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CRY FREEDOM: There’s a lot to shout about, and we’re not done.

Pride, but not joy

It doesn’t feel right to celebrate anything right now. By Ray Roa ampa’s rescheduled Tampa Pride celebration was supposed to happen in Ybor City on May 30. Carrie West, President of Tampa Pride, expressed his sadness and a commitment to finding alternative events for Pride paradegoers. In a better world, we’d be reeling from Tampa Pride festivities right about now and looking forward to St. Pete Pride—a celebration that was eying a postponed date in late-September before organizers finally put the kibosh on all in-person events in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic. As the sharp rise in COVID-19 cases has illustrated, organizers on both sides of the Bay made the right call. And while the absence of official, real-life, Pride activities is a sad development, there’s something more serious happening in our streets right now. Chrys Bundy, President of St. Pete Pride, knows this, and he’s the first to admit that, “2020 is certainly shaping up to be a year for the history books.” As Bundy approaches what would’ve been The ‘Burg’s original Pride weekend, he’s emotional about missing the friendship and celebration. St. Pete Pride’s packed agenda is just lines on paper for now. “Even if we weren’t in the middle of a global pandemic and lacking any national leadership, we have been awoken as a populace to the glaring injustices that our black brothers and sisters are facing on a daily basis,” Bundy told CL. He applauds the recent Supreme Court victories for LGBT protections and the nearly 800,000 “Dreamers” worried about deportation. “Those wins are amazing, yes,” Bundy added. “However, I personally find it hard to celebrate those when our Black brothers and sisters suffer systemic racism, police brutality and harassment day after day.”

“IT. MUST. STOP.,” he said before issuing this challenge. “If you were originally planning on coming to St. Pete Pride this weekend, please instead find books by Black authors and read them. Eat at Black-owned restaurants, patronize Blackowned businesses, and, even better, donate to organizations like Color of Change or the Equal Justice Initiative,” Bundy said. “Our country will not change overnight. But a journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Let’s walk together.” Like local parades, CL’s Pride Issue was scrapped more than once, but the paper you’re holding in your hand still attempts to put a dent in that thousand-mile walk Bundy mentioned. In it are stories of LGBTQ+ community’s visual artists (hello, Ekeko gallery, p. 25) and its undersung poets (meet Ronnie Wyche on p. 11). It’s a celebration of not keeping your mouth shut (and getting fired for it, like Chriss Holiday, who’s found a new home in the Westshore district, p. 21), and it’s an uncomfortable visit with the realities of police brutality (p. 29). And like CL’s done since protests over George Floyd’s death started, the issue visits with organizers (p. 13) and spreads their pictures on our pages (p. 8). It’s the best CL can do right now, and it’s a drop in the bucket compared to the work of the activists beating the streets to make a better world for the next generation. As Bundy pointed out, it doesn’t feel right to celebrate anything right now. Not with so much work still left to do. And as Bundy said, injustices against Black Americans must stop. We’re proud to be in a community that’s not quitting on that journey any time soon.

“Our country will not change overnight.”

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HANDS OUT: Asking for help is tough, but readers have given us a fighting chance.

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CL needs a hand, and readers are lifting us up. By Ray Roa

hen Creative Loafing Tampa Bay laid off 58% of its staff on March 18, it felt like our world was getting turned upside down. We said goodbye to seven full-timers, and outside of our office we moved face-first into the uncertainty of a virus that’s since wreaked havoc on the local businesses, artists and institutions this 32-year-old alt-weekly has devoted its life to. Our remaining staff—three full-time employees in sales/marketing plus two fulltime editorial staffers—dove in (and is still swimming!). This group hasn’t missed a print issue, and two weeks ago, our website took record traffic. Two months after those layoffs, CL launched its first six-week Press Club campaign to help keep the website and print issue free while also offsetting advertising revenue losses induced by COVID-19 shutdowns. Before we launched Press Club, CL was dead last among seven newspapers owned by Euclid Media Group when it came to activating donations to support CL’s unique brand of local journalism. In the six-weeks since launch, only one market raised more money than CL. That achievement belongs to readers who kept flocking to cltampa.com, picking up print issues and spreading the word. It also belongs to readers who took an extra step to make a one-time or recurring donation that said, “I believe in the work Creative Loafing does, and I can’t imagine living in a community without this alt-weekly.” It’s a scary feeling putting your hand out for money, but CL’s readers told this staff that

doing so was OK, and that they have our back. You can’t put a price tag on that kind of support. A goal of the Press Club was to raise $50,000 to help the paper crawl out the financial hole it fell into when coronavirus arrived. We’re not at the finish line yet, and I wish I could make like one of EMG’s other papers and tell you we are now hiring back a laid off editorial staffer, but I can’t. I don’t think I’ll know about staff rehires until closer to June 30 when companies that received PPP have to bring back furloughed employees to get loan forgiveness. What I can tell you is that in the last six weeks, the world around us has changed in ways no one could have imagined. Yes, coronavirus is still out there fucking shit up, but the most significant civil rights movement of this staff’s lifetime is unfolding on the very streets we call home. That unified push for change (and the ugliness of those who’d like to maintain a status quo that allows racial violence to continue unchecked) has invigorated us, just like it’s energized you. I promise you that this skeleton crew and small army of contributors will keep doing everything it can to tell that story, plus the stories of the countless artists, restaurateurs, local politicians and community members this paper serves. Asking for a hand up is tough for this proud bunch, but we’ve come to grips with the cards we’ve been dealt. In the last six weeks, we learned that there are a whole heck of a lot of you willing to give us a fighting chance. We’re gonna keep charging on, Tampa Bay, and that’s all thanks to you.

“You can’t put a price tag on that kind of support.”

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n St. Petersburg, Bay area artists came together during the week to paint a giant Black Lives Matter street mural in front of the Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum. Over the weekend, Hillsborough Black Lives Matter protesters once again took to the streets of South Tampa for what was one of the hottest protests yet—and they’re just warming up. Have a look at photos here, then see more via photos.cltampa.com. Flip to p. 13 to read more about what protesters are asking for. —Ray Roa

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FIRE INSIDE: Ronnie Wyche outside the burned down Champs on Fowler Avenue.

After hurt, we heal

For Ronnie Wyche, Pride and protest go hand in hand. By Ray Roa

onnie Wyche has never been to a Pride parade, but he has been to a protest. He also has two good excuses for why he’s skipped Pride. “Number one, I don’t like parades. I also work in the service industry, so during most Pride events, I’m always at work.” Wyche told Creative Loafing Tampa. But the 33-year-old poet and bar manager also put in a lot of work before he could get to the point of talking about Pride. Like most people, Wyche knew who he was attracted to at a young age—about five years old, to be exact. Unlike most people, those feelings were also a premonition. “I remember just genuinely and naturally, without any influence, knowing that I was gay. But I also remember understanding, already, that there were people in the world who would not accept that,” Wyche explained. “That” was the fact that he was not just gay, but Black. Today, Wyche has learned to accept all of himself. And contrary to what media at large tends to portray, he, like other gay and Black men, is not a monolith. That complexity is undeniable, but all the new hashtags about being queer and Black unsurprisingly fail to capture most of that nuance. “It’s a touchy subject, and you don’t want to police how people represent their sexuality,” Wyche explained, “but mine doesn’t define my personality—it doesn’t define what I like outside of sex, outside of who I’m sleeping with.” Still, for a five-year-old who 100% cared how he was perceived by the world (and at times still does), all that emotion, paired with the color of his skin, weighed heavy on his shoulders.

“When you’re taught at a young age— through religion, society and the media—that being Black is bad and being gay is bad, you internalize those things,” Wyche said. So Wyche came to believe he wasn’t good enough. He grew jealous of young people, both Black and gay, who could move through the world overtly proud of who they were. “They came out at a young age and didn’t hide,” Wyche said. “I didn’t understand why I didn’t have that same strength inside of me.” He eventually curated a group of confidants who knew he dated guys, but Wyche was nowhere near the point where he felt OK telling his family. So he compensated by becoming an overachiever and perfectionist. Wyche overworked himself, got a degree and presented his life as perfect. “I suppressed my problems by being the best employee, being homecoming prince, and being likeable,” he said. The facade went on for more than a decade before Wyche broke his knee and ended up on bed rest for six months. That setback two years ago put him on crutches, but slowing down also put Wyche on a path to addressing the ugliness in the world which distorted his self-image. He did the shadow work and became his harshest critic; he stopped playing the victim and learned how to journal. Less than a year ago, Wyche told his mom. He’s more proud of that moment than anything else in his gradual coming out process. “Not to get too broad, but that is a greater problem with the society that we’ve created. Everything’s too fast, the world at large does not slow down,” Wyche said. Those drawn out days, weeks and months with a bum knee also wrung

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more poetry out of him. Wyche sometimes calls the poems random ramblings, but the prose is a conversation with himself. Lately, those words, posted to social media, have been a conduit to dialogue with others. On workdays, Wyche takes a 15-minute Uber from his home in Brandon to The Bricks in Ybor City; 90% of the time he draws a driver who wants to talk about current events. The person behind the wheel is usually more defensive than understanding. Wyche is vehemently against sound bites, especially ones that divide, but last Thursday, he got stuck in a car with a white driver who kept saying “all lives matter” in a discussion about protests and the movement against centuries of American racial violence. “I was frustrated and trying to understand why, when we say, ‘Black lives matter,’ they have to say ‘all lives matter,’” Wyche said. So he sat in the back and started a poem. The 17 lines positioned Wyche as the devil’s advocate trying to figure out the driver’s position. The civil rights violations endured by Black Americans, Mexican immigrants, women and prisoners all clamoring for equality all came rushing to his mind. He wondered why the person behind the wheel just couldn’t understand. “I don’t think it comes from a place of pure hate for some of them. I think it comes from a place of being the victim in trying to not see that this country has inequalities in all ways,” Wyche told CL. The quest to understand and converse is what led Wyche—who hates parades—to go to a protest. On the night of the Fowler Avenue riots, Wyche came home from a 12-hour shift, turned on his TV and saw Tampa on fire. He realized he was living in a revolution, but he also heard conflicting reports about protesters attacking cops and vice versa.

So he went to Curtis Hixon Park the next weekend to see for himself. Wyche confirmed his new gut feeling that he was now battling for something greater than himself. “We’re fighting now for our children, for the next generation to not have to grow up like I grew up—to not live in a world where you are hated for something so simple as sexuality or the color of your skin,” Wyche said. But he also realized that being on the street is not how he’s being called to help. “I express myself in this revolution through dialogue, and art, and conversation, and going to talk to people who are different than me,” Wyche explained. His role is to help others, and himself, find empathy and accept one other. But the concept of healing—the like idea of being a gay, Black man in America—is not monolithic. As the scenes unfolding in streets show us, finding solutions is going to take more nuance and pain than the country can probably handle right now. Wyche admitted that until this movement happened, he was still struggling to figure out how he fit into this world. “How do I find my own identity in a world where so many people are telling me, ‘If you’re Black, you’re this. If you’re gay, you’re this,’” he wondered. But then he brought it back to the healing process. “Healing is such a journey,” he said. Over the last two years, Wyche has been tilling his soul trying to undo a lot of damage. “I’m trying to get back to that little six-yearold boy who loved himself for his Blackness and his gayness before the world poisoned him with hate and homophobia. We all need to get back to that state of innocence and acceptance.” That, like the work we have to do to heal the country, will be a tough task. But there’s no excuse to not try.

“I didn’t understand why I didn’t have that same strength.”

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BCM Tampa’s enhanced vision of reform. By McKenna Schueler Citizen Review Board (CRB) meets. One BCM activist, 22-year old KD Edgecombe later described the Blues Lives Matter rally as “traumatic” for him and other Black protestors who became the targets of racial slurs and other forms of hate speech. Emadi Okwuosa, who previously organized with BCM and has since departed from the group, has also spoken about the threatening atmosphere fostered by the Back the Blue rally attendees. The newly-formed BCM Tampa shares a foreseeable amount of strategic overlap with other activist groups organizing local protests as it concerns their overarching goals of achieving racial justice and demanding police accountability. However, a notable distinction of BCM Tampa is its unwavering support for the types of demands brought forward by police abolitionists, who seek to ultimately dismantle systems of policing as they currently exist in Tampa and across the nation. Outside of Tampa City Hall on June 10, the group shared a list of five demands for local government. The first of these was a demand to defund the Tampa Police Department (TPD)— which has a projected 2020 budget of $162.7 million—with the means to abolish it. BCM’s full list of demands for local government officials, including Tampa Mayor Jane Castor, are as follows: •To defund and demilitarize the police and thereby reallocate those funds to social programs in the Tampa Bay community, as well as the education and public health sectors. •To end for-profit prisons and policing, as well as arrest and prison quotas. •To withhold pensions and paid leave for law enforcement officers who are under investigation, and require that officers—not taxpayers—be held liable for misconduct settlements. •To establish a third-party investigation service for investigating internal police affairs (presumably disconnected from law enforcement entirely, going further than Castor’s plan to have all internal investigations led by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement) •To charge Tampa police officers who enable police misconduct by means of no intervention accordingly. A far cry from the complete abolishment of law enforcement agencies in a single sweep, arguments for police abolition typically involve a series of actions and reforms. This includes the defunding of police departments with the intention of repurposing those funds to address social and economic inequalities associated with violence and crime.

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cross Tampa, dozens of Black Lives Matter demonstrations have been organized by activists in the wake of the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor—two Black Americans murdered by law enforcement officers in May and March, respectively. In addition to more established racial justice groups in the area, such as Tampa Dream Defenders and the local Black Lives Matter chapter, several activist groups have formed in light of the renewed ire, determination, and passion driving recent protests—demonstrating an ardent fervor comparable to that which drove the mid-20th century U.S. civil rights movement. One such activist group on the rise in Tampa is the Black Collective Movement TPA (BCM), a group of young and tenacious organizers who oppose systemic oppression in all its forms, including that on the basis of race, class, sexual orientation, ability, and gender identity. Out of the original eight members, current BCM Tampa members include Leea Gainey (20), Mey Abellard (20), Tori Brown (20), M’Kya Gonzalez (20), Nia Knighton (24), and KD Edgecombe (22). The Black Collective Movement (BCM) has become one of the most active local groups in organizing peaceful demonstrations to protest the systemic racism reflected in various U.S. institutions, including its policing system. BCM Tampa’s mission is to “progress the social and political justice of the Black community in Tampa through activism and legislative work”. The underlying theme driving its work is Black liberation for all—a goal informed by the strong will and determination of BCM activists to see justice served in all respects, beyond the disproportionate policing and incarceration of Black communities. The group first came to life through the vision of one University of South Florida (USF) student, who, according to the group’s members, saw a need to increase awareness of the injustices facing Black people in the local community and across the nation in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. All current members of BCM Tampa are either current or former USF students. The group is most active on Instagram where it does its mobilizing work and posts information regarding upcoming demonstrations. BCM organized a peaceful rally outside of Tampa City Hall earlier this month, as well as the counterprotest to the “Back the Blue” rally hosted in Tampa the second weekend of June. On Tuesday, BCM has plans to be at the Tampa Convention Center when the city’s much-criticized police

BLACK AND BLUE: BCM organized a counterprotest when ‘Back the Blue’ protesters staged a local event. The BCM’s clear call for defunding the TPD lands the group in stark contrast with some liberal demands coming from others in the community, such as the expanded use of body cameras; a reformation of Tampa’s existing CRB; and ongoing cultural sensitivity and de-escalation training for law enforcement officers. To many, these demands might appear reasonable and promising. But not everyone agrees. Many antiracist educators and activists —such as Mariame Kaba, civil rights activist Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and the national grassroots organization, Critical Resistance—have been vocal in expressing their critiques of liberal, reformist approaches to policing. Why abolitionists believe police reform is futile According to police abolitionists, demands for things like body cameras, implicit bias training, and even civilian review boards have proven not

only to be ineffective for stopping police violence against Black communities and other people of color—but fail more broadly in their assumption that the policing system is “broken” and can therefore be fixed. Abolitionists challenge this assumption, arguing that the U.S. policing system is not actually broken at all, but is working exactly as it was intended to as a system founded upon racist, anti-immigrant, and colonialist roots. Retired police major and executive director of the Law Enforcement Action Partnership, Neill Franklin, stated in The Intercept, “We are still working with a model of policing in this country that was born out of slavery in this country, that was born out of a white supremacy in this country. That’s why reform won’t work and that’s why we haven’t made any traction whatsoever on this issue of race, as we’ve seen with the death of Mr. Floyd.”

“The young and tenacious organizers oppose systemic oppression in all its forms.”

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Furthermore, as pointed out by sociology professor and “The End of Policing” author, Alex Vitale, Minneapolis Police—not to mention the TPD—had already implemented a number of reforms, including the use of body cameras, deescalation and crisis intervention training, and a diversification of department leadership in years prior to the murder of George Floyd. Social and racial justice groups that adopt a reformist approach may genuinely be sincere in their goal to eradicate unnecessary police violence. Nonetheless, those that advocate for police abolition, including BCM Tampa, argue that this isn’t enough. Police abolitionists envision a future where law enforcement agencies are rendered obsolete, through a process of developing an alternative public safety system, and investing in community needs, such as affordable housing, mental health care, public education, and other objectives rooted in social and economic justice. The Black Collective Movement’s approach to local antiracist advocacy To enact the scale of change these activists wish to see in the community, BCM Tampa has developed several key objectives within its broader mission, laying out a plan for advocacy opportunities that extend beyond marches and protests. The group’s six objectives highlight several actionable goals and needs within the community. From members of the group themselves, these objectives include: “Providing platforms for the voices of black individuals to be heard and understood. Creating and increasing awareness of the social, political, and economic disadvantages that black individuals face. “Providing opportunities to elevate black individuals through [the] funding [of] social programs and hosting community service events. Educating the community on the ongoing injustices surrounding black individuals. Fighting for the legislative changes for the voting rights, prison reform, and defunding the police. In addition, empowering black women and LGBTQ individuals in all aspects.”

The mission of BCM Tampa, and the determination that is evident in the tone of the members who speak at its demonstrations, has garnered a respectable following among those in the Tampa community who join these activists in demanding justice for all. Depending on the time and day of their demonstrations, as well as other factors that might influence turnout, crowd sizes at BCM-organized events have varied, from crowds of hundreds marching the streets of downtown Tampa, to groups of no more than 20-30 sitting outside of a Macy’s store. The crowds that show up to these events are multiracial, demonstrating a racial diversity in Tampa’s Black Lives Matter scene. Many are also younger, in their 20s and 30s. However, you’ll also see some attendees who are older or middle-aged, such Marquita Kelly and Roshonda of The Covering Foundation, a local LGBTQ+ nonprofit. BCM has continued to organize events both on weekdays and weekends to maintain steady pressure on Tampa residents and officials to recognize that their movement is not going away any time soon. “You cannot just say [George Floyd’s] name and go about your day,” Edgecombe told a small group of protestors at Wiregrass Mall on June 15. The group has reasserted its vision for radically transforming local discussions about race, white allyship, and the eradication of racism that is rooted in various United States institutions—including employment practices, home ownership, education, and the criminal justice system. “We will start rolling out a schedule of events for the upcoming week so people who are actively participating have ample time to attend,” the group says. “We also are establishing new events such as town halls to gain more insight and allow productive discourse between those who follow us. We have great things planned, follow

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Battle of the bastards A fight no one deserved to win.

n the end, they both lost—which was, all things considered, the best possible outcome. There were no good guys here, only villains of different types, two brands of poison both toxic in their own way, two egos desperate for succor. This week, former National Security Adviser John Bolton, an unreconstructed neocon who’s rarely met a country he didn’t want to bomb, published “The Room Where It Happened,” the 467th (approximate) insider tell-all to emerge from the first three years of the Trump administration. Like the previous 466 (approximate), it paints President Trump as an incompetent, corrupt buffoon with a fondness for autocrats. No surprise there. Bolton being Bolton, the 500-page-plus book also berates the president for not casually murdering a hundred or so Iranians because of a downed drone. (Bolton thinks this anecdote makes Trump look bad.) More important for our purposes, it spotlights conduct that falls somewhere between embarrassing and impeachable. For instance, Bolton says that in personal conversations, Trump made the quid pro quo with Ukraine, for which he was impeached, explicit: “He said he wasn’t in favor of sending [the Ukrainians] anything until all Russiainvestigation material related to [Hillary] Clinton and [Joe] Biden had been turned over.” Trump similarly asked China’s President Xi to help him get reelected by purchasing American wheat and soybeans, then told Xi to move forward with plans to intern Uighur Muslims in concentration camps; those camps now hold at least 1 million Uighurs. Perhaps most bizarrely, Bolton says Trump’s jaw-dropping defense of the Saudi crown prince in the wake of his murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi—“The world is a very dangerous place!”—was a calculated move to deflect attention from his daughter Ivanka’s use of her personal email account to conduct government business, a la Hillary Clinton, which he apparently considered a more urgent problem. Of course, Bolton, who left last September, knew all of this as the impeachment inquiry was ramping up but said nothing. House Democrats asked him to testify. Bolton refused and said he would sue to block a subpoena. With nuggets from his manuscript opportunistically leaking, Bolton said he would testify if the Senate subpoenaed him. But Republicans, having sworn unwavering fidelity to Dear Leader, weren’t interested.

In a Machiavellian sense, this might have been a good strategy: tease just enough to secure membership in the #Resistance Best-Sellers Book Club. For a man who portrays himself as a paragon of patriotic virtue, however, it was transparently craven. And because the other guys are even more unscrupulous, it backfired. Manuscripts from government officials have to undergo a review to ensure they’re not divulging state secrets, a process that gives the White House leverage to delay or even block their release. That’s what Trump plainly wanted: In February, the president boasted to TV anchors that “The Room Where It Happened” wouldn’t be published during his presidency. Over the first four months of 2020, Bolton worked with career National Security Council staffers to revise manuscript several times. Finally, on April 27, he was told the manuscript no longer contained classified material. But the White House never sent a letter formally clearing the manuscript for publication. For the next six weeks, there was radio silence. The political operatives had taken over. The new national security adviser had a deputy dig through it again, and what do you know: On June 8, Bolton was told it still contained classified material—some of which, conveniently, became classified after April 27. By this point, however, Bolton had tired of being jerked around. He’d submitted the final version to Simon & Schuster, which printed 200,000 copies and shipped them all over the world ahead of a June 23 release. So last week, Trump’s Department of Justice sued, seeking a restraining order to halt the book’s release— an extraordinary request in brazen defiance of First Amendment principles. “The Government … asks this Court to issue a prior restraint order suppressing the speech of his former National Security Adviser,” Bolton’s lawyers argued, “… for the transparent purpose of preventing Ambassador Bolton from revealing embarrassing facts about the President’s conduct in office.” That’s obviously correct, but more important were the logistics. The book was already out in the wild—at bookstores, circulating among journalists, even online. There was no putting the toothpaste back in the tube. The White House’s authoritarian effort to quash unfriendly speech about the president failed. But Bolton didn’t exactly win. While the judge denied the restraining order,

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GIMME SHELTER: The man who loves bombing other countries is dropping some in his new book. he also ruled that Bolton’s manuscript does, in fact, contain classified information, which means the government can come after Bolton’s reported $2 million advance and/or press criminal charges. Judging by Trump’s immediate reaction, that seems like a strong possibility: “Bolton broke the law and has been called out and rebuked for so doing,

with a really big price to pay. He likes dropping bombs on people, and killing them. Now he will have bombs dropped on him!” So the book gets released, the president’s corruption gets exposed yet again, and the warmonger not only fails to profit but perhaps goes to prison: Honestly, what’s not to like?

“He knew this as the impeachment inquiry was ramping up but said nothing.”

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ust before 6:30 a.m. on June 3, Chriss Holiday stood in her bathroom, toothbrush in hand getting ready for work. Then she received the text: “I’ll have your final check Friday.” Holiday, a 30-year-old Seminole Heights resident and former pastry chef and kitchen manager of Seminole Heights General Store, said she was let go from her job days after the store owners were shown her personal Facebook page, which housed several posts and shares in support of the Black Lives Matter movement. “None of my posts said anything about you know, ‘White’s against blacks,’ or, you know, ‘You whites,’ or anything like that,” Holiday told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “It was always something educational or, you know, 10 documentaries you can watch. That really cleared things up for me, that it was just the stance—it was just what I was standing for.” The single mother of two says she had been experiencing several instances of slander and racially-charged comments from a coworker for months. After receiving a phone call from the store owner on Monday after her shift, Holiday says she had learned the same coworker showed the owner her Facebook page the day before, intending to “get her.” “My boss didn’t say anything that following day, Monday, when I came into work,” she said. “She let me work my whole shift as if nothing happened.” CL’s multiple attempts to reach Seminole Heights General Store for comment went unanswerex. After a mutually agreed upon day off, the message of her termination was the last she heard from the store. The general store has since posted a nowdeleted statement regarding the issue on its Facebook account, which is has been deactivated. It read: “Seminole Heights General store always has and will be color blind We never forbid any employees from engaging in political speech on

there own time It saddens us here that a beloved employee who quit yesterday is angry that other employees were not inline with their beliefs And were not let go at the request of this person. We always attempt to see every side and remain impartial to our employees private lives and support diversity” “She just kind of proved my case,” Holiday said. “I didn’t have to do anything they just, you know, told on themselves. There’s no documentation of me saying I quit or anything, either.” As a half-Black, half-Filipino mother of an eight and nine-year-old, Holiday said she doesn’t regret her posts in support of Black Lives Matter. “I will forever and always speak up for my children,” she said. “My father, my cousins, my grandmother, friends, family. Absolutely not. There’s no amount of money that you can pay me to ever shut my mouth about this matter. As long as we’re dying, there’s no amount of money.” But Holliday kept her head up. An outpouring of public support followed Holliday’s termination, her publicist Danielle B a y a r d Jackson told CL. And now, an opportunity to continue baking for and serving her community has risen. Holliday is set to begin an informal partnership with Blind Tiger, where she has been granted use of one of the coffee shop location’s kitchen. The Westshore Mall Blind Tiger—which reopens next week—will house Chriss Holliday’s Holliday Bakes operation for the time being. “She sees this opportunity as her way to give back and allocate funds to help different organizations literally in her neighborhood,” publicist Jackson told CL. “So all of it has the end goal of helping the community, it ties back around.” Holliday sees her time with Blind Tiger as a means to an end. Ultimately, her goal is to open up her own bakery storefront, hopefully in Seminole Heights, but for now, she hopes to create and serve her community in a more efficient way. Jackson said the temporary Holliday Bakes

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SEEING CLEARLY: Chriss Holiday is baking in the Westshore district since her last boss didn’t see eye-to-eye with her on BLM. kitchen will feature a continuation of Holliday’s Now, the shop plans on reopening some time popular menu items including her both classic this week, though an official opening date has and more unfamiliar cookies and cupcake fla- not yet been set. vors, as well as new creations. “The entire [Westshore business] district “Things are kind of changing every day has taken a massive hit,” Torres said. “It’s the because there’s been such an influx of interest,“ busiest business district in the city, and it’s Jackson said. “She’s a creative and she’s so inno- down more than 50%. So, the idea for us was, vative that she’s always thinking of new things how can we make sure that this store which we and new combinations to keep things fresh.” just opened in September last year, how can we After reaching out in support of Holliday make it viable and open it up.” after the story of her termination went someUpon reopening, Blind Tiger will follow all what viral, owner of Blind Tiger Roberto Torres CDC guidelines to keep both staff and customers (who’d been dealing with safe. The shop will reopen COVID-19 business comat 50% capacity and will plications of his own) now have entrance and offered up the location’s extra kitchen space floor markings to encourage social distancing. for her bakery. For Torres, a goal is to take the partnership “The opportunity presented itself where with Holliday as far as it will go. Chriss had this pent up demand and we have “We take this person who has a tremendous the excess capacity so without her, I don’t think product and a cult following, and now she gets we’d be able to open the store,” Torres told CL. an opportunity to introduce her brand and her Blind Tiger also has locations in Seminole products to a totally different audience,” he said. Heights, Westchase, South Howard and “So that makes us extremely happy. We Sparkman Wharf; Torres said he had to fur- believe in upward mobility and female empowlough several employees after pandemic closings erment.”

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’ve been writing about art in the Tampa Bay and different stuff, but that didn’t happen,” area for about three years now. It’s not a long Homez told CL. time in the grand scheme of things, but it’s long “When Pride got canceled, we thought, ‘Let’s enough for people to send me Facebook invites jump and do something for Pride.’” and email press releases when they have an art Ekeko’s upcoming “St. Pete has Pride” show, show coming up. I get about one to two a week set for June 26, will be the first event in the during normal times. new space. Things were quiet for a while due to COVIDLike many recent events, “St. Pete has Pride” 19, but once June arrived, my inbox was straddles the digital and the real world. If you’re brimming with new happenings. After three not ready to go out, you can see the art virtumonths, it seems we’re ready to get back to our ally via Facebook Live. If you can’t sit home normal lives, but with masks and social distanc- a moment longer, you can shop the collection ing (I hope). The vast majority of invites I receive and meet the artists in person, but only if you are from galleries and artists I already know. behave yourself—that means wearing a mask When someone or someplace new sends me an and social distancing. invite, I notice. So when I received a Facebook At the time of writing, co-curators Homez, invite from John Gascot to a Pride art show Joe Zawaski, and John Gascot had already at Ekeko gallery, I assumed I’d never heard of recruited about 10-12 artists; Homez expects Ekeko before because it was brand spanking more to join as the show approaches. new. And it is. “I’ve been running shows for the past 10 LGBT artist and gallery-owner Wilmer E. years, different kinds of art shows,” Homez Vergara Homez opened Ekeko the week before said. “I know the artists always jump in the Mother’s Day. If the name sounds familiar, it’s last minute.” because Homez owns The artists who’ve Graphi-ko Gallery on already signed on are some Central Avenue’s 600 Block. of the most active LGBT artists in the Tampa “We’re one of the oldest businesses on that Bay area. block,” he told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. But John Gascot left the Washington D.C. metro the space on Central was too small for the type area for St. Petersburg about six years ago. of events Homez wanted to do, so he found a new Coming to Tampa Bay from D.C. was like doing 3,200 square-foot space at 290 Martin Luther a 180, Gascot told CL. King Jr. St. N. in downtown St. Pete—just a “Most of my clients were online when I lived five-minute walk away. in [the D.C.] area, because it’s a pretty conserva“Most of the walls are dedicated to art,” tive art market. They like a lot of rolling hills said Homez, but Ekeko also carries home décor, and muted abstracts and things like that,” says jewelry, gemstones and minerals. And it’s con- Gascot. “The whole humor and color and whimsy sidering hosting some is much more welcomed classes in the new space, here by locals. People like yoga and wire-wraphere like color.” “St. Pete has Pride” ping stones (for jewelry) But between D.C. Fri. June 26, 6 p.m.-8 p.m. When I asked Homez and Tampa Bay, Gascot’s Ekeko Gallery what it’s like opening a 290 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. St. N., St. Petersburg work hasn’t changed (727) 685-5577. Ekeko Gallery on Facebook new gallery space durmuch. Whether the maring a pandemic, he said, “It is challenging, but ket was good for it or bad for it, John’s always we make it work.” incorporated his Hispanic heritage, bright colors “We were planning to do a grand opening and LGBTQ+ themes into his art. Many of his

“People here like color.”

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STRIKE A PROTEST: Cam Parker marching with BLM in South Tampa. paintings possess a satirical and snarky quality to them; they also address taboo subjects like religion and politics with tongue-in-cheek humor—it’s a quality we love here at CL. Gascot curated his first LGBTQ+ themed art show in D.C. about eight years ago because, at the time, he felt there was a lack of representation. “The art center where I had my studio was

very Caucasian and heterosexual. I think the only other gay guy I knew there was in theater. There were also a lot of older artists,” Gascot said. Thankfully, when he approached his studio mates about hosting an LGBTQ+ themed art show in their shared space, they were up for it. By contrast, LGBTQ+ artists and LGBTQ+ art is never in short supply in the Tampa Bay

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area. We’re like the Skittles of art communities—come taste the rainbow. I’ve missed seeing us all gathered in gallery spaces, sharing our work and our ideas. I’m grateful for any and every locally-initiated virtual art event that brings us together safely. So is Gascot, who told us he’s very excited about the virtual aspect of the Ekeko show, especially with so many other St. Pete Pride events being canceled due to COVID-19. “I’m just excited to find different ways to keep us together and connected…We’re such an art community. We’re used to going out several times a month to art events. Anything that I can do to keep that going in some way is exciting to me,” Gascot said. In addition to co-curating the “St. Pete has Pride” art show at Ekeko, Gascot is submitting a portrait he’s painting of local drag queens Daphne Ferraro and Jada Fuentes. Cam Parker started working in Tampa Bay about 11 years ago. Before that, the Tampa artist was living in Illinois and then Nashville. “I knew that I wanted to be in Florida,” Parker told CL, “and no joke, I literally dropped my finger on a map and it landed on Clearwater.” Parker’s already made a tangible mark on our community. There’s a good chance you’ve either walked or driven past one his Tampa murals and didn’t even know it. Parker’s largerthan-life portraits of Lady Gaga, Lizzo, Elton John, George Michael and Britney Spears bring music to Tampa’s Franklin Street, 17th Avenue, and Ybor City gay bar Southern Nights. Another hallmark of Parker’s work is the bright colors. “The color palette, typically, that I work with is very spectral, very chromatic, very bright,” Parker told CL. “As of late, I’ve been working on pieces that are speaking specifically to Black Lives Matter, police brutality, those kinds of things. And I’m still intentionally working in the color palette that I choose… that always visually harkens back to the rainbow with Pride… even when the topic is heavy or uncomfortable. My goal is to always bring a person back to a place of joy or a place of ‘OK, things are crap now, but we can do this.’” Parker’s work is designed to be empowering, and he often uses color to accomplish this. One of the things he likes best about the Tampa Bay area is the sense of fellowship that exists within our art community. “I feel like there’s a really cool, built-in sense of camaraderie,” Parker told CL. When artists meet each other here, they share info about shows they know are calling for artists. “My artist friends and fellow creators [in Tampa Bay] are really stoked about what we’re all doing—everybody kind of wants everybody to join in and be included and do things in a way that is best for them.” “The LGBTQ+ community is part of my aesthetic; it’s a part of my soul every day,” Parker told CL.

“I’m always trying to have some sort of commentary on it in my work, even if it’s a slight undertone, or if it’s in your face, like boom-rainbow-bam.” Saumitra Chandratreya moved to the Tampa Bay area in 2017. “It was never a plan to move here,” he told CL, “but I found myself here and actually really enjoying making art here.” I saw Chandratreya’s work for the first time while covering the 2018 Pride art shows in St. Petersburg for CL. When you entered MIZE Gallery that June, a vibrant rainbow-colored banner greeted you at the door and asked, “What the hell do you have to lose?” Donald Trump famously asked black voters this question during the 2016 election. It was part of Trump’s argument for why AfricanAmericans should vote for him—in his opinion, they had nothing to lose. But that’s not a very good reason to vote for someone, is it? This is especially true if your rights or your equality are in jeopardy, as is the case for people of color and LGBTQ individuals in America. The banner was woven by Chandratreya. He titled the piece, “Gays for Trump are Stupid.” At the same time, Chandratreya made another powerful statement on Central Avenue for the Morean’s inaugural Pride show. This time it came in the form of a white flag with “Still Fierce” printed in hot pink and yellow. “’Post 45 but Still Fierce” is essentially a banner that says, “You might try to erase us, but we are still here.” Originally a textiles artist, Chandratreya isn’t afraid to use any available materials to make a point. “I really like using objects that already have a meaning,” he told CL. In his 2019 ArtsXchange show, Chandratreya incorporated pieces of a crib into his artwork to reflect on Trump’s Family Separation/Zero Tolerance policy at the border. For “Don’t Ask. Do Tell,” at MIZE Gallery through July 5, Chandratreya made a dollar sign out of gold-leafed pill bottles. “I used about 58 bottles for a dollar sign that’s about 2-by-3 feet. When I counted how much each of those medicine bottles cost without insurance, it came out to almost $200,000,” said Chandratreya. He named the piece “Vital Greed.” For “St. Pete has Pride,” Chandratreya told CL he plans to do a few canvases with rainbow stripes and geometric shapes. “I’m doing these pieces as an ode to the diversity of the community,” says Chandratreya. “We come in all shapes and sizes and political affiliations, but we have to work together to make sure that none of our rights are taken away.”

“We have to work together to make sure that none of our rights are taken away.”

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top me if you’ve heard this one before. A Hispanic guy, a Black guy and a white guy walk into a room and decide to collectively write and record a socially aware and brutally honest hip-hop song in reaction to the ongoing police brutality against Black Americans. Then they create an equally barbaric music video to accompany it. No? That’s not exactly how the project came to be conceived, but it’s exactly what three forthright local artists did—and the end results are pretty staggering. Following the shock and horror the nation felt after bearing witness to the slow, agonizing May 25 death of Black Minnesotan George Floyd, local rapper Rashad Harrell (better known simply as Shadcore) felt like he had to put his anger and his frustration to music. A longtime collaborator, producer and friend, Troy Cedeño, is currently putting the finishing touches on a new Shadcore album, Frisson, and pair felt that the time was right for it to wring out every ounce of compassion, anguish and exasperation and pour it into a new song: “Knee Off My Neck.” Making a conscious effort to not sugarcoat or tiptoe around the message, the emcee and the studio virtuoso concocted as politically-charged a recording as anything hip-hop pioneers Public Enemy or N.W.A. ever did. The song leaves little to the imagination; it was borne out of the exhaustion of having to live in a country where the value of a Black lives is less than a white one or one that wears a blue shirt. “I just wanted to kind of express the Black man’s reaction to what we saw and to what we’ve been facing for years and years on end,” Shadcore told Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. “I wanted to be heard. I feel like we say, ‘Black Lives Matter’ and, ‘We get treated differently.' You feel like those pleas fall on deaf ears. This is our reality; we are guilty by association because of the color of our skin. We want to be heard. Stop treating us like this. The is a metaphor; get your knee off my neck. Stop holding us back and trying to stop us from being great.”

The 44-year old Black rapper has been recording since the early-90s and has never delved into such stark, sensitive subject matter, but the time was right. Cedeño leaned heavily on Shadcore to uncover the layers and get to the gritty, unattractive heart of the matter. “I wanted to communicate the urgency of the situation in the anger and the rage that’s felt by millions of people of color. [Shadcore] wanted to do something that was a little bit softer about healing,” Cedeño, who runs C-Lab recording studio, recalled. “But I was angry. Then more and more protests were happening, and he started seeing what was happening on TV. He texted me and said ‘Screw that man. Go hard on this song.’” The multi-talented Cuban born and bred producer, engineer, instrumentalist wrote and produced the track instrumental alongside Shadcore. The weight and the gravity of the message needed to be heard, and it was an easy process. “[Shadcore] left me a voice message on what he thought the hook should be, so I took that and started crafting a song around that,” Cedeño explained, adding that Shadcore is usually a low, baritone bass, and smooth type of rapper. He doesn’t really come across as angry, and he was softer on the first takes, so Cedeño pushed him, told him to get pissed off and channel his raw emotion. “I had to remind him of some of the injustices people underwent just to get him in that mindset and to get back in the booth and really get angry on the mic.” Shadcore continually told CL that “enough is enough,” but he and Cedeño point out that the song is more than rage and fury; Shadcore ultimately wants people across the world, or at least the U.S., to just stop and listen. “I’m hoping that it can tenderize the heart of all Americans to have compassion and fight for equal justice. Listen to the cry of the artist pouring his heart out, Shadcore said. When he was recording the verses, Shadcore wanted to channel the spirit of all victims of police brutality. “People who lost their lives but also the spirit of our ancestors who were oppressed for so many years. I wanted to channel that period and kind

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CHANGING COURSE: The normally smooth Shadcore went hard on a one-off single. of say collectively what they all would like to say which is, ‘Get your knee off our necks.’” Shadcore said. Cedeño agrees, and he’s equally as passionate about the sometimes gruesome, yet poignant, video his friend and Holy Terror bandmate Peter Nuffer made to accompany it. “I hope it goes viral and I hope people just watch it. I’d love for it to change the minds of the people who don’t know anything about the systemic racism and injustice that’s inherent throughout this country,” Cedeño explained. “I

hope they watch it, listen to the lyrics. I'm hoping that maybe the experience can change their minds or make them look a little bit more into it and actually soften their hearts to the plight of people of color.” A d m i t t e d l y, Nuffer, who by no means classifies himself as a professional video editor, had a gut-wrenching time wading through countless hours of violent footage to compile the montage of images and clips that make up the five-minute video.

“We can’t act like this is not the reality that we live in.”

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people. “Shad’s lyrics came in, and any concern I had over that went completely away because it’s a rally cry. It’s a fight song,” Nuffer said, adding that the video needed to be uncomfortable and horrific. As a whole, it made for the hardest edit he’s ever done—he never wants to do a video like it again. “It’s pure privilege saying that, right? ‘Oh, it’s tough to edit the video,’” Nuffer said. “Try living that.” Despite Shadcore’s newest full-length release being almost ready to drop, “Knee Off My Neck” will not appear on it. This was a one-off project, but he hopes it resonates and opens up conversations about racism and bigotry. It has to be talked about and confronted. “We’re at a point where you have to draw a line,” Shadcore lamented. “If you don’t talk about it and pretend that it doesn’t exist, you’re complicit with the wrongdoing. So we have to stand up and make our voices be heard. We can’t continue to go along and just act like this is

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant?” Author Diane Ackerman asks her readers that question, and now I pose the same inquiry to you—just in time for your Season of Transformation. “We are all shape-shifters and magical reinventors,” Ackerman says. I will add that you Cancerians now have the potential to be exceptional shapeshifters and magical reinventors. What new amazements might you incorporate into your life? What dazzling twists and twinkles would you like to add to your character? What will the Future You be like? LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Qabalistic teacher Ann Davies asked, “If you stick your finger in the fire, do you then complain that it is unfair when your finger gets burned? Do you call the fire bad?” I offer you this caution, Leo, because I want to encourage you not to stick your fingers or toes or any other parts of you into the fire during the coming weeks. And I’m happy to inform you that there are better approaches to finding out what’s important to learn about the fire. The preferred way is to watch the fire keenly and patiently from a modest distance. If you do so long enough, you’ll get all you need. VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In accordance with upcoming astrological portents, I urge you to engage in a vigorous redefinition of the term “miracle.” That will open you up to the full range of miraculous phenomena that are potentially available in the coming weeks. For inspiration, read this passage by Faith Baldwin: “Miracles are everyday things. Not only sudden great fortune wafting in on a new wind. They are almost routine, yet miracles just the same. Every time something hard becomes easier; every time you adjust to a situation which, last week, you didn’t know existed; every time a kindness falls as softly as the dew; or someone you love who was ill grows better; every time a blessing comes, not with trumpet and fanfare, but silently as night, you have witnessed a miracle.” LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): When Libras become authoritative enough to wield clout in their own sphere of influence, it’s often due to three factors: 1. the attractive force of their empathy; 2. their abilities to listen well and ask good questions, which help enable them to accurately read people’s emotional energy; 3. their knack for knowing specific tricks

that promote harmony and a common sense of purpose. If you possess any of these talents, dear Libra, the next eight weeks will be a favorable time to employ them with maximum intensity and ingenuity and integrity. You’re primed to acquire and wield more leverage.

working in his field. I hope this story inspires you Sagittarians to be on the lookout for catalytic teachers and colleagues who can expedite your evolution. The planetary omens are favorable for such an eventuality.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You Capricorns SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): There is only one kind aren’t renowned for causing controversy. For of erotic intimacy between consenting adults the most part you’re skillful at managing your that can truly be called “unnatural”: an act that reputation and keeping it orderly. But there may is physically impossible to perform. Everything soon be a departure from this norm. A bit of a else is potentially vitalizing and holy. No one hubbub could arise in regards to the impressions knows this better than you Scorpios. You’re you’re making and the effects you’re generatthe champions of exotic pleasure; the connois- ing. I’m reminded of Capricorn author J. D. seurs of blissful marvels; the masters of curious Salinger, whose book “Catcher in the Rye” was delight and extraordinary exultation. And from for a time widely taught in American schools an astrological perspective, the coming weeks but also widely banned because of its allegedly will be a time when these aspects of your char- controversial elements. These days the book is acter could be especially regarded as a beloved vivid. But wait a minute. classic, and I suspect What about the pandemic? you will weather your What about social-distanccommotion with simiing? What about being lar panache. By Rob Brezsny cautious in seeking intimate connection? If anyone can work around these AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Novelist Tom constraints so as to have sexual fun, it’s your Robbins articulated a vision of what it means tribe. Use your imagination! to be bold and brave. He said, “Real courage is risking something that might force you to SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): When he was 22 rethink your thoughts and suffer change and years old, Sagittarian-born Werner Heisenberg stretch consciousness.” I’m hoping you will make received his doctorate in physics and mathemat- that formula your keynote in the comics from a German university—even though ing weeks. The time is right for he got a grade of C on his final exams. you to summon extra amounts Nine years later, he was of fortitude, determination, and awarded the Nobel Prize for audacity. What new Physics because of his possibilities are you pioneering work ready to on quantum f lesh mechanics.What out happened in i n between? One ways key developthat might ment: He was prod you to revise mentored by y o u r beliefs physicists Niels Bohr and Max Born, both of whom also garnered Nobel Prizes. Another factor in his succ e s s was his association with o t h e r br ill ia nt colleagues

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and welcome transformation and expand your awareness? PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Joan of Arc performed her heroic and magical feats in 1430 and 1431. But she wasn’t canonized as a saint until 1920—almost five centuries later. It took a while to garner the full appreciation she deserved. I’m sure you won’t have to wait as long to be acknowledged for your good deeds and fine creations, Pisces. In fact, from what I can tell, there’ll be a significant honor, enhancement, or reward coming your way sometime in the next four months. Start visualizing what you’d like it to be, and set your intention to claim it. ARIES (March 21-April 19): In addition to being a magnificent storyteller, Aries author Barbara Kingsolver raises chickens at her home. “There are days when I am envious of my hens,” she writes, “when I hunger for a purpose as perfect and sure as a single daily egg.” Do you ever experience that delightful rush of assurance, Aries? I suspect that you’re likely to do so on multiple occasions in the coming weeks. And if you are indeed visited by visions of a perfect and sure purpose, your next task will be to initiate practical action to manifest it in the real world. TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Nobel Prize-winning Taurus physicist Richard Feynman got his undergraduate degree from prestigious MIT and his PhD from prestigious Princeton University. Later he taught at prestigious Caltech. But his approach to education had a maverick quality. “Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent, and original manner possible,” he advised his students. I think his strategy will work well for you in the coming weeks, which will be a favorable time to gather valuable information and polish your existing aptitudes. GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You’re entering a phase when you’ll have the potential to upgrade and fine-tune your relationship with money. In the hope of encouraging that prospect, I offer you the counsel of author Katharine Butler Hathaway. “To me, money is alive,” she wrote. “It is almost human. If you treat it with real sympathy and kindness and consideration, it will be a good servant and work hard for you, and stay with you and take care of you.” I hope you’ll consider cultivating that approach, dear Gemini: expressing benevolence and love toward money, and pledging to be benevolent and loving as you use the money you acquire.

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I’m committed to my male partner and he’s committed to me (I’m a woman), but we both understand we need to flirt and that we will both want to sleep with someone else at some point. We live together, we have a dog, and neither of us believes in marriage. We plan to purchase a house in the coming months. Here’s the issue: He met a woman at work. He’s not sexually attracted to her at all. She, however, would love to blow him. She’s in an unhappy marriage and has no friends. They exchanged numbers when my partner was transferred and now she texts him constantly. It doesn’t totally bother me. But not only does she text him at all hours of the day and night, but she continuously tells him he’s the hottest man she’s ever met. She sends him nudes, which I’ve seen, and wants to suck his “huge dic.” (it is huge). But even though I know he’s not sexually attracted to her, I’m still feeling threatened. I have extremely low self-esteem right now, and I’m struggling with depression. I’m speaking with a therapist and I’m on meds. But the meds have made me gain about 50 pounds, which doesn’t help with the depression. I get the need and desire to flirt, but right now I’m not confident enough to be OK with him being sexual with another person even if it’s just texts. And I feel this way knowing he has no plans to be with her! He continues to tell me he has no desire to spend his life with anyone else but me. Yet he’s suddenly hesitant to buy a house. I guess I’m asking WTF should I do? —Dinging Phone Really Exacerbating Semi-Serious Depression

he enjoys feeling desirable and/or he doesn’t want to hurt her feelings. If it’s the former, make it clear to your partner that you wouldn’t have a problem with him finding someone else to swap flirty sext messages with, so long as it’s someone who can sext in moderation and at appropriate times. If it’s the latter, DPRESSD, make it clear to your partner that this shit is hurting your feelings and, as his partner, you expect him to prioritize your feelings over his former coworker’s feelings. All that said, DPRESSD, even if the thought of your partner going off to play with another woman didn’t make you feel insecure, you wouldn’t want your partner getting blown by this particular woman. Even if your partner has never said, “Don’t text me at all hours of the day and night,” that’s no excuse. No one wants their phone or their partner’s phone blowing up at 3 a.m.; that’s not a boundary anyone should have to articulate to set and, articulated or not, no one with any common sense would do that. (And, holy crap, if this is how this woman behaves in pursuit of your partner’s big cock, how is she gonna behave after she gets a taste?) As for the house issue, DPRESSD, press your partner to clarify his sudden hesitancy. It may have nothing to do with your relationship; it’s entirely possible that he’s freaked out by the state of the world—because, my God, who isn’t?—and he’s having second thoughts about sinking his savings into a house. Depression often puts the worst possible spin on things; it can lead us to reject a calming truth someone is telling us in favor of an alarming lie we’re telling ourselves. Don’t fall into that trap. And finally, DPRESSD, please talk to your doctor about switching out your meds. If weight gain is a side effect of the ones you’re on now, and weight gain is making you more depressed, then it doesn’t make sense to keep treating your depression with the meds you’re on now. A different med might give you the same benefits without this particular side effect.

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You say it doesn’t bother you—it doesn’t totally bother you—that this woman texts your partner day and night, DPRESSD, which strikes me as odd. Because that shit would drive me up the wall. Blowing up someone’s phone at all hours of the day and night screams “I HAVE NO BOUNDARIES! I AM INCAPABLE OF BEING CONSIDERATE! I HAVE NO SELF CONTROL!” Even if you were in a place where you felt better about your partner getting some attention elsewhere, the shit this woman is pulling would still be annoying, unsettling, and totally bothersome. And this shit should be disqualifying—meaning, your partner should’ve shut this woman down already. He should’ve told this woman to knock it off and, if she didn’t knock it off, he should’ve told her to fuck the fuck off and blocked her number. If he tried to shut her down and she kept texting him, DPRESSD, then I have to wonder why he hasn’t blocked her number already. Assuming he’s telling you the truth about not being attracted to her—and it sounds like he is—he may have allowed this to go on because

I met someone I connected with during quarantine. We’ve all but committed to screwing our brains out after we’re given the all-clear. But she recently suffered a devastating loss. We will meet, on her terms, most likely very soon. I know I should follow her lead, but should I avoid sex even if she wants to have sex? I don’t know if sex will help or hurt. Is being chaste and supportive the right move? Can sex help in a time of loss? I just don’t want to be the asshole someone winds up writing to you for advice about. —Looking Over Sexual Timing Follow her lead—that’s a good impulse—and if she wants to have sex after you’ve met in person and after you’ve made it clear to her that

there’s no rush, LOST, and if you want to have sex after you’ve met her in person, go ahead and have sex. Some people find sex after a devastating loss to be healing and affirming and the last thing that person needs is for someone else to decide they shouldn’t be having sex or even wanting to have sex. As for the all-clear you’re waiting for, well, that could be a long time off, seeing as COVID-19 rates are spiking all over the country. If you decide you can’t wait for the all-clear, please consult the New York Health Department’s safer sex/harm-reduction recommendations for people who want to have sex during this pandemic. (Google “New York Health,” “coronavirus,” and “sex.”) To quickly summarize: you can minimize your risk of contracting or transmitting COVID-19 by wearing a mask, not eating ass, using condoms, and using a glory hole. I’ve been dating someone long distance for seven months. I’ve been transparent about my need for an open relationship. Recently this gentleman asked me to tell him if I slept with someone else. I agreed because I’m not sleeping with anyone at the moment due to COVID-19. But since March, I’ve been having phone sex with a long-term booty call who lives across the country. Neither knows about the other and neither one knows I’m bisexual. No big deal, right? I’m a first responder in a

male-dominated field, and I put up with enough bullshit without the men in my life knowing I eat pussy. How much of an asshole am I for not disclosing what I don’t need to? —Not Banging (Other) Dudes You’re being an asshole—to yourself. Hiding your bisexuality from the men you’re dating increases your odds of winding up in a relationship with someone who judges, shames, or hates you for being bisexual, NBOD, and why on earth would you want to do that to yourself? Disclosing your bisexuality ups yours odds of attracting a guy who fetishizes your bisexuality, of course, but it’s easier to weed those guys out early than it is to leave (or divorce) some guy who reveals himself to be biphobic after you’ve made a huge emotional investment in him. As for the phone sex… you should disclose that too. If Mr. Seven Months can’t handle you having phone sex with some other guy, NBOD, he certainly won’t be able to handle you sleeping with someone else. And if he can’t handle that, he’s not the right guy for a woman who wants/needs/requires an open relationship. Send letters to mail@savagelove.net,. follow @ FakeDanSavage on Twitter, and bookmark savagelovecast.com.

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