At this point, everyone and their mother has heard of the Stanford rape case. Your Facebook and Twitter feeds are probably inundated with reprints of the victim’s statements to her assailant, the vile letter Brock Turner’s father wrote defending his son’s “20 minutes of action,” complaints about the presiding judge’s mishandling of the case, and the numerous think pieces on rape culture and white male privilege. It’s an important but depressing subject, and it can make a bystander feel rather helpless.
So what’s a socially conscious individual to do? If you’re self-described “female secret society” GRLCVLT, you invite everyone to an open-bar blowout at Holyrad Studio in East Williamsburg, featuring live performances by local act Edith Pop and comedian Lane Moore’s band It Was Romance. Throw in a letter-writing campaign to unseat Judge Aaron Persky, and it sounds like your typical Wednesday night, right?
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