Our motto at CreativeMornings/Austin is “Everyone is creative. Everyone is welcome.” 

After recent Supreme Court decisions and bills in the Texas legislature, some members of our community aren’t feeling so welcomed by our great state and country.

So, we’re excited about something that Hans and Luis (our speakers in August) have cooked up. Their cookie company, Wunderkeks is having a Charity Bake Sale on Tuesday, July 11th to support the launch of The Sunday Afternoon Foundation. Their mission is to create Safe Spaces for all by building at the intersection of education, media, community, and commerce. 

100% of sales on July 11th will go directly to the foundation - and is tax-deductible. (The Foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization). The bake sale is all online and cookies ship nationwide.

Here’s their story in their own words: 

A while ago, a potential investor in our company sat us down and told us to “be less gay”, to stop sharing our story, to disappear behind the cookies we baked. That no one cared, and that all the doors would close in our faces if we didn’t.

We absolutely refused to go back into the closet, and, with all that was on the table, gathering the strength to do that became our proudest moment. Being a gay, married, couple running a very queer business in America in 2023? Not so much fun! We need your help to share this story, so we can keep building a world where we all get to come as we are.

From the outside, if you see us, we are all about joy: cookies! confetti! dinosaurs in tutus! disco balls! Today, we’re, honestly, terrified, not only because of that monstrous double feature the Supreme Court just treated us to, but because we never imagined that, once in the US, fighting for the right to share the joy of being ourselves would still be so hard.

We came left everything behind four years ago, with our dogs and not much else, because we wanted to have the rights of a proper family, and built, out of nothing, Wunderkeks, a cookie company that became our pride and joy and that, more importantly, led us to find our purpose: to build a world that is a safe space, to share the joy we found.

We soon realized that a cookie company could only do so much, so we started working on the Sunday Afternoon Foundation last year and spent all this time gearing up to launch with one goal: that the future we built for ourselves was something we all got, just because it’s right. It’s very fitting that this all happened on July 4th, bringing home the point that these battles are far from over in America.

So, we need help to be able to expand our work and launch the Sunday Afternoon Foundation. We need to raise $100,000 as seed capital to launch our programming to build safe spaces at the intersection of media, community, commerce and education.

On Tuesday, July 11th, 100% of the proceeds from the sale of cookies at www.wunderkeks.com will be donated to the Sunday Afternoon Foundation. (Cookies ship nationwide)

Our ask is that you help us share our story with your network and audience, so that we, together, can reach our goal. Every single cookie we sell, every Tweet, every TikTok, every friend you forward this to, helps!

Help us make so much noise they all get the message: not only that the Queer Community IS NEVER GOING BACK INTO THE CLOSET, but that OUR ALLIES WILL NEVER LET THAT HAPPEN!

- Luis and Hans