I want our kids to appreciate Playstation 9 when they’re adults and, thus, I take them to art museums whenever we travel. The Rhode Island School of Design Museum is a decent-sized crowd-free museum in which the art can actually be appreciated. We learned that the ubiquitous Dale Chihuly is a RISD graduate and former teacher:
We also learned about queer knitting and queer resistance:
And that one could get academic credit for taking a course titled “Queer People/Places/Things”:
At the subscription library Providence Athenaeum we found a database #Resisting computerized management:
One lonely storefront clung to the five-year-old theory that Black Lives Matter:
All of the other churches and shops that we found with social justice messages were consistent with Is LGBTQIA the most popular social justice cause because it does not require giving money?
An Episcopal church associates the sacred Rainbow Flag with a quote from Jesus: “Love one another, as I have loved you.” Is the implication that Jesus went to the bathhouse regularly? If not, how is a practitioner of Rainbow Flagism loving his 25 or 50 new friends the way that Jesus loved people?
A United Church of Christ:
The First Baptist Church mixes Rainbow Flagism with cautionary words about the dictator in the White House: “Speech Remains Free When We Pay Attention”. The folks who supported forced vaccination and forced masking celebrate #BodilyFreedomForever:
Rainbow-first retail was on display in the 25-year-old Providence Place mall, now in receivership.
My favorite store, however, was Craftland (downtown; featured in the New York Times, as noted below):
(They admit that the land they’re on is stolen, but won’t pay rent to the Native Americans who are the rightful owners?)
And, of course, it all comes back to Queers for Palestine:
A few more photos of this shop’s windows:
Related:
Phil, was there a point you were trying to convey here?
I’m just leaving these photos here for a PhD student in Anthropology to find 50, 100, or 200 years from now and add to his/her/zir/their thesis!
My takeaway is juxtapositioning of the traditional, latent Eugenism of Rhode Islanders with their modernist “liberal” apologism and the consequent effects manifested therein. Separates the white light into a rainbow, like a prism.
Knowing your connoisseurship of land acknowledgements I thought this might meet with your approval:
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