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Win/Win
Win/Win is more than just a retail space. It's a haven for creativity and a platform for local and regional artists who are often absent in the traditional retail economy. We offer a platform for innovative products rarely found in brick-and-mortar stores, curating a broad selection from handmade clothing to vintage wares, ceramics, custom candles, jewelry, home decor, and beyond, providing a unique shopping experience for those seeking something truly special.
Martha Hoffman, LMT
Martha is a licensed massage therapist, full spectrum doula, and fertility awareness educator. They offer trauma informed and gender inclusive care to all bodies on Nipmuc and Pocumtuc land. With a specific expertise in reproductive & generative health, they cultivate spaces where their clients feel fully informed, autonomous, relaxed, and empowered.
Sexual Minorities Archives
The Sexual Minorities Archives (SMA) is one of the oldest and largest archival collections of LGBTQIA+ books, historical documents, media, art, textiles, and artifacts in the world.
Art by Indë
Indë (they/he) is a multimedia composer based in Northampton, making interdisciplinary work about intersectional experiences. Painter/performer/songwriter/designer/multi-this/poly-that. A renaissance person passionate about music theory & production, communication design, fairies, expressionism, and liberation.
Keith Aron Transformational Coaching
Keith Aron (he/they) is a Martha Beck certified Wayfinder Life Coach and an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach. Keith supports folks in navigating the growing pains that are a natural part of personal transformation and life expansion. Having lived on both sides of the gender binary and several places in between, they especially enjoy working with queer, trans and GNC folks who are in the process of embracing their essential selves.
Crafty Queer Studio
Crafty Queer Studio is a queer-owned and operated business that focuses on fun, affordable, and inclusive accessories and gifts for the LGBTQIA+ community and their allies. Everything at Crafty Queer Studio is individually handmade or designed, with a wide, affirming selection for *everyone*.
Double Edge Theatre
Double Edge is a cultural cooperative and ensemble collective -- a place of nurturing and sanctuary. Like the water that runs around and through the land it occupies, Double Edge is a river for artists who thirst. From all ancestral legacies, cultural backgrounds, community contexts, & walks-of-life. Often artists, educators, and scholars come here to identify more clearly, to understand themselves, and to seek where their courage will allow them to go. Double Edge protects the silence of their internal space, while simultaneously ensuring that no one is silenced. They fuse the highest caliber of artistic work, a deep love of the natural environment, and an unwavering faith in human potential. They value awareness of the earth around us as essential to the ability to invent, cultivate, witness -- and to share a communal meal, or fruit from the trees, or an intimate conversation. Double Edge is a place of demand, deep research and development outside the rigid structures of institution, academia, and form. It is a place of continuous experimentation and necessary risk taking.
Warm Welcome Birth Services and Doula Education
Warm Welcome is a Latinx, queer-owned practice providing inclusive midwifery and doula care for over 25 years. They've also been dedicated to nurturing the next generation of skilled, compassionate birthworkers with doula workshops since 2000. Reach out if you want to learn how the childbearing year can honor you, your family, and your multilayered identities.
Empowered Movement in the Valley
Kaci with Empowered Movement in the Valley holds inclusive & supportive movement/dance classes. They use sensual movement to heal & empower as well as some booty shakin’ classes to build confidence and have some fun! They also do modern style classes that are great for releasing and moving through emotions & trauma.
Sage’s Circle
Jovan Sage is a facilitator and teacher who guides people back to themselves. Jovan’s heart work centers on fertility, sex, death, and the magick of transformation(s).
Dungeon Delvers
Dungeon Delvers offers exciting fantasy role-playing game programs for children ages 10–15 across Western MA. From weekly games at local businesses, to private sessions at home, to our epic summer programs, there's an adventure waiting for everyone!
Shapeshifters
Shapeshifters creates made-to-measure chest binders, sports bras, sportswear and costumes in their Vermont sewing studio. They are proud to create binders for every size and every body, with custom accommodations for varying levels of ability and activity.
Fran Astino Consulting
Fran Astino (she/her) is a Human Resources & Administrative Consultant, Yoga Teacher, Space Holder, and Sound Meditation Facilitator.
Curran & Keegan Financial
Curran & Keegan Financial provides a solid foundation for financial planning and investment management.
Wistariahurst Museum
Wistariahurst is a community museum dedicated to preserving the history of Holyoke and inspiring an appreciation of history and culture through educational programs, exhibits, and special events for the Connecticut River Valley and beyond. Year-round exhibits and events are open to all.
My Health Matters Fitness
My Health Matters Fitness is a queer owned, Health at Every Size (HAES) aligned, fat positive, weight inclusive, anti diet personal training and group movement company located in Hadley, MA.
Olive Street Writing Studio
Olive Street Writing Studio offers 1-1 creative and academic writing lessons/tutoring for students grades 6-12, writing consultations for adults, and editing services.
The International Language Institute of Massachusetts
ILI has promoted intercultural understanding and diverse communities by providing high-quality language instruction and teacher training for over 35 years!
Transhealth
Transhealth is an independent and comprehensive healthcare center that supports and empowers trans and gender-diverse individuals and families.
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