Here is the messenger bag I use at the moment. I sewed 2 crochet granny squares in the front because it didn't have enough pockets. It still doesn't have enough pockets but I'll survive.

To find out what's inside go to: https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/whats-in-my-bag-part-1-my-current-messenger-bag/

#whatsinmybag #bag #grannysquare

I like "what's in my bag" posts/videos, so I wrote a blogpost about my own messenger bag, inspired by a WitchTuber who shared the contents of her every-day bag. Find it all here: https://echopublishing.wordpress.com/2025/06/19/whats-in-my-bag-part-1-my-current-messenger-bag/

#whatsinmybag #bag

#Funaday #whatsinmybag 9: work followed by Band practice with Necropantz. Bonus photo is the new flyer for our next show, if you’re Chicago local, come to the orphanage on 2/16 at 7pm!
#chicagodiy #punk #bassist

#Funaday #whatsinmybag 8: Sweet Thorns last practice before our show on Friday. Working on something cute to close out our set with for Valentine’s Day. If you’re Chicago local, you should come out! #chicagopunk #bandpractice #showflier

always having to have a big bag so I can take my crafts everywhere!

#crochet #crocheting #crafts #crafting #hobbies #hobby #whatsinmybag

What’s in my bag this weekend?
The essentials
#whatsinmybag #photography #digitalcamera #filmcamera #digitalphotography #filmphotography

Slide 1.
Still fascinated by the #EDC community. This is mine currently.

Slide 2.
Hard not to compare with the What’s In Your Bag group on Flickr. It peaked around the early 00’s. I used to be obsessed with it. A a more authentic page, often bags were stained, half used tubes of creams and fistfuls of cheap biros or loose batteries were often displayed. Rarely colour coordinated. Most importantly, a more even gender mix participated.

Slide 3.
While Flickr data is harder to find, this image is the median, numerically right in the centre of the pool. The half of the pool *before* this photo consists just 4 years of photos, where the half after this took 17 years to accumulate.

Slide 4.
While the Flickr page has slowed to a trickle, on Instagram the #whatsinmybag community is burgeoning. Extremely femme and very, very beige.
Maybe this is just as authentic (people love beige). Maybe I just miss a certain ‘y2k-core’ aesthetic. But it is definitely more femme and gender normative. So where are the masc posters?

Slide 5.
Peaking a decade later in 2017 (and more so today!) the masc carry group has moved to #everydaycarry.

Slide 6.
Very masc.
What are the takeaways? Despite two decades of social progress this area has splintered, becoming more gender normative than ever. The matching colourways could be organically surfaced popular taste. Or forced taste as late stage capitalism enters the chat. Different colourways for different days, multiple ‘sets’ of carry.
Overall I miss y2k and am mildly embarrassed about carrying a knife everyday as en EDC brain wormed person.
I won’t even get into how I’ve ordered a new pen, watch and knife that all match. New edc to be revealed…. Ominous fade out.

Slide 7.
Postscript. But maybe the main takeaway is weird 2000s phone were way cooler! Picture credit Flickr user Kate T.