How To Support Racial Justice, Diversity and Activism This Week In Louisville (8/24)
MONDAY, Aug. 24 #BreonnaCon Various Locations Free | Times vary BreonnaCon, by the national social justice organization Until Freedom, continues with a full day, including an Organizing Bootcamp and Breonna’s Law Policy Roundtable at Simmons College, starting at 11 a.m. And, a Praise in the Park mass spiritual revival at Waterfront Park at 7 p.m.…
How To Support Racial Justice And Diversity This Weekend (8/21)
FRIDAY, Aug. 21 Legal Training for Activists/Lawyers Zoom Free | 8-9 p.m. Hear from the National Lawyers Guild on your “risks rights and responsibilities” if you are “subject to federal repression of” “First Amendment protected activities, beliefs, and associations.” Topics on the agenda include: grand juries, the importance of speaking to an attorney; and “strategies…
The fetishization of female teachers in sexual misconduct cases
Patrick Newman was a teacher and assistant football coach at Louisville’s prestigious Trinity High School. In 2015, Newman was accused of trading sexually explicit photos and videos with several teenage boys, ranging from 13 to 17 years old. Newman pled guilty to several child pornography charges and in 2016 was sentenced to 43 years imprisonment.…
COVID-19 (re)design: Restaurants are doing it in the road
As I sat with my boyfriend last Friday night in Monnik Beer Co.’s newly established “streatery,” I had to reflect on the important work Louisville restaurants, bars and retail stores are doing to keep themselves in business and us safe and connected during the coronavirus pandemic. Our collectively flawed public response to COVID-19 has already…
Savage Love: Quickies
Q: I’m a 35-year-old woman. I recently discovered I’m a size queen. (Is it OK for me to use this term?) This has been brewing for a while as I have dabbled with purchasing larger and larger cucumbers and fucking myself with them after a good wash. I use a condom and tons of lube…
The NuLu protest demands: Did they work, were they appropriate?
The sign that demonstrators placed in front of Revelry Boutique + Gallery in late July said: “Fire! Fire! Gentrifier!” They had targeted Revelry because they claimed the shop had undermined their NuLu Occupation protest and was not doing enough to make their gallery and the commercial district more inclusive of Black people. “Was very disappointed…
Pollo chicken food truck lands in Clifton storefront
“From food truck to brick and mortar. A dream has come true!” With palpable joy, Troy King and Selena Johnson, the owners of the Pollo food truck and Shelby Park’s popular Six Forks Burger Co., announced on social media last month that Pollo has landed in a Clifton storefront. Pollo, or Pollo — a gourmet…
7 new songs from Louisville musicians
I still believe in the power of playlists. Maybe it’s because streaming algorithms are trash. Maybe it’s because it’s an easy and effective way of sharing new and important music. Maybe it’s because I love pop culture discussions. But, whatever it is, it’s definitely a time to seek out new local music and buy it.…
Why it’s not so simple to arrest the cops who shot Breonna Taylor
This article was published in partnership with The Marshall Project, a nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. Sign up for The Marshall Project’s newsletter, or follow them on Facebook or Twitter. The entire internet, it seems, is calling for the arrest of the officers who killed Breonna Taylor in her Louisville home.…
Thorns and Roses: The Worst, Best and Most Absurd (8/19)
Praise the lords, pass the ballots | Rose In another bipartisan bro-hug moment, Gov. Andy and Secretary of State Mike appear to have agreed on a great voting plan. The election board still needs to endorse, but… it would let anyone concerned about contracting the virus during voting to vote by mail. Your ballot must…
Our leaders’ football fumble
It’s great that many college football players are exercising their freedom to speak out, expressing their desire to play this fall season. But the decision on whether football is played during a pandemic should not be up to them — or the coaches, for that matter. They aren’t the ones living in dorms or at…
West Of Ninth: People, in their own words (Syl’s Lounge)
This West of Ninth is a rerun from last year to help draw attention to an effort to raise money to save Syl’s Lounge in Russell from closing. A gofundme page has been set up: “Save Syl’s Lounge.” It says, in part, “The funds raised will help cover much needed repairs (replacing a gas line,…
