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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️
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Professional tree enthusiast with a PhD about it.
Not being super professional here.
I make botanical pride pins.
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Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 8d
One year ago today, I sold my first pin badge at canopyrobin.etsy.com and set out to fund my trans healthcare expenses sustainably by creating a small business alongside my fulltime job. This quoted thread shares the 17 designs and 106 variations I've made since then!

Please check them out! 🏳️‍⚧️
Over 100 pride pins in different designs inspired by nature and academia. I don't want to overwhelm this alt text with too much detail but the quoted thread has alt texts for all of them
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I really wasn't exaggerating when I said my Christmas tree pride pins were detailed. Each of these baubles is just over 2mm! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
A very close up flash photo of my christmas tree pride pins. The pin looks like a green tree with a trans pride star on the top. There are six lines of tinsel in different rainbow colours. At this scale, you can see the individual flecks of glitter in the tinsel. Printed onto the enamel are a robin bird in lesbian colours and a candy cane in pan colours, as well as baubles in gay man, gender fluid, gender queer, nonbinary, bisexual, aromantic, agender, progress pride, asexual, and intersex flag designs
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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I really wasn't exaggerating when I said my Christmas tree pride pins were detailed. Each of these baubles is just over 2mm! canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
A very close up flash photo of my christmas tree pride pins. The pin looks like a green tree with a trans pride star on the top. There are six lines of tinsel in different rainbow colours. At this scale, you can see the individual flecks of glitter in the tinsel. Printed onto the enamel are a robin bird in lesbian colours and a candy cane in pan colours, as well as baubles in gay man, gender fluid, gender queer, nonbinary, bisexual, aromantic, agender, progress pride, asexual, and intersex flag designs
November 24, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Why did I somehow never realize the audio track for this 😆😆😆
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 16d
I'm particularly pleased with how the frog photoshoot came out, after standing in my local canal for a couple of hours.

Plus, I got to use the #GayFrogs audio on the video, which was super fun 🐸 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4327...
November 24, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I love feedback like this 🥰
anjacks.bsky.social AJ @anjacks.bsky.social · 19h
I‘ve just unpacked my order and can confirm that the level of detail is mind blowing, not only on the Christmas tree but also on the robin with the very subtle pride colours.

Thank you very much!
A small card with a christmas tree pin attached to it. The tree is decorated with ornaments displaying various pride flag colours (from bottom to top: intersex, ace, progress pride, agender, aro, pan, non-binary, bi, genderqueer, genderfluid, gay). There‘s also a garland in rainbow colours, small robin in pink, red and white and a star in the colours of the trans pride flag on top of the tree. The card says „Designed by @CanopyRobin“ above and „canopyrobin.etsy.com“ below the pin. A small card with a robin pin attached to it. The robin is in its natural colours (red breast and head, white belly, brown wings and tail feathers) except for a very subtle inclusion of pride colours at the outline of the wing. The card says „Designed by @CanopyRobin“ above and „canopyrobin.etsy.com“ below the pin.
November 24, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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Happy #NationalTreeWeek from me and the various tree pins, I sell at canopyrobin.etsy.com 🌳🎄🍃 #SciArt
An enamel pin in the shape of a tree with progress pride flag colours Christmas tree enamel pins with glittery tinsel in either trans or rainbow pride colours. Various pride flag baubles are on each tree and a trans pride star is on the top. The trans pride tree is covered in white snow A hinged pin in the shape of a book, with the title "trees a miniature guidebook' and a drawing of a tree on the cover. Inside are individual enamel leaf shapes with printed labels for each species
November 24, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Looks like my scything efforts last week paid off to get a few hundred trees planted into our new hedgerow!
leedsleaf.bsky.social Leeds Ecosystem, Atmosphere, & Forest (LEAF) centre @leedsleaf.bsky.social · 21h
This #NationalTreeWeek we're celebrating all the research and practical conservation and restoration work that's done across our group. For example, a massive thankyou to our regular Friends of #GairWood group for their hard work planting a new hedge at our research woodland over the weekend!
Volunteers in wet weather gear, planting seedlings under a vivid rainbow
November 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Not going to lie, you'll probably see me post these a lot over the next month. It's the first time I've created a design with such a clear time limit to breaking even. Like, who's buying a gay christmas tree pin in January?
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 8d
And finally, today, one year after launching my first LGBTree pride pin to help fund transition, I'm launching another tree!

This time the trees are decorated for Christmas as part of my winter pin drop!

canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
A christmas tree pin with a trans star on top and six stripes of glittery rainbow tinsel. Printed onto the tree are a lesbian robin and a pansexual candy cane, plus gay, genderfluid, genderqueer, nonbinary, bisexual, aromantic, agender, progress pride, asexual, and intersex baubles The same but the tree is white with a snow effect and the tinsel is pink and blue to make it the trans flag
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Today, I can finally share the rest of my Game Changer, "we've been here the whole time" stickers and pins, in a whopping 27 flag designs!

Stickers: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4333...

Pins: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4346...

My endless thanks to @samreich.bsky.social for blessing these! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Vinyl stickers in the shape of a Dropout Game Changer loop-de-loop, with the words "we've been here the whole time", in abrosexual, agender, altersex, aroace, aromantic, asexual, autigender, bigender, bisexual, demiboy, demigirl, demisexual, disability, gay man, genderfae, genderfaun, genderflor, gender fluid, genderflux, gender queer, intersex, lesbian, LGBTQ+, non-binary, pansexual, polyamorous, and trans pride colours
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Not going to lie, you'll probably see me post these a lot over the next month. It's the first time I've created a design with such a clear time limit to breaking even. Like, who's buying a gay christmas tree pin in January?
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 8d
And finally, today, one year after launching my first LGBTree pride pin to help fund transition, I'm launching another tree!

This time the trees are decorated for Christmas as part of my winter pin drop!

canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
A christmas tree pin with a trans star on top and six stripes of glittery rainbow tinsel. Printed onto the tree are a lesbian robin and a pansexual candy cane, plus gay, genderfluid, genderqueer, nonbinary, bisexual, aromantic, agender, progress pride, asexual, and intersex baubles The same but the tree is white with a snow effect and the tinsel is pink and blue to make it the trans flag
November 23, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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Everytime I pack one of these up, I'm still so blown away by the detail on the little printed decorations. They came out so well and I'm so proud of them!
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 8d
And finally, today, one year after launching my first LGBTree pride pin to help fund transition, I'm launching another tree!

This time the trees are decorated for Christmas as part of my winter pin drop!

canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
A christmas tree pin with a trans star on top and six stripes of glittery rainbow tinsel. Printed onto the tree are a lesbian robin and a pansexual candy cane, plus gay, genderfluid, genderqueer, nonbinary, bisexual, aromantic, agender, progress pride, asexual, and intersex baubles The same but the tree is white with a snow effect and the tinsel is pink and blue to make it the trans flag
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Everytime I pack one of these up, I'm still so blown away by the detail on the little printed decorations. They came out so well and I'm so proud of them!
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 8d
And finally, today, one year after launching my first LGBTree pride pin to help fund transition, I'm launching another tree!

This time the trees are decorated for Christmas as part of my winter pin drop!

canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
A christmas tree pin with a trans star on top and six stripes of glittery rainbow tinsel. Printed onto the tree are a lesbian robin and a pansexual candy cane, plus gay, genderfluid, genderqueer, nonbinary, bisexual, aromantic, agender, progress pride, asexual, and intersex baubles The same but the tree is white with a snow effect and the tinsel is pink and blue to make it the trans flag
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Did a short video about these for Insta and Tiktok and it's fair to say the tiktok algorithm did not enjoy them 😅 A few views on insta at least but getting them out there in any major way is hard!
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · Oct 15
I'm so proud to announce my most ambitious pin to date: a miniature guide to the trees of Britain (and lots of Europe)!

Available now from my Etsy: canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4386...
A rectangular enamel pin with two hinges on the left hand side. It looks like a book and has a picture of a tree on the front. The book is titled: Trees, a miniature guidebook. An open version of the pin shows assorted leaf shapes on the pages of the book. The leaves are labelled by species as oak, horse chestnut, sycamore, hawthorn, ash, alder, hazel, holly, lime, beech, and birch
November 22, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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And finally, today, one year after launching my first LGBTree pride pin to help fund transition, I'm launching another tree!

This time the trees are decorated for Christmas as part of my winter pin drop!

canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
A christmas tree pin with a trans star on top and six stripes of glittery rainbow tinsel. Printed onto the tree are a lesbian robin and a pansexual candy cane, plus gay, genderfluid, genderqueer, nonbinary, bisexual, aromantic, agender, progress pride, asexual, and intersex baubles The same but the tree is white with a snow effect and the tinsel is pink and blue to make it the trans flag
November 17, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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I'm also releasing a whole flock of robins for my seasonal pin drop!

There's one robin that's just regular bird colours but the rest are all pride flags from different aspects of my personal identity 😊🐦

canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/4405...
Robin bird pins in two sizes. The colours are either bird or lesbian, trans, nonbinary, genderfae, or mostly bird but rainbows on the wingtips
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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One thing I love about doing all my own photography and modelling for my designs is that, not only do I get pictures of my pins, I also get snapshots of how I've changed over the last year
Me wearing my progress pride tree pin with pink hair, a brown hoodie, and a green coat Me wearing my trans fern necklace with blonde hair and a fern pattern black jumpsuit Me wearing my trans gamechanger loopdeloop pin that says "we've been here the whole time". My hair is tied up out of the photo and I am wearing a pinstripe waistcoat Me wearing my hinged tree identification book pin on a backpack strap. I have dark read hair and a pale green knit jumper
November 18, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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drbeth.bsky.social
This is so important! If you're trying to get a message out, you've got to think about whether your audience actually understands what you're on about.

Everything boils down to communication in the end.
brandyzadrozny.bsky.social Brandy Zadrozny @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social · 3d
completely outside of politics, this is so charming
November 21, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Only 8 of the 20 pin, sticker, necklace, and patch designs I sell have ever made a profit. I would love to get that up to ten by the end of the year!
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canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 8d
One year ago today, I sold my first pin badge at canopyrobin.etsy.com and set out to fund my trans healthcare expenses sustainably by creating a small business alongside my fulltime job. This quoted thread shares the 17 designs and 106 variations I've made since then!

Please check them out! 🏳️‍⚧️
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Only 8 of the 20 pin, sticker, necklace, and patch designs I sell have ever made a profit. I would love to get that up to ten by the end of the year!
canopyrobin.etsy.com
canopyrobin.com Robin Hayward 🌳 🏳️‍⚧️ @canopyrobin.com · 8d
One year ago today, I sold my first pin badge at canopyrobin.etsy.com and set out to fund my trans healthcare expenses sustainably by creating a small business alongside my fulltime job. This quoted thread shares the 17 designs and 106 variations I've made since then!

Please check them out! 🏳️‍⚧️
November 21, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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roseschmits.bsky.social
Its quite striking to me the similarity with the no more jury judgements thing Labour wants to do how they say “criminals shouldn’t get juries“ when the reality is that its “people wouldn’t get juries“
sarahmay1.bsky.social Sarah May @sarahmay1.bsky.social · 4d
Fixed it for you. Idiots! If the exclusion is based on appearance then it will certainly impact cis folks as well as trans folks.
Screenshot of a report on the BBC News website (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy0y07959djo) original headline reads: Trans people could be barred from services based on appearance I have scrubbed out the word Trans The headline is above an image of a sign for toilets from Getty images The BBC staff are: Alison Holt Social affairs editor @AlisonHoltBBC Ewan Somerville Kate Whannel Political reporter
November 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM
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The reason that magnolia flowers are more rigid and less soft compared to other flowers is because magnolia trees belong to one of the earliest lineages of flowering plants, and predate bees. They evolved to be pollinated by beetles, and still are
November 21, 2025 at 3:25 AM
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It's been a fun day
Robin holding a scythe in front of a field of tree tubes. The scythe has a red guard over the blade
November 20, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Off to the woodland today 🥰
November 20, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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My first ever pin design was the LGBTree!

I wanted to make something to celebrate the queerness I see in nature as a tree scientist. I even designed my first #SciArt backing card with an LGBTQ+ themed botanical fact!

🌳🏳️‍🌈 canopyrobin.etsy.com/listing/1813...
Me wearing a tree shaped lapel pin on a green coat over a brown hoodie. The tree is in progress pride colours. I had pink hair when this photo was taken! The pin on its backing card, next to a mushroom, amongst fallen leaves. The backing card says LGBTreeQ plus by canopy robin. Did you know that only 5% of flowering plants are of a binary sex? Most plants have either multiple sexes of flowers on the same individual plant or multiple sexes within a single flower!
November 1, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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I also made this online document of easy-to-take actions for allies who want to support trans people right now: docs.google.com/document/u/0... 🏳️‍⚧️
Actions for Trans Allies
Actions For Allies With increasing transphobia in the media and politics, being trans is getting more dangerous every day. Trans people’s access to public spaces, services, and healthcare are being re...
docs.google.com
November 6, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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I think it's safe to say that people are pretty 'aware' right now. What we actually need is safety and allyship but happy #TransgenderAwarenessWeek anyway.

If you want a trans pin, either as a pride symbol or in solidarity, this is your regular reminder that I sell a bunch at canopyrobin.etsy.com
in trans colours: a flower pin, a fern pin, a fern necklace, a gamechanger loopdeloop pin and sticker that say "we've been here the whole time", a "real allies take action" pin, an "ask me about allyship pin", an "It's dr actually" pin, a frog pin, and an extra large A6 trans flag sticker
November 14, 2025 at 12:29 PM