On Wednesday morning, our opener was greeted with a crude anti-trans scrawling made on the side of our building in Sharpie. Just because the message was quickly scrubbed away doesn't mean its sentiment is not alarming. Local queer business @venusenvyhfx has recently been the target of similar graffiti. We also had to cancel an event in November due to the potential of anti-trans protesters showing up. As much as we will persist and continue to be a space that offers safety and comfort for marginalized folks, this rise in aggressive bigoted behaviour towards queer life is absolutely concerning.
What did the graffiti say? “This business supports child grooming.” This is a common and entirely incorrect talking point peddled by transphobes, typically in response to gender affirming care interventions for trans youth. The truth is that no clinician is endorsing permanent surgical changes to children's bodies. Most early gender affirming care involves social changes and changes in an adolescent's environment - things like respecting requests for pronoun and name changes. Medical interventions are equally innocuous. The effects of puberty blockers (something common in gender affirming care for adolescents) are entirely reversible and have been used to help cis children with precocious puberties far longer than they have been used for gender affirming care. Trans youth are some of the most vulnerable people - period. Providing them with gender affirming care is often life-saving.
Trans existence is not some elaborate plot to indoctrinate children - we’ve been around for millenia and simply want to exist without struggling against our bodies, our identities, and against a society that ostracizes us.
If you are looking for ways to support the queer folks in your life, there are many:
Supporting queer owned businesses.
Doing something as simple as offering check in’s to queer loved ones.
Educating yourself on some of the myths that target our community (Venus Envy and The Youth Project are great places to start)
Being vocal against bigoted behaviour such as this.
Thank you again for your continued support. Without you, we would never make it.
Glitter Bean, our Home 🫶
We are SO excited to announce - Metro Thrift Bus will be moving into a permanent location!! 📍✨🚎⚡️❣️
WHERE?: Glitter Bean Cafe 📍w/ @zealoushfx 🛍️
- 5896 Spring Garden Rd.
- Pop Ups every Wednesday & Friday 🍾
- Move in: October 1st
- More info to come!! 💁🏽♀️
We’re teaming up with @zealoushfx for all of your vintage & second-hand needs !! 😤👖
& @glitterbeancafe for Pop - Ups, yummy coffee, welcoming & inclusive space, events & more!! ✨
The best damn threesome you’ll ever see 🥵👀
Also don’t worry!! The bus will still run its normal route, besides we’ve decided to run Fridays at Glitter Bean until the end of the bus’s season. ❄️🚎
Coffee, clothing and comfy conversations. What more could you ask for? 😘
🏳️🌈
#halifax #halifaxvintage #halifaxnoise
From @transfemmeconnection :
Come on out to the TFC Monthly Meetup from 5pm-8pm on Saturday May 16th at the Glitterbean Cafe.
Come chat with folks, hit up the board game table, or assert dominance in Mario Kart Double Dash on my minipc 🤙
This is a closed event for anyone who feels the transfemme label applies to them. You don't have to pass or be stylish to come, just be your lovely self and folks will be down to chat with ya 🏳️⚧️💜🏳️⚧️
Poster by: ✨💅 Me 💅✨
Queers in Carhartts @shiftchangehalifax
May 6, 7:30pm - 8:30pm
@glitterbeancafe
FREE
Queers in Carhartts is an art exhibition, film screening, and research launch, documenting the unique challenges and practices of resilience by queer and trans people working in skilled trades labour. QiC is a hybrid of qualitative research investigating the lived experiences of 2SLGBTQ+ people in skilled trades in Nova Scotia, and a collaborative, community-building, creative documentation of the first-person authority of some of those experiences and survival strategies.
✨ CLOTHING SWAP ✨
Come on by this Saturday the 25th from 10am till noon for our monthly clothing swap! You can bring any clothes you’d like to swap and in return take home some new-to-you gems 🛍️
Don’t have clothes to swap but still want to “shop the swap”? No problem! 🙌 We’ll have plenty of goodies from the shop available, and instead of bringing clothes, you can pay a suggested entry fee of just a toonie! 💰🎉
No one will be turned away due to lack of funds 💕🌈 Just please let us know if you cannot pay or donate 🫶🏼 We also ask that our regular swappers remember to welcome new swappers and give everyone a chance to grab some goodies!
📍The swap will be downstairs at The Glitter Bean Cafe ✨☕️
5896 Spring Garden Rd
QUEEERS IN CARHARTTS is an art exhibition, film screening, and research launch, documenting the unique challenges and practices of resilience by queer and trans people working in skilled trades labour.
May 6, 7:30pm-8:30pm @glitterbeancafe
Produced by @shiftchangehalifax
Details on website. Link in bio.
The Highlander Folk School was a revolutionary rural education center that catalyzed some of the most important collective actions for civil rights in the Southern U.S.
Join us at Glitter Bean Cafe to watch “You Got To Move” (1985, 1h38m) where we can take inspiration from the radical ways marginalized folks have gathered against systemic racism. We look forward to celebrating May Day with you, May 1st from 6-8pm.
From @transfemmeconnection and @radpridehali :
This year (2026), there are three really awesome events happening on Trans Day of Visibility (March 31st)!
1st is TFC's Trans Day of Snack 🍪 (3-5pm, Glitterbean) where trans folks can get a free snack, hangout with folks like them, and celebrate another year of being ourselves in a chill environment.
2nd is RadPride's Trans Day of Visibility March 🏳️⚧️✊🏳️⚧️ (5pm) where trans folks and allies will walk from Victoria Park to the Wave before listening to some guest speakers. Bring your flags, voices, and lovely selves to show this city we will not be erased!
And to cap off the day is Trans Tuesday - Visibility and Videogames (7pm to close, Rumours). There you can hangout with trans folks, play some retro videogames (i.e. Golden Axe, Streets of Rage), and celebrate another year of self-love and community! We also may have a tasty surprise for y'all :3
The snacks at the first event and the surprise at the second are paid for courtesy of TFC's fundraiser which raised 500$!
This Trans Day of Visibility let's show Halifax that the trans community is strong, now until forever 🏳️⚧️✊🏳️⚧️!
Join us for a movie night fundraiser @glitterbeancafe
On April 4th. @redpagesarc will have the book table set up donating proceeds to the cause, we'll also have the 🍿popcorn machine🍿on site!
ALL proceeds will go to Cuban relief efforts. If you can't make the event itself, but would like to make a donation, just send us a DM.
"Bicycle Thieves" (1948)
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
Our loved ones and communities are currently living in difficult circumstances and facing displacement.
We will be hosting an art and bake sale on Sunday March 29th at @glitterbeancafe from 1 pm- 5 pm (or until sold out).
All the funds will be going to grassroots initiatives supporting those who are facing displacement.
Come visit 💖
@humansofdahieh@ma3ba3ed@adelepaints@nayazak_art
Credit @zinaibr
