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It was just this earlier this year\u00a0that North Carolina lawmakers\u00a0passed HB2, the horrific\u00a0anti-transgender law, and wouldn&#8217;t you know it, that goddamn thing is still standing. A handful of\u00a0bands\u00a0cancelled their North Carolina tour dates\u00a0to speak out against it, and college athletics programs pulled out\u00a0earlier this month, but no progress on repealing the law has been made. In an attempt to revive awareness about HB2, a small film production company in Brooklyn is taking a stand in the best way: with satire.\u00a0The Dumbo-based company,\u00a0XY Content,\u00a0made a mockumentary-style film called\u00a0Boycott Band,\u00a0which proposes the following: What if,\u00a0in light of\u00a0the series of artists boycotting shows throughout North Carolina after HB2 was passed, a &#8217;90s&hellip; Read More<\/p>\n<p>Brooklyn film trio\u2019s \u2018Boycott Band\u2019 takes on NC\u2019s anti-transgender bill with satire that actually works : <a href=\"http:\/\/brokelyn.com\/boycott-band-raises-awareness-north-carolinas-anti-transgender-bill\/\">Brokelyn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> When not faced with immediate threats to our safety\u00a0or consumed with the\u00a0prospect of Trump\u00a0as pr<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5893,"featured_media":13922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2729],"class_list":["post-13921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-brokelyn"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v23.4 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - 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