Posted on 07/07/2022 6:16:24 PM PDT by lowbridge
A coffee shop in Philadelphia known for its LGBTQ brand identity closed its doors after employees revolted against the owners and demanded that they “redistribute” the company.
Mina’s World, located in the neighborhood of West Philadelphia, was characterized by Bon Appetit as a business that doubled as a “hangout spot for people of marginalized identities.” Sonam Parikh, who ran the company alongside partner and co-owner Kate Egghart, told the outlet that Mina’s World was the city’s first coffee shop owned and operated by queer, trans people of color (“QTPOC”). The pair had named the company after their cat.
Parikh blasted other coffee shops for neglecting to “protect their Black and trans employees” and allow customers to enjoy coffee in a space that was not “whitewashed.” However, as chronicled by the Philadelphia Inquirer and Libs of TikTok, Parikh and Egghart are now facing similar allegations.
An Instagram page called the “Minas World Workers” began posting accusations against the ownership last month, claiming that they had subjected workers to “manipulation, abuse of power, exploitation, anti-blackness, ableism,” and other charges summarized in a “List of Grievances.” The employees demanded “immediate payment” and told the owners to “redistribute the business.”
Egghart and Parikh apologized in an Instagram video, which has since been removed from the Mina’s World account. “We’re going live as part of a radical accountability process. We’re complicit in the gentrification and anti-blackness on 52nd Street. We put our community at risk with our presence as well as our workers,” the pair said, per Libs of TikTok. “With the guidance of the workers and Black and Brown Workers Collective, we’re trying to raise funds to buy the business and turn it over to our staff.”
Days later, the building that hosted Mina’s World was listed for sale.
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There is schadenfreude when the left eats its own.
Seems like queers are the biggest bullies around.
Go woke, get broke.
This is great! We need more of it! The Left needs to become who they are!
Conservatives doing a coordinated take down?
what is next, re-using and sharing condoms??
Virtually every homosexual I’ve had the displeasure of knowing suffered from narcissistic personality disorder.
Nope, insufficient groveling. Nothing less than seppuku will atone for those grievous sins agains the QTPOCs.
Which one of these pervs is the man of the house???
Classic case of let’s play store.
Perhaps they take turns?
It's what your parents thought -- there are enough masculine women and feminine men out there that they should just marry each other. Maybe this is the one case where that actually worked out.
I highly doubt that....and for that matter most others as well.
I do not go to coffee shops, but think this is one to stay far away from.
Who knows what diseases are floating around in there.
Neither of them could do any better.
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