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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Looks like the fat one wears the pants in the household.
My parents would have never thought like that.
My Grandpa used to say “Love is like a fly, you can never tell where it will land, but you know what it likes.”
Too much coffee, is the problem.
Nope, blue on blue action.
It’s been a long time since I was this confused.
Trans queers ?
So a guy who thinks he’s a girl
attracted to a girl who thinks she’s a guy ?
Or visa versa ?
( isn’t that defacto heterosexual ?)
Don’t they have to be the same sex , pretend or real, to be queer ?
Or is it supposed to be two girls who think they’re queer guys ?
Doesn’t that just make them defacto lesbians ?
Still confused,
but not as much as they are .
Was the coffee trans coffee ?
Coco that identified as coffee ?
Tea than identified as coffee ?
Whatever their private lives are like they worked hard and provided employment for other like-minded folks. Good for them.
Whatever they give to the parasites will not be appreciated and will never be enough.
Fabian Socialists beaten by Leninists again.
Freakin’ freak show.
Nailed it.
Some things never change.
LOL... it gets worse everyday.
woof
Bet they grifted a ton of pandemic money and now the spigot’s gone dry, so they close up shop until they can find a new grift.
“Classic case of let’s play store.
Pretty much true. Classic case of proving without a doubt the failure and emptiness of the owners.
Once talked at length to a confused couple. One was a man transitioning to female and the other a woman transitioning to male. They were a couple who were enthusiastically looking forward to having their procedures complete so they could enjoy a “normal” sex life. I wondered why they didn’t just leave well enough alone.
“...so they could enjoy a “normal” sex life.”
I’m guessing they aren’t on FR and therefore missed the thread about the male getting his privates cut off and is left with “sensations” in his wound. Or the other guy who has to go back to the doctor to reopen his “vagina” as it tries to close up and heal the wound.
I’m guessing those are more common than not, but get glossed over in the fine print the trans-cult folks push.
And all the while they have been perpetrating structural racism by using BLACK coffee beans!
Bookmarking. I almost do not want to know how ableism is defined. Compromise is not acceptable, only complete obedience.
Beans of color. Or hell, maybe the beans identify as celery.
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