One week from Wednesday, gun opponents predict the campus at the University of Texas (UT) at Austin will be covered with students hanging dildos from their backpacks for the first day of classes. The action comes in protest of a new right for gun owners in the state. On August 1, a law went into effect in Texas that made it legal to carry concealed firearms into public university campus buildings.
So, last October, UT student Jessica Jin put out a call on Facebook for students to openly carry dildos in protest of the new right of members of the campus community to carry concealed weapons into their classes. Calling the campaign, “Cocks Not Glocks,” the senior said she was surprised by its virality.
“It was just kind of a rude commentary on my part,” Jin told the Observer in a phone call, “but I realized it really resonated with a lot of people.”