![]() ![]() ![]() In a recent bid to take down monuments that celebrate oppression and genocide across the nation, Stone Mountain stands out in its marked permanence as the country’s (and the world’s) largest Confederate monument. Lee and president of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, on the back of a horse. Completed in 1972, the 90-foot carving depicts Confederate generals Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee Blvd in Stone Mountain, Georgia, is the last to get our middle finger, but certainly not the least. The Stone Mountain Monument off of Robert E. Desantis is also known for his crackdown on the infusion of Critical Race Theory and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Florida school curriculums, causing teachers and librarians to strip thousands of now-banned books from the shelves that suggest even a modicum of diversion from the White heteronormative status quo. This is but another brick in the wall DeSantis has built to suppress any “wokeness” from indoctrinating the children of Florida. The live entertainment in question? A drag show, to no one’s surprise. Just this week, DeSantis announced that he was looking into revoking the liquor license of a Hyatt Regency hotel in Miami for hosting sexually explicit live entertainment with children present last Christmas. Google Maps actually brought me into the Florida Capitol building and presented me with this truly horrible but strikingly on-brand chair in a hallway that I chose to vent my frustrations into. Unsurprisingly, the man of the hour, Ron DeSantis, gets a large middle finger from us. Definitely adds some walk to all that talk … The Florida Capitol interior featuring a truly heinous “global village coffehouse” aligned chair Hundreds of Americans across the nation have renounced Walgreens for the act of cowardice, stating that they’ll be boycotting both Walgreens and Duane Reade moving forward. Unfortunately for us in the tri-state area, Walgreens is the parent company of Duane Reade, and both are owned by the UK-based pharmacy giant Boots. Walgreens Headquarters gets the collective middle finger from uteruses across America after the pharmacy kowtowed to the whims of red state legislature by pulling the first of two medications used in a medical abortion, mifepristone, from its locations in 20 states with encroaching abortion restrictions despite the fact that the medication is still legal in several of them. Walgreens corporate headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois Presently, the museum’s refusal to repatriate the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, the tight-lipped non-responses regarding the potential renewal of the five-year sponsorship contract with oil giant BP amid the institution’s “ Net Zero Carbon” plan, and a brief glance at their collection of looted artifacts warrant enough middle fingers to wrap around the sun’s circumference. The museum has a lot going for it in terms of bad press and controversies. ![]() ![]() The British Museum in London - loved by many, reviled by even more. The exterior of the British Museum in London While Alaskans from both parties lauded Biden’s approval and look forward to an enriched economy and new job opportunities, climate activists from the lower 48 decried the decision as directly conflicting with the Biden-Harris administration’s position on climate change and green energy sourcing and are concerned with the ramifications on Alaskan wildlife. For those who are out of the loop, the Willow Project is an enormous oil drilling endeavor that would be developed and executed through the coming decades in the National Petroleum Reserve above the Arctic Circle in northern Alaska. So without further ado, I present five places that deserve to be flipped the bird: The ConocoPhillips Alaska headquarters towering over Ai Weiwei’s giant middle finger in Anchorage, Alaskaįollowing President Joe Biden’s approval of the Willow Project, flipping off the White House has been done to death and is quite frankly low-hanging fruit, so I’m sending my middle finger over to the ConocoPhillips Alaska subsidiary headquarters in Anchorage, Alaska. I think it’s good to remember that this part of your body can point to something - an institution, or someone that resembles a power - to let them know, and let yourself know, that you exist.”Īfter my petty moment of sliding past my high school and my ex’s house on Google Maps equipped with Weiwei’s left hand middle finger, I had to zoom out beyond my own perspective and consider which bastions of wide-scale oppression needed the one-finger salute. “Or even if we know we have a middle finger, we misuse it. “We often forget that we have a middle finger,” Ai said about this project and his longstanding Study of Perspective photograph series. ![]()
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