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Odunde Festival followed by the PHS Garden filled with happy foreign people watching the WC and then a toasty walk down to passyunk pride.. get out there! it’s summer in the city!!

just checking in with y'all. is everyone alright?

because i'm not sure that i am! the situation after pride on Sunday really affected me and i didn't even see the worst of it, but just the vibe with police EVERYWHERE milling around with batons and sirens going off felt so dark and apocalyptic. i have always felt so welcomed and comfortable as a gay girl in Philly but what happened really shook my sense of safety.

i think part of it stems from the fact that i've been VERY privileged to not have had many encounters with the police in my life, and at one point sunday i remember making eye contact with a police officer, tall white guy, and me in my hoochie mama pride getup - i remember thinking, wow, this guy probably sees me as an enemy to be liquidated. and i've never felt anything like that before!

and yes, i am fortunate to have a therapist to process all this with! but i just wanted to do a lil community check in. stay safe everyone!

Hey $$$luts! Tired of being surveiled? Come surveil this ahh 😩🎥👁️ at the Freedom Stage brought to you by Palantir! I’ll be here until 6pm or until we run out of usage tokens!

I intended to make it out today but had something come up. Is Day 2 worth checking out? I assume the greasy pole climb is only a Saturday thing? last year I only caught the very tail end of the second day and it was kind of a shitshow with crazy lines and smoke and drunk people everywhere so wondering if there's anything cool earlier in the day...

my partner and I are looking to possibly upgrade to a bigger space at the end of our lease and have considered renting a house. Our rent has gone up such that if we rented a house in say South Philly we'd possibly be paying around the same amount of money per month, possibly a little more for much more space than our 1br in a scammy apartment complex. those of you renting houses, how much are we paying and where? any pitfalls or big disadvantages to renting a house over renting an apartment in philly?