“It was after 10 pm on Tuesday, January 10, in the stale, bright basement of the Arlington Street Church, where now-nomadic Occupy Boston was holding a meeting. At issue was something that would seem straightforward: a proposal to prevent level-three sex offenders from being a part of Occupy. But suddenly, it felt as if the entire movement could be splintering … . . Two nights earlier, the sex-offender proposal was blocked. And now, as the Occupiers attempted to deal with the aftermath, the room filled with a tense whirlwind of emotional outcries about feeling triggered and targeted by misogyny, sexism, and homophobia … .”
- From my 2-page story in this week’s Boston Phoenix, deconstructing the aftermath of Occupy Boston’s blocked proposal against level-three sex offenders, what the block says about Occupy’s horizontal process, and what this means for the future of Occupy Boston.
(Also hey look my gold glitter nails made the Phoenix, #lol!)
