Today, Austin Bickal and the “Boys Who Brunch” announced via their alt Twitter accounts that all Pride events planned for this summer were in fact reinstated and relocated to the basement of that one Hamburger Mary’s.
After a meeting held by every Black person you know, we have come to the conclusion that your Facebook posts and kicky hashtags are not enough for you to hit us up wondering what we are up to in ten minutes. We get it – you see us being unfairly treated in a world built against us and for some reason you believe your head game will blow all our troubles away.
There has been a lot of talk this year about abolishing the police. But if we defund the police, what happens when you really need them most?
Are you there, Sappho? It’s me, Agnes, the haunted Victorian doll that’s been living in your childhood bedroom rent free since you were four.
We, the nation’s arts, education, and nonprofit institutions condemn the racism in our police and prison industrial complex. But it has come to our attention that we are responsible for perpetuating white supremacy too.