your total to [email protected] with your phone number and basket(s) of choice, and we will split your tickets accordingly!

Example: 306-###-###x baskets a and c

Names will be drawn August 21st!

08/19/2024

Finally posting our gift basket raffles, apologies for the wait! See our following posts for basket details. All proceeds will go towards mutual aid within our community ❤️‍🔥

08/05/2024

Due to our date change we ended up with some veryyyy last minute cancellations. Please reach out if volunteering is of interest to you ❤️‍🔥

08/02/2024

🌈 Kinship Market: Cheers for Qu**rs!
🗓️ Date & Time: SUNDAY, AUGUST 11 from 11AM-6PM
📍 Location: 424 20th St W, Saskatoon
🎟️ Entry & Parking: Free!
✨ Anti-oppressive safe space

Come support over 20 local 2SLGBTQIA+ (and ally) vendors! 🌈 Our market will offer everything from beautiful beaded works, to Vietnamese food, one-of-a-kind art pieces, upcycled clothing, hand-made goods, and so much more! Entry, parking, and masks are all free.

✨There will be gift basket raffles (filled with local goods), with all funds going to mutual aid for local Indigenous 2-spirit, q***r, & trans folks in .✨

We care about our community and ask attendees to wear masks 😷❤️ Masks will be available on site. We can't wait to visit with you!

Thank you to our sponsors:

06/28/2024

It feels like the universe really wants us to take the weekend off 🥹

We are truly so grateful for our community's support through the venue change, unfortunately, our new venue (White Buffalo Youth Lodge) is experiencing some issues with the heavy rain!

We are postponing 'Cheers for Qu**rs!', but it's going to happen no matter what, so keep an eye out for our new date 🌈❤️‍🔥

In the meantime:
1) Please support our vendors by going through our vendor shout-outs and following our incredible Kinship community!
2) Please support by sending them some of your $$$. Their space is truly integral to the core neighbourhood and they could use our support!
3) Keep speaking up for each other! 🇵🇸

- Kinship Market Collective

06/26/2024

tânisi • Xin chào • Hello Saskatoon Community,

We write to you in response to recent events where the Kinship Market: “Cheers for Qu**rs” Pop Up had changed venues and why we made this decision.

Kinship Market is a collaboration of artists and makers living in Treaty Six Territory. We host pop-up markets that enable economic resilience for historically under-represented peoples. We are intentionally anti-oppressive and showcase marginalized artists, promote mutual aid, and foster community care through meaningful actions. This includes wearing masks to protect vulnerable community members and their families, and prioritizing IBPOC, q***r vendors, and vendors with disabilities.

Our previous venue, managed by Saskatoon Open Door Society (SODS), insisted we retract our pro-Palestinian and anti-genocide stance to keep our event in their space. SODS staff asked us to remove an Instagram post dated April 25th, 2024, which states, “NOT GAY AS IN HAPPY, BUT Q***R AS IN FREE PALESTINE,” and create a new post stating “the event is open to all and everyone is welcome,” including “community members who identify with Zionism,” as our initial post may “potentially cause discomfort.” These statements were made to us by the SODS Director and frontline worker we were in contact with.

Kinship Market disagrees with the conflation of anti-Zionism with anti-Judaism (as do many scholars, activists, and members of Jewish communities worldwide), and we have always emphasized both publicly and privately that Jewish people are wholeheartedly welcome at all our events. Israel is not representative of all Jewish people, just as Zionism is not representative of all Jewish people.

As Two Spirit Plains Cree and Q***r Vietnamese members of this community, we chose the name “Kinship Market” to reflect our belief that we are all part of a larger kinship network, which includes both Palestinian and Jewish peoples. In that spirit, oppressive ideologies and genocidal rhetoric associated with zionism are not welcome. It is disheartening that the SODS Board of Directors and CEO do not agree with these values, despite referencing them in their own policies and value statements.

CONT IN COMMENTS

06/22/2024

Help us welcome our vendors for the "Cheers for Qu**rs!" market! 🌈

We're so excited to have Larissa (she/her) of .cakes joining us! In her own words:

Cakes By Magical Girl specializes in all things cute and girly, creating the most magical cakes and treats you’ve ever seen 💕 All Magical Girl products are made with butter and are flavoured with fresh fruit purées, high quality chocolate and homemade caramel. Cakes By Magical Girl is run by Larissa, who is a Le Cordon Bleu graduate and has worked in Toronto for over 7 years as a professional cake decorator.

We invite you to visit with us
🌞 Kinship Market: Cheers for Qu**rs!
🗓️ June 29th 11AM-6PM
📍 White Buffalo Youth Lodge, 602 20th St W, Saskatoon, SK (Treaty 6 Territory)
🎟️ Entry & Parking: Free
✨ Anti-oppressive safe space