Luna Malbroux is a comic, writer and producers that explores the intersections of identity with a dash of humor. Learn more about her Mapping Privilege project at MappingPrivilege.com
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"content": "\u003cp>My involvement in the \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/tag/mapping-privilege/\">Mapping Privilege\u003c/a> project has taken me all over the country to talk to people about issues relating to identity. At times, though, I’ve found that observing billboards in any given area can often tell me just as much as my human interactions do. Noticing what advertisers spend their money on reveals a lot about what a community values, and who they worship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco, there is no shortage of symbols from our patron saints of innovation; whether it’s the new smartphone you didn’t know you needed, or a new program to make you work more efficiently, the writing is literally on the wall. A\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s my cross-country drive eventually took me into the heart of Texas, the proliferation of gun range and Jesus billboards (often un-ironically adjacent) cued me in to what many Texans hold in high regard.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1.png\">\u003cimg class=\"alignright wp-image-79520\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-160x160.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-160x160.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-240x240.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-375x375.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-520x520.png 520w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-32x32.png 32w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-50x50.png 50w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-64x64.png 64w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-96x96.png 96w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-128x128.png 128w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1-150x150.png 150w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Image-1.png 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\">\u003c/a>Born and raised in Louisiana, with the state motto of \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.houmatoday.com/article/DA/20050201/News/608092787/HC/\">Sportsman's Paradise\u003c/a>,\" I arrived in the Lone Star State familiar with gun ownership as it relates to hunting. But the bumper stickers I saw peppering gas stations were different, and they made the local perspective abundantly clear: \"Ammo is expensive. Do not expect a warning shot.\" When I arrived at my lodgings, the message was driven home further with the most unwelcoming of mats: “\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Warning: Trespassers will be shot. Survivors will be shot again.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the midst of such fervent gun culture, a growing student activist movement at the University of Texas, Austin, is fighting back. For over a year, members of \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://cocksnotglocks.org/about/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Cocks Not Glocks \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">have made international headlines with their unique method of advocacy: rocking dildos on their backpacks as they stroll around campus and attend their classes. For these students, sex toys are the perfect accessory to, as their organization's tagline explains, \"fight absurdity with absurdity.\"\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PxyN9JqNjs\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It all started when Texas' Republican-controlled Congress passed a campus carry law that permits licensed gun owners to carry concealed handguns throughout college campuses, classrooms, and even dorms.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/jessicajin8?lang=en\">Jessica Jin\u003c/a>, a UT Texas Alum, responded to the news in 2015 the best way she knew how -- by posting \"the most crass joke on the subject\" to social media.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jessicajin8/status/652603768261865473\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/jessicajin8/status/652605518062600192\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This joke became, in her words, \"lightning in a bottle\" and inspired Jin to create the first \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> event page on \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/cocksnotglocks/\">Facebook\u003c/a>, which, in turn, ended up attracting thousands of attendees and media attention (\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"http://www.cc.com/video-clips/ku5d1z/the-daily-show-with-trevor-noah-texas-students-opt-for-c--ks-not-glocks\">The Daily Show\u003c/a>\u003c/em>, MSNBC, \u003ca href=\"http://time.com/4074728/campus-carry-sex-toys/\">\u003cem>Time\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, \u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/25/us/university-of-texas-students-find-the-absurd-in-a-new-gun-law.html?_r=0\">The New York Times\u003c/a>,\u003c/em> \u003cem>History Now,\u003c/em> and many more).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"//media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:video:comedycentral.com:744a902d-3f0e-4614-833c-a2066d821d10\" width=\"512\" height=\"288\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" align=\"center\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jin is open about her childhood experiences growing up in Texas, which she feels helped shape her current understanding of privilege. As a first-generation American, Jin recalls a strong desire in her childhood to fit in with other students. As she got older, she started to gain more perspective on how she was viewed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"'We’re just going to Jessica’s house!'\" she laughs, explaining how friends would use her as a reliable excuse to convince their parents they were studying, when actually they were going to a party. It wasn’t just the gullible parents of her friends who were convinced of Jin’s inculpability. She started to notice that she could get away with a lot of things in high school too. She describes typical teen shenanigans -- skipping a class here or there, nothing too scandalous -- but there were rarely consequences from her teachers. Jin's theory? The teachers carried as many assumptions about her as her friends' parents did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This \u003ca href=\"https://www.education.com/reference/article/unraveling-minority-myth-asian-students/\">model minority\u003c/a> thing played to my advantage,” Jin says. “I didn’t realize it was inherent bias mixed with my ability to confirm it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The model minority idea to which Jin refers is the cultural expectation that Asian American and Pacific Islanders are more likely to be docile, hardworking, highly successful, and intellectually gifted in math and science. \u003c/span>Jin became aware, as soon as she became the spokesperson for \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em>, that the same stereotype still follows her today.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This protest came about and lots of people didn’t expect it from an Asian American woman,\" she says. \"Perhaps the quiet and submissive stereotype is what made it easier for me to come out of nowhere and scare people.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79519\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-large wp-image-79519\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/IMG_0358-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marshall Tidrick\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: left\">\"Scare\" may be putting it lightly. From the outrage and vitriol Jin has received so far, it’s clear that a remarkable number of people have a hard time seeing sex toys in public. Jin and the other \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> organizers have experienced everything from an unending amount of hateful online comments from trolls, to having their families targeted and addresses shared. At one particularly horrific point, somebody made a short film depicting one of them being murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a learning process,\" Jin admits. \"This has been the most insane few months of my life. They are doing work for us. They are proving a point for us. They are not the type of people you want to be carrying guns or making rules in society.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_79521\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 640px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-79521 size-large\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-1020x680.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-160x107.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-768x512.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-960x640.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-240x160.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-375x250.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2017/05/Copy-of-IMG_9860-520x347.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Marshall Tidrick\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Jin wrestles with the reasoning behind the outpouring of hate and the need to control rhetoric around safety for women, when many gun advocates suggest that women would be safer and less likely to be attacked if they were carrying a gun.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What makes these guys feel so entitled to set the narrative for safety?\" Jin wonders. \"Is it privilege? Their manhood? How about you ask a woman what safety means?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jin and her fellow \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> advocates are clear that their movement is bringing up multiple conversations at once, and they are ready and willing to have all of them. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the most remarkable things about the \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> campaign, is that, through using sex toys as metaphors, the protest has now crossed\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> into an incredibly intersectional landscape of issues. 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From the outrage and vitriol Jin has received so far, it’s clear that a remarkable number of people have a hard time seeing sex toys in public. Jin and the other \u003cem>Cocks Not Glocks\u003c/em> organizers have experienced everything from an unending amount of hateful online comments from trolls, to having their families targeted and addresses shared. At one particularly horrific point, somebody made a short film depicting one of them being murdered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a learning process,\" Jin admits. \"This has been the most insane few months of my life. They are doing work for us. They are proving a point for us. 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His own father was kidnapped and assassinated because of Marwan’s support of U.S. troops. Luckily, Marwan escaped to Jordan, where he worked with insurance companies as a consultant before getting help from an American friend and future mentor to receive refugee status in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>His first destination upon arrival? San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"That was a cultural shock,\" Sweedan chuckled, describing his first few days in the U.S. \"The first time I was out was at night and it was Halloween. I called my friend, my mentor, and I told him, 'It's Halloween and I'm outside in the streets in San Francisco.' And he was laughing, 'Don't have a first impression, wait for me to explain things to you.'\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marwan eventually got more comfortable, thanks to weekly meetings with his mentor, where they would talk about all things American culture, from politics to history to holidays. Gratitude for that relationship is one of the reasons why Marwan now spends so much of his time volunteering with Global Impact to support new refugees in their resettlement in Boise and connect them with services and jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to the help of his mentor, Sweedan also attributes much of his acclimation to enlisting in the Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Upon arriving in San Francisco, Sweedan went from being an esteemed surgeon in Iraq to working as a technician in a tissue bank. Although he was quickly promoted, he decided to join the Army as a combat medic, hoping to use his medical skills to support his adopted home country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I felt like I built a bridge, without carrying a weapon or being deployed,\" Sweedan beamed with pride. Superiors quickly realized that Sweedan’s wealth of knowledge on Iraq was an asset. Throughout his service, he gave a series of nine lectures on the customs, history, and language of Iraq to better prepare troops for their deployment. But the learning was mutual.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Joining the military helped me learn a lot about the United States. I worked with liberals and conservatives. Maybe there were people who didn’t agree with me or didn’t like me, but we all had to work together,\" he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This across-the-aisle mentality prepared him for a move from the expensive Bay Area to Boise, a town he now loves. I was happy to hear that, but had to ask about whether he had experienced any racism and Islamophobia. Could he feel a shift?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I got was a resounding yes. ''For a while, people here [in Boise] carried their guns, and they were walking behind Muslims here, especially women wearing their scarves.'' But the Bay Area wasn't always kind either. ''In San Francisco, I got yelled at too. I was there right as feelings towards Iraq turned for the worse.''\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To my surprise, Marwan shrugged these memories off, smiled, and reminded me of two things: he had experienced worse in his similarly divided homeland, and despite his circumstances, he always aims to be a bridge of understanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I lived in conservative areas and liberal areas. People don’t hate people, but ideas clash with ideas. And people are afraid of what they don’t know,\" Sweedan said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recognized by the Obama administration as a \"Champion of Change,\" Sweedan has a clear message on people with anti-refugee beliefs: \"I want to be fair to them. I understand their point of view. A lot of Americans felt like both Republicans and Democrats have failed them for the past 30 years because the government became paralyzed. 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