While, we did not make any IRL moves with Queenscapes as a community group until 2015, the hashtag itself was birthed in 2014.
So we pretty much took the entire year of going back and forth with the idea of whether or not to commemorate #Queenscapes as a hashtag this year, before finally deciding on pulling the trigger and creating a 10 year anniversary t-shirt.
52.8K times the original hashtag #Queenscapes was used on Instagram, not only used by us, but by you all.
Even though we have almost completely halted all “in real life” events, you all have proven our community is still “real” by finding time to engage with us. You all have still found time to continue to use our hashtag and continue to comment on our posts.
While we don’t know exactly what the future holds for Queenscapes, we are still here. And we are grateful for you all still being right here with us, as we figure things out.
In the spirit of commemorating all the awesome experiences with you all, we created the shirt pictured above, which depicts our proudest project to date, “Queens (as the world’s) Village.”
We’ve produced a limited run of these QS shirts and plan to send 50% of all proceeds back to a Queens organization yet to be determined. Please DM us if interested.
Thank you all for proving to to every kid in the city for the last 10 years, that Queens is indeed the greatest borough in NYC.
Words and photo by Adolfo Steve Vazquez