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Best Queer Gift Ideas - Holiday 2025 edition
Best Queer Gift Ideas - Holiday 2025 edition
Discover the best queer Christmas gifts for 2025 — from Club of Queens queer playing cards to queer jigsaw puzzles and more, all designed by LGBTQ+ creatives and sustainably printed... Read more...
Berlin’s Rainbow Family Centers & Queer Family Games 🏳️‍🌈🐣
Berlin’s Rainbow Family Centers & Queer Family Games 🏳️‍🌈🐣
Berlin’s Rainbow Family Centers support LGBTQ+ parents and kids with counseling, workshops, and community. Explore inclusive resources like Merry Families, A Little Less Awkward, and Einfach Gendern. Read more...
What’s the Carbon Footprint of a Card Game?
What’s the Carbon Footprint of a Card Game?
Every product has a footprint... even a deck of cards. Discover how our climate change card game Sinner or Saviour compares to mass-produced imports, why local production matters, and how transparency... Read more...
What (sustainable) Gifts To Put in a Welcome Package for New Employees
What (sustainable) Gifts To Put in a Welcome Package for New Employees
Sustainable welcome package ideas: inclusive language guide, climate education card games, and beloved Berlin zero-waste gifts for new employees. Read more...
Cradle to Cradle Games: What It Means & Why It Matters
Cradle to Cradle Games: What It Means & Why It Matters
Discover how Cradle to Cradle games like Sinner or Saviour make sustainability part of play. Learn why independent eco-certification in publishing matters. Read more...
This Sex Education Game is Actually Fun (And Super Inclusive)
This Sex Education Game is Actually Fun (And Super Inclusive)
Teach sex ed with less cringe. A Little Less Awkward is the inclusive card game helping parents and teens talk about consent, identity, and relationships. Read more...
Temporary pause on DHL postal shipping to the USA
An update on shipping service to the USA. Read more...
How Many Cards Are in a Deck? (And Why It Matters)
How Many Cards Are in a Deck? (And Why It Matters)
How many cards are in a deck? From tarot to quartett to poker, card counts shape gameplay, symbolism, and education. Read more...
Why Every School Should Include Climate Literacy in the Curriculum
Why Every School Should Include Climate Literacy in the Curriculum
Teach climate literacy through play. Discover why schools need sustainability education—and how Sinner or Saviour makes it fun, fast, and unforgettable. Read more...
Top Tarot Decks in Berlin: Where to Find Queer & Inclusive Tarot Cards
Top Tarot Decks in Berlin: Where to Find Queer & Inclusive Tarot Cards
Discover queer tarot decks in Berlin. Find inclusive tarot cards from Polar Embassy at Keller Kreuzberg, Madame Chance, Heipl & more, plus decks by LGBTQ+ creators. Read more...
Queer Puzzles & Games: The Ultimate LGBTQ+ Gift Guide 2025
Queer Puzzles & Games: The Ultimate LGBTQ+ Gift Guide 2025
Celebrate queer joy with our 2025 LGBTQ+ gift guide! Explore puzzles, card games, and playful picks like Club of Queens, TIN Ducks, and more. Read more...
How to Talk to Your Teenager About Sex: Tips + Tools for Less Awkward Conversations
How to Talk to Your Teenager About Sex: Tips + Tools for Less Awkward Conversations
How to make talking to your teen about sex less awkward: tips, tools, and sex education conversation cards to make real talk easy. Read more...
5 Climate Education Games in German That Make Learning Fun
5 Climate Education Games in German That Make Learning Fun
Looking for fun ways to teach sustainability in German? Discover 5 climate education games for 2025, including Sinner or Saviour, e-Mission, and more, that make learning about CO₂ footprints, circular... Read more...
You're invited: Zodíaco para Brujxs Puzzle launch party at Mijas!
You're invited: Zodíaco para Brujxs Puzzle launch party at Mijas!
We’re throwing a party for our brand-new puzzle Zodíaco para Brujxs. 🌙✨ Come meet the artist Denis Faneites in person, 14 June at Mijas in Berlin Kreuzberg. Read more...
Why we commissioned a sensitivity reading for Club of Queens
Why we commissioned a sensitivity reading for Club of Queens
Why we hired diversity consultants to review our queer playing card deck, and how their feedback made the second edition even better. Read more...
Free Lesson: Gender-Neutral German in Berlin
Free Lesson: Gender-Neutral German in Berlin
Our January event: a gender-neutral German lesson! Read more...
13 Dec: Ancestral Healing Tarot Deck event
13 Dec: Ancestral Healing Tarot Deck event
Join us for a guided somatic practice with the Ancestral Healing Tarot Deck creator on Friday 13 December. Read more...
Our offline events in December
Our offline events in December
See you soon, Berlin! We'll be at the Qweer Xmas Market, and hosting a pop-up at C+ Bakery, and an Ancestral Healing Tarot event at Spore Initiative. Read more...
You're Invited: Launch Party at Other Nature!
You're Invited: Launch Party at Other Nature!
Join Polar Embassy and Other Nature to celebrate the launch of their sex education collaboration! November 14th, 18h, in Other Nature's new space on Yorckstr. in Berlin Kreuzberg. Read more...
Making sex ed inclusive and sex-positive
Making sex ed inclusive and sex-positive
Polar Embassy dives into sex education in Germany with a card deck of 100 questions written by sex educators and parents to help families with teens discuss sex and relationships. Topics... Read more...
Chess, but sexy: Polar Embassy does board games
Chess, but sexy: Polar Embassy does board games
If sex toys were chess pieces, which would they be? Our answers, as 3D models of a magnetic chess set that you can 3D print at home. Read more...
Jon Derman Harris receives Polar Embassy's 2023 Kultur- und KreativPilot*innen award from Undersecretary Michael Kellner.
Polar Embassy awarded by the German Federal Government
This week, we were recognised as Kultur- und KreativPilot*innen for our work supporting queer artists and zero-waste design in Germany. At Alte Münze on Monday, Ministers Claudia Roth and Robert Habeck gave... Read more...
How to play: our favourite playing card games
How to play: our favourite playing card games
Is a playing card deck 52 or 54 cards? How do you play card games with one deck like Euchre, Shithead, and Spoons? What are the four card suits called?... Read more...
Watercolor painting of figs cut half open. They look rich and delicious.
30 Days of Painting Food's Impact on the Climate by Amanda Lin
A-watercolor-a-day: after years working in the food waste, Amanda Lin spent a month painting an insight into the impact of food on our climate systems every day. The result is... Read more...
Printing Cradle to Cradle: Visiting Gugler
Printing Cradle to Cradle: Visiting Gugler
What is the "Cradle to Cradle" product standard, what does it mean for a commercial printer? Join Polar Embassy founder Jon Derman Harris on a visit to our printing partner, Gugler Kommunikationshaus,... Read more...
We're Kreativpilot*innen!
We're Kreativpilot*innen!
We've been selected as one of the 32 teams recognised as Kultur- und Kreativpilot*innen! The year-long mentoring program recognises leaders in creative and cultural industries from all around Germany working on... Read more...
Wrapped: Polar Embassy's 2023
Wrapped: Polar Embassy's 2023
In 2023, Polar Embassy expanded tripled its games assortment, and supported 76 shops across Europe—celebrating community and creativity. Read more...
Polar Embassy’s Berlin Zero-Waste Gift Guide: Holiday 2023
Polar Embassy’s Berlin Zero-Waste Gift Guide: Holiday 2023
I'm proud of our low-impact supply chain. Here I'd like to highlight other local Berlin designers and producers of zero-waste and low-footprint products.  What makes a product zero-waste? To make... Read more...
Our Queer Berlin Guide: Artists, Shops & More
Our Queer Berlin Guide: Artists, Shops & More
Our favorite queer artists, shops, cafes & orgs in Berlin. Read more...