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Presidential Candidates, Patients, and Cartoonists Who Happen to Be Women

Oct 8, 2024 | emilywritesback.substack.com | Emily Hopkins

This is Emily Writes Back, a newsletter for brilliant people, by Emily Sanders Hopkins. At the Algonquin on Sunday, here I am (“first known Black woman New Yorker cartoonist”) with Amy Hwang, the first Asian New Yorker cartoonist that we know of. Check out some of Amy’s hilarious cartoons here. What I find special about Amy’s cartoon style/voice is the wicked combination of deliciously chunky (chonky) drawings (love the rounded framing she sometimes does) and succinct, funny-true captions.
BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WALK OUT, MARCH AGAINST POLICE BRUTALITY, TURN HEADS, GAIN SUPPORT

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Emily Hopkins

Images by Emily HopkinsBy 1:15pm this afternoon, only a couple dozen Boston University students had gathered on Marsh Plaza for a #HandsUpWalkOut action to show support for Michael Brown and other victims of racism and police brutality.
FCK FCKH8

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Emily Hopkins

Recently, the front group FCKH8 has come into the news for releasing a controversial video of young girls denouncing gender inequality and violence. The promotion, as well as another clip that features kids in Ferguson, Missouri, apparently explaining racism to white people, was created with one purpose: to sell t-shirts. For a profit. Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia.
THOSE CLIMATE CRUSADERS

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Emily Hopkins

We've had nearly two weeks to digest the People's Climate March, a wildly successful operation that brought more than 300,000 people from a number of diverse backgrounds and political groups to New York City. The lead-up campaign was super glossy, employing a couple dozen full-time employees, maintaining high-end online content to attract heads, and essentially inviting people to engage with the brand and buy what the organizers are selling-the march.
'HUMORLESS QUEERS' MAKES YOU LAUGH TO KEEP FROM CRYING

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Emily Hopkins

Image via 'Humorless Queers' Facebook In terms of facing monolithic power structures, taking on the finance industry and the surveillance state is like standing up to two slimy Goliaths who hide sketchy things in fine print and tap your phone conversations. But neither Alexis Goldstein, communications director for the nonprofit The Other 98%, nor Kade Crockford, director of the ACLU of Massachusetts Technology for Liberty Project, seem very much intimidated by this fact.
ICEAGE AT GREAT SCOTT

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Dan McCarthy |Dan Mccarthy |Martin Caballero |Martín Caballero |Emily Hopkins |Chris Faraone

For some time now we've been running a twice-annual feature wherein a lucky few writers and associates are sent out into the streets armed with an extremely limited expense account and a dry liver (well, mostly dry), and told to get at least five different drinks in them. It's often more, but at least five.
SOME WHITE PROTESTERS STILL DON'T GET IT

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Emily Hopkins

"All it takes is one push."The police were out numbered many times over last week, and that's all it would have taken to push past them and lead the masses onto an on-ramp and beyond. The two men having this conversation, in a way pleading those surrounding them to nudge ahead, were angry. They were also loud, and white. A lot of white "allies" have shown their support in the unrest surrounding two non-indictments of killer cops, which is great.
BOOK FAIR AND EQUAL

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Emily Hopkins

I got into radical politics the same way many people get into drugs or weird sex: college. Specifically Boston University, and I'm proud to say my former stomping grounds will be the site of this year's Boston Anarchist Bookfair for two days starting this Sunday, November 23.
MODERN COLLEGE CULTURE RUINS EVERYTHING

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Emily Hopkins

Image by Tak ToyoshimaRiots. Overturned cars. Broken windows. Trash everywhere. Nope, I'm not talking about Ferguson, Missouri. I'm talking about Keene, New Hampshire, the recent scene of senseless violence and damage wrought by thousands who descended on the college town for this year's annual Pumpkin Fest.
THE KIDS STILL AREN'T ALL RIGHT

Aug 9, 2024 | digboston.com | Emily Hopkins

The first thing I ever wrote for DigBoston, way back in 2012, was an editorial titled, "The Kids Are Not All Right." I was angry, frustrated in my own closet, and had just attended a fundraiser for GLAAD. They were organizing an anti-bullying campaign and handling court cases for LGBTQ children. It upset me how the youngest members of our queer parade were being subjected, even at school, to blatant cruelty.