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ALL HANDS ON DECK: IF YOU GOT ‘EM, WE NEED ‘EM

By Erica Rucker | erucker@leoweekly.com WE’RE BACK to NTI, homeschooling and early pandemic life in many ways. For a lot of parents in Jefferson County and parts of Indiana, the back and forth with the school system is putting a strain on their levels of stress and work life. The kids don’t know what the hell is going on from day to day and educators are fresh out of fucking ideas on how to deal with educating kids when consistency is nowhere to be found. There is no easy remedy, no one to really point fingers at anymore. We’re all complicit and all casualties of the COVID life.

As far as educating our kids, it’s time that we stop fighting the inevitable and realize that while we are not all qualified to be educators with our kids and that some of us have so little time, we have to help both our schools and our kids.

Currently, my son’s Montessori school is on break due to COVID and while I was almost ready for him to return to full-time school, this latest wave of COVID infections has put the brakes on that and forced me to make a choice.

Luckily, I work at home much of the time but I had to find a way, with the work I do have to perform, to give my son some one-on-one instruction time. I have a bit of instructional background so I can give him that. Considering my skills gave me an idea.

So I suggested to his school that, if neces-

sary, they might use my skills to help boost the at-home educational content the kids have available. I can read a book or tell kids how to write sentences. It’s not a big deal and offering to read for 15 or 20 minutes might actually help me, too.

“Good for you, Erica.” Yeah, yeah, but hear me out. This isn’t as tree-hugging or privileged an idea as it might seem. It’s just about collectivism and moving our kids along in a big ass village that is thinking about them more than the risk or inconvenience.

Sure, I can offer some small help, but my thought is that lots of parents, probably more than realize it, have a skill or an ability that they could share digitally or even via a phone call for their kids, for the school and for the sake of all the parents who really don’t have the time or capacity. My idea is only a question: What can we do to make this mess work for the kids?

There is still a true digital divide where

many homes are not equipped to deal with fully online classrooms and schools. Insert that this might be a really good time for Gov. Beshear — and those bloviating rightwing legislators concerned about abortions and gerrymandering — to focus some attention and solutions on a real issue. Even if you’re a Republican, you know that these priorities seem a little off, so I’m asking for your help in redirecting your legislators.

Employers, you’re just going to have to fucking deal with it and help your employees with children in school. Maybe offer an adjusted schedule or help fund internet access for employees or offer Chromebooks (the inexpensive wizard of online learning).

The bottom line is that this mess is a collective one and the only solution is all hands on deck taking some part in helping as we continue to navigate the new world.

If you have a smartphone or computer with a camera, record a short video of you reading a book or telling your kid about

something newsworthy or historial. When you know that your time is short, offer that to them, via email or on a flash drive. If you don’t have that capacity, ask other parents if they have ideas or even lessons to help your children with a school issue.

Call your school, offer to record some content, to make copies, or pack lunches for food insecure families. Many schools are already employing these tactics, so I’m in no way an innovator here but what I want to see is a region of people who just don’t give up due to frustration.

NTI might not be the answer but your help and even just five minutes of your time might be. Our kids are watching us.

If you’re working at home, put your kid in your office and let them work side-by-side with you. There is always a second when you can look over to their work and lift them up with a kind word or get them through a minor tough spot.

For the parents who are laughing at all of these suggestions because COVID has left you zero time or delirious, call those of us who have some time and are willing. We gotta make it through COVID and if one of us with a little time or skill can help you, reach out. It’s for the kids. •

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THE [BETTER] FUTURE OF HOSPITALITY IS FEMALE

By Olivia Rose Gri��ın | leo@leoweekly.com

WHAT IF the loss of our labor force in the hospitality industry is more skewed than we think it is? What if we have lost more women in the industry than men? We know that sitting at home finally getting a break from one of the most physically exhausting and mentally degrading jobs in the country will make you reevaluate your life and where you want to spend your time. But I imagine for women, that evaluation was even more intense.

Women are the underdogs of most industries; we get paid less, we get fewer benefits, we don’t get allowances for choices we make or the choices our bodies make for us because we are women, i.e., menstruation-related issues, pregnancy and motherhood. Why would we want to reenter an industry wrought with misogyny, physical, sexual and verbal abuse, all to make less money with a fraction of the respect our male counterparts get? Surely this industry isn’t still sexist, you must be thinking to yourself. Isn’t it 2022? The future? Equal pay for equal work, isn’t that fair? Isn’t that what is happening? Maybe this is what you imagine is happening. Well, it just isn’t.

Even though I myself am a woman, in the hospitality industry, who owns a bar and a cafe, and I have children and have plenty of opinions and stories about my own experiences, I decided I wanted to hear from other women in the industry. I created a survey of 10 questions and sent it off into the digital ether, and within 48 hours had responses that frankly left me feeling angry, flabbergasted, tearful, and also, hopeful.

All of the women who took the survey have been or had been in hospitality between 10-35 years: 100% of the women have experienced sexual harassment by managers or coworkers as well as patrons; some answered casually that sexual harassment is just part of the job, whereas others had to endure stalking, had to make up fake boyfriends and even continued to take more damaging sexual and physical abuse just to keep their jobs. A resounding theme that arose from the survey (that I did not even have a specific question for) was that a majority of them have been expected to do more or do better than their male counterparts. While they may be getting paid the same, the expectations of the individuals are different. One woman responded that often women will take up more responsibilities and be given pet names like “bar mom”

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instead of actually just getting compensated for the extra work.

Almost all of the women said they have been promoted at least once (which is not surprising given my own track record of promoting almost every woman I have hired in the past four years), but the promotion either didn’t come with a pay increase, or the pay increase did not match the responsibility increase.

All of the women have never been offered paid maternity leave or child care assistance; one woman said that because child care is so expensive, every time she had a child she would stay home until they were old enough for school, which left big gaps in her employment history, and thus each time made it harder for her to get a job.

Here’s the biggest problem: with all of these terrible job conditions, 100% of the surveyed women have not felt comfortable openly communicating with their managers or owners (majority being male) for fear of losing their jobs, losing good shifts or even being physically assaulted. No wonder it feels like the hospitality industry is still stuck in a pre-women’s rights era. How can anything change if women feel like their voices won’t be heard, or in their own words “swept under a rug,” and they just never complained because it was “part of the industry?” Male managers want people who “won’t cause waves” or “get hysterical.” A lot of these women wish there was a mediator, or HR department, but in some cases that isn’t always a good enough solution.

A lot of these women have left the industry now, they’ve stopped serving or bartending or cooking to move to a field where women are respected more, not abused, and are generally viewed as better than men in those fields: namely real estate, nursing, corporate management, social media and even picking purchases at an Amazon warehouse.

All of these careers offer women much more than the hospitality industry without slugging it out against their glorified male counterparts.

Where does this leave us? As a bar and cafe owner flailing amongst the ruin the pandemic has brought upon us, I and many other owners and managers, need more staff.

And not just anyone — we need reliable, trained, good people who are loyal and who will stick with us. And guess what: in my entire track record of running my two businesses, the people who are most loyal,

most reliable, most capable of management, and best at multitasking, are women.

We need to be hiring more women in positions of power in the industry and giving them exactly what they are asking for and deserve: more money, more benefits, paid sick and family leave and paid vacation time. Do you know what most women want in a hospitality work environment even more than all of those things?

They want to work around other women, NOT men, because they are sick of being talked down to, mansplained.

They are tired of hearing the disgusting jokes and gross giggles of line cooks and chefs. They are exhausted by customers buying them shots and drinks and getting some kind of leeway to “acceptably” make advances, both verbal and physical.

Women know in their hearts they are not dispensable yet get treated as such by their male managers and owners. And if you’re a guy, and your immediate response is, “But not me!” “I’m not like that,” it’s also likely you might not be part of actively solving these problems, changing the dialogue, and changing the culture, because you are in the position of power and these issues are still rampant. Women are so exhausted of being looked over for the promotion to beverage director or hospitality director or head chef.

They often like consistency and they like order, they like staying with a place they love and are loyal to, and will stay longer than they should without the pay or position they want and deserve. Most of them weren’t initially in it for the money, but if

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they land the right position, the golden handcuffs chain them to a hostile and toxic work environment that drags down their mental and physical health.

This must not continue. This is our plea, especially to the men who own and manage: Seek out and hire women in your restaurants and bars and cafes. If they need training or teaching, teach them or train them over hiring a man whose resume will most likely be more robust. And take it a step further: seek out and hire women of color to front of house positions. Teach them and train them without mansplaining. Women are the heart of the home. I guarantee from personal experience, all of the strong women I have ever hired have become the glow of the fire that is the business. Customers gravitate to them and come back.

Women develop the most loyal following of people because they come in and feel at

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PREDICTING THE NEXT 7 YEARS OF THE INDIANA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

By Dan Canon | leo@leoweekly.com

2022: The GOP supermajority in Indiana’s General Assembly proposes a bill prohibiting discussion of latent racism and sexism in classrooms, and allowing for lawsuits to be brought by parents who don’t know the meaning of the terms “racism,” “sexism” or “latent.” The bill dies. However, the GOP successfully does away with all prerequisites for owning and carrying firearms. The General Assembly also prohibits private businesses from inquiring into the vaccination status of their employees or patrons.

2023: A modified version of the 2022 education bill passes, this time with stiff fines added for teachers who insinuate that gender is a spectrum or that the Civil War was about slavery. Many teachers resign when the law goes into effect; others slowly trickle out as they find jobs in other states. A bill fixing the price of all new firearms at less than $100, and all ammunition at less than fifty cents a round, narrowly passes.

2024: Faced with an unprecedented teacher shortage, Indiana’s General Assembly declares the whole experiment of public education to be a failure and votes to abolish public schools altogether. A loose network of charter schools, 90% of which are operated by churches, appears to fill the void. Anyone with a high school diploma is allowed to teach K-12. To subsidize tuition at these schools, sales tax is imposed on groceries, and tollbooths are set up to collect money from motorists every 100 miles. The Indiana Chamber of Commerce effusively praises the creation of new nonunion teacher and tollbooth operator jobs. A bill abolishing all restrictions on the sale of firearms passes easily. Gun sellers place vending machines in every mall and drive-thru kiosks beside every tollbooth. Mask requirements by private businesses are punished with stiff criminal penalties, including fines and jail time.

2025: A nonprofit corporation operated by Liberty University takes control of most of the cash-strapped charter schools in the state of Indiana and fires all the teachers who have ever bought birth control. Lawmakers mandate a cost-saving K-12 curriculum consisting mostly of YouTube videos on topics including marketing, auto repair, The War of Northern Aggression and how early American settlers learned to rope velociraptors. After some fierce debate, the student-teacher ratio is fixed at 100:1, and teacher pay is fixed at $2.13 per hour (plus tips). Late in the session, Indiana makes international news by becoming the first state to allow private militias to operate without prior governmental authorization.

To facilitate the identification of individual militia members, a bipartisan bill outlawing the wearing of masks in public places quickly passes. A proposed exception for medical personnel dies in committee.

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2026: Following months of unchecked violence between private paramilitary groups, Indiana’s General Assembly declares the whole experiment of public policing to be a failure and votes to abolish state-funded law enforcement agencies altogether. Private militias bid on contracts to enforce the law within certain territories. Joey Jones, a militia leader who claims to be the son of media personality Alex Jones, establishes the largest private paramilitary group in the state with the purpose of protecting the Amazon warehouse and company town (formerly Jeffersonville/Clarksville).

The militia, called The Lord’s Fulfillment Center Army, is welcomed by the public, since raids on the warehouse by smaller paramilitary groups have delayed package deliveries by as much as two days. Vaccinations are outlawed, as is saying the word “vaccination,” since the term is considered offensive to Hoosiers infected with the no-longer-novel coronavirus.

2027: The General Assembly passes a resolution declaring June 19th to be “Amazon Protection Day,” making it a key event in Trump Pride Month. Due to the extreme wait times at all the state’s hospitals, the legislature proposes a bill that requires anyone suffering from any respiratory illness to first try ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine and/or eight ounces of human piss before admission to any medical facility. The bill is passed, but Governor McEnany vetoes it.

2028: The General Assembly amends the bill proposed in the previous year to mandate that a person afflicted with any illness must first attempt to use “the power of prayer” before any other treatment. The revised law passes without objection. Tepid protests take place in Indianapolis and Gary, but a bill allowing militia groups to open fire on anyone obstructing a highway or sidewalk flies through the legislature in the first week of the regular session. The new law effectively quashes any overt resistance, save for a small leftist militia calling itself the Sunflower Brigade. “Sunflowerers” armed with slingshots succeed in capturing the gift shop at Amazon State Park.

After a three-day standoff with The Lord’s Fulfillment Center Army, the group is tricked into giving up their weapons in exchange for a bag of weed and a discussion guided by principles of restorative justice. They are promptly hanged. The three remaining Democrats in the General Assembly are quick to condemn

the Sunflower Brigade’s violent tactics. The legislature unanimously passes a bill making the hanging retroactively legal and granting civil immunity to the hangers. As a final order of business, a law is passed requiring every citizen of the Democratic Republic of Indiana to contract COVIDs 19 through 28 within six months, either according to God’s Mysterious Plan or by appointment at an Amazon Prayer Center and Pharmacy.

2029: On the first day of the legislative session, His Exalted Holiness Ayin Adonai (formerly Joey) Jones, financially supported by the King of Michigan, surrounds the State Capitol Building in Indianapolis with armed package drones and members of a LFCA submilitia called the Tradwife Martyrs Battalion. Diplomats and their families are rescued from the roofs of neighboring buildings by helicopter gunships operated by the Walgreens Boots Alliance Armada and airlifted to safety in Chicago. Jones politely requests that a bill be passed abolishing the General Assembly and declaring Indiana a “Biblical monarchy.” The measure passes unanimously and the General Assembly disbands, making further legislative session previews unnecessary. • Dan Canon is a civil rights lawyer and law professor.

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STILL FACING CHARGES THE MAJORITY OF THE NEARLY 900 CASES FROM 2020’S PROTEST ARRESTS HAVE BEEN RESOLVED, BUT SOME ARE STILL BEING FOUGHT

By Josh Wood | jwood@leoweekly.com HEADING DOWN to Waterfront Park on the afternoon of July 24, 2020, Michael Clemons thought he was heading to a normal protest: One where people would just march through the streets of downtown Louisville calling for justice for Breonna Taylor, just like they had been doing for weeks.

When the march from the river arrived at East Market Street, in the gentrified and trendy NuLu district, some protesters started unloading plastic barrels for barricades out of trucks, and it dawned on him that the protest might turn out to be a little different than what he had anticipated.

“Once I realized that, I knew I was on board for whatever was going to happen. And what ended up happening was a block party,” he said.

“It was very similar to the festivals that shut down the streets on a regular basis here in Louisville.”

With NuLu’s main drag blocked off to vehicles, protesters put together a long communal table in the street and set it for dinner, decorating it with tablecloths and flowers.

They set out art. They even brought a trampoline and a piano.

“It was a joyous atmosphere,” Clemons said.

If left alone, Clemons believes people would have had some food, listened to some music and left — just like they would have at a citysanctioned block party. But soon, police arrived and told everybody to leave. In an example of textbook civil disobedience, many did not.

Clemons was one of 76 people arrested at the NuLu protest that day and would spend the night in jail charged with a trio of misdemeanors: Obstructing a highway, disorderly conduct and unlawful assembly. But a year and a half later, after refusing to plead guilty to have the charges dismissed, his case is still open.

While the majority of the nearly 900 cases from 2020’s protest arrests have been dismissed or otherwise resolved, about 130 remain open

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THORNS & ROSES THE WORST, BEST & MOST ABSURD THORN: THE GREAT REPUBLICAN BOYCOTT CONTINUES Both Rand Paul and Thomas Massie have recently announced that they’re giving up something to pander to their ba— we mean, something that doesn’t align with their values. Paul said he’s canceling his Direct TV subscription, because the company dropped the electionfraud-conspiracy-peddling One America News Network.

And Massie said he’s no longer patronizing D.C. restaurants, because of the District’s vaccine mandate. What these politicians fail to realize is that their petty gesture is not going to change anything. Because these moves from Direct TV and D.C. are being done for moral reasons, not monetary ones: to protect Democracy and lives.

After East Market Street was blocked off by barricades erected by protesters on July 24, 2020, LMPD moved in and made arrests. | PHOTOS BY KATHRYN HARRINGTON.

and unresolved according to the Jefferson County Attorney’s office.

At least five protest-related cases are currently scheduled to go to trial in the coming months. The County Attorney’s office maintains that the prosecution of cases is about ministering justice. But protestors and their advocates say the arrests and prosecutions — and even the conditions of plea deals offered to protesters — are about making Louisvillians think twice about protesting in the future.

“It is to make an example, it is a form of intimidation,” said the Rev. Tim Findley Jr, a Black protest leader and mayoral candidate who continues to face charges from two arrests during the Breonna Taylor protests. “It is to send a message — I think, really, for the future, that they are going to take this course of action when people exercise their right to peacefully protest, to protest non-violently.”

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Protesters like Findley and Clemons say they have continued to refuse deals from prosecutors that require a guilty plea, forcing prosecutors to dismiss their cases or bring them to

trial.

“We were not being violent, we were not being destructive at all. It was a peaceful street festival that, while it may not have had city permits, did not harm anybody,” said Clemons, 34, who owns a company that arranges running races and has regularly worked with LMPD in the past to close off streets to accommodate those events. “I don’t believe we did anything that we should be pleading guilty for.”

According to lawyers and court documents, a common offer to protesters with open cases has been a guilty plea, 20 hours of volunteer service, an agreement that police had probable cause to make an arrest and a condition that they not commit any new offenses in the next three months.

Findley faces charges for a June 1, 2020 arrest in St. Matthews and an Aug. 25, 2020 arrest when protesters blocked the Central Avenue overpass next to Cardinal Stadium.

In the St. Matthews incident, which was captured on camera, police alleged that Findley resisted arrest by stiffening his arms and that an officer “sustained an injury” trying to arrest Findley. Findley filed suit against the

ABSURD: NEUTRAL ON NAZIS Somehow, Indiana’s anti critical race theory bill is beating Kentucky’s in terms of horribleness. A provision in House Bill 1134 that would have required Indiana public school educators to remain impartial about what they teach had to be changed last week after the Senate version’s author said during a hearing that this would also apply to Nazism and fascism. Racism, though? Apparently that’s still cool to be impartial on. When asked if teachers could say that racism is bad, Rep. Tony Cook said, “Teach the facts. The facts will talk to students. Students will make and form and fashion their opinions about those.”

Fact: Cook is in the wrong.

THORN: HUNGRY FOR CHANGE Despite working in an environment surrounded by food, more than 75% of Kroger workers meet the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s definition of “food insecure,” according to a new report from Economic Roundtable, which involved surveying more than 10,000 Kroger employees across three states. These are also the people who have endured torrents of abuse from customers during the pandemic, as well as increased exposure to coronavirus.

So, what do we do? Conveniently, the report also recommends changes for the corporation: Pay workers $22 an hour, add more full-time positions, provide housing assistance and offer a 50% discount on food.

ROSE: 11 HERBS AND SPICES, 0 ANIMALS What would Col. Harlan Sanders think about KFC’s new plant-based chicken? Would he be proud of the innovation or would he continue his vendetta against the fast food brand’s quality? (Sanders was known to call KFC gravy “sludge” after he sold the company.) We don’t know, but our food critic Robin Garr had some words for the new menu item in an article you can find at leoweekly.com. Here’s a taste test: “I’d get them again, while this test run lasts,” Garr wrote.

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city of St. Matthews and several officers over the arrest.

“The fact that these charges have not been dismissed, to me speaks to — just on a very small scale — it speaks to the issue with the criminal justice system and what we choose to pursue and prosecute and what we choose to drop,” he said.

“And I think there are some major disparities there.”

According to Ingrid Geiser, first assistant in the Jefferson County Attorney’s office, prosecutors have carefully reviewed cases to determine which ones to pursue.

“We totally believe in everyone’s right to protest and the right to speak freely and to exercise their first amendment rights. However, when folks cross the line from being a lawful protester to someone who is committing a criminal offense, we have to look at each and every one of those cases in a consistent manner and review each case and the facts of each case and make sure that we are doing the right thing on each of those cases,” she said.

Geiser said the July 24, 2020 NuLu protest, where Clemons was arrested, “crossed the line because they brought things to barricade the streets with, they brought drums filled with urine and bleach and others substances. They actually set up physical barricades in the road.

And that infringes on lawful citizens’ rights to come and go down those streets.

That infringes upon those business owners’ rights to have their business open and safe to the public.”

In cases where a curfew violation or failure to disperse were the only charges, she said prosecutors moved to dismiss.

However, she said the County Attorney’s office sees obstructing a highway — a charge in a number of remaining cases — as a more serious offense.

“When you block a road, the potential for placing other law-abiding citizens in danger is present. It’s just not a way that we can allow protests to occur,” she said.

The shutdown of the courts due to COVID and the sheer number of protest cases has resulted in a backlog of cases and a long delay between arrest and resolution for some. While there are around 130 cases that remain unresolved, that does not mean that all are headed to trial: They include cases where negotiations are ongoing as well as cases where deals have already been made and the defendant only has to show the court proof that they completed volunteer work.

Attorney Ted Shouse, who represents many clients facing protest charges, said he anticipates “several” of the protest cases to ultimately go to trial.

To activists, bringing protest cases to trial is a way to effect change.

“If 25% of these people fought these cases…the system could not hold up because it’s not designed for everybody to fight it,” said Shameka Parrish-Wright, partnerships and advocacy manager for the Bail Project, who is also running for mayor.

But not everybody is in a position to take a case to trial; For many, outstanding protest charges can have serious consequences.

“Many of them won’t get to go on and be Maxine Waters or John Lewis, who had over 40 arrests for doing civil unrest,” she said. “Many of them won’t be able to do that. They’ll be marked and it will be hard for them to get jobs and housing and it will stay with them.”

Pending charges also means you have to keep on top of your court dates or risk arrest again; Currently, there are an estimated 24 people with active bench warrants stemming from protest-related charges, according to the County Attorney’s office. For those people, getting pulled over for a traffic violation — or any other interaction with a police officer — would mean arrest. (While bench warrants could land people with pending charges in jail, the County Attorney’s office maintains that they are not seeking jail time in non-violent misdemeanor protest-related cases they are prosecuting.)

Clemons considers himself lucky to be in a position where he can fight the charges against him.

“I don’t have anything that hinders me having this misdemeanor charge on my record,” said Clemons. “I’m very fortunate and privileged to be in that situation.”

According to Clemons, prosecutors have now offered to dismiss his case without a guilty plea so long as he provides proof he has completed community service. He said he is accepting that deal.

Another protester fighting charges is activist Carla Wallace, co-founder of Showing Up for Racial Justice, who was arrested during a march on Bardstown Road on Sept. 23, 2020, the day the grand jury announcement that no police officers would be charged for the killing of Breonna Taylor.

“For folks who have jobs where their name in the paper could mean that they

LMPD arrested 76 protesters duiring a protest in NuLu on July 24. 2020.

lose it, that’s a whole other level of how arresting people for dissent has an impact,” she said. “I’m not in that situation, but there are others who are. And that is very vulnerable, because if you lose your job then you’re behind on your rent or your mortgage.”

Attorney Kevin Glogower, who has represented a number of Louisville protesters, said pleading guilty to charges can be dangerous as well.

“If you’re any normal human being, pleading guilty comes with a whole set of consequences that could be very detrimental to you,” he said. “It could cause you problems with your work, problems volunteering with your kids’ school or some other nonprofit that you’re interested in helping. It can affect you in applying for school or loans or different types of subsidies. So a lot of folks that I represented were very apprehensive about entering the guilty pleas.”

“Quite frankly, I don’t think anybody that I represented during those protests violated the law. I think they were lawfully out there,” he added.

Parrish-Wright, the mayoral candidate with the Bail Project, said its understandable why many take plea deals.

“It really takes a lot of resources to fight a case. I see clients and I see why people just cop out and take plea deals: Because they want to know when it’s going to be over,” she said.

The protest arrests and the later legal battles wear down those calling for rights and justice, said Parrish-Wright, pushing people away from the work to be done.

“I’m really worried that this dampens our social justice movement — it hurts the people who are trying to stand up for what’s right,” she said.

SENDING A MESSAGE TO PROTESTERS

To protesters and their advocates, the arrests as well as the conditions set out in plea deals are part of an attempt to punish dissent and send a message that there will be consequences for future protest actions.

“I think those statutes, I think they’re designed to suppress free speech and I think they were used by LMPD to suppress free speech,” said David Mour, a Louisville attorney who represented dozens of protesters. “I told [County Attorney] Mike O’Connell very early on that unless a police officer was injured by an intentional act of a protester or property was deliberately destroyed or damaged, all of these cases should be dismissed and dumped.”

Additionally, some dismissals hinged on the defendant committing no new offenses for a certain number of months, a condition that meant protesters who wanted their prior charges to go away would be hesitant about taking to the streets again.

“That was to send a message to protesters: Stay off the streets, don’t be doing this shit, because if you get another one, we’ll charge you with that one and then we’ll go back and grab the old one that was deferred,” said Mour.

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charges was to sideline protesters, it worked in some cases: After Clemons was arrested, he stayed away from the protests.

“I didn’t go out after that just for fear of multiple arrests in a small period of time,” he said. “This was the one and only time I’ve ever been arrested, so I was like, I don’t need to risk that multiple times.”

A report by the Bail Project analyzing the arrests of 173 protesters arrested between June 1, 2020 and Sept. 30, 2020 who requested pro bono legal aid found that 80% had no involvement with the criminal justice system since at least 2017.

GENERIC NARRATIVES

The first protest case to go to trial opened on Nov. 1, with 36-year-old Shajuandi Barrow facing charges of obstructing a highway and disorderly conduct during the July 24, 2020 NuLu protest.

The next morning the trial was over, with the County Attorney’s office moving to dismiss the case after failing to turn over evidence to the defense.

In his opening remarks, prosecuting attorney Matthew Kinney maintained that Barrow was part of a group that took away the public’s freedom to travel Louisville’s roads that day. As a result of the actions of Barrow and others, he said, parents couldn’t pick up their kids from school, ambulances couldn’t get to UofL Hospital via the most direct route and citizens couldn’t enjoy NuLu’s shops and restaurants.

But Barrow’s attorney, Shouse, argued that police never saw Barrow commit any of the infractions that were described in her arrest citation — that her citation was filled out before she was arrested and instead relied on a narrative about actions about others in the group of protesters, not Barrow.

In body camera footage shown in court by Shouse, LMPD officers could be seen filling out arrest citations, with one officer saying he was putting together a “generic narrative” and that other officers should copy it.

“They just arrested everybody and charged them with the same thing,” Shouse told the jury.

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mostly in level of detail.

Here’s a pretty standard citation from that day: “Above subject was arrested for blocking 700 block of E Market for refusing to move after an order disperse was issued by LMPD. Several subjects were present at an assembly in the middle of the street causing alarm and annoyance to several business owners in the district who called 911 to report unlawful crowd.

Multiple orders to disperse were issued and subject refused to leave. Several subjects in the crowd made a Police and city workers dismantled and crushed a trampoline that had been brought by protesters during a July 24, 2020 protest. barricade out of bike fencing, 55 gallon barrels full of an unknown Street as Louisville came under a 9 p.m. the drums had urine and bleach in them liquid and large signs curfew. As they tried to approach the came from what police had reported. made out of several items, including matCitations with the same exact hand church, the group was quickly surrounded tresses. Barricade was tied together with writing and same exact wording were

by LMPD officers and arrested without a zip ties and cables with locks that had to signed by a variety of different officers. chance to disperse. be cut off with various tools.”

Geiser said police turned to “formScott’s livestream of the incident At times the citations read like a game type” narratives during the protests as showed the group walking towards the of telephone: While numerous citations they went through a learning curve grapchurch past the Louisville Free Public described barricades held together by zip pling with a large number of arrests.

Library and worrying that a heavy ties, cables and locks that had to be cut “Obviously, we would prefer a narradeployment of police officers was blockoff with various tools, one citation instead tive be narrowly tailored to a particular ing routes to the church. But Scott’s arrest reported that “various tools” were found individual’s conduct. That’s absolutely citation wasn’t about breaking curfew; at the barricades. instead, it said, “Above subj was a part of While 19 other citations mentioned the the preferred method,” she said.

Applying the most extreme actions a large group that was given mult order 55-gallon drums as having an “unknown” that occurred in an area to the entire verbally to disperse and failed to do so liquid or substance, 20 of the citations group present was not limited to the Subjects caused extensive damage at made no remarks on the contents of the NuLu protest. multiple locations including setting fire to barrels except to note that they were part In Wallace’s Sept. 23, 2020 arrest the Louisville Public Library.” of the barricade. citation charging her with obstructing a Scott and Parrish-Wright were charged Two citations signed by the same offihighway, disorderly conduct and unlawful with riot in the 1st degree, a Class D cer reported that the barrels were “filled assembly, the arresting officer mentioned felony which can carry up to five years in with urine and bleach.” Three other citathat “subjects were carrying homemade prison. tions signed by that same officer made no shields and weapons refusing to leave the Their felony charge — along with mention of the urine and bleach, though area.” Wallace told LEO she was not cartheir misdemeanor failure to disperse and one did mention the barrels containing an rying any weapon or shield. unlawful assembly charges — was later “unknown liquid.”

“Having been arrested a number of dropped.

In a press briefing the following day, times, I know that police often add addi“This was to quiet our protest voice. then-Deputy Chief LaVita Chavous tional charges hoping that one will stick,” This was to bury the protests,” said would claim the barrels had contained she said.

Parrish-Wright. “You bury them by using water, urine and bleach. Clemons, who On Sept. 24, 2020, one night after the the judicial system and process to further said he helped unload and set up the bargrand jury’s decision, Parrish-Wright was prosecute — and I say bully — the rels, said, “none of us would have been traveling in a group with state Rep. Attica people who chose to stand out and stand up there with that sloshing onto us… it Scott (D-Louisville) as they tried to get up against injustice.” • was straight water.” Geiser of the County to the First Unitarian Church on Fourth Attorney’s office said her assertion that

Snowed In

When a recent snowstorm locked writer Sean Patrick Hill into a Pine Mountain cabin, he ruminated on society’s unpredictable and chaotic last several years

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I AM STANDING at the window in a nearly 100-year-old cabin, waiting for the snowstorm to begin. It is late morning in early January, and I am at the edge of the Cumberland Plateau in southeast Kentucky, at 1,450 feet of elevation on the east face of Pine Mountain. The forecast calls for anywhere from four to eight inches of snow, which is expected to begin in the early afternoon and fall well into the night.

The park ranger told me, when I arrived at the lodge, to be prepared to be snowed in, and that it would be unlikely I could get my car out until at least the following morning — that is, if the employees could make it up the mountain to plow. I couldn’t even hope for salted roads.

Though I had wanted to drive around the park the afternoon I arrived and photograph, I was not going to risk going anywhere. The road to the cabins, though paved, is steep.

The ranger suggested I could park at the lodge and walk up, as some people do. I parked the car beside the cabin as close to the road as I could, being sure to set it on level ground.

Inside, I set the thermostat at its highest level — 75 degrees.

By the following morning, I was told, temperatures would plummet to single digits.

I have come to Pine Mountain State Resort Park for the experience of this cabin in winter. It was built by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression in what was to be Kentucky’s first state park. The cabin, one of three, is of a rustic design of logs chinked with plaster and a great fireplace in the middle of the room, fashioned of sandstone quarried from the mountain. Though it shows its age in many respects — the windows, for one, are original, only thin panes of glass in wooden frames fixed with metal latches to the sills, so that cold air easily leaks in — it is also modernized with electricity, hot water and forced air heat. The kitchen is equipped with a refrigerator, stove and microwave oven, and the bathroom has both a tub and a shower. There is ample lighting. A stack of wood has been left for me on the porch.

I drove three hours to be here. I’ve come with two days of food, several cameras, plenty of warm clothing and waterproof boots. I even packed a snow shovel. Though I did not expect this turn in the weather when I’d made my reservation weeks ago, I welcome it, even if I am a bit anxious. I have committed myself to stay for two nights.

At half past noon, the snow begins to fall. The road out quickly becomes impassable.

When I’d made plans to come here, I had wanted to travel further south to the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park to photograph. The day before I left, I’d called the park service and been told that the road to the Pinnacles — my main destination, in fact — was already closed. I gave thought to driving through the tunnel on U.S. 25 to the Virginia side of the park, where I could perhaps get into the lower elevations. Given the snowfall, I gave that idea up.

When I’d arrived at Pine Mountain, I left the highway and started up the back way to the lodge, thinking I could stop around Laurel Cove on the way up, but only a short distance in I found the road gated. Most of the state park, it turns out, was likewise already closed.

I took the other road to the main entrance. When I checked in, I was given some fire starter — sticks you strike like a match — and my key cards. I drove straight to the cabin and unloaded. I would not leave again for a full 48 hours. I brought in the cut wood and left the shovel on the porch. I settled in, as it were, for a long winter night.

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PHOTOS BY SEAN PATRICK HILL.

When I had told my friend, Francine, a poet, where I was going, and that I was somewhat disappointed that my initial plans were thwarted, she offered me this simple piece of advice: “Remember not to view this as a detour,” she wrote me, “but as an opportunity to photograph something else…

Bloom where you’re planted.”

THE FAMILIAR FEELING OF LOCKING DOWN

At one point, as the snow began, I was looking out the window and watching the peaks of the Log Mountains to the south disappear into mist. I thought how the pandemic, amongst many other things over the last two years, has also thwarted many of our plans. I thought of how many marriages — and funerals — were postponed or canceled

outright, how many vacations were abandoned. I thought of everyone, myself included, who had lost jobs. In a sense, especially when so many of us stayed home for so long — and some of us continue to do so — that we were, or even continue to be, snowed in by circumstance. At times, it felt like there was no way out. I often struggled with loneliness.

What I am trying to discover here, now, is simply a way to live alone where that solitude seems more like an adventure and less like a burden. In the afternoon, I brewed myself a cup of English breakfast tea and warmed a homemade beef stew for dinner. In the evening, I took a hot bath. I laid out my yoga mat and stretched my low back, my hips, my shoulders. I read the book I’d brought, Beaumont Newhall’s “The History of Photography” from 1937, sprawled on the couch under a blanket. And I wrote on my laptop, the cool air touching my neck.

I tried to pay attention to everything, examining the grain in the log walls, guessing the species of trees without leaves, watching a deer carefully cross the road, a pileated woodpecker in a tangle of limbs. I listened to the crows. I went outside in the last light to brush off the car and just stood there, in the still air, breathing. I brought out my camera on a tripod and made a long exposure of one massive tree that hovered over the cabin — I would spend the next day photographing this tree extensively. When the snowplow first came up the road in the dark, the blade dragging and sparking on the pavement, I was almost disappointed.

The irony occurs to me: I have relieved my “cabin fever” by renting a cabin.

WITHOUT DISTRACTION

Snowed in, relegated to a single room in a cabin equipped with firewood but not Wi-Fi, I think most of us would become restless, if not uncomfortable (there is a television here, but I won’t consider it — I don’t own one back home, anyway). Were the electricity to go out, the heat would go,

too, and the phone that connects the cabin to the lodge would also be down. When the snow begins settling on the roof, so does the fear. Knowing that there is an AT&T cell tower on the mountain — I could quickly dial 911 if I needed to — doesn’t fully dispel the anxiety. And of course, I could walk down to the lodge, albeit in below freezing weather on a steep, icy road. But there is more to the uneasiness than even this.

I realize, as I’ve realized hundreds of times before, that I am simply afraid of sitting still. Having been stimulated for years by the internet, by social media and by the constant barrage of news from the election cycles, the protests and the rapid descent into climatic changes that result in chaos, I am afraid of finding myself with nothing to do, with nothing, as it were, to pay attention to.

I don’t intend the things I brought—the January issue of Harper’s, my yoga mat, the laptop or even the smart phone—to be distractions; rather, I brought them so I could

really engage with good reading, with stretching my body, and with writing. The phone will be handy, of course, in the case of emergency.

It occurs to me that we have all been suffocated for nearly two years with distraction. I often found myself, especially in the early days of the pandemic and the protests, constantly checking news feeds, social media, the internet, and I wasn’t the only one. Many of us, maybe most of us, ended up fatigued, overwhelmed.

I am mindful here of unplugging from websites, from devices, and disregarding the stifling climate of opinion and division. I do not think, ultimately, the answer lies in more engagement but rather with disengagement, with at the very least an occasional disconnection from knowing at every moment what is happening in the world, as if knowing would change the course of history. It won’t.

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space. To sit in a spare cabin, hearing crows in the crowns of the oaks, knowing that one will vanish for a time beneath the snow, is to appreciate one’s insignificance. It is no sin to be small and unknown. We do not all have to contribute our opinion to the arguments. We do not even need to find answers. It may help, rather, to learn instead how to frame the right questions.

When the snow slowed, I went out in the last light to photograph the blanketed trees. Then I built a fire on the iron grill and watched the flames.

DON’T LET THE FIRE GO OUT

When I wake the next morning, more than an hour before sunrise, it is 20 degrees below freezing. The cabin is warm, safe. I get up to make coffee. I pour a cup and pull the comforter from the bed, bringing it to the couch. The windows tick in the chill. Sitting on the couch, I feel the faint touch of cold at my neck. I light a new fire. A fire isn’t necessary, I suppose, but it adds to the ambience. The sound of it, the glow.

I pull the blind on the kitchen window and catch sight of a titmouse in the snow, a nuthatch probing the bark of a tree. The last flurries are drifting down and, in the distance, I am beginning to see the ridge of Pine Mountain. This is not disconnection. What I am doing, even as the news piles up, is reconnecting to the world that lies typically beyond my experience. I am recalibrating, I hope, my values. At the very least, I am questioning what I too often find important.

“If we really deny ourselves,” Thomas Merton has written, “our self-denial will sometimes even deprive us of things we really need. Therefore we will feel the need for

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them.”

For us, that need is often for stimulation, for diversion, for entertainment.

Even for human company, for a touch or a glance. To some degree, we do need these things. It doesn’t hurt, though, to occasionally fast.

Here in this cabin, what I am experiencing is enough. The hiss of burning wood, wet with snow. The colors of the sunset through the trees. The knowing that friends are concerned about me. I am experiencing my own body, my own capacity for silence. It is a life anyone could love.

In living this life, I think that, in both home and body, we maintain a hearth.

Here on Pine Mountain, the winter night pressing in, I have been tending this fire all day. There are many flames we tend — our inspiration, our passion, our convictions. No matter what darkness drapes us, no matter the iron weight of the cold, we mind the hearth.

It is like what an old man said, whom I met just before

ladies & gentlemen, we’re

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Christmas in the Big South Fork, when I stayed in a cabin there, working over a manuscript by the light of a propane lantern, getting up in the night to feed the iron stove. He told me, “Don’t let your fire go out.” •

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ANOTHER YEAR, MORE RESOLUTIONS WHAT OUR STAFF (AND A FEW GUEST WRITERS) WANT TO ACCOMPLISH THIS YEAR

RESOLUTIONS are a balancing act. If you aim too high, you can fall off a promise to yourself very, very quickly. If you disregard change, you can stay stagnant. For this article, we asked some members of LEO’s staff — and some community members — to share their New Year’s resolutions, or, just simply, what they want to accomplish this year.

ERICA RUCKER LEO A&E Editor

New Year….

Yes, I want world peace and the end of food insecurity and itchy assholes for all racist dirtbags but most of all, I think I want to be present… not for the above, but for

myself.

It is tough as a person with intense anxiety — and likely some latent trauma waiting to jump out and kick me in the face — to be fully present in my daily life. I have moments where I’m really tuned in and comfortable, but sometimes when I’m in the midst of living this new modern paradigm of mothering, working and dodging the pandemonium that COVID has become, I just check out. Physically, I’m doing my job, talking to my kid, making dinners and saying the sparse ‘mmhmm’ to my husband on the occasions that we have a conversation, but mentally, I’m either drawing a complete blank or dissociating myself to a life where there is no COVID, no obligations and the ability to catch a plane to some-

where far away is just a matter of buying the ticket.

OK, you too?

I know that I’m not the only one. It’s a thing, a survival tactic in the midst of living through trauma. This pandemic has fucked us all up. We’re so much weirder than we were in January 2020.

Now hear me out: it’s not all bad, the weirdness or even the dissociation. We’ve figured out a few things that capitalism tried to hide from us, and now we can demand the working conditions we want and need (don’t sleep on this one), do the jobs at home better than in an office and have the time to let our little brains wander away from the present where sickness is the only thing we seem to talk about. So, I guess my resolution is to

be kind to myself, make space for my brain to take a leave of absence and just roll with this new year, hoping for many more years to come.

DANIEL PFALZGRAF

Owner of Wheelhouse Art

These past couple of years have been nothing if not inspiring for improving our lives and living situations. In 2020, I focused on taking care of my body better.

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with WheelHouse Art. Business was great, and we were able to accomplish more than expected in a year’s time. Now that we have business operations set up and chugging along, my resolution for 2022 is to do more to empower, support and grow value. My first resolution is to work with my staff so they can take over several jobs that I am currently doing so their roles grow and I can focus on more of the things to continue growing the business. My second resolution is to learn more of the work the staff does here that I haven’t done much of. I want to support them better by stepping in to help if someone needs time off without feeling like things will fall to pieces while they are away. Lastly, I want to spend more time marketing Louisville and Kentucky artists outside of our area. I want to build more value for artists and the collectors that have supported them.

CAROLYN BROWN LEO Staff Writer / Photographer

The Jewish Community Center of Louisville presents

24th Annual

2022 FEBRUARY 5-27

The Louisville Jewish Film Festival announces an extraordinary hybrid season featuring 11 spectacular, award-winning, international films, 1 TV mini-series, 2 short films and 6 outstanding speaker engagements, including Dov Glickman, who played a lead role in Shtisel, for which he won the Israeli Academy Award for Shtisel Best Actor in a leading role, twice.

Join us to explore new worlds and ideas from the comfort of your own home or live at the Speed Cinema.

For tickets and details visit

JEWISHLOUISVILLE.ORG/FILMFESTIVAL Founding Partner The Louis Levy & Wilma Probst Levy Film and Theater Arts Fund THANK YOU TO OUR 2022 FESTIVAL SPONSORS Goldstein Leibson Cultural Arts Fund

Before I worked for LEO, even as an intern, I was always deeply tied to the world of live entertainment. Photographing shows –– or, really, working around them in any capacity –– has always been one of the things that makes me happiest.

But, of course, live entertainment took a forced hiatus in 2020, and none of us knew how long the pause would be. At the start of 2021, I was prepared to spend another long year without concerts.

But last year, I saw 40 of them.

At venues large and small, in crowds of 20 and 20,000, I saw 54 artists perform.

Many of the groups were new to me; some of them I only knew of because of ads on Instagram.

(By the way: bands, please send me your demos. My inbox is always open.)

My sheltered teenage self’s need to be A Concertgoing Person was part of the impetus for all of this show-seeing. Now that I’m able to drive myself places and buy my own tickets, I do, as often as possible. It’s rare anymore that I spend a weekend fully at home –– and, yes, I always mask up.

My resolution for 2022 is to beat last year’s record: I want to go to even more concerts and discover as many new musicians and songs as I can.

REP. JOHN YARMUTH

U.S. Congressman Of District 3 In Kentucky

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entirety of my retirement apologizing to my grandkids for letting Republicans destroy their democracy and their planet. We’ve only got a limited amount of time to get this right, and I plan to use every moment I have left in elected office pursuing policies that put our future first.

FRED JOHNSON

Teacher At Jefferson County Public Schools I turned 60 this year. While that number is the new 40 for some folk, it’s the new 12 for me. It must be, simply as a matter of survival. I’m a relatively new seventh grade teacher, coming to Jefferson County Public Schools as a second career. I retired from the Army after 30 years and several combat deployments. I thought being an educator would be a breeze, but that was tragically optimistic. While teaching is not like combat, it can be harder than combat, especially during a full moon, on Friday the 13th, the day after Halloween when the kids are spinning in circles with a sugar buzz that makes the Tasmanian Devil look like Eeyore. I had one student put sharpened pencils in his nose, eraser-end in each nostriland charge at me snorting like a bull.

I matadored him and he ran straight into the wall 100 feet down the hall, was knocked to the floor and got up laughing, pencil horns still intact. So, my New Year’s resolution is to relearn how to think like a preadolescent.

I don’t want to act like one (even though my wife says I already do). Rather, I want to know what was in my young bull’s mind when he put those pencils in his nose and charged me like we were in the streets of Pamplona. I think to understand him is to better appreciate the world and how we can lose our way and find it again, bouncing off walls.

SCOTT RECKER LEO Managing Editor

I usually say that I don’t believe in New Year’s resolutions, that they’re empty promises that bust by February, a momentary counterbalance to the gluttony of the holidays. But, I’m going to lean in this time.

This year, I want to want to make good on something I always say I’m going to do, but constantly push back: I want to find somewhere to volunteer. I’m not sure where, or doing what, but the last two years have caused people so much pain and suffering that it’s time to move forward on it. •

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‘new works’

garner narrative contemporary fine art | 642 E. Market St. | garnernarrative.com | Free Artists make art. Yeah, I know, that’s stating the obvious. But ART sometimes we forgot the creation part because we’re looking at a finished project. So, when gallery director Angie Reed Gardner told me that some of the paintings in this show were still wet when she picked them, I loved it. That’s relatable and drives the point home.

Others in the exhibition are about a year old but haven’t been shown because of the pandemic. The artists featured are Ann Dawkins, Stephen Dorsett, Angie Reed Garner, Joyce Garner, Will Garner and André Seagraves.—Jo Anne Triplett

THURSDAY, JAN. 20

First 30 Show

Never Say Die | 3900 Shelbyville Road | Search Facebook | No cover | 8-10 p.m.

2022 has already given us plenty of fodder for jokes, if only because if we don’t laugh, we’ll cry. Find out what Louisville’s comedians have already come up with in the COMEDY new year. They’ll present their latest material, performing two minutes each.

To grab the mic, you can sign up by emailing louisvillelaughs2@gmail.com. To go, you just need to show up and laugh. —LEO

‘Astoria’ by Angie Reed Garner and Andre Seagraves. Digital and oil painting on canvas.

SATURDAY, JAN. 22-23

Brick Universe FRIDAY, JAN. 21

LO in Your Neighborhood: Teddy Abrams Celebrating Young Talent

Ballard High School | 6000 Brownsboro Road | louisvilleorchestra.org | $20 | 7:30 p.m.

Kentucky International Convention Center | 221 S. Fourth St. | www.brickuniverse. com/louisville | $15 online, $18 at the door | 9:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. and 1p.m. – 4p.m.

Bricks abound at this fan-created, family-friendly LEGO festival downtown. The touring event will showcase plenty of gigantic (and small) LEGO creations, LEGO artists, LEGO and, of course, LEGO merch. Just be careful not to step on anything. —Carolyn Brown

Pianist Michelle Cann is coming to Louisville. She is a very young

YOUNG TALENT artist

who, besides being a talented soloist, has worked to make music and arts education accessible for many children. The Louisville Orchestra is proud to support Michelle Cann and to broaden their reach to budding musicians and music fans all over the city.

—Erica Rucker

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SATURDAY, JAN. 22

GLOW Pickleball

E.P. “Tom” Sawyer State Park | 3000 Freys Hill Road | Search Facebook | $10 | 6 p.m.

With the recent cold, you might be looking for some exercise that feels more like fun than work. Register for GLOW Pickleball, where participants will play the LET’S PLAY ball and paddle game in a dark gym, under backlights. Neon and white clothes are encouraged, so the entire gym can, of course, glow. Games take place in the park’s Activities Building Gym. Pre-registration is required. Email emma.faulkner@ky.gov to register. —Scott Recker

SATURDAY, JAN. 29

Legacies Unlimited presents The Walnut Street Revue

Kentucky Center for African American Heritage | 1701 W. Muhammed Ali Blvd. redpintix.com | 7:30 p.m. | Tickets range from $45-$65 It’s a night of music and celebration GROOVE of the heritage of Old Walnut Street in Louisville. Join musical artists The Unlimited Band, Rob Lee, Michael Johnson, Yvette Nicole, Paulette Johnson and the Soulful Sounds of Tony Fish and the Groove Masters. Special guest Daria Raymore will be there to share the event. —Erica Rucker

THURSDAY, JAN. 27-28

An Evening Of Victorian Cocktails

The Conrad-Caldwell House Museum | 1402 St. James Court | conrad-caldwell.org | $55 | 6:30 p.m.

Cocktails were a new conceit during the Victorian era. So, what did DRINKS the 1800s-era American drink? And which drinks were most popular for the different social classes? You’ll learn — and drink — it all at this tour of the Conrad-Caldwell House Museum. Brian Cushing, also known as the Victorian Man, will take you around the house, letting you sample different Victorian cocktails along the way: A traditional ladies drink in the parlor, a working class drink in the servants hall and a gentleman’s drink in the Billiards Hall. It’s like a real-life, drunken version of Clue! Proof of vaccination or a negative COVID test within 72 hours is required to imbibe. —Danielle Grady

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SATURDAY, JAN. 29

Dolly Parton & Country Divas Drag Brunch

Le Moo | 2300 Lexington Road | Search Facebook | $40 | 11 a.m., 1:30 p.m.

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Nature is the focus of Lagerstrom’s latest exhibition, as it “[provides] a moment of peace and reflection” in today’s turbulent world. —Jo Anne Triplett

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home. Do the work. Be better. Hire better, hire harder. Don’t take the easy route.

Create diversity in your workplace.

Make your workplace safer and more accepting. Create a culture centered around open communication. If you make this space, then you will automatically expand your customer base to people who previously didn’t feel comfortable ordering and interacting with your all-white male staff, namely, women and women of color. One woman responded to my survey that she was looked over as beverage director even though she had been somewhere for three years because she felt she was discriminated against because she was Black. Her ask of future employers: racial equality in leadership positions.

Invest in your female employees: pay for them to learn and travel and grow.

It will come back to you tenfold, if not in revenue, then in peace of mind.

We need to attract new people to our industry, and in my opinion we need to attract women back to it, and in order to do that, we need to make it worth it, and build a picture of a future in hospitality that appeals to the very people who have been most downtrodden by it. The top things that these women are asking for in this industry: better hourly and equal pay proportional to the amount of work and responsibility, paid maternity leave and child care support, health insurance, leadership positions and zero tolerance for bullying, sexual or physical harassment.

These are things that should be basic human rights. These are things that should have been given over when we first demanded them so vocally in the 1920s. These are still things that most of these women don’t have currently, in 2022!

A small handful of the women I surveyed are now the owners of their own businesses.

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They gave me hope. They are individually within their own workplace culture changing the standards of the hospitality industry for women.

Sara Wood, owner of Girlsgirlsgirls Burritos in Lexington, wrote, “I now provide PTO (sick or vacation) to my current hospitality employees. We provide vegetarian shift meals, kids meals /elderly meals for any employee responsible for child / elderly care.” This right here, this is the future. All of the responses have made me evaluate what more I can do to create an even more supportive environment for my female employees. It will ultimately be us, the female owners and managers, who will start the clear-cut cultural shifts and environmental and monetary improvements to the hospitality industry for women.

We must start this trend, and I believe, and know from experience, that it can be done even on the smallest budgets. Money can be shifted and rethought. Budgets can shrink in some departments and grow in order to help provide a better quality of life for the best assets you have in your restaurant: your employees. Food coming from the heart to connect with other human beings is what most of these women said they love about working in this industry. This starts with women, and it needs to get better, and better fast, starting with female owners and managers and the men will, eventually, follow suit. The [better] future of hospitality is female. • Olivia Rose Griffin is the owner of The Limbo, Riot Cafe and The Mysterious Rack.

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ADIA VICTORIA, TAKING HER ‘SOUTHERN GOTHIC’ TO THE STAGE AND SHARING A DIFFERENT SOUTHERN NARRATIVE

By Melissa Gaddie | leo@leoweekly.com ADIA VICTORIA is a born and raised Southern Black poet and musician who has garnered attention and praise for her music, especially with her newest release, A Southern Gothic.

Adia is currently touring with Jason Isbell, and will be opening both of his shows at the Louisville Palace (originally scheduled for Jan. 14-15, but now rescheduled for Jan. 2829 due to Isbell’s recent COVID diagnosis).

I was lucky enough to speak to Adia about touring, her new album, and being a musician.

LEO: Do you have any pre-show rituals or anything that you do before you go out on stage to get ready to perform?

Adia Victoria: It’s been so long since I’ve been touring and been out on the road properly, since 2019, but I don’t know, I like to stretch a lot. I like to get into my body before I go on stage just so I know that I’m bringing all of me out to the show.

Sometimes I can get a little anxious and get inside my head, so I do some stretches and deep breathing and I try and get as much quiet as I can. That’s hard to do on tour, but I have time to just be completely relaxed within myself. I’m a former dancer, so I try and have all of my body warmed up before I go on stage and perform.

Are there any songs in particular that are your most favorite to perform live?

Again, that’s a difficult question because we really haven’t had the chance to tour much for A Southern Gothic, but I’ve really been enjoying playing ‘My, Oh My’ live.

There’s something very ethereal about that song that I discover something new each time that I’ve been blessed to perform it. It keeps opening itself up to me and I hope that that comes across to the audience as well.

Your newest album is titled, A Southern Gothic, and the explanation is that you

were in a bookstore in the Southern Gothic section and you saw that, you know, it was all white writers, predominantly white male writers, and then all the Black writers were kind of separated in a different section. How is your experience of Southern Gothic or your definition of Southern Gothic different as a Black woman than of the typical definition?

Gothic as a literary trope concerns itself with what we repress, what we other, what comes back to haunt us, but a lot of traditional Southern Gothic, that repressed... that other... that haunting is represented from a white Southerner’s perspective. So, oftentimes what comes back to haunt the white Southerner is the very idea of how he was constructed in the first place — what his identity is centered upon, who it has to exclude, who has to die in order for him [or her] to be white. And that’s what a lot of Faulkner and Welty and O’Connor, they brilliantly explore in their work. And, so, as a Black woman, I’ve had a different idea of what I’ve had to repress, what I have looked at and looked out at the world. What haunted me was often a lot of the aspects of my white evangelical Southern upbringing — middle class. I had to repress different parts of myself in order to exist and survive as a respectable member of society. So, I wanted to show that that has just as much relevance to Southern identity as white Southern identity, which is what we typically think of when we say Southerner, we think of a white person. So, I use that title kind of as a reclamation in order to position my story, my perspective and my experiences growing up in a church and Black in South Carolina shoulder to shoulder with someone like a William Faulkner or a Eudora Welty. • Adia Victoria opens for Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit Friday, Jan. 28-29. Both shows start at 8 p.m., with tickets starting at $39.50.

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By Robin Garr | leo@leoweekly.com I’M PRETTY SURE I unleashed a small rant last autumn when the Delta variant was coming on, threatening to retreat into takeout dining until things blew over a bit.

I didn’t actually do that. I’m vaccinated, and now boosted too, so what, me worry?

But the other day, eyeing news reports about the Omicron variant and rising positivity tolls, I started thinking about takeout again.

Yeah, vaccinated and boosted. I said that.

But it seems that breakthrough Omicron cases are rising, and even if healthy, vaccinated people who catch this plague have symptoms only like the flu … hey! I had flu once. I don’t want to go through that again.

So, don’t get me wrong. I’ll belly up to a restaurant table again soon. Takeout only works for me for eateries within 15 or 20 miles of my house. I can’t keep it hot and fresh much longer than that.

So, I’m craving Vietnam Kitchen under its new second-generation ownership, for example, and takeout just won’t do for a South End trip. Not to mention some New Albany spots that I’ve had my eye on.

Shining sunny bright yellow from its turmeric and curry flavors, Singapore noodles will wake up your tastebuds without being at all fiery. | PHOTOS BY ROBIN GARR.

For this week, though, triggered by thoughts of Vietnamese food, Heart & Soy popped into my mind. This little Highlands spot — partner at the same address to its more upscale sibling Roots — is good, it’s affordable and it’s street food. By definition street food is comfortable fare made to carry around and stay delicious even after it cools off a little.

Just like that, there we were, properly masked in Heart & Soy’s attractive dining room with its cool Zen mood, looking over its intriguing chalkboard menu.

That menu lists nearly three dozen items, all vegetarian and most marked as vegan and/or gluten-free. All but a handful cost less than $10. There’s also a toothsome collection of fresh-made vegan pies and other desserts in a cooler box; and house-made tofu is freshly created in a fancy Taiwanesebuilt machine in a glassed-in room right there on site.

Under the guidance of owner Huong “CoCo” Tran, who introduced Vietnamese cuisine to Louisville in her Café Mimosa 35 years ago, the menu offers predominantly

Spring rolls wrapped in translucent rice paper are pretty with strips of barbecued tofu, lettuce, and veggies showing through.

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Vietnamese dishes, with ventures into other Asian cuisines and beyond.

Some popular items, like Quang’s Traditional Yellow Noodles, go back to Tran’s Zen Garden on Frankfort, the predecessor to Heart & Soy. Even the prices haven’t escalated unreasonably over the years: Quang’s noodles, now $9.90, were $7 in 2011.

The menu isn’t separated into categories, but you can detect soups and appetizers by their mostly lower prices: Miso mushroom soup is $5.90; spicy noodle soup from Hue and a vegan pho are both $7.90. Starters range as low as $4.90 (for fried tofu squares, steamed buns or a pair of egg rolls). A Vietnamese sandwich is $6.90 plus a buck for the vegan option. A BBQ tofu sandwich or vegetarian ham sandwich is $7.90.

The remaining 18 entrees are almost all priced from $7.90 to $9.90, with only a handful of items reaching double digits. The bill of fare tops out at $11.90 (for orange tofu, fresh green beans and tofu or special lemongrass tofu).

Spring rolls wrapped in translucent rice paper are pretty with the bright ingredients showing through. The traditional Vietnamese or Thai presentation features bright shrimp in that role, but Heart & Soy gets the job done with strips of white tofu with a reddish barbecue rim. Lots of rice noodles, chopped lettuce and carrot shreds fill the roll, with sweet peanut sauce for dipping, They were good, although the rice paper was a little stretchy and a challenge to bite through.

Sunny bright yellow Singapore noodles ($9.90) breathed a gently spicy, almost

smoky aroma that signaled the presence of turmeric and curry flavors. It was pleasantly hot enough to get your taste buds’ attention but not at all fiery. Plenty of thin, tender rice noodles were matched with strips of carrot and onion and pressed, marinated and fried tofu, all cut into long, thin strips, plus chopped cabbage and scallions to complete a flavor symphony.

Vietnamese rice noodle salad ($8.90) was a full dinner salad — a generous portion of thin, white rice noodles massed in the bottom of a bowl and topped with fresh, crisp lettuce, carrots, stir-fried onions and a mix of meaty marinated fried tofu and red-edged barbecued tofu. A small tub of thin, sweet-and-tangy soy and lime dressing brought all the flavors together and added a gentle hint of fiery spice.

A lemon bar and a wedge of chocolate peanut butter pie from the takeout cooler were both excellent: creamy, full of flavor and built on good crumb crusts. I won’t even try to guess at the secret recipe — I suspect tofu was involved — but their deliciousness spoke for itself.

With the addition of two take-out desserts and a block of house-made tofu, our meal came to $39.43 plus an $8 tip. The lunch portion alone was about $26 plus tip. •

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By T.E. Lyons | leo@leoweekly.com

COMIC BOOK REVIEWS!

BOOK TALK ON TRAGEDY AND PRESERVATION PRESERVING INSTITUTIONS: tough going at times, but worthwhile. One institution making a welcome return to form is the Kentucky Author Forum, which has been limited to podcasts for most of the last two years. But on Monday, Jan. 24 at 6 p.m., the Kentucky Center will once more be the site of some of the most vital, stimulating discussion in the literary world.

The initial event this year could not have been better selected. The authors have recently produced autobiographical books that include their direct involvement with matters of utmost importance to preserving the integrity of America’s federal government. And for Maryland Congressman Jamie Raskin, personal and professional demands piled on each other in ways that were, as his book’s title plainly states: “Unthinkable.”

Subtitled “Trauma, Truth, and the Trials of American Democracy,” Raskin is giving full account of a recent short period when he certainly must wish he wasn’t the subject of national headlines. At the end of 2020, he lost his 25-year-old son Tommy to suicide. This tragedy seemed to be brought on by factors and circumstances that could never be fully known to a father who nevertheless speculated on self-recrimination as part of his agony. Tommy’s multitalented nature and generous, socially-committed personality are shared throughout “Unthinkable” — and the author skillfully shows how his son’s cut-short life fully fits the legacy of a family that has put accomplishments to its progressive ideals for generations.

Barely away from the chill of the winter funeral, Rep. Raskin returned to his office understanding the Constitutionally-mandated steps required in early January 2021.

In clear-eyed detail, his recounting lays out the careful tactics and observations by which the Democratic leadership would be watching for signs of attempts to subvert the results by which Joe Biden was elected President. But it all goes to hell with the riot of Jan. 6 — where intruders at the gates produced a more immediate and dangerous

crisis.

Not too long after the smoke cleared, the Speaker of the House asks Jamie Raskin to lead the prosecutorial managers of the Senate trial for the second impeachment of Donald Trump. This position makes extraordinary demands on the grieving Congressman — but it gives him a focus, and he presses forward.

Unsurprisingly, even with admirable fine-granule research on the pages, this book is no one’s version of emotionless dry history. An example, plucked from a timely moment: about Rep. Jim Jordan’s statements just before the rioters broke through the Capitol doors, Raskin says, “This fact-free, logic-impaired discourse is the daily bread fed to Fox News viewers, but is becoming a lethal threat to critical thinking in our besieged democratic republic.”

There are details here that fascinate and infuriate, and a few display a barely-pocketed wit. My favorite: Raskin’s invitation to Trump to testify at the impeachment trial received a (negative) response so swiftly as to emphasize the culpability of the then-president’s protracted delay in addressing the mob.

Rep. Raskin is just part of the powerhouse lineup for the evening. Dr. Fiona Hill, former Senior Director of the National Security Council and key witness for the first Trump impeachment inquiry, will speak about her recently-released memoir “There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century.” Louisville Congressman John Yarmuth (full disclosure: the founder of LEO Weekly) will serve as Master of Ceremonies and introduce the authors. • As of this issue’s deadline, only the overflow video-viewing seating ($15) is available (plus the pre-event book sale with snacks).

COVID safety requirements can be found at kentuckyperformingarts.org, and further event information is at kentuckyauthorforum.com.

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By Krystal Moore | leo@leoweekly.com

‘Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1’ Written by Jeff Lemire Art by Doug Mahnke

The Earth has got problems. And according to “Swamp Thing: Green Hell #1,” the problems of today are just the beginning. This book opens with a father and daughter fishing, hoping to catch dinner. Unfortunately, the only thing they catch in their nets is garbage and junk.

Disappointed, and still hungry, they head home to the island they live on. Soon though, we find the horrifying fact out that this “island” is actually all the land that’s left on planet Earth.

If that’s not scary enough, supernatural entities have decided that humanity’s time on Earth is over and it’s time to hit the reset button. But, John Constantine has other ideas and calls on his old friend Alec Holland. Alec is known to the rest of us as Swamp Thing.

Swamp Thing has gone through a few different characterizations, and this guy is the deep, God-like being, who, hopefully, can save not only humanity but maybe give a helping hand to the Earth as well. We’ll see! Can’t wait to see what issue #2 brings!

‘Tom Holland’s Fright Night #1’ Written by James Kuhoric Art by Jason Craig, Neil Vokes, Jay Geldhof, Matt Webb

Nope, it’s not that Tom Holland. This is the Tom Holland who wrote and directed the 1985 cult movie “Fright Night.” The book opens with a peek at some pretty scary looking vampire types, including a queen, but quickly moves into a retelling of the original movie plot by none other than Peter Vincent himself. Peter, if you don’t remember, or haven’t seen the movie, was the host of late night TV showings of horror movies. When real “live” vampires move next door to one of his viewers, the boy asks for his help exterminating the undead. Now, Peter has written a book documenting his experience (no spoilers!) that he and his agent have frequent differences of opinion on whether to call fiction or non-fiction.

Meanwhile, the queen from the beginning has made her way into town. Not only is she already doing evil things, but she’s bought the Dandridge house. The same house that the vampire lived in in the movie! Do yourself a favor and if you haven’t seen “Fright Night,” go watch it and then check out this next chapter in the story. The writer and the artists have great respect for the source material and it shows. This looks to be great fun, not only for fans of the movie, but for fans of great comic storytelling.

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By Marty Rosen | leo@leoweekly.com

FROM the opening of Bekah Brunstetter’s 2019 play “The Cake,” we know that we’re in the presence of a person who is serious about the art of cakery. Standing behind the counter of the cheerful small town shop that bears her name, a woman named Della offers up a brisk monologue that starts with a psychological profile of the aspiring home baker, proceeds to ingredients and techniques, and includes cautionary advice (never skimp) and a serious admonition: “You must follow the directions.”

For Della, a person steeped in the cuisine and manners of the South, a cake is as much an expression of values as it is of the ingredients. And her dedication and skill have brought her to the cusp of fame: she’s been selected to appear as a contestant on a reality show called “The Great American Bake-Off.” That blithe opening — brilliantly delivered by Georgette Kleier, who stars in Director Michael J. Drury’s Pandora Productions local premiere of the play — could have served to introduce a light, frothy comedy.

But instead it serves to heighten the moral and emotional crisis that follows.

It’s well-known that wedding cakes have become flashpoints in America’s culture wars (the play was inspired by litigation that reached the US Supreme Court, Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission).

But Brunstetter’s play does not litigate those issues, it explores them in a story rich in wit, sorrow — and surprisingly bawdy humor. “The Cake” is one of those rare plays that feels as if the writer created the characters and then unleashed them to find their own ways through. The result is unsettling and provocative. And no matter which side you’re on (though my guess is that one side of the debate will never see this play, alas), you’ll likely come away with a deeper understanding of the other.

The drama begins when a young woman named Jen (Katie Martin) returns home after years away to tell Della that she’s getting married and wants Della to bake her a wedding cake. Della, who adores Jen and was close to her late mother, is delighted at the prospect — and immediately leaps to imagining the perfect cake — until she learns that Jen is marrying Macy (Adama Abramson), and that the wedding will feature two brides.

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A ‘BRILLIANT’ RETURN TO NORMALCY FOR ACTORS THEATRE

By Ben Gierhart | leo@leoweekly.com

TIMES like these certainly make it easy to give into hopelessness, but what is infinitely more challenging, and arguably more rewarding, is to find the tiniest pinprick of light in the darkness, even if one must do something as deliberate as literally writing down a list of the day’s mundane joys.

And that is precisely what the storyteller in Duncan Macmillan’s “Every Brilliant Thing,” the forthcoming live and in-person production at Actors Theatre of Louisville, does.

While Actors’ “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story” from late 2021 was technically the theater’s first in-person, in-theater production since the start of the pandemic, “Every Brilliant Thing” will be the first with a two-week run. This is something of a return to normalcy for the Louisville community, whose nationally-renowned professional theater — like several other producing entities around the world — has been forced to innovate and offer nontraditional programming. “‘Every Brilliant Thing’ is a story about facing the challenges, the darkness and the despair of the human condition by celebrating the abundant joy, light and beauty that is equally intrinsic to our humanity,” said Amelia Acosta Powell, director of “Every Brilliant Thing” as well as Actors’ impact producer.

Powell is a theater artist of the modern age, skilled in seemingly every aspect of production including directing, devising, costume design, construction, dramaturgy and more: “I am a believer in what might be called the liberal arts approach, or a general|ist style of learning. I believe that working .in many disciplines has informed me as a theater artist and that my vision benefits from a broad perspective.”

That broad perspective — forged from experiences with Arena Stage in D.C., the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and the Repertory Theatre of St. Louis — has offered Powell all the tools she needs to approach this play, one with a difficult subject matter.

“I do think it’s important to name that this piece grapples with suicide,” said Powell. “We hope that this play can serve to open up dialogue around a topic that can be stigmatized.” Not only is it Powell’s job to

create good art and serve a play’s story as well as she can, but as impact producer, she is also responsible for ensuring that that art serves the community’s needs.

“We nourish the social good and the health and wellness of our community through storytelling and creative engagement,” said Powell. Her plan to execute that engagement is multi-faceted: The first facet is a partnership with the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). At the time of the writing of this piece, Actors is still at work on a resource list on their website for anyone struggling with suicidal ideation, anyone grieving loss due to suicide or anyone who wants to learn more about how to prevent suicide.

Powell is aware of the gravity of this theme, so the second facet of her plan has more to do with connecting the audience to the world of the play and its often surprisingly uplifting aspects. “The storyteller generates a list of ‘Every Brilliant Thing’ worth living for. These items are mainly simple, not winning the lottery or flying on your private jet, but little moments like seeing someone make it onto the train just as the doors are closing, making eye contact, and sharing in this little victory,” Powell shared.

“They inspired ideas of my own. Writing down those ideas and sharing them with my friends and colleagues was really joyful.”

That is why Powell came up with the idea to create a shared document to engage the audience, where users will be able to submit their own “Brilliant Things:” “Folks will be able to contribute whether they are planning to see the show, or whether they live across the globe. Even if a contributor won’t see the production, they will have been a part of it. Those who do see the play may even see their contributions to the list in the lobby.”

The play’s very form also creates audience engagement, as there are numerous opportunities where the storyteller uses various devices to invite audience participation.

Powell has been thoughtful and deliberate in her choice of play as well as wholeheartedly devoted to her and Actors’ mission: “This collective creative process demonstrating communal care for one another is one of the most essential experiences of sitting together

in a theater to experience a play, and I think many of us have desperately missed that form of togetherness over the last two years.” •

cies for this production are still in development, and tickets are not yet available for purchase. To stay updated, please visit actorstheatre.org.

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SAVAGE LOVE

By Dan Savage | mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage

FAST AND FURIOUS

Q: I’m a straight guy but my whole life I have wanted to be spanked by older men. Does this make any sense? Because I’m confused. I don't like or want penis. Yet I want to be spanked as a punishment by men. I don't understand myself sometimes.

Sincerely Pondering And Not Knowing A: The truly important question here isn’t why you want this, SPANK, but how much more time you’re gonna waste sitting on your ass wondering why you want this when you could be out there getting that ass spanked? And even if you came up with a neat and tidy answer, you’re still gonna want older men to spank you. Because getting to the bottom of a kink—identifying some childhood trauma that explains everything—isn’t a cure. Instead of seeing the spankings you want as a riddle you need to solve you should see them as a reward for all the wondering you’ve had to do. If you need a label, SPANK, just say you’re bisexual for spankings. Not bi for blowjobs, not bi for anal, not bi for JO or mutual masturbation.

Just bi for spankings.

Q: I like the way you walk the talk because gay guys in women’s clothes get me hard and horny and when I see a gay guy dressed in sexy clothing it just makes me want to jerk off and maybe one day I’ll meet a gay guy like you and suck and blow him.

Gooning About Gay Guys In Naughty Gowns A: Articles of clothing don’t have genders, GAGGING, because anyone can wear anything, as Billy Porter was sent down to earth to teach us. Also, not all gowns are naughty—think night, hospital, dressing, etc. That said, GAGGING, I don’t wear the kind of clothing the cishet patriarchy would have us believe is for women alone. Well, I don’t wear that stuff anymore. I used to drag, GAGGING, and the pictures are out there, but I haven’t worn so much as a skirt for years. So, you can stop thinking about sucking my dick.

Q: I’m hoping to get an objective POV on something.

I’m a 31-year-old male bottom. I have been in an open relationship with an amazing 31-year-old male top for twelve years. One year ago I started to suffer some gender dysphoria. At roughly the same time he expressed a desire to be topped. I never had any desire to top someone, I’ve never even felt that male urge to thrust my hips, but I hate that I’ve let my BF down. I can do this, but only with the help of ED meds. How can I get some pleasure out of it?

Topping Burden A: You could penetrate your BF with toys, or you could take one (or give one) for the team once in a

while (by taking ED meds and topping him), or your boyfriend could bottom for other men, seeing as your relationship is already open. Or all of the above. And if it’s the thrusting and/or being in control that turns you off (or tweaks your gender dysphoria), take an ED med and let your boyfriend ride your hard dick—then instead of you fucking him, he’ll be fucking himself.

Power bottom, sub top!

Q: I’m wondering how AJ, the FinDom you quoted at length in your most recent column, wound up on your radar and getting what amounted to free advertising in your column. You said he lives in the Pacific Northwest. Isn’t that where you live, Dan? And you said his bathroom is always spotlessly clean. How would you know that? Are you his bathroom?

Dan’s Ethics Are Lacking A: I’ve never met AJ in person, there’s more than one city in the Pacific Northwest (and we don’t live in the same one), and I found AJ looking for gay FinDoms on Twitter who might want to answer CASHFAG’s question. That said, DEAL, while I’m far too cheap to be anyone’s finsub (or their sugar daddy, for that matter), I do enjoy cleaning bathrooms—but not in a pervy way. I enjoy cleaning bathrooms in an eat-anedible-and-listen-to-musicals-and-zone-out-doinghousework-while-the-husband-and-his-boyfriendare-at- the-gym sort of way. So, while I wouldn’t necessarily say no to cleaning AJ’s bathroom, I haven’t been asked, DEAL, and consequently haven’t had the pleasure.

Q: This is about your recent response to UNCUT, the guy who met men who believed they were uncut when they were very much cut. You suggested that these men were lying about being uncircumcised.

But not knowing might be more common than we assume. This is from Epidemiology, the authoritative textbook written by Leon Gordis of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health: “They asked a group of men whether or not they had been circumcised.

The men were then examined by a physician. Of the 56 men who stated they were circumcised, 19, or 33.9%, were found to be uncircumcised. Of the 136 men who stated they were not circumcised, 47, or 34.6% were found to be circumcised. These data demonstrate that the findings from studies using interview data may not always be clear-cut."

Some Truly Are Thrown A: While it’s true that men lie to prospective sex partners all the time—and, yes, #NotAllMen and #SomeWomenToo—it turns out that men may not be lying about this. In addition to the textbook example you shared, STAT, other readers sent along a clip of

Patrick Stewart on the Graham Norton Show. In it, Stewart tells Norton he got into an argument with his wife about his dick one day. He insisted he was circumcised, she insisted he was not. Stewart, who thought he knew his own dick, followed up with his doctor and it turned out his wife, who may have had a larger frame of reference, was correct: contrary to what Stewart believed about his own dick, he was not circumcised as an infant or at any time in his life.

The clip, which is easy to find on YouTube (and very funny), is yet more evidence—anecdotal, in Stewart’s case—that some men don’t know from their own dicks.

Q: In your reply to "SADSON" you are clearly taking sides based on how comfortable you must be about withholding the truth from a partner. You say the father should have "kept his mouth shut" about the affair he had! You know nothing about this couple's values and decisions! Who are you to push your views on others? Many of us consider lying about cheating reprehensible! And the last sentence of your response ("I hope there were other women") was astonishingly juvenile, mean-spirited, and vindictive—and for what reason? To take sides against a clearly tormented heterosexual woman! Disgusting and shameful!

Thoroughly Appalling Take Enrages Reader A: This is an advice column, TATER. People send in questions; I answer those questions. So, I’m not pushing my views on anyone here. I’m sharing my views.

That’s literally my job. And I’m not the first advice columnist to urge a cheater to withhold the truth from a partner: “The adulterer who wants to ‘set everything right’ by telling all would be better advised to keep his mouth shut and work out his guilt by behaving in a more thoughtful, loving, considerate way and stay out of other beds in the future.” That’s from the Ann Landers Encyclopedia, which was published in 1978.

(Ann assumes all adulterers are male; I guess she could also be accused of “taking sides.”)

In the case of SADSON’s parents, TATER, don’t you think SADSON’s mom would’ve been happier if her husband had taken Ann Landers’ advice and kept his fucking mouth shut? Instead, SADSON’s dad told SADSON’s mom about the affair he’d had a decade after it was over. So, it wasn’t the affair that tormented SADSON’s mom, but knowing about it. As for my snarky post-script (“I hope there were other women”), SADSON’s mom has made her husband’s life a daily living hell for thirty years. Why? Because he fucked somebody else forty years ago. I don’t know about you, TATER, but I think the punishment should fit the crime. And there’s only one way that’s possible here: more crimes, lots of crimes, so many crimes. questions@savagelove.net Follow Dan on Twitter @FakeDanSavage.

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Pursuant to KRS 376.480, the following abandoned mobile home located at 7112 Green Oak Drive, Lot 97, in Green Acres Mobile Home Community, Louisville, Kentucky shall be sold by Green Acres via sealed bid on Friday, February 18, 2022 at 10:15 AM to recover rent, storage and legal fees incurred by the owners of said mobile home. The sealed bids will be accepted at 5616 Green Acres Drive, Louisville, KY 40258. Title to the mobile home is not warranted, subject to prior liens and all sales are final. Seller reserves the right to bid. Terms of sale cash only.

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