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The 30 Years That Brought Us HB 2 — BARRY YEOMAN What HB 2 Actually Does — PAUL BLEST How to Change Your Birth Certificate — LILY CAROLLO Kids and Gender Roles — ABIGAIL HOILE The N.C. State Prof’s HB 2 Archive — JANE PORTER Coming Out as Transgender to Your Family — HANNAH PITSTICK The End of Tar Heel Progressivism — FRED HOBSON Activism: HB 2’s Silver Lining — GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN

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TRUTH TO IGNORANCE There is nothing â&#x20AC;&#x153;common senseâ&#x20AC;? about NC House Bill 2 and it has nothing to do with the safety of North Carolinians. It is a cynical power grab designed to divide, disrespect, discriminate, and diminish all North Carolinians. It stifles local voices - particularly those of already-marginalized communities. As Durham based employers and long time members of this community, KONTEK Systems and Ellen Cassilly Architect stand together to demand full repeal of this hateful and ignorant legislation. The reputation of North Carolina as a place we are proud to call home, raise our families, and do business has been tarnished - full repeal is the first step to moving us forward as a diverse community.

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23 Changing your birth certificate requires sex reassignment surgery. But North Carolina doesn’t specify which surgery qualifies. 27 “If you are a transsexual person, those ghosts will not go away.” 33 “So what if they want to get naked and play human bobsled together?” 36 By the mid-twenties, H.L. Mencken had concluded that North Carolina was the best state in the Old Confederacy. 38 “I think people understand one another’s positions better if those positions are communicated, because it creates more empathy.” 40 From outside, the Air Horn Orchestra played loud enough to register as a locust-like buzz on Governor McCrory’s lapel mic.

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20 If the state loses federal funding over HB 2, more than fifty thousand jobs are at risk.

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10 If history is a river, then at least three distinct tributaries converged in Raleigh on March 23, the day HB 2 passed.

The Reverend Mykal Slack moved to North Carolina last year, just in time for all hell to break loose.

6 Since HB 2 passed, five states and more than a dozen municipalities have banned taxpayer-funded travel to North Carolina.

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triangulator +THE COST OF HB 2

It’s hard to keep up with all the economic losses North Carolina has incurred because of House Bill 2. Here’s a notcomprehensive but nonetheless alarming look at just a few of them. ● Greensboro Coliseum suffered

nearly $200,000 in ticket losses this year (and part-time workers lost shifts) due to artist cancelations. Bruce Springsteen ($100,000), Cirque du Soleil ($68,000), and Boston ($20,000)

all pulled out. Pearl Jam, Ringo Starr, Demi Lovato, and Nick Jonas have also canceled North Carolina appearances in protest of HB 2.

● Five states and more than a dozen

municipalities have banned public employees from traveling to North Carolina on the taxpayers’ dime.

● The Washington Post reported

recently that Asheville’s normally robust tourism industry is now looking at more than $1 million in decreased hotel bookings.

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$40 million in convention business because of HB 2, with sixteen trade associations or corporate groups having canceled already and thirteen former prospects no longer in play.

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Research Association Conference, originally scheduled in Chapel Hill for June 2017, was recently canceled thanks to HB 2, at a loss of at least $454,000. That’s the sixth time a conference in Orange County was nixed since HB 2 was passed in March. The

Orange County Visitors Bureau estimates total hotel booking losses at around $1.2 million. ● In April, PayPal bailed on a planned

$3.5 million Charlotte complex that would have employed four hundred people and paid out $20.7 million in salaries. You know why.

● Speaking of Charlotte, the city

lost thirteen conventions and events because of HB 2. Plus, the 2017 NBA All-Star Game is not a sure thing. The NBA’s decision, which should come by the end of summer, will have a $100 million impact.

● Sixty-eight big companies,

including United Airlines, General Electric, Dow Chemical, Microsoft, Apple, and Tumblr, signed an amicus brief in support of the U.S. Department of Justice request to block HB 2. The legislature has put aside $500,000 of taxpayer money to fight legal battles over the law—and it comes out of the state’s Emergency Response and Disaster Relief fund. Which, come to think of it, seems weirdly appropriate.

+SIGNS, SIGNS, EVERYWHERE A (GENDER-NEUTRAL) SIGN SmartSign, the largest sign retailer on the web, owns more than forty websites, on which it hawks messages that range from helpful notifications (OPEN HOUSE) to emergency instructions (IN CASE OF FIRE—USE THE STAIRS) to strict rules (NO CELL PHONES ALLOWED). The company, based in Brooklyn, also sells bathroom signs. A few years ago, SmartSign began producing a genderneutral image for bathroom doors—a human figure wearing pants on one side and a dress on the other (similar to the signs that have proliferated throughout the Triangle since HB 2 passed, and the image that adorns this week’s INDY cover). Not long after, Sam Killermann, an LGBTQ activist, wrote a blog post criticizing the image, which he argued reinforced a duality that wasn’t inclusive of fluid gender identities. And why was a human image necessary at all? Killermann wondered. He proposed an alternative image: a toilet.

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“For group restrooms, or if you’re worried about folks not understanding the sign, put a short explanation below it,” Killermann added. SmartSign took Killermann’s suggestions to heart and even asked him to design the new image. He did. It is a drawing of a toilet, with the words ALL-GENDER RESTROOM beneath it. The signs are available at mydoorsign.com, and they are moving fast. “We’ve sold about twice as many all-gender signs in 2016 as we did in 2015,” says Conrad Lumm, marketing director for SmartSign. “And sales keep going up every month.” Has HB 2 helped? “Yes and no,” Lumm says. “I think that, generally, there’s a broader recognition that not everybody fits into the easy gender categories we’ve inherited, and we’re seeing that all across the

country. Obviously, though, North Carolina has become a flashpoint for that cultural trend. “Part of our gender-inclusive effort here also involves donating those signs to nonprofits and educational institutions that ask for them, because we don’t think they should have to pay through the nose to update and implement that change,” Lumm continues. “And we’ve been seeing more demand for that in North Carolina, as well as LGBT advocates there who are distributing our signs to private businesses. A lot of people are going out of their way to make this point. Or not necessarily make a point, really; they’re simply being more welcoming to their clientele.”

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weren’t especially fond of Planned Parenthood to begin with.

For transgender people in the South who are looking to transition, accessing the health care they need can be daunting. Hormone replacement therapy can run around $1,500 per year, and some of the services associated with it may not be covered by health insurance. What’s more, some doctors are not always sensitive to the needs of people who are transitioning. Planned Parenthood has tried to fill that gap. Hormone replacement therapy is now offered at Planned Parenthood South Atlantic in Raleigh, Chapel Hill, and Asheville, and soon will be available in Charlotte as well. The nonprofit has also updated its language and programming to be more inclusive. “We’ve reduced our costs quite a bit by removing the barriers that are often in place with other providers,” says Jenny Black, PPSA’s president and CEO. “So we don’t require psych exams or other costly lab workups, which reduces the cost quite a bit. It’s my understanding that a lot of these services aren’t covered by insurance, making reducing those out-of-pocket expenses important.” The INDY spoke with Black about PPSA’s services for transgender people—and issues associated with offering them in a state whose government is openly hostile toward LGBTQ rights. Our lawmakers, after all,

The INDY: What services do you provide to transgender people? Jenny Black: Right now, twenty Planned Parenthood health centers across seven states offer hormone therapy for transgender people. We really want to help transgender people fully realize who they are. Part of our mission is to help people live the healthiest life possible. We treat them with respect and dignity. We try to provide care that is radically compassionate. Planned Parenthood is already under attack. Was there a fear that expanding into this area could increase that scrutiny? We have a deep belief that reproductive rights are connected with LGBTQ rights and health. We’re not afraid to do what’s right even if it’s not going to make us more popular with North Carolina legislators. But since 2010, the legislature has passed increasingly hostile legislation to marginalized people: people of color, working-class people of all races, and frankly, the entire LGBTQ community. We’re really proud to provide this service in particular. Our staff is well-prepared to deliver compassionate, quality health care, and there’s no reason we can’t do that for the trans community. It’s the right thing to do.

What are some problems that trans people face when receiving health care services? We see our role as removing barriers to care for all people. In addition to discrimination and harassment, LGBTQ people face lower rates of health insurance coverage, are more likely to have HIV or cancer, and are more likely to be discriminated against, even if it’s not intentional. We stand firmly in that space to make sure all people have access to high-quality services, but transgender people face extra barriers, so we’re making sure we’re removing those. Have you seen an increase in transgender patients since HB 2 passed? It’s one of our fastest growing patient population groups, and it may be that word is getting out that we provide this service. It’s hard for me to tie that to HB 2, but we’ve been dealing with this since 2010, since the legislature started passing all sorts of legislation, so we are seeing patient volumes increase from people of color and the LGBTQ community, especially transgender patients. As North Carolina is making it more and more difficult to access care without barriers, Planned Parenthood has become more and more necessary. triangulator@indyweek.com This week’s report by Paul Blest, Danny Hooley, and David Hudnall.

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At an event in Raleigh last week, Donald Trump praises Saddam Hussein’s terroristkilling skills. Did you know Hitler was a great painter?

At that rally, Progress NC communications director Logan Smith is ejected after yelling—loud enough to be heard on camera—“Trump’s hands are so small! They’re so tiny! They’re like a baby’s hands!” Trump tried to choke him but couldn’t get his hands around Smith’s neck.

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Governor McCrory signs a bill shielding police body-cam footage from public view. A kōan: if a body falls in a traffic stop and no one sees it, is accountability a joke?

The state’s voter ID law goes to trial in September. The ghost of Jesse Helms couldn’t be reached for comment, but a faint cackling could be heard emanating from the bowels of the earth.

The Police Benevolent Association endorses former state senator Josh Stein for attorney general, over HB 2 sponsor Representative Buck Newton. In response, Newton orders his interns to find another victim of a brutal crime to name his next bill after.

A federal judge gives the legislature until July 18 to decide whether it will redraw the Wake County commission and school-board maps that were deemed unconstitutional. “This time, draw them with a ruler, not a Spirograph,” the judge says.

The Raleigh City Council rejects a pro-life group’s plans for a crisis pregnancy center next to an abortion provider. The city also nixed plans to put a rehab clinic next to Slim’s.

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Once they got to talking, they discovered their shared interest in advancing fracked gas as well as donating to North Carolina’s politicians. The courtship was swift. Piedmont could not resist and said, “yes!”

Governor Pat McCrory, a former Duke employee of 28 years, was delighted at their joint venture to build the Atlantic Coast Pipeline to transport fracked gas to the state, and their proposed union has received significant support from regulatory agencies.

# FIXDEMOCRACY Gov. McCrory’s four appointments on the North Carolina Utilities Commission are among the final voices needed to give their blessing to the merger. The newlyweds’ future plans include construct-

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That’s the question I kept coming back to, in the months following the one-day special session in March that rammed the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act into law: How did North Carolina—once a bastion of, if not Berkeley-esque liberalism, at least a forward-thinking commitment to modernity—end up synonymous with transphobia and bigotry? How did we become the target of a federal lawsuit, the subject of corporate boycotts and international ignominy, a flashpoint in the fading culture wars? That question—how?—frames the centerpiece of this special issue of the INDY, Barry Yeoman’s brilliant exploration of the history and politics that produced HB 2. But the more we thought about this singularly contentious issue—this issue that has so dominated North Carolina politics this year—the more other questions came to mind: What’s it like to be transgender in the South? What’s the process for changing your birth certificate? What do the teenagers HB 2 was supposedly designed to protect think about it? What does this law— and the furor it created and the activism it engendered—say about our state’s future? And so what was originally going to be a single cover story morphed into an entire issue, eight features in total, with eight writers pull-

ing apart all the different facets of what HB 2 does and who it affects. Our designers chipped in, too, creating a poster, which you’ll find on page 30, that you can pull out and put up on the wall, a statement of support for LGBTQ and other vulnerable populations. Our sales folks got in on it as well, selling discounted ads to companies that wanted to make a statement about HB 2. In every way, this issue was a team effort, a collective declaration: we are better than this. We are better than hate, better than fear, better than discrimination. And while the legislature has dug in—not bending to corporate boycotts or the NBA’s threat to move the 2017 All-Star Game—so have those of us who believe in equality and basic human decency, who want to restore North Carolina’s reputation as a somewhat progressive lighthouse in the too-often-regressive South. Ultimately, I have faith that light will eventually triumph over darkness, that the arc of the universe will continue bending toward justice, that the architects of this moral abomination will find themselves subject to the same sort of disapprobation history reserves for all those who stand in the way of civil rights. Whether through political change or court edict, it will happen. It’s only a question of when—and how much damage our state will incur in the meantime. —Jeffrey C. Billman

TABLE OF CONTENTS 10 The 30 Years That Brought Us HB 2 by Barry Yeoman 20 Here’s What HB 2 Actually Does by Paul Blest 23 How to Change Your Birth Certificate by Lily Carollo 27 What It’s Like for a Southern Trans Woman to Come Out to Her Family by Hannah Pitstick

33 What Generation Z Thinks of HB 2

by Abigail Hoile

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The 30 Years That Brought Us HB 2

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I. HELL BREAKS LOOSE Last year, when the Reverend Mykal Slack was preparing to move south to Durham, nearer to his and his wife’s families, some of his closest friends questioned his judgment. Slack had left rural Georgia twenty years earlier, and it was up north that he had built a career and an identity. He earned a law degree, clerked for a judge, and spent his early thirties attending New York’s Union Theological Seminary. “I was getting clear about my faith,” he says. “Part of that clarity was understanding that, for me anyway, I must honor God by honoring the truth of myself.” Slack had long understood that he was male, even though his birth certificate said otherwise. “But I knew enough about the way the world works that I couldn’t share the truth with anybody,” he says. Within the welcoming confines of the seminary, he found the path to authenticity, and in 2006 he came out as a man. “That’s when a lot of my life began,” he says. Slack, now forty-two, worked for several Northern congregations. He got together with his wife, psychologist LeLaina Romero, while he was living in Pennsylvania and she in Massachusetts. In August 2015, the couple moved to North Carolina in the hope that living closer to relatives would also carry them into territory where their work could make a big impact. Durham, with no majority race, seemed simpatico for an African-American transgender man and a Puerto Rican-French CanadianJewish woman. Still, not everyone was convinced of the wisdom of moving south. “I’m so scared for you,” friends told him. “I appreciate that,” he’d respond, before noting that he’d seen plenty of bigotry above the MasonDixon line. In his new hometown, he’d say, “I’m going to be surrounded by queer and trans people of color. This is going to be like heaven.” The Triangle lived up to its billing. The people Slack and Romero met were “resilient, joy-filled, willing and ready to support one another,” he says. He found work as director of congregational life for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Raleigh. She became pregnant. They prepared for parenthood while also taking care of Romero’s ailing father. “Little did we know,” he says, “that once we moved to North Carolina, all hell would break loose.”

“Every industry, every interest group, said, ‘We might not get what we want, but we can stop anything.’”

he hell, of course, was House Bill 2, the hastily passed legislation that flung North Carolina into the center of the nation’s culture wars—triggering lawsuits, demonstrations, copycat bills, boycotts, federal directives, corporate pullouts, and an interminable stream of rhetoric. The law’s most debated section assigns bathroom access in public buildings according to the “biological sex” listed on the user’s birth certificate. Other provisions strip city and county officials of the right to protect their LGBTQ constituents and others, and prevent local governments from imposing wage and other employment rules on their contractors. (Another section, prohibiting job-discrimination victims from suing in state courts, was repealed two weeks ago, but the time limit for filing a discrimination lawsuit was shortened by two-thirds.) HB 2 became law March 23, the same day it landed on legislators’ desks—just in time to overturn a Charlotte nondiscrimination ordinance scheduled to take effect the following week. That morning, Slack attended a House committee hearing where supporters claimed that both safety and religious freedom were in peril unless the state dictated his bathroom access. He had not planned to speak, but the absence of testimony from trans people of color moved him to address a Senate committee that afternoon. At the microphone he was a commanding figure, his clerical collar resting on broad shoulders, his chin sprouting a soul patch. “As a preacher, it’s my job to speak as plainly as I can, in all the places I’m called to, with as much love in my heart as I can muster,” he said. “So let me be plain and clear today. Telling a lie over and over and over again does not make it true. I am a transgender male, and I am not a threat to you. … I get up in the morning. I go to work every day. I go to church every Sunday. I kiss my wife’s belly every night before we go to sleep.” By forcing him into women’s restrooms, lawmakers were putting his safety at risk—perhaps, Slack generously suggested, because their knowledge of the subject was lacking. “The issue here is to have deeper conversations,” he said. “You should not vote on legislation or amendments that you do not fully understand.” Slack left the legislature still wearing a black suit and clerical collar. Usually fearless, he looked over his shoulder repeatedly as he walked away. Only after he’d reached his car and locked the doors did he allow himself a relieved sigh. “Thank God,” he thought, “nothing happened to me.”

ouse Bill 2 seemed like a bolt from nowhere. One day transgender North Carolinians were living low-profile lives; the next day their most private moments were being bandied about without a modicum of understanding. But the new law was not a bolt from nowhere. It can be understood by examining the decades preceding its passage. If history is a river, then at least three distinct tributaries converged in Raleigh on March 23. The first is the growing practice by state lawmakers—one that took root during the Reagan era—of slapping back local governments that get too proactive. The second is the successful national Republican effort to seize control of North Carolina’s government. And the third is the recent visibility of transgender Americans, their push for legal equality, and the utterly predictable backlash. It’s hardly a stretch to say that those three currents made House Bill 2 not just possible, but virtually preordained.

II: PREEMPTION To understand the roots of HB 2, let’s take a thirtyyear step back. When I started covering the North Carolina legislature in the mid-eighties, business interests were already pushing to strip cities and counties of their powers. In 1987, Representative George Miller, a Durham Democrat, introduced a measure making it harder to remove nuisance billboards, as Raleigh’s city council was trying to do. He also sponsored a bill, favored by the N.C. Board of Realtors, prohibiting local officials from “downzoning” properties to lower-intensity use—an important conservation tool—without compensating owners. Neither bill passed. But a strategy was taking shape: as cities took more initiative to improve their quality of life, aggrieved businesses could plead their cases to the friendlier state legislature. This tactic of defanging local governments is called “preemption.” It’s hardly restricted to North Carolina. And its use has burgeoned over the years leading up to HB 2. The tobacco industry, fighting indoor-smoking regulations, helped pioneer preemption in the 1980s. A former lobbyist named Victor Crawford revealed the strategy publicly after his own diagnosis with a smoking-related cancer.

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“We could never win at the local level,” he told The Journal of the American Medical Association in 1995. “All the health advocates, the ones that unfortunately I used to call ‘health Nazis,’ they’re all local activists who run the little political organizations. They may live next door to the mayor, or the city councilman may be his or her brother-in-law. … When they’ve got their friends and neighbors out there in the audience who want this bill, we get killed. So the Tobacco Institute and tobacco companies’ first priority has always been to preempt the field. … The health advocates can’t compete with me on a state level. They never could.” Big Tobacco made big strides initially, then lost ground as public support grew for smoking restrictions. The more enduring push came from the gun lobby, which blanketed the country with bills to stop places like Durham and Chapel Hill from regulating firearms. Lars Dalseide, a spokesman for the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Action, calls preemption key to eliminating “patchwork” regulation. “While you’re a law-abiding citizen in your hometown,” he says, “you cross a county line and all of a sudden you become a criminal.” Around the country, NRA lobbyists courted legislators—treating North Carolina’s, for example, to seafood parties and Christmas gifts starting in 1994—and racked up victories. Most states, including North Carolina, now tie the hands of cities that want to address gun violence. “The game is over, and the NRA won it,” says Mark Pertschuk, director of Grassroots Change, a California-based nonprofit that runs a project called Preemption Watch. Since then, preemption efforts have flourished. “Every industry, every interest group, said, ‘We might not get what we want, but we can stop anything,’” explains Pertschuk. Those industries are often assisted by the American Legislative Exchange Council, a free-market advocacy group that brings together business leaders with state legislators at luxury hotels. ALEC also publishes model laws curtailing local authority, with wording that lawmakers can copy and paste. It’s no shock, then, that in recent years states have barred municipalities from regulating fracking, banning or taxing plastic bags, and creating sanctuaries for immigrants. This spring, Wisconsin outlawed county development moratoriums. Mississippi upended local regulations on companies like Uber. Arizona took away local leverage over drones and puppy mills. And Kansas passed a law preempting—in a single swoop—local policies governing rent control, housing inspections, and nutritional labeling. 12 | 7.13.16 | INDYweek.com

“This is a more vulnerable community, and there wasn’t as much sympathy for the discrimination that trans people experience. It’s still a new idea to so many people.”

As HB 2 makes clear, one focus of this push has been labor: both ALEC and the dining and tourism industries have tried to prevent local governments from regulating wages or other working conditions. “Over ninety percent of restaurants are small businesses running on extremely thin margins,” says National Restaurant Association spokeswoman Christin Fernandez. “The last thing they need is a patchwork of policy initiatives.” This means not just handcuffing elected officials, but also overturning direct democracy. Two years ago, voters in Orange County, Florida, approved an ordinance mandating up to seven days of annual paid sick leave for workers at all but the smallest companies. Opposing the measure were Darden Restaurants (Olive Garden, Red Lobster) and Disney. Before the vote could take place, however, the Florida legislature outlawed local employment standards. That invalidated the ballot measure as soon as it passed. “It was a huge blow,” says Stephanie Porta, director of the Orlando-based Organize Now, which championed the measure. “People had worked very hard to do this for the first time ever. It was historic. It should have been celebrated. Instead it was squashed.” North Carolina has long used preemption, though not in an exceptional way. That changed with an off-year election that immoderately altered the political mood in Raleigh.

III: THE GREAT DISMANTLING During the lead-up to Election Day 2010, a national caucus called the Republican State Leadership Committee recognized that whichever party controlled statehouses after November would also redraw the post-census congressional district lines. Seizing on President Obama’s falling popularity, it launched the Redistricting Majority Project, or REDMAP, which poured $30 million into state legislative contests around the country. REDMAP says it invested $1.2 million in North Carolina, where Democrats at the time ran both the House and the Senate. The Koch brothers’ Americans for Prosperity also targeted North Carolina legislative seats. So did in-state conservative groups linked to Raleigh businessman Art Pope. As Jane Mayer later chronicled in The New Yorker, the money funded a barrage of attack ads of dubious veracity. Not only did the ads blindside Democratic incumbents; they also succeeded in installing GOP majorities in both state cham-

bers. When Pat McCrory was elected governor two years later, Republicans celebrated their first lock on North Carolina’s government since 1870. This was more than a partisan shift. The 2010 election triggered a breakdown of North Carolina’s moderate consensus, which Democrats like former governor Jim Hunt and Republicans like former governor Jim Martin had shared for fifty years. That consensus favored roads, schools, and racial civility, all of which undergirded a healthy business climate. The new legislative majority set out to dismantle that consensus: curtailing voting access, cutting education spending, and rejecting a federally funded Medicaid expansion. It slashed unemployment benefits and imposed new barriers to abortion. It repealed the Racial Justice Act, which guarded against bias in the sentencing of death-row inmates. It set into motion Amendment 1, which wrote one-man/one-woman marriage into the state constitution until the federal courts invalidated it. It redrew its own district lines to explicitly give Republicans a greater electoral advantage. And it picked up the mantle of preemption with exceptional vigor. Never before had there been such a disconnect between the state’s government and its urban areas, nor such a strong impulse to rein in liberal and even centrist cities. This time, preemption went beyond big-picture issues like gun control. Lawmakers got personal with individual cities and counties. They tried to wrest from Asheville control of its own water system and, from Charlotte, control of its airport. (The Asheville case is currently in legal limbo.) They redrew electoral lines for the Wake County commissioners and school board (struck down by the U.S. Court of Appeals this month) and Greensboro City Council (still in court). They forced Durham to extend utility services to the 751 South development near Jordan Lake, despite concerns about water quality and traffic. “This is new,” Frayda Bluestein, a professor of public law and government at the UNC School of Government, says of the targeted preemption bills. “Those kinds of things were not common until this recent change in the legislative makeup.” Top Republican officials would not comment for this story. Governor McCrory, Senate leader Phil Berger, and retiring House Speaker Pro Tempore Paul Stam all declined or ignored interview requests. Andy Munn, deputy chief of staff for House Speaker Tim Moore, asked for a written list of questions, to which he and his boss never responded. Notably, until HB 2, lawmakers did not preempt local antidiscrimination efforts, as Tennessee did

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in 2011 and Arkansas did in 2015. And with samesex marriage a settled issue—in the courts and increasingly in the mainstream heart—lesbians and gays are no longer widely perceived as a threat. If North Carolina’s culture warriors were going to use preemption as a weapon, they would need to find a different way in.

IV: BATHROOM POLITICS “We all expected there would be an enthusiastic backlash against marriage equality,” says Katherine Franke, director of Columbia Law School’s Center for Gender and Sexuality Law. After Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court’s 2015 marriage ruling, overt homophobia was no longer “polling well.” But the emergence of a visible transgender-rights movement opened new lines of attack. “This is a more vulnerable community, and there wasn’t as much sympathy for the discrimination that trans people experience,” Franke says. “It’s still a new idea to so many people, and one that sounds at best exotic and at worst unnatural.” Trans people have long been treated as junior partners in the LGBTQ pantheon: they are fewer in number, more recently considered “disordered,” and historically a lower priority for movement leaders. Yet trans folks have been in North Carolina all along, living quiet and productive lives without much protection, finding support in their communities and resilience in themselves. Christy Summersett moved to North Carolina ten years ago as part of a work relocation, but she was terminated after beginning her gender transition. “Of course, it wasn’t because I came out,” the fifty-nine-year-old says sardonically. “It was for ten thousand other reasons.” The firing spurred her to find a job where she’s respected, as the maintenance manager for a Rocky Mount windshield company. Overall, she says, life on the coastal plain has been good. “John Doe on the street, that you meet at the grocery, doesn’t care,” she says. “You’re a living, breathing individual. If you’re contributing to society and the economy, fine.” Because she still has a deep voice, contractors sometimes call Summersett “sir” on the phone. “But when I meet them face-to-face,” she says, “they can’t eat their words fast enough.” Not everyone fares so well. A 2011 survey of 6,450 transgender and gender-nonconforming Americans found that 41 percent had attempted suicide. (Studies have placed the general-population suicide-attempt rate between 1.9 percent and 4.6 percent.) 14 | 7.13.16 | INDYweek.com

“I wasn’t afraid of the law so much as the vigilantism that the law perpetuated.”

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“Bathrooms are a way we fight out civil rights norms.”

narrative about who’s at risk. “It’s not about transgender people,” says state Senator Andrew Brock, a Mocksville Republican. “It’s about people who prey upon women and children. They would use the transgender people as scapegoats to condone their bad behavior.” If Charlotte’s nondiscrimination measure were allowed to stand, he says, “someone could use that ordinance as a ‘Get Out of Jail Free’ card.” (Brock, a former congressional candidate who touts his “Christian values,” used more combative words at an April rally outside the legislature, saying the $42,000 cost of the special session to enact HB 2 “will not cover the medical expenses to the man who walks into the bathroom when my little girl is in there.”) Franke, the law professor, says it shouldn’t surprise anyone that the latest battle has moved into the toilet. “Bathrooms are a way we fight out civil rights norms,” she says. During the 1960s, segregationists claimed that African-American women would spread syphilis to white women via toilet seats. Ten years later, critics of the Equal Rights Amendment raised the specter of unisex restrooms. During the 1978 fight over California’s Briggs Initiative, which would have purged public schools of their gay faculty, state Senator John Briggs speculated that “most” homosexual teachers in San Francisco were “seducing young boys in toilets.” The fear of something untoward occurring in a bathroom—the semipublic space where we are most exposed—has had remarkable staying power. “Women’s restrooms are the one place where men feel like they can’t be in there to protect women or children,” says Andy Garcia, program manager for Equality Federation, a nonprofit that works with state organizations on LGBTQ issues. Equality Federation has examined how Americans respond to different messages about transgender rights. “The support for nondiscrimination protections was very broad, but not very deep,” says Garcia. “We lost huge chunks of the conflicted audiences—they just went away—as soon as the opposition started saying, ‘Hey look, this allows a man, any man at any time, to say that he’s a woman and go into the woman’s restroom.’ We lost people with that, and we still can’t figure out how to get them back.” So when Charlotte passed an antidiscrimination ordinance in February covering gender identity and sexual orientation—as Greensboro had done a year earlier, without incident—opponents had a surefire countermove at the ready. They would introduce a bill preempting the entire ordinance. But they’d keep their rhetorical focus on the toilets.

V: THE BLACK BOX How HB 2 came together—the mash-up of preemptions involving restrooms, discrimination bans, and contractor employment rules, plus the now-repealed restriction on lawsuits in state courts—remains a mystery. “A black box,” says state Senator Jeff Jackson, a Charlotte Democrat who opposes the law. State Senator Shirley Randleman, a Wilkesboro Republican who chaired a Senate working group responding to Charlotte’s ordinance, told her local newspaper that the legislation took shape over weeks of conference calls. But that’s all she revealed, and neither she nor Representative Dan Bishop, the Charlotte Republican who was the bill’s principal sponsor, responded to messages seeking interviews. Two LGBTQ rights groups, Equality NC and the Human Rights Campaign, filed public records requests for correspondence between McCrory, Moore, and Berger and pro-HB 2 activists; all three Republicans rebuffed them. As of press time, McCrory has also failed to respond to similar requests, made on March 28 and April 25, from the INDY. When I contacted Alliance Defending Freedom, an Arizona-based Christian legal organization fighting transgender restroom access in North Carolina and elsewhere, it promised to respond to a list of written questions. But it never did. Records obtained by the INDY from Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest do not reference the contractor and state-court sections of HB 2. They do, however, contain a March 10 letter from Edwin L. Barnes Jr., vice president of development at Charlotte’s Reformed Theological Seminary, urging GOP officials to invalidate all of Charlotte’s LGBTQ protections in a special session. “For those of you who are Christ-followers, fear God, not man,” Barnes wrote. Forest and Bishop responded in agreement. “Courage is exactly what is needed,” wrote Forest. What’s evident from the bill is that it was crafted with the intention of bringing together business and religious conservatives, both inside and outside the legislature. The contactor section, for example, overlaps a model bill by ALEC, the freemarket organization, outlawing local living-wage mandates for contractors and other employers. It also resembles a last-minute measure that North Carolina lawmakers rejected in 2015, which would have banned local wage and employment standards for all private companies. HB 2 opponents say the business-friendly provisions were no random add-ons. “The bill is sweeping in order to try to engage as many stakeholders

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as possible within a conservative majority,” says state Representative Chris Sgro, a Greensboro Democrat who also heads Equality NC. To some degree, it worked: the thirty-five-thousand-member North Carolina Chamber of Commerce stayed silent about HB 2 for almost two months after its passage, then released three suggested changes that didn’t touch the bathroom section. (Chamber officials insist they had no input before the bill was introduced.) Into that silence stepped scores of large corporations—GE, Xerox, Kellogg, Northrop Grumman, Coca-Cola, American Airlines, Levi Strauss—whose leaders forcefully condemned the bill. PayPal and Deutsche Bank canceled North Carolina expansion plans. Both WRAL and Charlotte city lobbyist Dana Fenton reported threats and fears of GOP revenge against outspoken companies. By June, Charlotte developers were worrying aloud about not filling office space because of the backlash. “They didn’t anticipate this level of blowback,” says Jackson, the Charlotte senator. “They really believed this was a lay-up—a quick way to score some points. As it turns out, the world has changed faster than they thought.”

VI: A TARGET ON OUR BACK Until Governor McCrory signed HB 2, no other state had such a measure. “Even in the states where there are extremist legislatures, in every case but North Carolina, after they really thought about it, somebody decided to be an adult,” says Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. But North Carolina is no longer alone, especially now that the Obama administration has advised states that federal sex-discrimination law covers gender identity. In June, Kansas senators passed a resolution urging public schools and universities to ignore Obama’s guidance. A new Mississippi law, signed by the governor in April (but blocked by a judge this month), protects businesses that restrict transgender restroom access. Michigan is considering legislation curtailing bathroom access for transgender public-school students. And in May, eleven states filed a lawsuit accusing the federal government of illegally turning “workplaces and educational settings across the country into laboratories for a massive social experiment.” Last week, another ten states filed a similar lawsuit. “This is an issue that’s sweeping the country,” Joaquín Carcaño 18 | 7.13.16 | INDYweek.com

“That’s what I like about HB 2: it’s gotten people’s attention. What they need to understand is HB 2s happen all the time.”

says Richard Mast, a Virginia-based attorney with Liberty Counsel, a Florida-based litigation group and self-described Christian ministry that supports HB 2. North Carolina declined Liberty Counsel’s offer of legal representation, but Mast claims at least twenty states have requested its assistance. What’s coming next in North Carolina? We really don’t know, and that’s the point: “black box” legislation like HB 2 has become commonplace. “You’re sitting next to a budget that landed on my desk this morning that we’re going to vote on tomorrow,” Jeff Jackson, the Democratic senator, told me in June. “No one’s seen any of this. There was no public input. It’s twenty-two billion dollars. This has become the norm. “That’s what I like about HB 2: it’s gotten people’s attention,” Jackson added. “What they need to understand is HB 2s happen all the time. We pass budgets without reading them. The public gets no say. We neglect major investments on a routine basis. We’re gerrymandered from head to toe. I’m glad we finally have people’s attention.”

or a while after the passage of House Bill 2, Rocky Mount’s Christy Summersett avoided public places where she could expect to encounter large groups of people. “I wasn’t afraid of the law so much as the vigilantism that the law perpetuated,” she says. Having been fired before, she had an honest talk with the plant manager at the windshield company where she works. “He assured me, with no ifs, ands, or buts, that I will be safe where I’m at,” she says. “There will be no repercussions.” For others, the impact has been more pronounced. Joaquín Carcaño, a twenty-eightyear-old former Peace Corps volunteer who coordinates an HIV program at UNC-Chapel Hill’s Institute for Global Health & Infectious Diseases, has been told by his therapist that using a women’s restroom would compromise his mental health. (Besides, he presents as male, with chin stubble and tattooed, muscled arms.) But UNC is a public institution, and the administration has sent mixed signals about how it will interpret the law. UNC president Margaret Spellings has said

the system does not plan to enforce the bathroom provision, which has no enforcement mechanism. But she also wrote a memo April 5 stressing the campuses’ obligation to segregate restrooms by “biological sex.” For now, Carcaño walks to another campus building, ten to fifteen minutes away, to use a single-occupancy bathroom. He recently learned of a lockable unisex restroom in his own building, but he rarely uses it because it requires the very public act of taking a housekeeping service elevator. “It’s a mentally exhausting process,” says Carcaño, the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit, filed by the ACLU of North Carolina and others, challenging the new law. When he travels for work, he tries to make himself invisible and watches for hostile reactions at gas-station restrooms. “It’s very clear that there’s a target on our back,” he says. “It’s tough to feel you have to be prepared for a potential attack.” Sharon Westfall, the Chapel Hill programmer, told me about visiting the North Carolina Zoo with friends after HB 2 passed. Her driver’s license says she’s a woman, but her Michigan birth certificate lists her as male. Her face is feminine, thanks to surgery, but she is six feet tall and built (in her words) like a linebacker. When it came time to use a restroom, “I sat out there for about a half hour mulling it over: Which one is less likely to get my ass kicked? I decided to use the ladies’ room, and I was sweating bullets the whole time I was in there. When I finished, I didn’t even stop to wash my hands.” Most of the trans North Carolinians I interviewed expressed heightened fear since HB 2 became law. Mykal Slack, the minister, also has a driver’s license and birth certificate that don’t match. He tries to avoid government buildings. But that’s not always possible—and, to him, either restroom door poses danger. “If I have an incident [and] police were to get called,” he says, “I’m keenly aware of how I may experience that moment as a black man. All I can do, really, is to keep my head down, do what I need to do and leave, and hope that nothing sketchy happens. But it’s only a hope. There’s only so much control I have.” l backtalk@indyweek.com

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A GUIDE TO WHAT THE CONTROVERSIAL LAW ACTUALLY DOES BY PAUL BLEST First, the basics, most of which you already know: on February 22, Charlotte’s city council passed a nondiscrimination ordinance that included sexual orientation and gender identity—the first such bill in the state, though not the country. Already, nineteen states and more than two hundred cities have passed similar legislation. But those other cities don’t have to deal with the North Carolina General Assembly. Immediately, Republican leaders labeled Charlotte’s ordinance a “bathroom bill” that would allow men into women’s restrooms. There were murmurs about a special session. Emails obtained by the INDY between Lieutenant Governor Dan Forest’s office and legislative leaders show that Forest’s office was talking about a special session as early as February 25; a week later, Forest formally asked legislators to convene one. Before the bill was introduced at the start of the one-day special session on March 23, almost nobody knew what it actually contained. A draft version circulated the night 20 | 7.13.16 | INDYweek.com

before, but multiple Democratic legislators say they first saw the bill when the session was called to order at ten a.m. In less than twelve hours, the Public Facilities Privacy and Security Act—known colloquially by its bill number, HB 2—passed the House (with eleven Democrats and all but one Republican supporting it); passed the Senate unanimously, as the entire Democratic Senate caucus walked out in protest; and was signed by Governor McCrory before most people in North Carolina, let alone the rest of the country, knew what was in it. The end result is perhaps best understood as two interwoven halves. The first was the LGBTQ piece that generated so much controversy. The second catered to the pro-business crowd, gutting the ability of local governments to set higher minimum wages and eliminating workers’ ability to sue in state court over discrimination claims. (The legislature repealed that last provision in the short session that ended earlier this month.)

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The first and most notorious piece of the bill deals with “public facilities”—bathrooms, showers, and the like—and essentially bars people in schools or government buildings from using the bathroom of the gender that isn’t listed on their birth certificate. “If you can’t use the restroom that makes sense for you, it becomes much harder to go to school, work, or participate in the public marketplace,” says Sarah McBride, spokeswoman for the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. “Opponents utilize restrooms to stoke fear and take advantage of people’s vulnerability, but it’s important for the marginalized community.” In McBride’s view, the bathrooms were a bogeyman; the pro-

tections the Charlotte ordinance offered went way beyond the question of where someone can pee. “It provided protections for public accommodations more broadly. [Bathrooms] are such a small portion of what ‘public accommodations’ include,” McBride says. “It includes shops, restaurants. The Charlotte ordinance banned discrimination so, for example, someone couldn’t be kicked out of a restaurant for holding hands with the person they love. It wasn’t just about bathrooms.” The ordinance expanded protections for LGBTQ people outside of public accommodations as well. It declared that neither city contractors nor private businesses could discriminate. While Charlotte was the first North Carolina city to pass a bill that specifically protected transgender individuals, seventeen other local governments had nondiscrimination statutes that included sexual orientation. HB 2 preempted all of them. In their place came a sterile statewide nondiscrimination law

that doesn’t do much to actually stop discrimination—not just discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity, but also race, religion, or sex. For example, the Orange County civil rights ordinance laid out procedures for people who have been discriminated against in housing, employment, or public accommodations to pursue criminal and civil legal options. HB 2 lays out no such procedure but overrides those stronger local ordinances, meaning that even a progressive city like Durham is forced to hire an anti-LGBTQ contractor if that contractor submitted the lowest reasonable bid for a taxpayer-funded project. “For decades, we’ve allowed municipalities to put into place nondiscrimination ordinances, which haven’t been challenged in decades,” says N.C. Justice Center executive director Rick Glazier, a former state representative. “Now, all of a sudden, it’s unconstitutional.” ● ● ●

HB 2 wasn’t the General Assembly’s first move to restrict local governments from, well, governing. In fact, it’s more the continuation of a trend pioneered by tobacco and gun-rights lobbyists decades ago (see “The 30 Years That Brought Us HB 2,” page 10). Under the guise of wanting to make state law consistent, the General Assembly eliminated municipalities’ ability to require their contractors to do anything other than have the lowest reasonable bid on the project. This includes having living-wage standards or requiring contractors not to discriminate. “For decades, we’ve been hearing the conservatives push smaller government and local power,” says Eric Fink, a law professor at Elon University. “In the past decade or so, progressives have wised up to this and have focused on the city and county level to try to move issues forward, like the Charlotte ordinance and local wage ordinances.” Given the labor movement’s success at raising the minimum wage in Oregon, California, New York, Seattle, and elsewhere, this was an existential threat to some businessminded conservatives. “The success in Seattle [in 2014] was a watershed moment, and that’s a threat to this ideology,” Fink says. “So you just prevent it. You outlaw it.” The General Assembly used HB 2 to do just that, by voiding “any requirement upon an employer pertaining to compensation of employees, such as the wage levels of employees, hours of labor, payment earned wages, benefits, leave, or well-being of minors in the workforce.” As Wake Forest law professor Harold Lloyd pointed out in a Huffington Post piece in May, the bill even prohibits local governments from “taking care of child labor problems.” As originally conceived, HB 2 also wiped out what’s known as a “cause of action” clause, which has allowed employees to sue their employers for workplace discrimination in state court since 1977. It’s important to note that this move targeted more than just LGBTQ people; even those who think they’ve been fired or otherwise discriminated against on the basis of race or religion had no recourse in state court, only federal court. Mississippi is the only other state with a similar law. Federal courts, Fink explains, are usually more favorable to employers, because the filing fee in federal court can be higher and federal legal

battles are usually more protracted. But in the waning days of the short session, lawmakers had second thoughts about this provision. In March, McCrory said he didn’t want it—although he didn’t hate it enough to not sign HB 2—and social-conservative groups like N.C. Values Coalition weren’t concerned about it. With huge margins, the House and Senate reversed course—though lawmakers capped the statute of limitations for such claims at one year, not three years, as was the case before HB 2. l l l

The backlash to HB 2 was swift and came from all sides. Between boycotts from artists, corporations, sports leagues, other cities, states, and even some countries, the Center for American Progress estimated in April that more than $500 million could be in jeopardy. Since that report, the boycotts have continued to grow. Meanwhile, N.C. Justice Center analyst Patrick McHugh estimates that if the state loses federal funding over HB 2—an unlikely but not impossible eventuality—some fifty-three thousand jobs and $2.4 billion in wages could be lost. The ACLU filed a lawsuit shortly after the special session, arguing that restricting transgender people from using the bathroom consistent with their gender identity violated Title IX; the Obama administration agreed in a directive issued to public schools in May; and in June, the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district followed the Obama administration’s directive. In April, McCrory attempted to stymie criticism of HB 2 with an executive order adding sexual orientation and gender identity to existing protections for state employees. But that’s all his executive order did—and it wasn’t enough to quiet critics, who say the five-page law that passed in twelve hours has done irreparable harm to the state’s reputation. “North Carolina was once thought of as the face of the New South, and now it’s looking very much like the discriminatory face of the Old South,” Glazier says. “It’s going to take a long time for that image to fade from national consciousness. The damage is severe and growing.” l pblest@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 7.13.16 | 21

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“All I can say is, once the new card arrived, I saw a much happier child and more confident child, once he felt that he was legally recognized as a male,” Alice says, speaking about the day her son, now sixteen, got his revised birth certificate in the mail last June. (Alice’s name has been changed to protect her family’s privacy.) Though Alice’s son wasn’t born in North Carolina—her family moved here from the Northeast more than a decade ago—the state where he was born, like North Carolina, requires people to undergo surgery before they can revise the sex on their birth certificate. In her son’s case, any irreversible sex affirmation operation would fulfill the requirement, which meant a mastectomy would suffice. “All of this [was] out of pocket medically, as it is considered cosmetic surgery,” Alice says. “This was hard on us financially, but we did it for the mental and physical stability of our child.” Ultimately, altering the birth certificate cost the family $8,300. People born in North Carolina face similar hurdles. According to state statute, individuals have to receive “sex reassignment surgery” in order to change the sex on their North Carolina birth certificate. But there are many types of sex reassignment (better described as “sex affirmative”) surgery: mastectomies, hysterectomies, and phalloplasties for trans men; facial feminization surgeries, breast augmentations, and vaginoplasties for trans

“We feel fortunate that we were able to do this last year in June, because we do not know how many more obstacles we would have run into with HB 2.”

women. The language isn’t clear as to which surgery the law actually refers to. When I asked Chris Brook, the legal director of the ACLU of North Carolina, about this, he told it was safe to assume, especially given House Bill 2, that the state is referring to surgery of the genitalia. For proof that the surgery has been performed, North Carolina requires a notarized letter from the doctor who performed the surgery or from “a physician licensed to practice medicine who has examined the individual and can certify that the person has undergone sex reassignment surgery.” “You can change your gender marker in North Carolina. It’s a very onerous process to do so,” Brook told me. As a North Carolinian born in New York, updating my birth certificate to reflect my proper sex is comparatively easy. No surgery is required, though I would have to submit a notarized affidavit from a licensed physician explaining that I had “undergone appropriate clinical treatment for a person diagnosed with gender dysphoria.” It takes about three months to get the updated birth certificate. I would more than fulfill New York’s requirements—and North Carolina’s, too, had I been born here. The total cost of the surgeries I’ve undergone (facial feminization and vaginoplasty) comes to more than $50,000; for the vaginoplasty, I had to obtain two letters from therapists: one to attest that I’d thought through my decision, the other to ensure that I didn’t have any mental health issues. Because I pass so well, however—something I’m grateful for—I’m in no hurry to update my birth certificate. Instead, the document I’m determined to update is my driver’s license. My current one still lists my sex as male, an embarrassment I’m forced to face every time I show it to someone.

On March 26, 2016, three days after the passage of HB2, the Town of Carrboro called a special meeting to pass the first resolution in North Carolina calling for its repeal. With this resolution, the Board reaffirmed the Town’s support for protecting and advancing the constitutional rights and equitable treatment of all residents, and the Town’s opposition to discrimination, prejudice, homophobia, and transphobia.

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the primary and secondary sex characteristics of one’s body. The current name for this condition is gender dysphoria. That term also refers to a psychological condition brought on by an acute dissonance derived from the cultural and social associations of the male and female sex. A preponderance of research into the cause of gender dysphoria points to a disorder of sex development. While researchers have yet to narrow down the specific mechanisms at work, a neuroanatomical cause seems to be responsible. (On occasion, gender dysphoria pushes someone into a nonbinary state—in other words, a condition in which people don’t view themselves as either the male or female sex.) There’s no cure for gender dysphoria, but there are a number of ways to treat the symptoms. This is known as transitioning: medical measures and social steps taken to lessen the dysphoria and bring the body more closely in alignment with the mind. These steps include hormone replacement therapy, laser hair removal, going full-time (i.e., presenting publicly as your transitioned sex), and the surgeries mentioned above. Some reach a point in their transition where they’re comfortable enough that they don’t need to get every possible thing done, especially considering the cost and intensive nature of the surgeries. Others may have concurrent medical conditions that prevent them from taking some, most, or maybe even all of the medical steps needed. Understanding transitioning—and how states handle the process—is crucial to understanding why House Bill 2, whatever its intent, is bad public policy. The law mandates that bathrooms in North Carolina schools and government buildings be used by those who have the corresponding sex on their birth certificate. But states have different standards for updating birth certificates, some easier than others. There are three broad groups of states when it comes to these laws. The first and most common are states like North Carolina, where the applicant must undergo a sex affirmation surgery. States in the secondlargest group have laws comparable to New York’s: a requirement to submit a notarized letter from a practicing physician stating that the applicant has undergone appropriate clinical treatment. The third and final group is the smallest, and states belonging to this group don’t allow any alteration of a birth certificate under any circumstances.

These states, according to Lambda Legal, include Tennessee, Idaho, Ohio, and Kansas. “I’m willing to wager a number [of transgender people in North Carolina] were born in Tennessee,” Brook explains. “So they, pursuant to HB 2, are stuck in the wrong restroom for life.” l l l

Laws like North Carolina’s might be more reasonable if surgeries were more affordable and were something everyone received at the same point in their transition. The reality is far more complicated. Everybody’s transition is different, not everything happens quickly, and no step is automatic. Even if you get vaginoplasty, for example, your birth certificate isn’t automatically updated—and HB 2 doesn’t address what bathroom you’re supposed to use between getting the surgery and obtaining a revised birth certificate. For those born in North Carolina, once you’ve had genital surgery and obtained a notarized doctor’s letter proving you’ve undergone the surgery, you’ll need to fill out a form called a Request to Amend a Record. You’ll need a photocopy of a valid form of identification and $24, which covers a search fee. Mail all of that to North Carolina’s Vital Records (1903 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, NC 27699-1900). The Vital Records department will then evaluate your request and, if it meets the requirements outlined by General Statute 130A-118, you’ll be contacted in writing and have to pay up to $15 to actually amend the birth certificate. Once the state has this final fee, your birth certificate will be changed. About six weeks later, you’ll receive your new birth certificate in the mail. (North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human Services did not respond to the INDY’s request for the number of revisions for birth certificates involving sex designations within the past five years.) As for Alice and her son, they’re relieved they were able to update his birth certificate before House Bill 2: “[We] feel fortunate that we were able to do this last year in June, because we do not know how many more obstacles we would have run into with [HB 2],” she says. “I am not sure if HB 2 would have made it harder to change things, but I am just relieved we didn't have to find out.” l backtalk@indyweek.com

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around documentation that proves who we are,” says Carrboro’s Diana Newton, Christine’s sister. “I mean, it’s really kind of ridiculous.” Christine and her spouse, Judith Bush, decided to move back to North Carolina after living in California for sixteen years. The day before their offer on a house was accepted, House Bill 2 passed. But they didn’t take it as a cue to turn around.

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because it was happening so quickly, they had to reveal the truth to their mother, who was in her eighties. Christine told her on Mother’s Day in 2005, while Diana filmed. “It was one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, but I have absolutely no regrets,” Christine says. “Any reactive response that we feared was a complete myth. She was so loving and generous, and she actually concluded that interview with, ‘I certainly don’t love you any less,’ in this very simple, pure way.” In the middle is their sister, Anita, who at first reacts negatively but gradually comes to accept Christine, after discovering her best friend’s nephew is also transgender. “She started to realize that the transgender community is just part of the fabric of our world,” Diana says. “People are wildly diverse, and maybe it’s not so unusual.” Diana stresses that she wants to frame the film as a family story rather than a transgender story. She believes Christine’s transition is just one kind of prompt that can send families into a spiral of change. She chose the title The Ties That Bind because it implies many layers of meaning. “Ties connect us, but they can also constrain, and they can certainly confound us,” Diana says. Christine believes that Diana is succeeding brilliantly in asking the question raised by the popular hashtag: “If we are not this, what are we?” After making the Newton family confront it, the film will make audiences confront it, too, when it comes to the Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington in November. “Having it documented has brought into relief my relationship with the family, the realities of which I was naively ignorant,” Christine says. “I feel like I’m more real as a result of having to confront the realities of the responses.” “I don’t know that in the course of documenting this we’ve become a happier family,” Diana adds. “But I think we’ve become a more authentic family, and to me, that is worth it.” l Twitter: @HPitstick

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poster is tacked to the bulletin board in every upper school hallway, blending in with event notifications long outdated, vague inspirational messages, and diversity PSAs. Student-produced posters are nothing new in most high schools, and my high school, Cary Academy, is no exception. But the rather peculiar nature of this one sets it apart from the rest. Pictures are taken, disbelieving laughter is heard, and the administration has removed all but one in the course of a week. Like the half-doz-

en identical posters taped up around the school, this one, too, will soon disappear. What is it? A friendly, unassuming invitation for something called Shower Club. Admittedly, Cary Academy is different from most high schools in that it offers more than seventy clubs—something the school touts in its promotional materials—almost all of which meet during the last forty-five minutes of school, three days a week. Some, like Key Club, BETA, and GSA, are of the typical high school variety. Others are less serious community builders, like Low Key Club (in which students chill out in a classroom) or Knitting Club. Still, Shower Club stands alone, if for no other reason than it’s the only one not sanctioned by school officials. Shower Club, which began toward the end of 2014, is exactly what it sounds like: at 2:45 p.m. or another convenient time, a quorum of about a half-dozen (and sometimes more) high school boys crowd into the gym locker room, strip naked, and take a shower together. “One time we did human bobsledding,” one member recounts. (Like the others, he spoke to me on the condition of anonymity.) By that he means: “It’s where you soap yourself and the floor up and see who can slide the farthest.” “It wasn’t gay,” says another. “It was purposefully pushing the comfort zone to be funny. But in hindsight, it seems very gay. And creepy.” According to a founding member, Shower Club started after a sweaty basketball game between friends. The first “meeting” began with using the school showers in the way God intended: to get clean after a workout. But over time, it evolved into something where young male students would cut class to hit the locker room. They saw it not as a political or sexual statement but as a “vague sense of rebellion,” as one member puts it—a rebellion without a clear target or agenda. Students were surprised and amused at first, but eventually most of us got used to Shower Club’s presence and came

to appreciate it as just another Cary Academy guy thing: offbeat, ironic, unique. Faculty members rolled their eyes about it, but the school nonetheless took action. Michael McElreath, the assistant head of Cary Academy’s upper school, was the first school official to notice what was going on—meaning he was the first adult to see a flyer taped up in the tenth-grade hallway. “I sat them down and showed them the flyer and said, ‘You know what this looks like, right?’’ he recalls with goodnatured amusement. “Because if you look at the wording on their flyer, it basically says we can all soap each other up, practically. And I said, ‘Well, that’s not really what the showers are for, guys, it’s not a spa.’ So I said, ‘Shower Club is done. No more Shower Club.’ And they understood what I was saying, you know, that it was a joke that got a little out of hand, no big deal, but don’t do it anymore.” But it didn’t go away—not entirely, though the boys started convening at more appropriate times, like after sports practices.

hile school officials took Shower Club in stride, other adults who learned about it were floored, shocked, disturbed, hopelessly perplexed. They struggled to relate it to their own life experience. And they came to the conclusion that Shower Club wasn’t a quirky guy thing but a gay thing, or at least atypical sexual behavior. Even the hippest New Age liberals assumed this was a case of boys awkwardly experimenting, expanding their sexual identities. In part, it’s because they don’t understand that masculinity at Cary Academy—a small, private, college-prep school of about 850 students in grades six through twelve—defies traditional characterizations. There’s no competition to be the Alpha Male; the Alpha Male is whoever is smartest, kindest, and funniest. (The school’s store sells ironic T-shirts that say “CARY ACADEMY FOOTBALL—STILL UNDEFEATED,” a INDYweek.com | 7.13.16 | 33

proud nod to the fact that we’re too “academic” to even have a football team.) But there’s something bigger at play, too: a fast-evolving culture that frightens parents of Generation Z—those of us born after the millennials—a rejection of rigid gender norms, an ethos in which things like Shower Club are shrugged aside with benign amusement, not met with moral indignation. McElreath even says he saw a silver lining: this group of “presumably heterosexual young men” felt free to joke about their sexual fluidity in a way that’s not derogatory or ridiculous, and to reject rigid perceptions of masculinity. And this change runs headlong into House Bill 2, a legislative curveball that exposed the chaotic complexities of the concept of gender among America’s youth. The people the law was ostensibly designed to protect from bathroom predators—namely, me, a seventeen-year-old white girl—are the same people who find it utterly unusable. It hurts us, it hurts our friends and family. To us, it’s something out of the barbaric 1960s. “It legalizes the language of hatred and intolerance,” says fifteen-year-old Katie Regittko, a member of QueerNC’s youth program who identifies as nonbinary. “But while the General Assembly attempts to instill a fear of transgender people in society, we’re the ones who are actually afraid. HB 2 forces us into places where we are not safe and feel like we don’t belong.”

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pletely different thing to insinuate that all teenagers are completely comfortable with dismantling the gender binary. We grew up in a transitionary period: the beginnings of third-wave feminism followed the passive feminism of the 1990s, and LGBTQ issues expanded from the narrow mainstream perspective of homosexuality, lesbianism, and sex changes to including the real-world experiences and voices of actual LGBTQ people. And while our parents were left uncomprehending, we had to fend for ourselves, adjusting our perceptions of radicalism versus legitimacy, the acceptable versus the convoluted. This resulted in a generation of young people with widely diverse viewpoints that don’t defy the concept of gender but rather redefine the existing norms. Take, for instance, my close friend and schoolmate Jae, who identifies as nonbinary (and for whom I’ll use the pronoun ze). “I think that our generation does have a different view on gender,” ze explains, “and that they accept different definitions of cisgender genders and ways of being, and that they are very willing to, like, redefine masculinity.” But here’s the catch: it’s impossible for any social progression to jump from point A to point Q in a single bound, and it’s wrong to assume that Generation Z will. As Jae explains, “If you threaten the masculinity-feminity framework by being nonbinary, it’s like, they’re not willing to do that. I think that binary trans people actually fit in really well with this generation and its views on gender, and people are very willing to accept Laverne Cox and people like that, Janet Mock, whatever. They can redefine gender, but they’re not willing to accept that they’re the ones redefining it. It’s just like, they do it very unconsciously.” The question—one that should worry many of the young activists so vigorously protesting HB 2—is this: How much can one generation actually change? Or maybe: What are our goals, and what exactly are we looking to dismantle? Michael Schwalbe, a professor of sociology at N.C. State and author of the book Manhood Acts: Gender and the Practices of Domination, points out that gender roles don’t just define our social landscape; they also play a role in almost every aspect of life. “People are probably experiencing more freedom to break free from some of those traditional strictures and be more of who they

We’ve been the ones campaigning for our schools to make bathrooms accessible to all students, not crying for legislators to get creeps out of our stalls. want to be in everyday life,” Schwalbe told me. “But at the same time, a lot of the arrangements in our society are exactly the same as they were when I was a kid, and we live in a very hierarchical society where the power is concentrated at the top of organizations, top of government, top of this competitive economy.” These structures, he continues, are designed for and by the patriarchy. They operate off masculinity itself. “More women now are able to do this,” he says, “to compete with men for status and wealth and power in mainstream institutions, and a lot of these structures that compel us to compete with each other continue to shape our behavior, even if we feel freer in some ways to play with gender identities or express our affections somewhat differently.” The notion of masculinity is changing. But it hasn’t yet been toppled.

ot many in my generation are old enough to vote. None of us are experienced enough to be elected officials or policy makers. Power rests with the baby boomers, Gen Xers, maybe some older millennials. Our propensity for activism and socially liberal politics—71 percent of millennials support same-sex marriage, according to Pew, and Generation Z, once we’re included in these polls, will likely be even more supportive—can only take us so far, leaving us at the mercy of the adults we’ve evolved away from. But the laws those adults pass still apply to us, causing an unpleasant contrast between who’s in charge and who those laws actually affect. So when the crypt keepers of the General Assembly pass a law ostensibly designed to protect us, we cry out in protest but are ultimately left powerless—for the time being.

Again, that nagging question: Once we claim those levers of power, can one generation undo all of this? That’s unlikely, Schwalbe says. This sort of epochal change requires overriding hundreds of years of economic and societal constructs, and gender roles can only go away when there are no longer power struggles over the nature of masculinity itself. But at the same time, Schwalbe can’t deny that Generation Z is moving more and more left of center. Take a look at Bernie Sanders’s support among eighteen-to-twenty-five-year-olds and imagine what those numbers would look like if sixteen- or seventeen-year-olds could vote. Trends like #FeelTheBern signify a redefinition without conscious thought, a great restructuring that aligns with our own morals and inclinations toward equity, autonomy, and individualism, a deconstruction of societal power struggles. I offer Shower Club as a case study of this hypothesis. Though my school isn’t known for its ruggedly masculine culture, Shower Club is made up of our own pantheon of testosterone. All of these boys profess security in their straight identities, and we as students and friends have learned not to question them. Boys at Cary Academy, while still being loud and obnoxious and all the things teenage boys are, feel remarkably free to express platonic intimacy in the way that girls are often allowed to, free of questions. So what if they get naked and play human bobsled together? More important, Shower Club normalizes deviations from society’s presentation of heterosexuality, thus making the acceptance of actual LGBTQ identities easier. The thing about Shower Club is that, for the boys involved, it’s not really a thing at all. “It’s just a good way to get clean with friends,” says a one-time participant. It was never a big deal—and it never should be. High school kids do stupid things. If millennials should have learned one thing from The Breakfast Club, it’s that knowing the reasons behind something is always more important than blindly throwing around executive orders. After all, Shower Club continues to operate, at least sporadically, school sanction be damned. l backtalk@indyweek.com Abigail Hoile is a rising senior at Cary Academy.

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I have a friend in the Deep South who, acquainted with North Carolina’s history of progressivism but also its recent political reversal, takes some pleasure in saying that the state’s official bumper sticker should be “The Last Southern State to Do All the Bad Things—and Do Them Even Worse.” Well, why not an official bumper sticker? There have been—either proposed or enacted into law—official state books (the Bible), state guns (in Tennessee, the .50-caliber rifle), and so forth. And North Carolina, with HB 2 and any number of other regressive laws, certainly deserves this particular sticker. The Tar Heel state, in fact, is a latecomer to this competition among Southern states to pass legislation so outrageous that it draws national ridicule. Historically, Alabama and Mississippi have stood out, and they are still strong contenders. So is Tennessee (apparently the Scopes trial wasn’t enough). And Georgia, particularly if we go back a bit, has also been a serious player. In 1920, H.L. Mencken, in his scathing essay “The Sahara of the Bozart” (that’s the way he assumed Southerners would spell “Beaux Arts”), took out after the South in general: “For all its size and all its wealth and all the ‘progress’ it babbles of, [the South] is almost as sterile, artistically, intellectually, culturally, as the Sahara Desert. … In all that gargantuan paradise of the fourth-rate there is not a single picture gallery worth going into, or a single orchestra capable of playing the nine symphonies of Beethoven, or a single opera house ….” Mencken, who could make language dance and sing, continued his catalog of deficiencies for several more pages. He ridiculed nearly all the states of the late Confederacy, but Mencken found Georgia, with its combination of boosterism and evangelical religion, “perhaps the worst” in 36 | 7.13.16 | INDYweek.com

Dixie—“crass, gross, vulgar and obnoxious.” And North Carolina, Mencken had concluded by the mid-twenties, was the best. It had not always been that way. In the early eighteenth century, William Byrd of Virginia, noting its propensity to sloth, called North Carolina “Lubberland.” A century later, the notable English actress Fanny Kemble, taking a trip through eastern North Carolina, considered it the most miserable place she had ever seen. But in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Tar Heel state had taken a great leap forward (relative to Southern neighbors, at least), largely because it fled the romance of the Old South and turned a critical eye on itself and Dixie. By midcentury the state boasted the South’s most prominent liberal spokesman, Frank Porter Graham, UNC president and a U.S. senator from 1949–1950, when he was done in by a race-baiting campaign assisted by a young Jesse Helms, making his first

The Tar Heel state is a latecomer to this competition among Southern states to pass legislation so outrageous that it draws national ridicule.

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ary revolution was well underway. To some outsiders, the revolution might have seemed puzzling, because it departed in many ways from the usual Southern script—which is to say, a takeover led by a state’s own worst elements (“poor whites no longer poor,” in Mencken’s words). Although there had long been a native North Carolina insurgency fueled by a hatred of Carolina progressivism, what happened was led not by neo-Confederates but rather by neo-carpetbaggers. As poet and South-watcher James Seay has observed, the current leaders of North Carolina’s war against progressivism—even against moderation—have been not native North Carolinians but outsiders: Governor Pat McCrory, born in Ohio; Senate leader Phil Berger, in New York; John Fennebresque, now-departed chairman of the reactionary UNC Board of Governors, also in New York. Mine is hardly an anti-Yankee sentiment: many outsiders have come into and greatly enriched the life of North Carolina, including Harry Woodburn Chase, who as UNC president engineered its leap into national prominence in the 1920s. But Chase and others were public-spirited men with a deep commitment to the common good. McCrory, Berger, and U.S. Senator Thom Tillis have seemed to have no regard for—and in some cases have been openly antagonistic toward—the spirit that earned North Carolina a measure of national respect over the past century. So neo-carpetbaggers then, but with a twist that might surprise those accustomed to another traditional Southern narrative, since the original carpetbaggers, who came south in the late 1860s and 1870s, positioned themselves on the political left. The current crop of largely Northern outsiders—a category that, to Southerners, traditionally has suggested wild-eyed Yankee liberals—position themselves as conservative guardians of “North Carolina values,” while the leading progressives, including Democratic attorney general and McCrory challenger Roy Cooper, are largely homegrown. Others have calculated the enormous social and economic damage caused by the

reactionary revolution, and particularly HB 2, but it is the well-deserved ridicule of a once-proud state, one that often considered itself superior to the rest of Dixie, that interests me here. In the public relations battle, it has fallen behind Mencken’s “worst” state, Georgia, whose current Republican governor, Nathan Deal, recently vetoed both a so-called religious freedom bill and a bill allowing people to carry guns on college campuses. It has also fallen behind South Carolina (even South Carolina), whose governor, Nikki Haley, led the fight last summer to remove the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds and just recently refused to consider a bathroom bill similar to North Carolina’s. The clear reason, both in Georgia and South Carolina, was not morality so much as economic self-interest. Atlanta learned that lesson fifty years ago in the midst of the civil rights movement, when it pronounced itself “The City Too Busy to Hate” (busy as in business: bigotry didn’t pay), thus distancing itself from its then rival, Birmingham, which, at the same time, acquired a less winning name—“Bombingham”—that doomed it for decades. Not the noblest of reasons, business and public relations, but they work—for states, that is, other than today’s North Carolina. An unwavering adherence to a perverse creed of bigotry—not to be compromised even by the almighty dollar or national reputation— now reigns in the Tar Heel state. In some respects, it is surprising that North Carolina did not tumble into the abyss earlier. Aside from its universities and progressive urban areas, it is not so different from the rest of the South. But we thought it was, and for a long time, so did much of the rest of the country. Pride goeth before a fall, and, for North Carolina, the fall has been a particularly painful one. l backtalk@indyweek.com Fred Hobson is the Lineberger Distinguished Professor in the Humanities Emeritus at the University of North Carolina. He is currently writing a book called The Savage South: Reflections on an Image.

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at being h ing with says. “I h cessful in 2 groups.” Many c from peo remain those of and LGB Tom, who tity becau retaliation administr but I’m no should be In launching the archive, Gordon says she hopesthe law,” people will come to understand the experiencesprotests, h profile an that lead to divergent opinions. “Often our public dialogue reaches a very highcamera. pitch based on opinions, and that doesn’t allow “I think for a lot of exchange of experiences,” says Gor-hoping it don. “I think people understand one another’sstanding o positions better if those experiences are com-says. “It is municated, because it creates more empathy. Soevents, bu in some ways, the ultimate goal is to de-escalateence of wh about. Wh misunderstanding.” The archive—which can be found at http://nch-ing outsid b2history.omeka.chass.ncsu.edu—currently hasing for the nearly a hundred contributions. Many are photos,Assembly like the two from the anonymous contributorsfrom now mentioned earlier. Some are images and videosthis will h shot on cell phones from public protests, like the Tom fo March rally in Chapel Hill that blocked the inter-ed a link section at Franklin and Columbia streets and the#AirHorn weekly protest-meets-public-theater performanc-media pl es of the Air Horn Orchestra. There is some pro-book are d HB 2 content as well, including photos taken at aaround H pro-HB 2 rally at Halifax Mall that Gordon con- Dawn S Atkins Lib tributed herself. Still, it’s the descriptions that lend this contenton a proj capture pu much of its meaning. “Part of the value of a photo or video is not justher team w what’s presented, but what it represents to the per-the public son who took the photo or the person who is shar-and ethica ing the photo,” Gordon says. “Photos and videos While S have very rich lives that we often don’t understand,mon goal and historians of the future will be interested infor future ects are ac the richness of those materials.” Gordon acknowledges that most of the current “There content has come from anti-HB 2 activists. Thisto be forgo is not by design, however. “They are just very goodone posts

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middle-aged man with a full mustache, dark, side-swept hair, and spectacles poses in front of a door that opens into a women’s restroom at a Port City Java in Wilmington. The man’s description of his coffee shop selfie: “It was the first time in several months that I entered a women’s [bathroom] due to HB 2, in attempt to comply with the law and educate people about the law.” Another photograph, taken on Highway 49 outside of Mount Pleasant, depicts a simple graphic sign on the lawn of a business that, a second sign proclaims, sells electric fencing accessories. Adorned with the American and North Carolina flags, the first sign simply says, “We support our governor on HB 2.” Both photographs were taken and uploaded by anonymous contributors to N.C. State professor Tammy Gordon’s digital archive, “NC HB2: A Citizens’ History.” Though at first the photos appear mundane—a highway sign under brewing storm clouds, a blurry selfie—details emerge that depict two vastly different experiences related to North Carolina’s controversial new law, compelling the viewer to look more closely. “It’s my job to understand what [a citizen’s] experience is and communicate it effectively,” Gordon says. Gordon is a public historian whose job is to help communities research and facilitate dialogues about their cultures and histories. Originally from Michigan, where she curated exhibits at the Michigan State University Museum, Gordon served for ten years as director of the public history program at UNC-Wilmington before moving 38 | 7.13.16 | INDYweek.com

to Cary to teach at N.C. State a year ago. She says her work has centered on “needs-based, participatory approaches to curation,” and she has tackled diverse topics ranging from Ethiopian political art to the history of migration from Russia and Eastern Europe to North Carolina. Gordon launched the archive after HB 2 was signed into law in March. She says she was inspired by similar digital curated projects, including “Modern Wife, Modern Life,” an Irish archive that documents women’s issues, and “Preserve the Baltimore Uprising,” a project created by the Maryland Historical Society to document the response to Freddie Gray’s death in police custody last year. Contributors upload content—images, videos, or stories—and provide descriptions, including the place and date of the event. Then Gordon corresponds with the contributor through email to discuss “whether the item fits the mission of the site as a repository of materials related to individual experiences”—unlike, for example, posts of official documents, or reposts of items someone else put up on Facebook. With her project, Gordon wants to transcend what she sees as the limitations of social media to historians, as well as to those who want to share their experiences without being vilified in the comments section. “Particularly in social media, people will share items, and the specific information historians look for is sometimes lost in the sharing,” Gordon says. “We don’t have specific places, specific times and dates, and so, when people contribute to this site, I’ll correspond with them to get that information so that we have a more complete story. It’s also more available to people outside the silos of social media.”

“Often our public dialogue reaches a very high pitch based on opinions, and that doesn’t allow for a lot of exchange of experiences. I think people understand one another’s positions better if those experiences are communicated.”

at being heard and articulating with precision,” Gordon says. “I have been less successful in reaching pro-HB 2 groups.” Many contributions come from people who wish to remain anonymous, like those of a state employee and LGBTQ ally we’ll call Tom, who conceals his identity because he worries about retaliation from the McCrory administration. (“Legally, he can’t touch me, but I’m not convinced, and don’t think anyone should be convinced, that these guys respect the law,” he says.) Though Tom appears at protests, his kids in tow, he tries to keep a low profile and avoid appearing in photos or on camera. “I think we will all be looking back on this, hoping it will help contribute to the understanding of the history of this moment,” Tom says. “It is just one tiny soda straw into those events, but I hope it contributes to the experience of what was going on and what it was all about. What was it like to experience standing outside the Governor’s Mansion, or waiting for the arrested protesters at the General Assembly to come out? Twenty, thirty years from now, people looking at the history of this will have some perspective.” Tom found the archive after Gordon posted a link to its website with the hashtag #AirHornOrchestra. The notion that social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook are driving virtually all of the activism around HB 2 is inescapable. Dawn Schmitz, an archivist at the J. Murrey Atkins Library at UNC-Charlotte, is working on a project that uses Twitter hashtags to capture public dialogue around HB 2, though her team won’t make the content available to the public “until we sort out some of the legal and ethical issues around it.” While Schmitz and Gordon share the common goal of preserving HB 2-related content for future historians, Schmitz says their projects are actually “quite dissimilar.” “There is an idea that people have a right to be forgotten,” Schmitz says. “When someone posts a tweet, they may think of it as

being ephemeral and won’t be captured for history. We may need to go back and seek permission from people who tweeted to preserve those tweets and make them available for research.” This is why, Schmitz says, Gordon’s work is particularly exciting. “Tammy’s project is voluntary by nature. People upload their own content, and it is about people’s own experiences that they are willing to share,” she says. “We would be very interested in archiving the content on her website after the website no longer exists.” Gordon says she is looking at ways to archive the site, but her focus now is to grow the archive and generate more contributions. She’s especially interested in receiving contributions from members of the news media, as well as from law enforcement officials. “The media has been there all along, at every event,” she says. “I think it would interest many people to know what it’s like to cover a story like this, what it’s like to be in these different settings and moving among communities as you’re doing your job.” Eventually Gordon wants to add an oral history component to the site, possibly composed of interviews her students have conducted. “Everybody is a potential contributor,” she says. “Everybody has had some experience related to this new law.” While the experience will likely prove invaluable to historians, Tom believes it will also carry meaning for the archive’s contributors. “I tell my kids, ‘One of these days, when you have children and take them to the museum, you will see pictures of these events, just like we look at pictures now from the civil rights era,’” he says. “‘You will be able to say you had some skin in the game, you were there fighting for the right side of history, you stood up.’ For them it has that legacy of standing up for the rights of others and for their own rights. That you didn’t just sit and let it happen, but that you fought.” l jporter@indyweek.com INDYweek.com | 7.13.16 | 39

A Positive Jam

ON LESSONS LEARNED FROM THREE MONTHS OF STEADY HB 2 PROTESTS BY GRAYSON HAVER CURRIN PHOTOS BY BEN MCKEOWN

The permit arrived just in time. For forty-eight hours, my wife, Tina, and I had exchanged fevered emails about the speaking schedule of Governor Pat McCrory with Logan Smith, a zealous staffer at the equalityadvocating nonprofit Progress NC. Days earlier, Logan and the rest of Progress NC caught wind of our plan to launch a weekly “Air Horn Orchestra” outside McCrory’s executive mansion; essentially, Tina and I had vowed to stand outside of the governor’s state-supplied residence on Blount Street with the sort of air horns you’d tote on a boating trip as a safety measure. We’d blow them until their piercing screech faded into silence, a process we estimated would last three minutes. It was a tossed-off, 40 | 7.13.16 | INDYweek.com

harebrained idea, but we lived just three blocks away from the dude’s doorstep: Why not irritate the dolt who had so quickly signed House Bill 2? The invitation to the first performance—“There will be no rehearsal. And you must bring your own instrument.”— spread further than we ever expected. Friends and strangers wanted to enlist. Amazon boxes full of air horns and earplugs began arriving on our porch within days of the earliest mention. Journalists from The News & Observer and The New York Times started asking us questions before the first horn had even been honked. People we’d never met wanted to give us money to raise this horrible racket. And Progress NC—an

organization I’d always considered far too big and esteemed to be aware of our social justice shenanigans—wanted to know how it could help. At first, the group’s participation was minimal, maybe even a little hesitant. Logan arrived on that first Wednesday with some horns from a big-box store and some blue signs with mantras of equality he’d printed. Progress NC had worried we’d get arrested, or, worse yet, the stunt simply wouldn’t work. But it did. The first performance was righteously loud and totally fun, with smiles stretching across the faces of the hundred or so people who aimed their ire across Blount Street. It became the lead story on the nightly news, and it served as

It often feels to me that progressives lose elections because we bicker too much rather than cry out in unison. The charged political atmosphere of the current moment gives me hope that, this time, I’m wrong.

the kicker in a long piece about changing mores in the South in that Saturday’s Times. The police, appearing puzzled but amused, filmed the whole thing, seemingly in order to show their friends and peers just what they had witnessed rather than for surveillance purposes. When it was all over, Progress NC had one question: How could they help us maintain the momentum and media interest? The perfect opportunity arrived on the first Monday of May, two days ahead of Air Horn Orchestra No. 4. Despite frequent slips into the shadows to avoid tough questions, McCrory had agreed to speak at the Government Affairs Conference of the North Carolina Chamber of Commerce, which had avoided taking a stand on HB 2. News anchor Tim Boyum would interview McCrory onstage at the North Carolina Museum of History around 6:30 p.m.—the same time we had started the first three Air Horn Orchestra sets, mere blocks away. Logan delivered the news and asked if we wanted to change locations, to call an audible that could lead to a tactical touchdown. After our own giddy, breathless yes, he put in the request for a permit that would allow our ragtag band of air horns, drums, trumpets, tubas, and actual bells and whistles to stand just outside of the auditorium’s exit. We worried we’d never get permission in time, and we even heard whispers that the governor would shift his schedule to maneuver around the permit, should we actually obtain it. But the slip arrived at 2:51 p.m., in a simple email from the Raleigh Police Department. The thrill felt illicit, as if we’d been let in on a state secret by the state itself. Several folks had sworn they’d seen the governor spy on us from a mansion window during the first performance, but here was our chance to get within actual earshot, while people watched and cameras rolled. The Justice Department’s order earlier in the day that North Carolina not enforce HB 2 only raised the stakes for his

appearances—and our chances of musically grating some very raw gubernatorial nerves. And my, how it worked. Not long after the goofball began answering questions that were likely tougher than he’d anticipated, we began roaring. If you listen to WRAL’s tape of McCrory’s interview, we are the locust-like buzz coming through his microphone, his momentary and very personal plague. Inside the hall, we have been told, it was a maddening din, like nails on a chalkboard for nearly half an hour. The police extended our permit so that we could stop only when he stopped. He referenced the sound twice during his speech, accusing of us cussing and swearing. When it was over, we all felt victorious, like we’d dealt the enemy a direct hit in plain view of the world. We haven’t been alone in that success. The sole silver lining of HB 2 may well be that people are mobilizing across so many special progressive political interests right now, united to make sure that signing HB 2 proves to be the mistake that gets McCrory—and, with luck and money, some of his pals—ousted in November. It often feels to me that progressives lose elections because we bicker too much rather than cry out in unison; the charged political atmosphere of the current moment gives me hope that, this time, I’m wrong. More often than not these days, a helicopter seems to be circling the mansion, or security guards are stationed at its front gates and watching as citizens of various stripes raise hell about what’s happening in North Carolina. Sometimes it’s immigrant families. Sometimes it’s schoolteachers. Sometimes it’s LGBTQ youth. “Can you hear us now, Pat?” read the shirts that have become the Air Horn Orchestra’s uniforms. The group that defines “us” isn’t limited to Wednesday evenings or our band.

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“Us” seems to grow bigger and more brazen every day. I’ve learned a lot during these three months of pneumatic protests. I’ve made new gay and trans friends. I’ve made acquaintances and collaborated with unlikely allies, from hardline vegans in Animal Liberation Front T-shirts and Nile Rodgers’s personal assistant to highranking members of nonprofits and advocacy groups whose work I have admired for years. I learned more about Raleigh’s noise ordinances than I ever did in a half-decade running a music festival. I have a vague sense of how a shofar is played, and that putting an air horn in a koozie or sock is a simple, brilliant way to avoid blisters. But mostly I’ve learned to believe in the power of protest and the importance of doing it as often as possible, especially as a white, straight, employed, land-owning male. When others don’t have rights, I’ve decided, my kind have the responsibility to help them fight. Around the time of the sixth performance, someone asked Tina if we had considered the privilege involved in the success of our zany brand of public protests. Black Lives Matter protesters pulling a similar stunt in front of McCrory’s mansion might not receive the same benefit of the doubt or the same smiles and cooperation from the police. Did we feel guilty, she wanted to know, for being the allies who would likely never get arrested? It’s a valid point, but nothing would make me feel guiltier than sitting on the sidelines when it’s largely my ilk—white, straight, middle-class dudes from the country—opting to limit the rights of those whose viewpoint they can’t understand, those who they condemn as perverts simply because that’s easier than real empathy. Privilege, as I see it, is a powerful weapon that must be wielded for positive change, not hidden away in its sheath. I can

use my position of safety to become a loud, obnoxious, unapologetic voice for those people who feel unsafe. Not taking that opportunity is an untenable decision, one that places my own generally protected personal time and comfort above the basic liberties and protections of others. The privilege to sit down while some fight for the very right to stand up is a privilege I no longer want. A publicist—no doubt accustomed to seeing her press releases and subsequent stories help fill restaurants or bars—once asked if I thought all the attention the Air Horn Orchestra received would actually make a difference. Would the racket, she wondered, lead to change? At first, I stared at my shoes, a little let down that my answer had to be no. Sure, we’d made McCrory mumble through a few questions, and our performances have, according to a media audit, reached nearly four million people through television news alone. But in these gerrymandered days, all the protesting and yelling and screaming and arrests and signs and chants are likely to have limited legislative results. These people don’t need to pay attention to us. But we must pay attention to one another. Sometimes people refrain from protesting, I fear, because they worry they’re simply preaching to the choir. Who cares? Become

the choir, recruit new members, and preach the loudest and best sermons possible to yourselves and anyone else within earshot. Feel good in the act of raising your own voice, especially in solidarity. Old members will remain committed and remember to head to the polls and take friends. Fresh-faced members will serve to boost the signal. And maybe, just maybe, all the hooting and hollering will make some folks reconsider HB 2 or their stance on civil rights at large. Maybe it’s one of the cars that zooms by your protest, or even a politician whose vote can help your very cause. Right before one Air Horn Orchestra performance, I spied Ken Goodman, a Democratic legislator from Rockingham, climbing into his car in front of McCrory’s mansion. I confronted him, asking if he cared to tell us why he was one of eleven Democrats who voted for HB 2. He quickly climbed into his car and drove away. Days later, after he’d agreed to meet with me, I went to his office. He admitted that he’d been wrong to vote for HB 2 in the first place. He’d work to repeal it if given the chance, he assured me. Before a parting handshake, I asked if he’d like to join us for the next Air Horn Orchestra. He laughed nervously and politely declined. That’s OK: I never expected Ken Goodman to join our weird choir, anyway. But I expect that, should he ever break his vow, we’ll be there to sing for him. Twitter: @currincy The Air Horn Orchestra meets every Wednesday at 6 p.m. in front of the Executive Mansion on Blount Street in Raleigh. Everyone is welcome, and extra instruments and earplugs are available. The AHO’s recordings are for sale at airhornorchestra. bandcamp.com, with proceeds going toward additional instruments.

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Truth to Power, Pleiades Gallery’s annual juried show in response to issues of social justice, arrives at a moment of particular urgency. In the aftermath of HB 2, the Orlando massacre, the police-shooting deaths of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, and the retaliatory shootings of officers in Dallas, these North Carolina artists, selected by Center for Documentary Studies director Wesley Hogan, bring messages of resistance, grief, and the will to change. They do so through photography, sculpture, painting, video, and more, the diversity of the media reflecting the diversity of perspectives the show celebrates. You can add your voice to the chorus at this Third Friday reception, which includes an open mic at Five Points Plaza “for anyone who wants to speak/dance/sing/ drum their Truth to Power.” This important exhibit runs through August 7. —Brian Howe PLEIADES GALLERY, DURHAM 6–9 p.m., free, www.pleiadesartdurham.com

FRIDAY, JULY 15 In 2016, we’ve got more folk-rock than we really need or know what to do with. But whereas many bands might seem to be cashing in on a fad, Ryan Gustafson has spent the past several years crafting tremendous songs, whether under his own name or with the band The Dead Tongues. Montana, released in March, is the band’s latest shining example. There, Gustafson’s picking on both the banjo and guitar is sharp as ever, with those flurries standing front and center on songs like “Empire Builder,” “My Companion,” and “Stained Glass Eyes.” It’s an easygoing and ultimately gorgeous record that finds Gustafson blending perfect measures of twangy acoustics with airy Mellotron, all anchored by his contemplative, consuming lyrics. Molly Sarlé, once of the spellbinding trio Mountain Man, opens. Her recent debut set at The Pinhook was strong and charming— you’ll find no meek singer-songwriter fluff here. —Allison Hussey NIGHTLIGHT BAR & CLUB, CHAPEL HILL 9:30 p.m., $7, www.nightlightclub.com 44 | 7.13.16 | INDYweek.com

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POETRY VS. HIP-HOP

Given the histories of these purported rivals, an event like this might seem a bit absurd. Despite initial resistance, most enlightened literary types eventually had to at least acknowledge rap as a form of artistic expression, even if they didn’t care much for the composition or the content. The rise of the hip-hop lyricist did much to erode the boundary between the genre and poetry, from a performance perspective but also in the printed word. Still, conflict abounds on levels both macro and micro—debates over the merits of lyricism in contemporary rap music continue to subdivide its massive audience. So even if this event fails to yield a clear consensus winner, it nonetheless suits the tenor of our times. The Queen Sheba and MICXSIC, respectively, lead the poetry and hip-hop teams. —Gary Suarez THE PINHOOK, DURHAM 9 p.m., $10–$15, www.thepinhook.com

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RIOULT DANCE NY A glance at his résumé suggests Pascal Rioult is a strictly modern choreographer. Before founding his troupe in 1994, he was a principal with modern dance matriarch Martha Graham’s company. The traces show, but Rioult’s dances toggle the new and the old in style and theme. In the trilogy program WOMEN ON THE EDGE…, arriving at ADF this week, the result registers somewhere between historical revision and reimagination. Across the three works—one a new commission (Cassandra’s Curse)— Rioult elevates the tragic heroines of Euripedes’s Greek tragedies in an antiwar statement. Itching for more than a post-performance talk-back? On July 20, Rioult will also join Peter H. Burian, Duke Professor Emeritus of Classical Studies, for a discussion in Duke’s Nelson Music Room. —Michaela Dwyer REYNOLDS INDUSTRIES THEATER, DURHAM 8 p.m., $10–$27, www.americandancefestival.org

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Stephen Babcock EAGER Stephen Babcock’s GUITAR new album Said & Done is a sweet, if sometimes clumsy, mix of vulnerable lovers’ promises and John Mayer-esque guitar riffs. It’s akin to an awkward first date with a promising, well-mannered tech nerd whose app idea will eventually sell for several million dollars. Schuyler Grant and Curtis Stith open. —KM [LOCAL 506, $6–$8/9 P.M.]

The Quebe Sisters TRIPLE As children, Dallas’s FIDDLE Quebe Sisters—Sophia, Hulda, and Grace—cleaned up at fiddle competitions, winning local and national championships alike. As adults, they’re one of the finest folk acts you can find, with a sharp ear for Western swing that follows in the footsteps of Bob Wills. Their fiddling has stayed fantastic, and the trio’s ultra-tight vocal harmonies recall The Andrews Sisters. As the sisters tackle classics like “Roly Poly,” “Every Which-a-Way,” and “It’s a Sin to Tell a Lie,” the Quebes’ preternatural precision is magnificent to absorb. —AH [BLUE NOTE GRILL, $12/8 P.M.] ALSO ON WEDNESDAY CAT’S CRADLE (BACK ROOM): Skout, Catie King, Katie Pruitt; 7:30 p.m., $10. • DUKE GARDENS: William Tyler, Jake Xerxes Fussell; 7 p.m., $5–$10, 12 and under free. • HUMBLE PIE: Sidecar Social Club; 8:30 p.m., free. • IRREGARDLESS: Dave Wright & Katie Stephens; 6:30 p.m. • NEPTUNES PARLOUR: SilicaGel, Repetophile; 8 p.m., free. • POUR HOUSE: Six Shots Later, Us & Them, The Great Fall, Magnolia; 8:30 p.m., $5. • THE STATION: DJ KC Masterpeace; 9 p.m. • WAVERLY PLACE: Spare Change; 6 p.m., free.

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Beres Hammond REGGAE Over the course of VET his forty-year career, reggae man Beres Hammond has logged some lofty achievements, from a Grammy nom to the Order of Jamaica, his homeland’s equivalent to knighthood. But none of it seems to have swayed him from his lifelong mission of carrying the roots reggae/lovers rock torch ever forward, even though he’s open-minded enough to add occasional touches of everything from soul to country into the mix. The Harmony House Singers open. —JA [LINCOLN THEATRE, $27–$40/8 P.M.]

Local Band Local Beer: Goodbye, Titan GUITARS For this week’s GALORE edition of WKNC’s weekly Local Band Local Beer series, Raleigh’s Goodbye, Titan bring dramatic, colorful post-rock à la Explosions in the Sky. 1970’s Film Stock takes the middle slot

WWW.INDYWEEK.COM with fuzzed-out jams that more recalls nineties indie rock. Alpha Cop, who blend a myriad of sounds, from stoned blues rock to a Polvo-esque churn, into a delectable whole, sits in the first slot. —CB [POUR HOUSE, FREE/9:30 P.M.]

where the duo will deliver hit after cringe-worthy hit—no one will ever top the eww-factor of “Sun Daze” lyric, “I sit you up on a kitchen sink/Stick the pink umbrella in your drink.” Tear yourself away from the parking lot party to catch opener Cole Swindell’s gentler “You Should Be Here,” a refreshing remembrance of a friend gone too soon. With The Cadillac Three and Kane Brown. —KM [COASTAL CREDIT UNION MUSIC PARK AT WALNUT CREEK, $65–$397/7 P.M.]

PARTY The sharp, LIKE 2002 emo-influenced songs of Durham’s FS are powered by driving rhythms and big guitars in the spirit of early-aughts Warped Tour acts. The Concussion Theory, from Richmond, is a perfect pairing, with strong instrumental interplay providing a compelling backing for plaintive vocals and songs full of longing. With Iselia and Ghosts Again. —CB [DEEP SOUTH, $5–$10/8 P.M.]

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LOUIS LANDRY AND THE LL ORCHESTRA Since relocating to Durham from Austin five years ago, Louis Landry has occupied much of his time teaching music—that is, when he’s not composing for local dance and theater groups at Duke University, Little Green Pig Theatrical Concern, and Manbites Dog Theater. But on the new JJ vs. the Digital Whale, his fourth LP, Landry gets Biblical with a story based on the book of Jonah. With his four-piece LL Orchestra, Landry performs the album in full Saturday night at The Shed in Durham. “I knew the story from Sunday school, but never understood that it’s a common thread between Christianity, Judaism, and Islam,” Landry says. “I realized that I could make a piece of art that speaks equally to audiences across those lines.” The piece is a concept record that’s heavily influenced by classic rock, but with present-day twists—for example, Landry’s titular whale is more of a metaphorical construct, built from and representing the digital distractions that engross us all. JJ, the story’s hero, has to figure out how to escape the tech monster. “[Producer] Scott Solter helped me get some recordings that emulate epic, early-seventies classic rock—Floyd, Yes, Zeppelin,” Landry explains. “On top of that, I wanted to created something on par with a John Coltrane composition that addressed spirituality,“ he says. Spirituality is an important aspect of the story—it’s based on a religious parable, after all—but Landry cites his experience as a music educator as one of the significant forces behind the record. He says that the role pushed him to become more immediately accepting of anyone who wanted to learn, and that he hopes others can take home the same lessons from JJ vs. the Digital Whale. “I hope JJ’s story shows people they can save themselves from isolation, not by clinging to an old belief but by letting go and opening up to a new experience, a new connection with a human being who’s different,” he says. —Charlie Burnett THE SHED, DURHAM 8 p.m., $10, www.shedjazz.com

WARPED The Southern TYPE California post-hardcore band Capsize is on tour to promote the release of its forthcoming second album, A Reintroduction: The Essence of All That Surrounds Me, out later this month via stalwart label Equal Vision Records. Lead single “Tear Me Apart,” which features Counterparts vocalist Brendan Murphy, recalls the early-aughts emo surge with the sort of volleyed vocals and jagged riffs that made main-stage Warped Tour headliners of The Used or Taking Back Sunday. With More To Monroe, A Boy Named Sue, Headfirst for Halos, and Terror In Their Eyes. —BCR [LOCAL 506, $12–$14/7 P.M.]

Ray LaMontagne FROM With his dreamy THE GUT soul rasp, Ray LaMontagne has earned legions of adoring fans and the freedom to experiment. Rather than nestle into a cozy career in earnest Americana, on Ouroboros, his recent LP with My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, he draws from Pink Floyd and Talk Talk’s atmospheric Spirit of Eden. —DK [RED HAT AMPHITHEATER, $30–$60/8 P.M.] INDYweek.com | 7.13.16 | 47

ROCKIN’ It’s no mystery why ‘BILLIES these self-described hillbillies have been movers and shakers on the rockabilly and honky-tonk scenes for over two decades. Conjuring up the mojo of heavy hitters ranging from Hank Williams to Chuck Berry to Buddy Holly, frontwoman Michelle Belanger, bassist F.J. Ventre, and guitarist Lance White keep it fresh and rockin’. The Orange County All-Stars open. —GB [THE KRAKEN, FREE/9 P.M]

Gilbert Neal PIQUANT On the first single POP from The Mayor of Estes Park, Hillsborough’s Gilbert Neal makes a compelling case that “four chords is all you need.” (I always thought it was three chords and the truth.) Still, how can you resist a song that uses the word “ennui” and has a vamp about “little people in the radio”? Neal, who looks a little like Frank Black, sounds a little like Jack Black on “Four Chords,” but he’s adept at a half-dozen styles, most not goofy. —DK [106 MAIN, FREE/8 P.M.]

Rissi Palmer EXRissi Palmer tried COWGIRL country first, her 2007 single “Country Girl” making her the first AfricanAmerican on those charts in twenty years. She’s since given up Nashville for a Raleigh residence. These days she’s into soul, with her 2015 EP, The Back Porch Sessions, sounding like sixties Stax tunes, especially on the single “Sweet Sweet Lovin.” —GB [DURHAM CENTRAL PARK, FREE/5:30 P.M.]

Soften the Glare NU Ryan Martinie made FUSION his name playing complicated nu-metal with the midwest band Mudvayne. Now a North Carolina resident, Martinie has taken a sharp detour with his new Raleigh-based project, Soften the Glare, which matches the bassist with guitarist Bon Lozaga and drummer Mitch Hull. Just a 48 | 7.13.16 | INDYweek.com

year old, the trio is working on a full-length release that draws on deep prog and jazz fusion influences without losing hard-rock momentum. Knightmare and Aeonic open. —BCR [THE MAYWOOD, $10–$15/8:30 P.M.]

Somi BLACK Vocalizing a sturdy BLUES bridge between the melancholy and mechanical side of jazz harmonies, RwandanUgandan singer Somi puts in two nights on Beyù’s stage, offering consecutive experiences of Sade-meets-Angelique Kidjo. Fresh off a 2015 residency at UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance, NYC’s Baryshnikov Arts Center, and a TED fellowship, Somi brings aptly titled and tall tunes like “Ginger Me Slowly” and “When Rivers Cry” with her—not as an affirmation of her accomplishments but as a beacon of her presence and precision. —ET [BEYÙ CAFFÈ, $20–$25/8 & 10 P.M.]

Telepathy Dance Party CHILL The local art WAVES collective Ultra Psychic Mega Monolith returns after a brief hiatus with this showcase of stylish hip-hop and electronica. Audio sun showers abound with Raleigh’s AWAY MSG, who layers bucolic field recordings over her addictive ambient and chiptune songs for maximum emotional damage. Nashville beat sculptor ESCPE, cyberpunk rap maven Tennis Rodman, and the ever-soulful Zoomo round out the bill. —DS [KINGS, $5/10:30 P.M.] ALSO ON FRIDAY 2ND WIND: Skinny Bag of Sugar. • BERKELEY CAFÉ: String Beings; 8 p.m. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Billitones; 9 p.m. Duke Street Dogs; 6-8 p.m., free. • BYNUM GENERAL STORE: Rebekah Todd and the Odyssey; 7 p.m., free. • CAT’S CRADLE: The Struts, Dorothy; 8 p.m., $15. • CITY LIMITS SALOON: Luke Combs; 8 p.m., $15–$20. • DEEP SOUTH: Aslan Freeman; 10 p.m., free. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Pinto; 7 p.m. •

IRREGARDLESS: Blue T; 6:30 p.m. • JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: Dennis Cash; 7 p.m. • LINCOLN THEATRE: GlowRage Paint Party; 9 p.m., $18–$30. • MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: John Westmoreland; 8:30 p.m. • NIGHTLIGHT: The Dead Tongues, Molly Sarlé; 9 p.m., $7. See page 44. • THE PINHOOK: Poetry Vs. HipHop; 9 p.m., $10–$15. See page 45. • POUR HOUSE: Urban Soil, The Travers Brothership; 9:30 p.m., $7–$10. • ROCK HARBOR GRILL: Bruce Clark Trio; 9 p.m.-midnite, free. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Grady’s Hat; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • THE STATION: Diali Cissokho & Kaira Ba; 8 p.m., $15.

SAT, JUL 16 Drew Baldridge POP On his debut album, COUNTRY Drew Baldridge promises “country music with a danceable beat,” a perfect fit for a bar that blares hip-hop between cowgirls’ turns on a bucking electronic bull. The singer previewed the album with disco-flavored debut single “Dance With Ya.” —KM [CITY LIMITS, $7–$12/8 P.M.]

Elephant Convoy CHANT Like the blues, DOWN reggae has proven to be extremely versatile, lending itself to a number of interpretations. Unfortunately, that includes the kind of bland roots-pop and reggae hybrid stuff Wilmington six-piece Elephant Convoy plays, replete with affected island accents. It sure ain’t Bob Marley, but nonetheless seems perpetually popular with affluent stoner kids. With Jahlistic. —PW [POUR HOUSE, $7–$10/9 P.M.]

Hege V NO REIGN North Carolina native George Hamilton IV started out as a teen idol in the fifties before developing a long career in country music and spending several decades as a part of the Grand Ole Opry. George Hamilton V, though, built his career (well, sort of) on early alt-country as Hege V. In 1987, Hege V released its lone LP, the

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ARCANA: D p.m., $5. • BE Radikal; 8 p.m Somi; 8 & 10 15 listing. • B WEDNESDAY, JULY 20 The Tornado B • DEEP SO 10 p.m. • HO Singer-songwriter Esmé Patterson has a knack for lending perspective. Woman to Woman, from HOUSE: Ha 2014, was a collection of responses to classic songs about women, written from the woman’s • IRREGAR viewpoint. She gave voice to Townes Van Zandt’s Loretta, Dolly Parton’s Jolene, Elvis Costello’s Stanislawek; 1 Alison, and even Eleanor Rigby. As Jolene, she insisted “your man don’t mean a thing to me,” while 6 p.m. Chad E her Loretta let it be known that she was going to “keep my dancing shoes on long after you’re gone.” JOHNNY’S Now, the former member of Denver indie-folk outfit Paper Bird has returned with her third Simone Finall solo effort, We Were Wild. There, she turns the folk ethos of making music to forge and sustain THEATER: community on its head. We Were Wild brims with feedback and punchy riffs alongside breezy pop. p.m., $15–$20 On “Feel Right,” Patterson’s characteristically sweet croon morphs into a vocal delivery full of grit Bobby Bryson Dolls; 9:30 p.m when she reaches the line, “Without feeling wrong, how can we know what feels right?” THEATRE: Two days after the release of We Were Wild, the Portland-based artist made her own stand for $8–$10. • LO what’s right in an article for The Talkhouse on the Stanford rape case. Referencing the victim’s brave and powerful statement that was read aloud to her attacker during his sentencing, Patterson Spirit, Faults, describes being moved by the victim’s focus on the Swedish bicyclists who happened upon the scene, $10. • MYST PUBLIC HO tackled and held down the assailant until the police arrived. 8:30 p.m. • T “She said in her letter to her rapist that she drew two pictures of bicycles and put them over her Illegal All Viny bed to remind her of the good in people in a time when that was hard to remember,” Patterson wrote, • SAXAPAH adding that she’d be wearing an emblem of two bicycles at her forthcoming shows in support of We Lizzy Ross; 6 Were Wild. NINE GALL “I believe that with the right to artistic freedom comes the responsibility to use your voice to do and the Paco good in the world, and with the opportunity that I have to play to rooms full of people every night THE STATI • THE SHE comes the responsibility to try to heal and help when I can,” she wrote. Landry & The For Patterson, that healing is personal; she wrote that her experience as a survivor of sexual See box, page assault compelled her to take a stand, too. By speaking up and fostering a community focused on

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Mitch Easter-produced House of Tears. Nearly thirty years after that record’s release, the band plays a one-off gig in Carrboro. Michael Kelsh opens. —AH [CAT’S CRADLE BACK ROOM, $10/8 P.M.]

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rock band that has borne his name for a half-century, Steve Miller would be hard for most of us to recognize if we passed him on the street. Even at his height, when songs from Fly Like an Eagle dominated FM radio, Miller’s countenance was a bit of a blur; other key platters featured airbrushed winged horses and Miller in a joker’s mask. His hits, on the other hand, are instantly

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batch of songs from their St. Anthony and the Mystery Train. The collection features rollicking country numbers, hazy, twilight-lit indie pop, and loose blue-rock songs. Durham’s own Pinkerton Raid headline the show with dark, dynamic, hook-laden pop-rock, while Raleigh’s new Young Yonder opens with catchy rock with an alt-country bent. —CB [MOTORCO, $8–$10/8 P.M.] ALSO ON SATURDAY ARCANA: Disco Sweat XXVI; 10 p.m., $5. • BERKELEY CAFE: Free Radikal; 8 p.m. • BEYÙ CAFFÈ: Somi; 8 & 10 p.m., $20–$25. See July 15 listing. • BLUE NOTE GRILL: The Tornado Blues Band; 8 p.m., $8. • DEEP SOUTH: Aslan Freeman; 10 p.m. • HONEYSUCKLE TEA HOUSE: Happy Abandon,; 7 p.m. • IRREGARDLESS: Daniel Stanislawek; 11 a.m. Gen Palmer Duo; 6 p.m. Chad Eby Quartet; 9 p.m. • JOHNNY’S GONE FISHING: Simone Finally; 11 a.m. • KENNEDY THEATER: Georgia Stitt & Friends; 8 p.m., $15–$20. • KINGS: The Quarry, Bobby Bryson, Dear Blanca, Paper Dolls; 9:30 p.m., $6. • LINCOLN THEATRE: Up the Irons,; 9 p.m., $8–$10. • LOCAL 506: Sweet Spirit, Faults, The Second Wife; 9 p.m., $10. • MYSTERY BREWING PUBLIC HOUSE: Hank Barbee; 8:30 p.m. • THE PINHOOK: Party Illegal All Vinyl Night; 10 p.m., $5–$10. • SAXAPAHAW RIVERMILL: Lizzy Ross; 6 p.m., free. • SHARP NINE GALLERY: Ed Stephenson and the Paco Band; 8 p.m., $10–$15. • THE STATION: Luxe Posh; 10 p.m. • THE SHED JAZZ CLUB: Louis Landry & The LL Orchestra; 8 p.m., $10. See box, page 47.

SUN, JUL 17 Afton Music Showcase: Imani Pressley A TRIAD Grammy-nominated TRY producer and Greensboro-bred singer Imani Pressley is well on her way to becoming a master musician, but can she condense all of her talents into a fever pitch? Small co-signs from big names like P. Diddy, Cee-Lo, and Timbaland insinuate that her punk-pop urban swag can, and testing grounds like this

weekend’s Afton Music Showcase should encourage her to beam her talents far above some of the other acts on this bill, like AirCrash Detectives, Last Call Messiahs, and others. But if not, all we’ll have is another aspiring Jhene Aiko with a much cooler hairdo and a taste in beats. —ET [LINCOLN THEATRE, $12 /6:30 P.M.]

Davidians FRESH After a pair of CUTS singles for punk labels Deranged and Sorry State, Raleigh’s Davidians are readying an anticipated eight-song platter for the Raleigh-based Sorry State. Two new songs, presumably culled from the forthcoming record, show the band expanding on its already vicious mix of taut and moody post-punk and searing hardcore. Guitarist Colin Swanson-White conjures a smear of noise to drive “Boiled Nephilim” while singer Cameron Craig lunges like an attack dog. With Enemy Waves and Autospkr. —BCR [NEPTUNES PARLOUR, $7/9 P.M.]

Mel Jones and his Bag o’ Bones U.S. Mel Jones bills ECLECTIC himself as “Dr. John meets Sonny Terry,” but it’s more like Ry Cooder meets Phil Wiggins. Jones and his Bag o’ Bones do thirties-era hokum, blues, bluegrass, swing, and New Orleans jazz, often in the same tune. Mel’s originals sound like unearthed treasures from bygone eras with guitarist Don Story, bassist Calvin Johnson, Kip Snow on mandolin, and fiddler John Hofmann helping to spread Mel’s harmonica prowess over a large canvas. —GB [BLUE NOTE GRILL, FREE/5 P.M.]

The Ragbirds SPUNKY In March, spirited FOLK roots band The Ragbirds released its fifth album, The Threshold & The Hearth. Inspired by the birth of the first daughter of the band’s cofounders Erin Zindle and Randall Moore, the danceable record boasts more

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MON, JUL 18 Flight of the Conchords FUNNY New Zealand’s Flight FELLAS of the Conchords hasn’t released a record or a new episode of its hit HBO show since 2009, but that hasn’t stopped the duo from hitting the road across the U.S. this summer. Regardless, reprisals of the pair’s droll, dorky humor should be plenty of fun. Songs like “Business Time” and “The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)” remain goofy, lighthearted frolics, even years after the Conchords’ spotlight has faded. —AH [KOKA BOOTH AMPHITHEATRE, $35–$40/7:30 P.M.]

Freakwater ALTFrom Conway Twitty COUNTRY covers to haunting originals, Freakwater has made its indelible mark on alt-country with mountain music storytelling and vocals that tug at your heartstrings. Founded by Janet Bean and Catherine Irwin in 1989, this iteration of the band features long-time bassist David Gay, Morgan Geer of Drunken Prayer, and Warren Ellis of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The band is touring behind Scheherazade, the band’s first album in over a decade. Drunken Prayer opens. —DM [THE PINHOOK, $12–$15/9 P.M.]

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TUE, JUL 19 G-Nome Project JERUSA- The G-Nome Project LEM JAMS bills itself as “Israeli livetronica.” The band hails from Tel Aviv, and its music straddles limber, funky jam-rock and progressive electronic sounds. The quartet’s finer (albeit rarer) improvisational moments peer through the transcendental wormholes opened by trance and kosmiche musics. Universal Sigh opens. —PW [POUR HOUSE, $8–$10/9 P.M.]

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History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org. Abstract Territory: Lolette Guthrie and Sandy Milroy. Thru Aug 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. The Adventures of Two Red Bicycles: Paintings by Phyllis Andrews. Thru Jul 28. ERUUF Art Gallery, Durham. www. eruuf.org. Afghanistan: A Country A People—Through the Eyes of the Men and Women of the U.S. Military (Part I): Thru Jul 24. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org. Along These Lines: Constance Pappalardo. Thru Oct 16. Durham Convention Center, Durham. www. durhamconventioncenter.com.

Altered Land: Works by Damian Stamer and Greg Lindquist: In Altered Land, Stamer and Lindquist apply a heavy coat of subjectivity to rural N.C. scenes. Stamer paints a barn with black-and-white horror movie starkness in “South Lowell 18,” and Lindquist spills angry psychotropic colors in his pointedly titled “Duke Energy’s Dan River” series. Thru Sep 11. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Art from Raleigh Sister Cities: Fifty-one works by seventeen artists in Raleigh’s sister cities in France, Germany, England, and Kenya. Thru Jul 31. Betty Ray McCain Gallery, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. The Art of Shadow & Light: Beth Bale. Thru Jul 31. Joyful Jewel, Pittsboro. www.joyfuljewel.com.

The Art of the Bike: Bicyclethemed art exhibit. Thru Oct 23. Carrboro Branch Library, Carrboro. www.co.orange.nc.us/ library/carrboro. Liz Bradford: Oil paintings. Thru Sep 30. Chapel Hill Public Library, Chapel Hill. chapelhillpubliclibrary.org. Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle: One of N.C.’s most faithful chroniclers gets a career retrospective. Uzzle, born in Raleigh in 1938, started as a News & Observer shooter before hitting the big time at Life, photographing iconic scenes from the civil rights movement and Woodstock. Thru Sep 25. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www. ncartmuseum.org. —Brian Howe Chatham Artists Guild: Thru Jul 27. NCSU Campus: The Crafts

Durham by one of his m collages, D Center, Raleigh. www.ncsu.edu/ Jeremy Ker crafts. familiar dow through fre Chihuly Venetians: From the George R. Stroemple Collection: bright color Whereas many glassblowers and skewed content themselves with bongs remindful o and lampshades, Dale Chihuly Kerman de has taken the form into the upper echelons of fine art with his sculptural fantasias. This private collection of Chihuly’s works is currently on tour. The collection focuses on Chihuly vessels inspired by Venetian art deco vases from the 1920s and ’30s, almost fifty of which are in the exhibit, arrayed around the centerpiece of the Laguna Murano Chandelier, a tour de force made of more than 1,500 pieces. Thru Oct 15. Captain James & Emma Holt White House, Graham. —Brian Howe

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Chill Out: Thru Jul 30. Tipping Paint Gallery, Raleigh. www. tippingpaintgallery.com. Davis Choun: Thru Sep 24. HQ Raleigh, Raleigh. Color Abstractions: Allen Clapp, Mary Storms, and Sherri Stewart. Thru Jul 30. 311 Gallery, Raleigh. The Colors of Summer: Peg Bachenheimer. Thru Sep 17. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www.cravenallengallery.com. Corruption of the Innocents: Controversies about Children’s Popular Literature: Thru Aug 15. UNC Campus: Wilson Special Collections Library, Chapel Hill. www.lib.unc.edu/wilson. Creative Recovery: Mixed media by Grayson Bowen. Thru Aug 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. Kathy Dawalt and Michiel Van der Sommen: New oils and bronzes. Thru Jul 31. Gallery C, Raleigh. www.galleryc.net. Durham and the Rise of the Baseball Card: An exploration of Durham’s role in popularizing the baseball card. Thru Sep 5. Durham History Hub, Durham. www.museumofdurhamhistory. org. Durham by Ghostbike: In one of his mixed-media collages, Durham artist Jeremy Kerman shows us a familiar downtown vantage through fresh eyes. Using bright colors, blocky shapes, and skewed perspectives remindful of a child’s drawing, Kerman depicts the collision

of old and new Durham, as historic brick jumbles with shiny ELF vehicles in front of the Organic Transit building. Lean in close and you’ll notice a “Ghost Bike” parking sign, a tribute to a friend of the artist’s in particular, and to all the people being erased, literally or figuratively, from Durham in general. “Road Closed Ahead,” reads a construction sign; the symbolic question Kerman tacitly asks is “for whom?” Other pointed Durham scenes populate Durham by Ghostbike, Kerman’s new show at Craven Allen Gallery. Thru Sep 17. Craven Allen Gallery, Durham. www. cravenallengallery.com. —Brian Howe Ingrid Erikson, Tonia Gebhart, Caroline Hohenrath, Anna Podris, and Tim Saguinsin: Thru Sep 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. FRANK Summer Invitational: Janet Cooling, Drew Deane, Laura Hughes, Jenny Eggleston, Mary Kircher, and Jim Lee. Thru Aug 7. FRANK Gallery, Chapel Hill. www.frankisart.com. Grounded: Paintings by Pat Merriman and Ellie Reinhold, and pottery by Evelyn Ward. Thru Jul 24. Hillsborough Gallery of Arts, Hillsborough. www.hillsboroughgallery.com. Andrew Hladky: Found object paintings. Thru Sep 5. Artspace, Raleigh. www.artspacenc.org. Hometown (Inherited): Photographic and mixed media work by Moriah LeFebvre. Thru Oct 2. Durham Arts Council, Durham. www.durhamarts.org.

Inside Out: Sculpture for all Environments: Representative and abstract sculpture. Thru Jul 31. Cedar Creek Gallery, Creedmoor. www. cedarcreekgallery.com.

Nature: The Beauty of the Beast: Kathryn Green Patel. Thru Jul 24. Herbert C Young Community Center, Cary. www. townofcary.org.

Christin Kleinstreuer: Thru Sep 24. more. Raleigh. www. jmrkitchens.com/.

The New Galleries: A Collection Come to Light: Thru Sep 18. Nasher Museum of Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu.

Local Color: Multimedia works by twelve local female artists. Thursdays. Thru Jul 30. Local Color Gallery, Raleigh. www. localcoloraleigh.com.

Not Your Grandma’s Watercolors: Ryan Fox. Thru Jul 31. Mash & Lauter, Raleigh. www.busybeeraleigh.com/ mash-lauter-food.

Los Jets: Playing for the American Dream: Thru Oct 2. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

OFF-SPRING: New Generations: This exhibit, mostly photography, makes “ritual” its theme, and the offerings are alternately revelatory and rehashed from big-box postmodernism. “Off-Spring of Cindy Sherman” might have been a better title. Thru Sep 30. 21c Museum Hotel, Durham. www.21cmuseumhotels.com/ durham. —Chris Vitiello

Made Especially for You by Willie Kay: Dresses by the Raleigh designer. Thru Sep 5. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org. George McKim: Thru Sep 24. Elevation Gallery at SkyHouse Raleigh, Raleigh. www. skyhouseraleigh.com. Muhammad Ali’s Most Memorable Images: Photographic portraits of the late boxer by Sonia Katchian. Thru Aug 6. Vegan Flava Cafe, Durham. www.veganflavacafe. com. Narrative Landscapes: Eric Smith. Thru Jul 23. Hillsborough Arts Council Gallery, Hillsborough. www. hillsboroughartscouncil.org. Nature in Colored Pencil: The Colored Pencil Society of America. Thru Jul 31. Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh. www. naturalsciences.org.

Erin Oliver: Site-specific installation. Thru Sep 24. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

Separation: Megan Bostic, Samantha Pell, and Jan-Ru Wan. Thru Jul 24. Cary Arts Center, Cary. www.townofcary.org.

One More Drop in the Bucket: Improvisational installation by Paperhand Puppets. Thru Jul 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org.

Jody Servon: Installations. Thru Aug 4. Artspace, Raleigh. www. artspacenc.org.

People and Places: Meera Goyal. Thru Jul 22. Cary Town Hall, Cary. www.townofcary.org. The Process of Seeing: Paintings by Lisa Creed and William Paul Thomas. Thru Sep 30. American Tobacco Campus, Durham. americantobaccohistoricdistrict. com. Calli Ryan: New paintings. Thru Jul 31. Galerij Eumbaach, Chapel Hill. SelfieRepresentation: Paintings by Shelby Bass. Thru Jul 31. The ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org.

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HEATHERS, THE MUSICAL The 1988 film Heathers might just be one of the best high school movies ever made. In the dark teen comedy, protagonist Veronica finds herself at odds with the cadre of popular girls—all named Heather—who rule and terrorize their school. She thinks she finds a kindred spirit in the mysterious newcomer J.D., but together they land in more murderous trouble than the Heathers ever stirred up. Now the stage musical adaptation of the cult-movie hit is running for three weekends at Raleigh’s NRACT. Feel free to revel in the teen angst bullshit—just make sure it doesn’t end up with a body count. —Allison Hussey

The Sky Is Falling: Jenn Hales. Thru Aug 13. Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary. www. friendsofpagewalker.org. Summertime Good Times: Watercolors by Anne Chellar, acrylics by Marie Lawrence, and wood art by Frank Penta. Thru Jul 26. Cary Gallery of Artists, Cary. www.carygalleryofartists. org. Tangible, Tactile Fibers: Marie Smith. Thru Aug 1. The Qi Garden, Hillsborough. www.theqi-garden.com. Thomas Teague: Paintings. Thru Jul 31. Horace Williams House, Chapel Hill. www. chapelhillpreservation.com. Watercolor Society of NC: Thru Jul 26. Cary Visual Art, Cary. www.caryvisualart.org. The Women: Portraits by Rebecca Rousseau and John Samosky. Thru Jul 31. Cameron Village Regional Library, Raleigh. www.wakegov.com/libraries.

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Guys & Dolls Jr.: The Musical: Family-friendly adaptation by Sonorous Road students. $8–$12. Jul 14-17. Sonorous Road Productions, Raleigh. www.sonorousroad.com. Hamlet: Play presented by Honest Pint Theatre. $12–$20. Jul 15-31, 7 p.m. William Peace University: Leggett Theatre, Raleigh. theatre.peace.edu. Heathers: The Musical: $12–$20. Jul 15-31. North Raleigh Arts & Creative Theatre, Raleigh. www.nract.org. See p. 53.

Love >: Burlesque, drag, belly dance, and more, presented by The Vaudevillain Revue. $10. Fri, Jul 15, 10 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www. motorcomusic.com.

Ms. Pat: Stand-up comedy. Jul 14-16. Goodnights Comedy Club, Raleigh. www. goodnightscomedy.com. Silk Fashions: Fashion show. $38. Sat, Jul 16, 5 p.m. Fletcher Opera Theater, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com.

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Bill Blackley, Eric Nelson: Reading poetry. Thu, Jul 14, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com.

Steve Beach and Cliff Bumgardner: Signing and discussing comic books. Sat, Jul 16, 11 a.m. Ultimate Comics Raleigh, Raleigh. Robert Beatty: Serafina and the Twisted Staff. Fri, Jul 15, 6 p.m. Barnes & Noble, Durham. www. barnesandnoble.com.

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Maks & Val Live On Tour: Our Way: Dance. $50–$75. Sun, Jul 17, 7:30 p.m. Durham Performing Arts Center, Durham. www. dpacnc.com.

Hometown Hilarity: Stand-up comedy. Fri, Jul 15, 8 p.m. The Cary Theater, Cary.

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Duke Young Writers’ Camp Readings: Stories, poems, and essays. Tue, Jul 19, 7 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com. Elizabeth George: Novel A Banquet of Consequences. Mon, Jul 18, 7 p.m. Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh. www.quailridgebooks. com. Allan Gurganus: Reading “My Heart Is a Snake Farm.” Wed, Jul 20, 11 a.m. Nasher Museum of

ArtsCenter, Carrboro. www. artscenterlive.org. Hair: Musical. $24–$30. Thru Jul 24. Theatre In The Park, Raleigh. www.theatreinthepark. com. Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat: Musical. $25–$50. Thru Jul 20. Art, Durham. nasher.duke.edu. See p. 55. Bridgette A. Lacy: Cookbook Sunday Dinner. Sat, Jul 16, 3 p.m. Durham Main Library, Durham. www.durhamcountylibrary.org. Erik Lars Myers: North Carolina Craft Beer & Breweries. Wed, Jul 13, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www.flyleafbooks.com. — With Sarah H. Ficke. Thu, Jul 14, 7 p.m. Crank Arm Brewing Co, Raleigh. www.crankarmbrewing. com. Chuck Palahniuk: Signing line ticket requires the purchase of

Duke Energy Center for the Performing Arts, Raleigh. www. dukeenergycenterraleigh.com. The Light in the Piazza: Musical based on the novella by Elizabeth Spencer. Thru Jul 14. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

Fight Club 2. Wed, Jul 13, 4 p.m. Regulator Bookshop, Durham. www.regulatorbookshop.com. Alison Umminger: YA novel American Girls. Fri, Jul 15, 7 p.m. Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill. www. flyleafbooks.com.

LITERARY R E L AT E D Edward Swindell: “Site X — New Clues in the Search for Our Lost Colony.” Wed, Jul 13, noon. NC Museum of History, Raleigh. www.ncmuseumofhistory.org.

Whether we realize it or not, most of us spend our days surrounded by noise. Traffic rumbles and squawks, phones chime and buzz, and even HVAC systems hum and huff. But as the gorgeous and gentle In Pursuit of Silence suggests, this constant cacophony isn’t always good for us. The documentary explores the many sides of silence, from noise pollution in nature to meditating monks, anechoic chambers, and more. What the film occasionally lacks in focus, it makes up for with breathtaking cinematography and intriguing interviews. You’ll learn a lot about the underrated importance of quiet time, and, if you’re an introvert, you’ll leave this free Full Frame presentation feeling plenty validated. —Allison Hussey FULL FRAME THEATER, DURHAM 7 p.m., free with RSVP, www.fullframefest.org

Lena Gallitano: “Creation Care: A Bird’s Perspective.” Sat, Jul 16, 9 a.m. Millbrook Baptist Church, Raleigh. www. millbrookbaptistchurch.org. The Monti Story Slam: $12. Tue, Jul 19, 7:30 p.m. Motorco Music Hall, Durham. www. motorcomusic.com. The Nature of Science: A Town Hall with Greg Fishel: “Environment, Economy, Entrepreneurship: Is Clean Energy Good Business?” with Jordan D. Kern and Bob Inglis. Thu, Jul 14, 7 p.m. NC Museum

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Claude AnShin Thomas: “Waking Up to Compassion in the Face of Aggression.” Sun, Jul 17, 10:30 a.m. Chapel Hill Zen Center, Chapel Hill. www. chzc.org.

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Alvin & Chipmunks The Road Chip: Jul 19-21, 9:30 am. Northgate Mall, Durham. www. northgatemall.com. Dirty Dancing: Thu, Jul 14, 7:30 p.m.. Northgate Mall, Durham. www.northgatemall.com. Godzilla vs. The Thing and Godzilla: Final Wars: Tue, Jul 19. The Station, Carrboro. stationcarrboro.com. In Pursuit of Silence: Fri, Jul 15, 7 p.m.. Full Frame Theater, Durham. See p. 54. Norm of the North: Thru Jul 14, 9:30 am. Northgate Mall, Durham. www.northgatemall. com. Pitch Perfect 2: Fri, Jul 15, 8 p.m.. Koka Booth Amphitheatre, Cary. www.boothamphitheatre.com. Star Trek: Thu, Jul 14, 8:30 p.m.. Wallace Plaza, Chapel Hill. Zootopia: $6. Fri, Jul 15, 9 p.m.. NC Museum of Art, Raleigh. www.ncartmuseum.org.

Set at the dawn of the sixties in a rural Florida rendered antique by the space program, “My Heart Is a Snake Farm” introduces us to a retired Ohio librarian named Esther, who has led a life in muted colors due to her snaggled front teeth. Having never experienced physical love, she’s resigned to the peculiar freedom of presiding over a twelve-room motel in Florida that she prefers to keep empty. The sudden arrival of a reptile-themed roadside attraction across the street upends her spinsterhood, but before she can decide whether to be shocked or offended, the venue’s roguish proprietor becomes impossible to ignore: “This man had a brown face like a very good Italian valise left out in a forest during World War Two and just refound. Weathered, but you could still see how fine its starter materials had been.” In Esther’s particular circumstances, so masterfully described, Gurganus depicts a universal: namely, the thrill of realizing that our world may not be as circumscribed as we imagine, of simply knowing, “This is my life that I am living.” Read by the author, a North Carolina native, in the Nasher Reads series, the story promises to be even more transporting than it is on the page. —David Klein

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OPENING Ghostbusters—Unless you’re a raging misogynist, you’ve got to be stoked about Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot with a cast of top female comedians. Rated PG-13. The Infiltrator—Bryan Cranston plays Robert Mazur, the U.S. Customs agent who helped bust Pablo Escobar. Rated R. The Innocents—In Poland after WW II, a French Red Cross doctor aids pregnant nuns who were raped by Soviet soldiers. Rated PG-13. Hunt for the Wilderpeople—A boy and his foster uncle, lost in the wilderness, are subjects of a rescue mission in this hit from New Zealand. Rated PG-13. Wiener-Dog—Misanthropy master Todd Solondz returns with a tale of a dachshund that changes several misfits’ lives. Rated R.

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 The BFG—Roald Dahl’s Big Friendly Giant gets a shiny but underwhelming Spielberg adaptation. Rated PG.  ½ Captain America: Civil War—As in Batman v Superman, superheroes turn on each other, but the action is served with a Marvel smirk instead of a D.C. frown. Rated PG-13.  The Conjuring 2—This supernatural thriller checks off fifty years’ worth of horror movie tropes. Rated R.  The Jungle Book— Disney’s animated classic gets a well done, CGI-heavy update. Rated PG. .  Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising—A sorority and a suburban couple square off with mindless gross-out gags. Rated R.  ½ The Secret Life of Pets—This charming, beautifully crafted family movie falls apart in the final act. Rated PG.  Swiss Army Man—Cast Away meets Weekend at Bernie’s in this alternately touching and confounding tale. Rated R.

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See the teaching page of: www.griffanzo.com Adult beginners welcome. 919-636-2461 or griffanzo1@gmail.com

for sale auctions ANTIQUE TRACTORS, CLASSIC-CARS AUCTION Vintage John Deere Tractors, 1953 CHEVROLET Truck, Corvettes, Motorcycle, ONLINE ONLY AUCTION, Bidding Ends JULY 28TH @ 7:00PM - Morehead City, NC www. HouseAuctionCompany.com 252-729-1162 NCAL#7889

stuff MASSAGE TABLE,OAKWORKS “NOVA.” Originally $495. LIKE NEW. $250. 434-799-3343 (Danville VA).

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crossword If you just can’t wait, check out the current week’s answer key at www.indyweek.com, and click “Diversions” at the bottom of our webpage.

JOIN US IN SENEGAL

Ever dreamed of traveling to Africa? Looking for a cultural experience with local perspective? Join us! Senegalese native Diali Cissokho and wife Hilary are rounding up adventurous souls for a trip to Senegal. Take drum/ dance classes, go on exciting excursions, enjoy traditional meals, swim, visit, explore! Dec. 26 - Jan. 9. Contact DialiCissokhoMusic@gmail. com.

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ADOPTION Adoring couple, successful professionals, travel, loving extended family awaits precious 1st baby. Expenses paid.

2010 MINI COOPER FOR SALE $12,500.00 Cool Car, Great Price! Excellent condition, with +/-42,300 miles Automatic transmission, 4 cyl. 1.6L engine, ABS brakes Alloy wheels, Sunroof, CD audio, power everything! Call Donna - 919-602-3080 for info or TEST DRIVE!

SELL YOUR CAR FAST! You give us $20, we’ll run a 20 word ad with a color photo for 4 weeks. Call 919-286-6642 or emailclassy@indyweek.com

CASH FOR CARS Car/Truck 2000-2015, Running or Not! Top Dollar For Used/ Damaged. Free Nationwide Towing! Call Now: 1-888-420-3808 (AAN CAN)

1-800-561-9323.

critters To adopt: 919-403-2221 or visit animalrescue.net

Khaleesi

BOWIE, a smart, loyal, friendly, healthy, trained 2.5 y.o. Boston Terrier mix needs home with owner who likes flyball, agility or running. Crate trained. Up to date on vaccines, neutered, loves to cuddle. Available through BTRTOC. 919.280.1249

loves to cuddle up for a good nap.