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Before receiving my Bachelor's of Arts from Whitman College in Sculpture, I always loved the concept of taking something and altering it into a handmade version to become more visually appealing.


I started as a crafty gluegun kid hand sewing felt wallets and making cosplays. I have never stopped loving putting things together. During the pandemic everyone baked bread, but I'm celiac so I took up the mantle of making lesbian earrings, which then snowballed into making clothes. Sharing my 1of1s with like minds at conventions created so much community for me. I stopped cosplay when I started college because money and time, so being able to see everyone from artist alleys and be engaged and back in the community was like a homecoming. Making nerdy clothes with designs never repeated is the ultimate test of creativity. To make something singular for it to be owned by one individual sharing a common interest.

I create for the niche, for people in the fan culture and subculture, the cryptids and the daywalkers. I truly found my peace in making nerdcore inspired clothes that allowed me to fully express myself, without limiting myself to style and aesthetic. One day dykemint is for the goths, then it's kidcore, then y2k then scene kid, then boho chic, but it's always dykemint. A patchwork of styles and genres and franchises.

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It’s so much more fun to diversify and give thrifted clothing, fabrics, and items a second life - one full of color and uniqueness that will never be recreated.

I think of each piece as a composition, how designs fit in with each thrifted piece, what each base piece of clothing is asking to have on it. Very material relations, I let the clothes speak to me. That's my favorite thing, where I'm just like, “Yeah, I really went off with this piece.” Usually a statement made after finishing up a creative process that required so many elements and redirections that it takes my original vision and truly transforms it into something amazing.


I create pieces to grab others at a soul level.


As a nonbinary, butch lesbians, who is creating art in a very male dominated industry, it's important for everyone to be feel cool and confident and want to wear my pieces. To appreciate my viewpoint and peerspective I bring to the DIY streetwear space and think, this is great. I want people to be proud to wear clothes that could only be made by a dyke.

I just don't want to make things that are boring. I want people to get a laugh out of my clothes but also feel like the only one in the room wearing something like it. I treat every single piece as its own composition and create one-of-one wearable art, or garments.


I hope that I help people feel confident and that they, they feel like they have their own like personal, personal luxury in their niche.


Inspired by anime and nerdy influenced streetwear, I use a variety of handmade manufactured practices like screen printing, heat transfer, sewing, serging, dying, all entirely by hand.


The pieces and fabrics that I find safe from salvage could have just ended up in a landfill, but instead they are brought to life as cute nerdcore. Fuck Fast Fashion. Buy Custom. Shop DYKEMINT.

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